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- The Senator [O Senador] **½ (2024, Sergio Harger, Johnny Alcántara, Juliana Zancanaro, João Cury) – Classic Movie Review 13,212
- Rogue’s Yarn * (1957, Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 13,211
- Crow Hollow ** (1952, Donald Houston, Natasha Parry, Patricia Owens) – Classic Movie Review 13,210
- Carny *** (1980, Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,209
- Carnival Story ** (1954, Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, George Nader, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 13,208
- The Weaker Sex * (1948, Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Joan Hopkins, Derek Bond, Lana Morris, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 13,207
- The Great Smokey Roadblock [The Last of the Cowboys] *** (1977, Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 13,206
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Powaqqatsi **** (1988, director Godfrey Reggio) – Classic Movie Review 10,148
Director Godfrey Reggio’s 1988 documentary Powaqqatsi is the very welcome sequel to Koyaanisqatsi (1982), with another extraordinary Philip Glass score. It is a collage of scenes of cultures around the globe, showing how the Third […]
Parasite [Gisaengchung] **** (2019, Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo, Woo-sik Choi, Hye-jin Jang, So-dam Park, Ji-so Jung) – Movie Review
Co-writer/ director Bong Joon Ho’s Cannes Palme d’Or and triple Oscar winner Parasite [Gisaengchung] (2019) is fascinating, provocative and thought provoking in a way that is not normal for a thriller. But then Parasite is […]
The Fifteen Streets *** (1989, Owen Teale, Sean Bean, Clare Holman, Ian Bannen, Jane Horrocks, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Windsor, Anny Tobin) – Classic Movie Review 8659
Director David Wheatley’s 1989 historical romantic drama The Fifteen Streets is a very capably directed, incident-filled romance, effectively adapted by Rob Bettinson from a Catherine Cookson novel, with a well-played cast of rich caricatures and […]
Shoeshine [Sciuscià] ***** (1946, Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele) – Classic Movie Review 8450
Director Vittorio De Sica’s 1946 Shoeshine [Sciuscià] is an exquisitely made, deeply moving early Italian neo-realist world cinema classic set in post-World War Two, post-Facsist Rome. There two deprived, hungry and homeless shoeshine boys (Franco […]
Shoplifters [Manbiki kazoku] ***** (2018, Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka, Jyo Kairi, Miyu Sasaki) – Movie Review
Writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda’s warm and wonderful Shoplifters (2018) won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018. It focuses on a poor Japanese family of small-time thieves, shoplifting to make ends meet, who take in […]
Miracle in Milan [Miracolo a Milano] **** (1951, Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Brunella Bovo, Guglielmo Barnabò) – Classic Movie Review 7711
Producer-director Vittorio De Sica’s warmhearted 1951 Italian classic Miracle in Milan [Miracolo a Milano] is a fairy tale about an angelic young orphan called Totò (Francesco Golisano) who arrives in a poor community outside Milan where […]
A Raisin in the Sun **** (1961, Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee) – Classic Movie Review 7308
Director Daniel Petrie’s 1961 drama A Raisin in the Sun is a satisfying, moving and involving, though virtually one-set, filmed theatre version of Lorraine Hansberry’s long-running Broadway play, which won the 1959 New York Critics […]