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Good Will Hunting ***** (1997, Matt Damon, Robin Williams) – Classic Movie Review 156

Gus Van Sant’s 1997 double Oscar-winning film is a highly intelligent, engrossing heart-warmer. Matt Damon gives a polished, magnetic, star-making performance as Will Hunting, a rebel university caretaker, a janitor at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of […]

Aug, 13

Ocean’s Eleven **** (2001, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, Bernie Mac, Andy Garcia, Carl Reiner, Elliott Gould, Don Cheadle) – Classic Movie Review 148

George Clooney inherits Frank Sinatra’s old character of Danny Ocean in this lighthearted, zippy and entertaining 2001 remake of the 1960 comedy thriller about an 11-man gang’s plot to pull off heists (now worth $160million) […]

Aug, 10

The Talented Mr Ripley ****½ (1999, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, James Rebhorn, Jack Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 41

With more subtlety, more noir, and an entirely different ending, the 1999 film The Talented Mr Ripley would be 100% brilliant. As it is, it’s still quite entrancing and mesmerising, with a dazzling cast pitch […]

Jul, 10

The Bourne Identity ***** (2002, Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox) – Classic Movie Review 17

Matt Damon plays tough spy Jason Bourne to the manner born in the 2002 movie The Bourne Identity. Bourne just wants to live long enough to discover his identity but he’s being hunted by Chris […]

Jul, 04

Behind the Candelabra **** (2013, Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Rob Lowe, Debbie Reynolds, Dan Aykroyd, Eric Zuckerman) – Movie Review

If you planned to make a movie about the outrageously camp piano-player Liberace, who would you cast? Director Steven Soderbergh goes for a most unexpected choice, Michael Douglas (69), and that canniest of actors enjoys one of […]

Jun, 01

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