Amy Schumer struggles as the tense and tubby, plump and pathetic Renée Bennett, completely obsessed with her appearance and weight, who has a head-banging fall in her exercise class, and ends up thinking she’s got […]
Director Bud Yorkin’s gentle and pleasant 1990 comedy about the vagaries of human relationships amuses enough, but it is lacking in sufficient sharpness and wit to engross fully. Jeff Daniels stars as ex-baseball-playing womanizer Paul Weaver who […]
Director Robert J Flaherty’s famous 1922 black and white silent film documentary about the hardships experienced by an Eskimo (Inuit) family living in the Arctic Circle is an admirable, enduring achievement, especially given the obvious problems […]
Writer-director Abel Gance’s astonishing great French 1927 silent epic biopic of the young Napoleon Bonaparte (Albert Dieudonné), with a fine, powerful, commanding central performance and several outstanding sequences, is filmed with enormous style and energy for […]
Director Jack Gold’s 1973 wickedly funny British black comedy is based on Peter Nichols’s smashing hit play, attacking the deficiencies in The British National Health System, the failures of British socialism and the erosion of […]
Director René Clément’s 1971 thriller stars Faye Dunaway as Jill, an American in Paris, and Frank Langella as Philippe, her computer wiz boyfriend, who suddenly decides to quit his job. Jill is upset but then she […]
Director Arthur Lubin’s 1955 historical adventure, or rather unhistorical adventure, is a poorly written, weakly played, blatantly inaccurate, boring biopic with Maureen O’Hara starring forlornly as the streaker-pioneer who rides nude through Coventry town, ignored by […]
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