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Variety [Varieté] **** (1925, Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti) – Classic Movie Review 7642

Director Ewald André Dupont’s 1925 Variety [aka Varieté, or Jealousy or Vaudeville] is an exciting German classic silent melodrama of fierily aroused passion, with an impressive silent movie performance by Emil Jannings as angry, betrayed trapeze artist […]

Oct, 07

Back to School * (1986, Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 7073

Director Alan Metter’s unpleasing 1986 comedy is a shoddy, obvious and unfunny vehicle for an unappealing star in Rodney Dangerfield, who plays Thornton Melon, an uncouth middle-aged millionaire signing up as a college freshman to […]

May, 20

Goodbye Christopher Robin * (2017, Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, Will Tilston, Stephen Campbell Moore, Kelly Macdonald) – Movie Review 

Simon Curtis’s real-life biopic drama about children’s author A A Milne and his creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin Milne means well but it is largely miscalculated, misjudged, mismanaged and a quite frightful […]

Oct, 01

Foxtrot **** (2017, Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler, Yonaton Shiray) – Movie Review 

Writer-director Samuel Maoz’s masterful family war drama is imaginatively, often brilliantly staged. Even though the film does not finally quite bowl you over, it has some knockout sequences that can certainly bowl you over. Despite its polished visuals, […]

Sep, 30

Loveless [Nelyubov] ***** (2017, Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov, Yanina Hope) – Movie Review 

Maryana Spivak and Aleksey Rozin play a deeply unpleasant Leningrad couple selling their apartment as they go through a divorce. Their nasty little spats include deciding who should look after their 12-year-old son (Matvey Novikov) […]

Sep, 21

China Gate *** (1957, Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat ‘King’ Cole) – Classic Movie Review 5383

Writer/ producer/ director Samuel Fuller’s 1957 movie is gung-ho war adventure stuff, but with considerable edge and intelligence, in which a French-led multinational group of adventurers attack a Communist ammo dump in Indo-China in 1954. […]

May, 02

Prime *** (2005, Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg, Meryl Streep) – Classic Movie Review 4523

Uma Thurman stars as a New York City divorcée who falls for a young painter (Bryan Greenberg) who is 14 years her junior. But, hey, that is no problem at all compared to the fact […]

Oct, 24

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