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High Fidelity **** (2000, John Cusack, Jack Black, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Lisa Bonet, Joan Cusack, Tim Robbins) – Classic Movie Review 876

Director Stephen Frears’s amusing and very popular 2000 comedy High Fidelity stars John Cusack as Rob Gordon, the 30-something owner of the Championship Vinyl record shop, who reminisces about his lost loves. It is the slightly […]

Mar, 07

Being John Malkovich **** (1999, John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener) – Classic Movie Review 818

Director Spike Jonze’s wonderfully odd, brilliantly clever, dazzlingly inventive fantasy comedy happily finds John Cusack on his best form. And there’s also the inestimable benefit of John Malkovich (as himself) gamely and brilliantly sending himself […]

Feb, 09

Identity **** (2003, John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, Rebecca De Mornay, Alfred Molina, Pruitt Taylor Vince) – Classic Movie Review 775

Ex-cop and now driver Ed (John Cusack), tough cop Rhodes (Ray Liotta), escort Paris (Amanda Peet) and bitchy movie star Caroline Suzanne (Rebecca De Mornay) are among ten strangers, stranded in a rainstorm at an […]

Jan, 30

The Thin Red Line ***** (1998, Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, John Cusack, Elias Koteas, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Woody Harrelson, John C Reilly) – Classic Movie Review 478

An absolutely stonking, gut-wrenching and astounding poetic war movie masterpiece from legendary writer-director Terrence Malick, this was only his third film in three decades. Based on the autobiographical 1962 novel by James Jones (From Here […]

Dec, 07

Stand by Me ***** (1986, Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell, Kiefer Sutherland) – Classic Movie Review 396

River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman and Jerry O’Connell star in the 1986 film Stand by Me as Fifties small-town kids who trek to the Oregon wilds to look for the missing body of a […]

Nov, 11

Bullets over Broadway ***** (1994, John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly) – Classic Movie Review 347

This glittering old-style comedy from an on-form writer-director Woody Allen dazzled us in 1994. Unfortunately he doesn’t appear this time, but he’s ensured that a great ensemble cast does. The story takes place in 1920s […]

Nov, 01

The Paperboy ***½ (2012, Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, Matthew McConaughey, John Cusack, Macy Gray, Scott Glenn) – Movie Review

Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman sizzle in this engrossing, devious Deep South 2012 erotic pulp thriller, set in the bad ol’ days of 1969. Admittedly, it’s not much of a mystery plot, very thin really, […]

Mar, 19

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