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Runaway Jury **** (2003, John Cusack, Rachel Weisz, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman) – Classic Movie Review 902

Director Gary Fleder’s 2003 thriller stars Gene Hackman as the splendidly slimy jury fixer Rankin Fitch, whose motto is ‘Trials are too important to be left up to juries’. Anyone who’s ever done jury service […]

Mar, 12

All the President’s Men ***** (1976, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook) – Classic Movie Review 899

Director Alan J Pakula’s 1976 four-Oscar-winning classic real-life thriller stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in two of their finest and most famous performances as The Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. It […]

Mar, 11

Sleepers **** (1997, Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric, Brad Renfro, Ron Eldard, Billy Crudup) – Classic Movie Review 695

In the nostalgic movie glow of the 1960s, four normally nice, basically decent New York kids torment a hot-dog man and a passer-by is killed with his cascading trolley in a thoughtless prank. They are incarcerated […]

Jan, 17

Marathon Man ***** (1976, Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Richard Bright, Marc Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 515

Director John Schlesinger’s 1976 thriller about a postgraduate student who runs for his life when he gets mixed up in the pursuit of a Nazi war criminal makes for an ultra-tense, suspenseful and thrilling movie. It […]

Dec, 13

Meet the Fockers **** (2004, Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman) – Classic Film Review 489

Male nurse Gaylord ‘Greg’ Myron Focker (Ben Stiller) and his girlfriend Pam (Teri Polo) take his prospective parents (nutty ex-CIA agent Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro) and nice wife Dina (Blythe Danner) to Florida to […]

Dec, 08

The Graduate ***** (1967, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross) – Classic Movie Review 216

‘Would you like me to seduce you? Is that what you’re trying to tell me?’ And here’s to you, Mrs Robinson! At her most stylish and beautiful, a sensational Anne Bancroft enjoys her most famous […]

Sep, 03

Midnight Cowboy ***** (1969, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver, Jennifer Salt, Bob Balaban, Barnard Hughes) – Classic Movie Review 204

John Schlesinger’s controversial 1969 masterpiece Midnight Cowboy is a key film of the troubled late-Sixties and precious icon of its time, and the movie’s power and allure endure. Its impossibly young-looking stars Jon Voight and […]

Aug, 30

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