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Hamlet ***** (1964, Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elza Radzina) – Classic Movie Review 9602

Director Grigori Kozintsev’s 1964 world cinema masterpiece Hamlet is quite unlike any other version with a very cinematic vision shown by director Kozintsev, especially in his dramatic depiction of the towering castle of Elsinore and […]

Apr, 05

The Reckoning *** (1970, Nicol Williamson, Rachel Roberts, Ann Bell, Zena Walker, Paul Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 9587

Director Jack Gold’s 1970 drama The Reckoning stars Nicol Williamson, who powerhouses his way through an unlikeable role as Michael Marler, a working-class Liverpool Irishman who greedily makes his way as a successful businessman in […]

Apr, 02

Juste avant la nuit [Just Before Nightfall] **** (1971, Michel Bouquet, Stéphane Audran, François Périer, Jean Carmet, Celia, Clelia Matania) – Classic Movie Review 9553

The 1971 French movie Juste Avant la Nuit [Just Before Nightfall] is a resonant, meticulously made, richly satisfying Claude Chabrol psychological crime thriller. Michel Bouquet stars as the slimy and pathetic advertising executive Charles Masson, […]

Mar, 24

Just Cause *** (1995, Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw) – Classic Movie Review 9531

Director Arne Glimcher’s 1995 legal thriller Just Cause stars Sean Connery as anti-death penalty campaigning Harvard law professor Paul Armstrong who looks into all the evidence when he is told that a Death Row killer […]

Mar, 20

Desperate Moment ** (1953, Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling, Philip Friend, Albert Lieven) – Classic Movie Review 9511

Director Compton Bennett’s mostly creaky and feeble 1953 British black and white crime melodrama Desperate Moment largely wastes the bright talents of the young and beautiful Mai Zetterling and Dirk Bogarde. In Berlin after World […]

Mar, 15

The Invisible Man ** (2020, Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Michael Dorman) – Movie Review

Elisabeth Moss stars in The Invisible Man (2020) as Cecilia, who runs from her abusive lover, Adrian, who then apparently takes his own life. But Adrian has faked his own death and has been hiding […]

Mar, 08

Shakedown **** (1950, Howard Duff, Peggy Dow, Brian Donlevy, Lawrence Tierney, Bruce Bennett, Anne Vernon) – Classic Movie Review 9479

Director Joseph [Joe] Pevney’s 1950 Universal International Pictures black and white B-movie crime thriller Shakedown is a little gem of a movie in the best film noir crime drama tradition. Howard Duff plays unscrupulous Jack […]

Mar, 08

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