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Night Falls on Manhattan **** (1996, Andy García, Richard Dreyfuss, Lena Olin, Ian Holm, James Gandolfini, Ron Leibman) – Classic Movie Review 6042
Sidney Lumet is on fine form with the excellent 1996 crime thriller film Night Falls on Manhattan starring Andy Garcia as newly elected District Attorney Sean Casey, keen to eradicate police corruption. Writer-director Sidney Lumet is on […]
Sanjuro [Tsubaki Sanjûrô] ****½ (1962, Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi) – Classic Movie Review 4925
Co-writer/ director Akira Kurosawa is in a much lighter mood for his follow-up to Yojimbo. But it is another thrilling action-filled samurai action adventure, with the great Toshirô Mifune on his best form in the title […]
Walking Tall ***½ (1973, Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Gene Evans, Noah Beery Jnr, Rosemary Murphy, Leif Garrett, Lurene Tuttle, Dawn Lyn) – Classic Movie Review 4,708
Quintessential tough-guy Joe Don Baker enjoys his breakthrough role as real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in the 1973 vigilante film Walking Tall. Quintessential tough-guy Joe Don Baker gets one of his best roles and gives a sterling performance as real-life Southern sheriff […]
The Infiltrator *** (2016, Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger, Benjamin Bratt, Amy Ryan, Daniel Mays, Jason Isaacs, Olympia Dukakis) – Movie Review
Director Brad Furman’s intelligent and thoughtful real-life 2016 crime thriller focuses on Bryan Cranston’s strong and solid performance as Robert Mazur, a US Customs official who uncovers a money-laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and risks […]
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 4,009
Robert Redford stars as a reforming prison warden in the liberal-minded 1980 real-life thriller film Brubaker. Director Stuart Rosenberg’s liberal-minded 1980 real-life thriller vehicle for Robert Redford is a well-meaning, sincerely done but sombre, unexciting […]
Valmont ***** (1989, Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Jeffrey Jones, Henry Thomas, Sian Phillips, Fabia Drake) – Classic Movie Review 3522
Director Milos Forman’s seductive 1989 romantic drama film Valmont stars Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly and Fairuza Balk, along with Sian Phillips, Jeffrey Jones, Henry Thomas, Fabia Drake, Ian MacNeice and Isla Blair. It […]
The Conversation ***** (1974, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Robert Duvall, Cindy Williams, Teri Garr, Harrison Ford) – Classic Movie Review 3,189
Francis Coppola’s tense and suspenseful 1974 thriller film The Conversation won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or. It’s a tour-de-force for director Coppola and star Gene Hackman as a paranoid surveillance expert. Francis Ford Coppola’s […]