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Platoon ***** (1986, Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe) – Classic Movie Review 2074

Writer-director Oliver Stone’s 1986 Oscar-winner for Best Picture and Best Director focuses on the trials and tribulations of American infantrymen in 60s Vietnam and boasts the solid, traditional movie-making virtues of an engrossing story, muscular performances and […]

Jan, 12

Into the Woods ***** (2014, Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep, Chris Pine, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Johnny Depp) – Movie Review

Seizing her chance to overact for America, Meryl Streep triumphs as The Wicked Witch in director Rob Marshall’s enormously entertaining, glorious looking, highly imaginative and quite magical movie version of the legendary Stephen Sondheim stage show. […]

Dec, 19

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas **** (1998, Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro) – Classic Movie Review 1631

Game as always for anything smart and out of the ordinary, Johnny Depp gives an impressively crazed performance as blunt-talking journalist Raoul Duke in co-writer/director Terry Gilliam’s imaginative, stylish, sometimes exciting 1998 movie of Hunter […]

Sep, 03

Before Night Falls ***** (2000, Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn) – Classic Movie Review 1630

This richly imagined journey into the life and writings of the brilliant openly gay Cuban author and exile Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990) is a devastating, overwhelming piece of cinema, directed and co-written with passion and brilliance […]

Sep, 03

Nick of Time *** (1995, Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken) – Classic Movie Review 1629

Director John Badham’s enjoyable 1995 thriller stars Johnny Depp, who profitably forsakes his usual oddball image for a straight part as an average American Joe in this highly improbable, but entertaining thriller that unfolds, unusually, […]

Sep, 03

The Ninth Gate **** (1999, Johnny Depp, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Barbara Jefford) – Classic Movie Review 1,628

Co-writer/director Roman Polanski’s shamefully neglected and underrated 1999 horror thriller film The Ninth Gate stars Johnny Depp as Dean Corso, a New York rare book dealer who is hired by the creepy collector of books […]

Sep, 03

Secret Window *** (2004, Johnny Depp, Maria Bello, John Turturro) – Classic Movie Review 1627

Writer-director David Koepp’s erratically amusing 2004 thriller has the right star in Johnny Depp, who puts a gloss of polish on Stephen King’s chiller as Mort Rainey, an author afflicted by a bad hairstyle, writer’s […]

Sep, 02

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