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Director Agnieska Holland’s plush, riveting and indeed quite splendid 1996 remake of Henry James’s novel is a worthy remake of The Heiress (1949), set in 19th century New York. Jennifer Jason Leigh is excellent as […]
Writer-director Robert Altman’s masterly 1993 take on Los Angeles, re-created from nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver, is an ambitious and extraordinary creation. The meeting of two American cult masters is fully the momentous movie occasion […]
The Coen Brothers’ inspired 1994 satirical screwball comedy about big business and a corporate stock scam is a stunning-looking retro art object, with bravura visuals, witty dialogue, a great score by Carter Burwell and a […]
Director John Maybury’s ambitious, eye-catching 2005 film is a stylish, arty and impenetrably baffling puzzle thriller. Adrien Brody stars as a US Gulf War soldier who is shot in the head in Iraq in 1991 […]
Director Taylor Hackford employs the admirable Kathy Bates for another ace Stephen King adaptation, after her Oscar-winning performance in Misery (1990). Bates kicks this 1995 movie into top gear as Dolores Claiborne, a Maine matron […]
Philip Seymour Hoffman gives a tour-de-force as Caden Cotard, a terminally ill theatre director who struggles with his work and his women. Offered a grant, he decides to turn his life into art, and to […]
Daniel Radcliffe stars as Allen Ginsberg (1926-97) in this riveting biographical drama about the early adult years of the beat generation literary stalwarts. Kill Your Darlings is extremely engrossing, beautifully crafted and marvellously well done. […]