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I Soliti Ignoti [Persons Unknown] ***** (1958, Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Totò, Carlo Pisacane, Tiberio Murgia, Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale) – Classic Movie Review 11,410
Bumbling robbers plot a heist on a pawn shop in Rome via a supposedly vacant next-door apartment, in director Mario Monicelli’s hugely engaging and charming Italian 1958 comedy caper thriller I Soliti Ignoti [Persons Unknown] […]
The Money Trap *** (1965, Glenn Ford, Elke Sommer, Rita Hayworth, Ricardo Montalban, Joseph Cotten) – Classic Movie Review 10,934
Director Burt Kennedy’s 1966 watchable but strained Macbeth-style neo noir police crime thriller The Money Trap is a reunion of the great Gilda co-stars (20 years on), Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth, but by now, […]
Checkpoint ** (1956, Anthony Steel, Stanley Baker, James Robertson Justice, Odile Versois, Maurice Denham, Michael Medwin) – Classic Movie Review 7319
Director Ralph Thomas’s 1956 British crime thriller Checkpoint is a middling, but quick-moving and feisty motor racing adventure, with lovely Italian backgrounds. Stanley Baker provides a strong, genial presence as O’Donovan, an industrial spy sent […]
Robot & Frank **** (2012, Frank Langella, James Marsden, Liv Tyler, Susan Sarandon, Peter Sarsgaard) – Classic Movie Review 4790
Frank Langella is lovely as an old man whose son gives him a robot programmed to take care of him. Then the one-time catburglar jewel thief and his new robot butler caretaker (voice of Peter […]
Bande à Part [Band of Outsiders] *** (1964, Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey, Danièle Girard) – Classic Movie Review 3638
Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard’s relatively low-scoring 1964 French New Wave thriller has cult chic status and lively stars in Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey as petty crooks living out their fantasies of planning a […]
Kika **** (1993, Verónica Forqué, Peter Coyote, Victoria Abril, Àlex Casanovas, Rossy de Palma, Francisca Caballero) – Classic Movie Review 3569
Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s biting 1993 black comedy is a typically savage, no-holds-barred assault on modern media culture. More focused and controlled than his early work in the Eighties, this is lit up by Victoria Abril’s powerhouse turn as […]
Rififi ***** (1955, Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, Jules Dassin, Magali Noël) – Classic Movie Review 1352
Co-writer/director Jules Dassin’s deservedly renowned and celebrated 1955 gem heist thriller is a compulsively watchable bona fide French film noir classic, realistically staged on Paris locations in winter. It stars Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel […]
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