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Get out a full bumper-sized box of tissues for star-director Clint Eastwood’s cute, bittersweet Sixties-set Brief Encounter-style 1995 romantic weepie The Bridges of Madison County. It is polished, posh and poignant, casting its spell and […]
A stagey, sub-Tennessee Williams family drama unfolds as all the skeletons come out of the closet when nasty, cancer-stricken, dysfunctional matriarch Violet Weston (Meryl Streep)’s family gather at their Oklahoma house for the patrirch’s funeral […]
Director Phyllida Lloyd turns in an infectiously exuberant movie of the fABBAlous British stage musical in 2008. Anyone simply wondering what all the fuss is about or who cares little for the music of ABBA doesn’t […]
Director Stephen Daldry’s heart-breaking, distinguished 2002 drama is based on the novel by the Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Cunningham. As a grand showcase for three great Hollywood actresses this can’t be faulted. Nicole Kidman, Meryl […]
The all-time great 1978 war drama film The Deer Hunter is co-written and directed by Michael Cimino. Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage star thrillingly as Slavic-American steelworkers whose lives are upended after […]
‘We can’t clean up the world with dirty hands.’ Denzel Washington and Liev Schreiber are superlative as soldiers brainwashed in the 1991 Gulf War in director Jonathan Demme’s heart-poundingly urgent 2004 update of the dazzling […]