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Youth **** (2015, Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, Jane Fonda) – Movie Review

It’s the 82-year-old Michael Caine’s best role and best piece of serious acting in years, triumphing over risky and weirdly eccentric casting against type as retired classical composer and orchestra conductor Fred Ballinger. He is enjoying a Swiss […]

Dec, 21

Taking Lives ** (2004, Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Paul Dano, Gena Rowlands, Olivier Martinez, Tchéky Karyo) – Classic Movie Review 3026

Director D J Caruso’s teasing 2004 thriller starts by setting you up for a gripping thriller only to disappoint. In tiny roles, Kiefer Sutherland and Paul Dano do well as the centre part of the […]

Nov, 02

Love & Mercy **** (2014, John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti) – Movie Review

The story of the Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson makes for an excellent, riveting movie. It is grippingly told and imaginatively filmed by director Bill Pohlad. The screenplay by Oren Moverman and Michael Alan Lerner has a […]

Jul, 01

12 Years a Slave ***** (2013, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Lupita Nyong’o, Brad Pitt, Sarah Paulson) – Movie Review

In a year split between this, Gravity and Dallas Buyers Club, 12 Years a Slave ended up with just three 2014 Oscars, including Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay for John Ridley and Best Supporting Actress […]

Oct, 21

Prisoners ***** (2013, Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Paul Dano, Terrence Howard, Maria Bello, Dylan Minnette) – Movie Review

Hugh Jackman stars as blue-collar building worker Keller Dover, a sick-to-his-stomach and totally terrified father who crazily takes the law into his own hands when his little six-year-old young daughter Anna is suddenly abducted from […]

Sep, 10

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