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Funny Lady **** (1975, Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif) – Classic Movie Review 2271

Director Herbert Ross’s entertaining but less enjoyable 1975 sequel to Funny Girl has with the inestimable benefit of Barbra Streisand still enjoying herself as singer Fanny Brice, who this time marries the showman Billy Rose (James Caan) and a stormy […]

Mar, 16

For Pete’s Sake *** (1974, Barbra Streisand, Michael Sarrazin, Estelle Parsons) – Classic Movie Review 2266

Director Peter Yates’s frothy 1974 comedy is one of Barbra Streisand’s least substantial movies but it’s still likeable, light-hearted and fun. It pairs her with the equally likeable, light-weight Michael Sarrazin. Then and now, there’s […]

Mar, 14

Six Degrees of Separation **** (1993, Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland, Will Smith, Ian McKellen) – Classic Movie Review 2099

Stockard Channing as Ouisa Kittredge: ‘I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people… I also find it like Chinese water torture that we’re so close, because you have […]

Jan, 23

Love Is Strange **** (2014, John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei) – Movie Review

John Lithgow and Alfred Molina are inspired to give perhaps their best ever acting in co-writer-director Ira Sachs’s haunting and moving drama. Adorable, so sweet and subtle and touching, Love Is Strange really gets to you. Lithgow […]

Jan, 15

A Most Violent Year **** (2014, Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo, Albert Brooks) – Movie Review

Recalling the young Al Pacino, no less, Oscar Isaac gives an electrifying performance as Abel Morales, an ambitious American immigrant who fights to protect his increasingly iffy business and his family during 1981, apparently the most […]

Jan, 06

Brighton Beach Memoirs **** (1986, Blythe Danner, Jonathan Silverman, Bob Dishy, Brian Drillinger, Stacey Glick, Judith Ivey) – Classic Movie Review 2006

Infuriatingly, Matthew Broderick doesn’t get to recreate his superb Broadway performance as Eugene Morris Jerome, the young teenage son of a Jewish family through whose eyes we see the typically Woody Allen-style family squabbles and […]

Dec, 28

Mimic 2 **½ (2001, Alix Koromzay, Bruno Campos, Will Estes) – Classic Movie Review 2004

Formulaic but quite creepy and atmospheric 2001 direct-to-DVD sequel to the 1997 chiller hit with none of the original stars. A New York police detective named Det. Klaski (Bruno Campos) suspects that a high school […]

Dec, 28

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