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Pleasantville **** (1998, Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, Reese Witherspoon) – Classic Movie Review 678

Writer-director Gary Ross’s 1998 fantasy comedy is an extremely pleasant, thought-provoking and beautifully crafted comic fable about a boy David (Tobey Maguire) and his sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) who are magicked into a TV channel that […]

Jan, 12

Election **** (1999, Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein) – Classic Movie Review 455

Based on the 1998 novel by Tom Perrotta, co-writer/director Alexander Payne’s 1999 satirical comedy is an incisively funny winner. A metaphor for the state of American politics, Election is a very useful antidote to the late-90s […]

Nov, 27

Cruel Intentions **** (1999, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon) – Classic Movie Review 301

Written and directed by Roger Kumble in 1999, this is a most enjoyable and satisfying teen erotic thriller version of the French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos and its movie versions Dangerous […]

Oct, 19

American Psycho **** (2000, Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto, Justin Theroux, Bill Sage, Samantha Mathis) – Classic Film Review 261

Christian Bale gives an astonishing performance as 27-year-old Eighties New York yuppie Patrick Bateman, a handsome, well educated, brilliantly groomed and superbly gym-fit, muscled-up Wall Street broker. He earns a fortune in his job by […]

Sep, 30

Mud **** (2012, Matthew McConaughey, Reese Withersoon, Tye Sheridan, Sam Shepard, Joe Don Baker) – Movie Review

The Matthew McConaughey renaissance continues with this, quite probably his best ever performance, as a spectacularly grungy-looking fugitive hiding away alone on a Mississippi isolated island after killing the husband who was abusing his lover. […]

May, 26

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