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Chinatown ***** (1974, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Diane Ladd, Roman Polanski) – Classic Movie Review 24

Roman Polanski’s 1974 neo-film noir detective movie Chinatown, set in a wonderfully realised 1937 Los Angeles, is beyond brilliant. Robert Towne won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Director Roman Polanski and writer Robert Towne’s […]

Jul, 06

LA Confidential ***** (1997, Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, James Cromwell, Danny DeVito, David Strathairn) – Classic Movie Review 15

Based on the novel by James Ellroy, director Curtis Hanson’s astonishingly complex, satisfying, powerful and accomplished thriller is quite simply the best film of its year – 1997. It’s Los Angeles in 1952 and an […]

Jul, 03

The Place Beyond the Pines **** (2012, Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, Bradley Cooper, Ben Mendelsohn, Emory Cohen, Dane deHaan, Ray Liotta, Harris Yulin) – Movie Review

A complex, ambitious, intimate epic crime drama, told at great length and in three parts, this steadily puts on momentum and power, and gains stature as it goes along. Weird that potentially the most exciting […]

Jun, 17

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