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- Up Jumped a Swagman ** (1965, Frank Ifield, Annette Andre, Ronald Radd, Suzy Kendall) – Classic Movie Review 12,890
- Gunfighters [The Assassin] *** (1947, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, Dorothy Hart, Bruce Cabot, Forrest Tucker) – Classic Movie Review 12,889
- The Gentle Sex *** (1943, Joan Greenwood, Joan Gates, Rosamund John, Jean Gillie, Lilli Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 12,888
- Lazy Eye *** (2016, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Aaron Costa Ganis, Michaela Watkins)
- Whispering Smith Hits London [Whispering Smith vs Scotland Yard] ** (1952, Richard Carlson, Greta Gynt, Herbert Lom, Rona Anderson, Alan Wheatley, Dora Bryan, Reginald Beckwith, Stanley Baker, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 12,886
- Miss MacTaggart Won’t Lie Down *** (1966, Barbara Mullen, Eric Woodburn, Andrew Downie) – Classic Movie Review 12,885
- Death in Buenos Aires [Muerte en Buenos Aires] *** (2014, Demián Bichir, Chino Darín, Carlos Casella) – Classic Movie Review 12,884
- The Last Stop in Yuma County **** (2023, Jim Cummings, Faizon Love, Jocelin Donahue, Richard Brake, Michael Abbott Jr, Connor Jones, Connor Paolo, Robin Bartlett) – Classic Movie Review 12,883
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The Bridges of Madison County **** (1995, Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley) – Classic Movie Review 748
Get out a full bumper-sized box of tissues for star-director Clint Eastwood’s cute, bittersweet Sixties-set Brief Encounter-style 1995 romantic weepie The Bridges of Madison County. It is polished, posh and poignant, casting its spell and […]
August: Osage County (Streep/Roberts) – Film Review
A stagey, sub-Tennessee Williams family drama unfolds as all the skeletons come out of the closet when nasty, cancer-stricken, dysfunctional matriarch Violet Weston (Meryl Streep)’s family gather at their Oklahoma house for the patrirch’s funeral […]
Mamma Mia! **** (2008, Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Julie Walters) – Classic Movie Review 532
Director Phyllida Lloyd turns in an infectiously exuberant movie of the fABBAlous British stage musical in 2008. Anyone simply wondering what all the fuss is about or who cares little for the music of ABBA doesn’t […]
The Hours **** (2002, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Ed Harris) – Classic Movie Review 430
Director Stephen Daldry’s heart-breaking, distinguished 2002 drama is based on the novel by the Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Cunningham. As a grand showcase for three great Hollywood actresses this can’t be faulted. Nicole Kidman, Meryl […]
The Deer Hunter ***** (1978, Robert De Niro, John Savage, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep) – Classic Movie Review 346
The all-time great 1978 war drama film The Deer Hunter is co-written and directed by Michael Cimino. Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage star thrillingly as Slavic-American steelworkers whose lives are upended after […]
The Manchurian Candidate **** (2004, Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep, Jon Voight)) – Classic Movie Review 240
‘We can’t clean up the world with dirty hands.’ Denzel Washington and Liev Schreiber are superlative as soldiers brainwashed in the 1991 Gulf War in director Jonathan Demme’s heart-poundingly urgent 2004 update of the dazzling […]