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Operation Hyacinth [Hiacynt] ***½ (2021, Tomasz Ziętek, Hubert Miłkowski, Marek Kalita) – Classic Movie Review 12,501

The disturbing and revealing 2021 Polish thriller film Operation Hyacinth [Hiacynt] stars Tomasz Ziętek as an earnest young policeman assigned a case of a serial murderer targeting homosexuals in Warsaw.  Director Piotr Domalewski’s disturbing and […]

May, 09

Poppy Field [Câmp de maci] *** (2020, Conrad Mericoffer, Radouan Leflahi, Alexandru Potocean) – Classic Movie Review 12,362

Director Eugen Jebeleanu’s 2020 Romanian drama film Poppy Field [Câmp de maci] follows the Jekyll and Hyde struggle of young Romanian gendarme Cristi (Conrad Mericoffer) to live his personal life as a closeted gay man […]

Dec, 09

Vicki *** (1953, Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, Elliott Reid, Richard Boone) – Classic Movie Review 11,737

‘She Had Everything a Man Could Ever Want And Lived the Way No Woman Ever Should!”‘ Director Harry Horner’s 1953 20th Century Fox black and white film noir thriller Vicki stars Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, […]

Nov, 21

Cops and Robbers **** (1973, Cliff Gorman, Joseph Bologna, Dick Ward, Shepperd Strudwick, Ellen Holly, John P Ryan, Dolph Sweet) – Classic Movie Review 11,195

Director Aram Avakian’s 1973 buddy movie Cops and Robbers is a thoroughly likeable, stirring crime caper about two New York City cops Tom and Joe (Cliff Gorman, Joseph Bologna) who become robbers to snatch Wall […]

May, 11

A Night Like This *** (1932, Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Winifred Shotter, Robertson Hare, Claude Hulbert, Mary Brough) – Classic Movie Review 11,177

Director Tom Walls’s 1932 British black and white comedy A Night Like This is an extremely funny old-style farce, based on a play by Ben Travers, concerning a group of gamblers and the policeman who […]

May, 07

The Man on the Roof [Mannen på taket] *** (1976, Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Sven Wollter, Thomas Hellberg) – Classic Movie Review 11,084

Director Bo Widerberg’s 1976 Swedish film The Man on the Roof [Mannen pò Taket] starts with the brutal killing of a police inspector in a hospital in Stockholm that initiates a manhunt led by detective […]

Apr, 09

Pickpocket ***** (1959, Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri) – Classic Movie Review 10,923

Writer-director Robert Bresson’s spare, stark and enigmatic 1959 French film Pickpocket is rightly considered to be one of the great film-maker’s greatest films. The young Uruguayan non-professional actor Martin LaSalle stars as the Pickpocket, with […]

Feb, 16

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