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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire **** (2005, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Robert Pattinson, Jason Isaacs, Tom Felton, Robbie Coltrane) – Classic Movie Review 1,129

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) is one of the best in the series. The fourth Harry Potter film follows the young wizard’s fourth year at Hogwarts School as he is chosen by […]

Apr, 21

The Grand Budapest Hotel **** (2014, Ralph Fiennes, F Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Jude Law, Bill Murray) – Movie Review

Writer-director Wes Anderson’s supremely quirky and lusty comic tale of the adventures of legendary hotel concierge Gustave H and his trusted lobby boy friend Zero Moustafa is incredibly stylish and eye-catching. Wow, it looks great! In […]

Mar, 05

The End of the Affair **** (1999, Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea) – Classic Movie Review 831

Writer-director Neil Jordan’s 1999 movie is much better than the 1954 Hollywood-ised version (with Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson) and it’s an excellent and edgy though still not entirely satisfactory film of one of Graham Greene’s […]

Feb, 15

The Invisible Woman ** (2013, Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas) – Movie Review

Hard Times with Dickens. Ralph Fiennes directs himself as Charles Dickens, who at the height of his career meets and falls for a younger woman, Ellen ‘Nelly’ Ternan (Felicity Jones), who becomes his secret mistress up […]

Feb, 07

Strange Days *** (1995, Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore) – Classic Film Review 760

Britain’s Ralph Fiennes is oddly cast as American ex-cop turned cynical cyberpunk Lenny Nero in a sea of troubles in director Kathryn Bigelow’s nastily violent ‘apocalypse soon’ sci-fi thriller, made in 1995 but set cannily […]

Jan, 27

The English Patient **** (1996, Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth) – Classic Movie Review 736

Writer-director Anthony Mingella’s stunning-looking 1996 David Lean-style epic is an unabashed tugger at the heartstrings set at the end of World War Two. Star Ralph Fiennes gives a lofty and aloof performance, leading with his […]

Jan, 23

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 **** (2011, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Ralph Fiennes, John Hurt) – Classic Movie Review 583

It all ends. After this final movie in 2011, school’s out for good and there’s no Hogwarts! In the last chapter, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) continue their quest to find and […]

Dec, 28

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