Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Beyond Therapy * (1987, Julie Hagerty, Jeff Goldblum, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti) -Classic Movie Review 7671

Director Robert Altman assembles a lovely cast for the 1987 comedy Beyond Therapy, an incurable misfire film version of a stage play by Christopher Durang, who collaborates with Altman on the screenplay. The scant story […]

Oct, 16 · in Reviews

Kansas City *** (1996, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Murphy, Dermot Mulroney, Steve Buscemi) – Classic Movie Review 7670

Producer-director Robert Altman’s tense, involving, tough-toned 1996 crime film Kansas City stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Murphy, Dermot Mulroney and Steve Buscemi. In the screenplay by Altman and Frank Barhydt, a pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics […]

Oct, 16 · in Reviews

Sunset [Napszállta] **** (2018, Juli Jakab, Vlad Ivanov, Tom Pilath, Susanne Wuest, Evelin Dobos) – Movie Review

Writer-director László Nemes’s Sunset [Napszállta] is the most challenging film of the 2018 London Film Festival – challenging to understand, challenging to stay awake, challenging to stay the course, oh and did I say challenging to understand? Juli […]

Oct, 16

In Fabric **** (2018, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Julian Barratt, Steve Oram, Fatma Mohamed, Jaygann Ayeh, Leo Bill, Hayley Squires) – Movie Review

Writer-director Peter Strickland’s In Fabric is an often hilarious black comedy ghost story about a cursed red dress that comes from an English department store winter sales and passes from person to person, with the […]

Oct, 16

HealtH ** (1980, Carol Burnett, Glenda Jackson, James Garner, Lauren Bacall, Dick Cavett, Paul Dooley) – Classic Movie Review 7669

Director Robert Altman’s 1989 comedy HealtH tries but fails to repeat the success of his 1978 triumph A Wedding in another starry satire, this time about a health food convention at a luxury hotel in Florida’s […]

Oct, 16

Suspiria ** (2018, Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Grace Moretz, Angela Winkler, Mia Goth) – Movie Review

You’ve got to hand it to Luca Guadagnino. He’s gone from one of the best movies at the 2107 London Film Festival – Call Me by Your Name – to one of the worst in […]

Oct, 16

Destroyer ** (2018, Nicole Kidman, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Jade Pettyjohn, Sebastian Stan, Scoot McNairy, Bradley Whitford) – Movie Review

Nicole Kidman stars in Destroyer (2018) as burnt-out LAPD detective Erin Bell, who turns up at the scene of a murder, and then reconnects with members of a California desert gang from her tragic undercover […]

Oct, 15

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