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- Carry-On ** (2024, Taron Egerton, Sofia Carson, Danielle Deadwyler, Jason Bateman) – Classic Movie Review 13,331
- Time To Remember ** (1962, Yvonne Monlaur, Harry H Corbett, Robert Rietty) – Classic Movie Review 13,330
- Candidate for Murder ** (1962, Michael Gough, Erika Remberg, Hans von Borsody, John Justin) – Classic Movie Review 13,329
- Man Detained *** (1961, Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale, Paul Stassino, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 13,328
- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
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Election **** (1999, Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein) – Classic Movie Review 455
Based on the 1998 novel by Tom Perrotta, co-writer/director Alexander Payne’s 1999 satirical comedy is an incisively funny winner. A metaphor for the state of American politics, Election is a very useful antidote to the late-90s […]
Sense and Sensibility ***** (1995, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson, Harriet Walter, Alan Rickman, Greg Wise, Gemma Jones, Elizabeth Spriggs, Robert Hardy) – Classic Film Review 440
Director Ang Lee’s 1995 film was another triumph for him, both critically and at the box office, as well as at awards time. It won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture and the Bafta […]
Home for the Holidays **** (1995, Holly Hunter, Anne Bancroft, Robert Downey Jr, Charles Durning, Dylan McDermott, Geraldine Chaplin, Steve Guttenberg, Claire Danes) – Classic Movie Review 432
Holly Hunter stars as a sacked art gallery worker Claudia Larson, a single mom with a teenage daughter Kitt (Claire Danes), who joins her family for Thanksgiving and quickly regrets it. She’s had a really […]
Little Women **** (1994, Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Trini Alvarado, Claire Danes, Samantha Mathis, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Bale, Eric Stoltz, Mary Wickes, Gabriel Byrne, John Neville) – Classic Movie Review 419
After several previous famous movie versions, notably the 1933 Little Women with Katharine Hepburn and the 1949 Little Women with Elizabeth Taylor, this is a most attractive, appealing and beautiful-looking 1994 version of Louisa May […]
To Die For **** (1995, Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Illeana Douglas, Casey Affleck) – Classic Movie Review 346
In 1995 Nicole Kidman landed what was then her best role to date and grabbed it by the throat in Buck Henry’s screenplay based on a novel by Joyce Maynard. Kidman plays Suzanne Stone, a […]
Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain] ***** (2001, Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus) – Classic Movie Review 218
The devastatingly skilled, appealingly gamine Audrey Tautou melts all hearts in this vivacious, quite adorable 2001 French charmer from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the director of Alien: Resurrection (1997). Tautou, then 25, plays an over-imaginative young Parisian woman, Amélie Poulain, […]
Working Girl **** (1988, Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 198
Melanie Griffith is at her appealing, lovely best as top Wall Street secretary Tess McGill in Mike Nichols’s delicious, vintage-style 1988 romantic comedy Working Girl, an infectiously happy feel-good tale of much-deserved comeuppance. You know, the […]