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- The Last Shot You Hear ** (1969, Hugh Marlowe, Zena Walker, Patricia Haines, William Dysart) – Classic Movie Review 13,475
- Catacombs [The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die] *** (1964, Gary Merrill, Jane Merrow, Neil McCallum, Georgina Cookson) – Classic Movie Review 13,474
- Plainclothes *** (2025, Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Amy Forsyth, Christian Cooke, Maria Dizzia) – Classic Movie Review 13,473
- The Capture *** (1950, Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory) – Classic Movie Review 13,472
- The Avenging Hand ** (1936, Noah Beery Sr, Kathleen Kelly, Louis Borel) – Classic Movie Review 13,471
- Black Robe ** (1991, Lothaire Bluteau, August Schellenberg, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt) – Classic Movie Review 13,470
- Fatherland ** (1986, Gerulf Pannach, Fabienne Babe, Sigfrit Steiner) – Classic Movie Review 13,469
- Fatherland ** (1994, Rutger Hauer, Miranda Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Jean Marsh, Michael Kitchen, John Woodvine, John Shrapnel) – Classic Movie Review 13,468
- Dead Man’s Shoes **** (2004, Paddy Considine, Toby Kebbell, Gary Stretch, Stuart Wolfenden) – Classic Movie Review 13,467
- The Trip *** (2002, Larry Sullivan, Steve Braun, Ray Baker, Alexis Arquette, Sirena Irwin, Jill St John, Art Hindle) – Classic Movie Review 13,466
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This Boy’s Life **** (1993, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Chris Cooper, Tobey Maguire) – Classic Movie Review 1,434
Director Michael Caton-Jones’s riveting and disturbing 1993 American biographical coming-of-age movie This Boy’s Life stars the amazing actor that was the young Leonardo DiCaprio. He is extraordinarily compelling, quite mesmerising, as Tobias ‘Toby’ Wolff, an early […]
City of God [Cidade de Deus] ***** (2002, Alexandre Rodrigues, Matheus Nachtergaele, Leandro Firmino, Alice Braga, Seu Jorge) – Classic Movie Review 1194
Director Fernando Meirelles’s 2002 classic is an extreme but absolutely brilliant and utterly nerve-wracking Brazilian thriller, in which two Rio boys, brought up together in the Sixties, fight it out on different sides of the […]
Secondhand Lions **** (2003, Haley Joel Osment, Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Kyra Sedgwick) – Classic Movie Review 1166
Writer-director Tim McCanlies’s 2003 Walt Disney movie stars The Sixth Sense’s Haley Joel Osment, who is superb as introverted young Walter, a kid sent off by his mom to live with his eccentric, story-telling great […]
School Ties **** (1992, Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O’Donnell, Ben Affleck, Randall Batinkoff, Ed Lauter, Peter Donat, Kevin Tighe) – Classic Film Review 384
The involving, polished 1992 American drama film School Ties is notable for providing some of the first cinema lead roles for Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Cole Hauser. Dick Wolf and Darryl Poniscan […]
American Pie **** (1999, Jason Biggs, Chris Klein, Seann William Scott, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Eugene Levy, Jennifer Coolidge) – Classic Movie Review 260
‘Dude, that chick’s a MILF!’ Directors Paul and Chris Weitz’s infamous 1999 teen gross-out sex comedy, written by Adam Herz, is always delightful and amusing, often astoundingly funny and sometimes hysterical. It is one of […]
Bonjour Tristesse **** (1958, Jean Seberg, David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Mylène Demongeot, Juliette Gréco, Martita Hunt) – Classic Movie Review 181
I’m afraid this 1958 curio isn’t quite the ‘lost masterpiece’ you might be looking for but it is still an extremely interesting and entertaining minor work from the great director Otto Preminger, a man with […]
Paradise: Hope – Film Review
In the final film of Austrian writer-director Ulrich Seidl’s striking trilogy, it’s the turn of the 13-year-old Melanie (Melanie Lenz) to take centre stage. While her mum is in Kenya engaging enthusiastically in sexual tourism […]