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- They Came to a City *** (1944, John Clements, Googie Withers, Raymond Huntley, Renee Gadd, A E Matthews) – Classic Movie Review 12,868
- The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady ** (1940, Warren William, Eric Blore, Jean Muir, Victor Jory) – Classic Movie Review 12,867
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- Trezor [Vault] **** (2018, Anger Zsolt, Péter Scherer, Tasnádi Bence, Bezerédi Zoltán, Gabriella Hámori, Ferenc Elek, Kőszegi Ákos) – Classic Movie Review 12,863
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Cattle Drive *** (1951, Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, Chill Wills, Leon Ames, Bob Steele) – Classic Movie Review 8399
Director Kurt Neumann’s 1951 Universal International Western movie Cattle Drive may not be outstanding, but it is well crafted, entirely amiable and appealingly acted – Joel McCrea and Dean Stockwell are excellent – with outstanding […]
Heaven Help Us [Catholic Boys] **** (1985, Donald Sutherland, Andrew McCarthy, John Heard, Kevin Dillon) – Classic Movie Review 8388
Director Michael Dinner’s 1985 Heaven Help Us [Catholic Boys] is a fresh and funny film about Catholic high school life at St Basil’s Catholic Boys’ Prep School in Brooklyn in 1965 that manages to put […]
The Good Fairy **** (1935, Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 7948
Director William Wyler’s 1935 screwball romantic comedy The Good Fairy stars Margaret Sullavan as kindly but helpless young Budapest movie theatre worker Luisa ‘Lu’ Ginglebuscher, an orphaned usherette who attracts a quartet of admirers, in screen-writer […]
Young Törless [Der Junge Törless] **** (1966, Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer, Barbara Steele) – Classic Movie Review 7497
Writer-director Volker Schlöndorff’s powerful and relevant 1966 Young Törless [Der Junge Törless] is notable as this important German film-maker’s first feature. It is his forceful, assured, well-acted version of the classic Robert Musil parable novel […]
My Friend Dahmer *** (2017, Ross Lynch, Alex Wolff, Anne Heche, Dallas Roberts, Vincent Kartheiser) – Movie Review
Very creepy – a true horror story. The tricky to pull off mix of realism and black comedy really works. The acting helps a lot to keep it real and powerful. Co-writer/ director Marc Meyers’s […]
Moonrise Kingdom **** (2012, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton) – Classic Movie Review 6984
The ever quirky co-writer/ director Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom (2012) takes place on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, when a 12-year-old boy (Jared Gilman as Sam) and a 12-year-old girl […]
Lady Bird *** (2017, Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lois Smith, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet) – Movie Review
Lady Bird has its charms, a lot of them, but is way over-praised. It is best to come to it fresh, without knowledge or expectations of it. Then it might well charm and impress. It […]