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Mr Lucky *** (1943, Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 2341
The 1943 comedy film Mr Lucky stars Cary Grant, who is not terribly lucky with the script here, but he takes everything this movie throws at him in his stride. ‘You call that purling? You […]
Paper Moon ***** (1973, Ryan O’Neal, Tatum O’Neal, Madeline Kahn) – Classic Movie Review 2283
‘I called up Orson Welles who was in Rome and said: Hey, what do you think of this title, Paper Moon. There was a long pause and he says: That title is so good you […]
Where the Money Is **** (2000, Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney) – Classic Movie Review 2018
Director Marek Kanievska’s 2000 caper thriller finds good work for Paul Newman, who is on the money as Henry Mannin, an old master criminal and legendary bank robber who manoeuvres himself out of jail and […]
Criminal *** (2000, John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal) – Classic Movie Review 1577
Despite the decent, quirky acting of the good cast, co-writer/co-producer/director Gregory Jacobs’s 2004 movie is a slightly disappointing if adequately twisty and entertaining American remake version of the much better 2000 Argentinian crime caper thriller […]
Nine Queens **** (2000, Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice) – Classic Movie Review 1576
Ricardo Darín and Gastón Pauls star as Marcos and Juan, a couple of conmen who join forces to pull off a swindle involving a sheet of rare counterfeit stamps. They’re trying to con a stamp collector into buying the fakes […]
Fathers’ Day ** (Robin Williams, Billy Crystal) – Classic Movie Review 1571
Robin Williams and Billy Crystal star together for the first time in director Ivan Reitman’s wobbly, forgettable 1997 comedy based on a French movie – Les Compères by Francis Veber – that is amusing and enjoyable […]
The Grifters ***** (1990, Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening) – Classic Movie Review 1354
Director Stephen Frears’s hardboiled 1990 thriller takes no prisoners and does 100 per cent justice to its rightly revered source author Jim Thompson. It finds Anjelica Huston on scalding form as Lilly Dillon, a small-time […]