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I, Tonya **** (2017, Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney) – Movie Review
Director Craig Gillespie’s bold and tough-toned 2017 movie tackles the controversial life story of American competitive ice skater Tonya Harding and casts Margot Robbie, who gives a brave, battling performance, as convincing on the ice […]
Beast ** (2017, Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Geraldine James, Trystan Gravelle) – Movie Review
Writer-director Michael Pearce’s 2017 British feature debut drama, the twisty indie thriller Beast, starts quite well, proceeds fairly well, then gets messy mid way and loses it in the last half hour. Jessie Buckley stars as disturbed 28-year-old […]
Una ** (2016, Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed) – Movie Review
Director Benedict Andrews’s 2016 Britsh film is a drab and disappointing drama that plays uncinematically and so feels like it is based on a stage play – and it turns out it is, screen-writer David […]
The War Zone *** (1998, Freddie Cunliffe, Ray Winstone, Lara Belmont, Tilda Swinton, Colin Farrell, Kate Ashfield, Aisling O’Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 4382
An alienated teenage boy (Freddie Cunliffe) begins to suspect his father (Ray Winstone) is abusing his older sister (Lara Belmont) in director Tim Roth’s well-meaning, painstaking though alienating 1998 film of a controversial novel by […]
Brubaker *** (1980, Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Morgan Freeman, Tim McIntire, M Emmet Walsh, Wilford Brimley, Matt Clark, Albert Salmi) – Classic Movie Review 4009
Director Stuart Rosenberg’s liberal-minded 1980 real-life thriller vehicle for Robert Redford is a well-meaning, sincerely done but sombre, unexciting and vaguely depressing prison movie. It is good but it is not Cool Hand Luke. Redford battles […]
The Match Factory Girl [Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö] **** (1989, Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Vesa Vierikko) – Classic Movie Review 3565
Finnish cult writer-director Aki Kaurismäki’s dark 1989 comedy drama stars Kati Outinen as Iiris, the poor Match Factory Girl of the title, wearily looking after her grumpy mother and stepfather. Love and joy come into […]
The Magdalene Sisters **** (2002, Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone) – Classic Movie Review 2144
Writer-director Peter Mullan’s austere 2002 drama stars Geraldine McEwan, who gives a tour de force as the sadistic Catholic Sister Bridget at a Sixties Irish girls’ institution, a Magdalene Sisters Asylum for young women. There, […]