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The Score (2001, De Niro, Brando) – Classic Film Review 908

Three acting greats — Robert De Niro, Edward Norton and Marlon Brando — are lined up for director Frank Oz’s thrilling and stylish 2001 heist film. It’s set in Montreal, where a priceless ancient sceptre is […]

Mar, 12

Marvin’s Room **** (1996, Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Hume Cronyn, Gwen Verdon, Hal Scardino, Dan Hedaya) – Classic Movie Review 895

In the superlative 1996 heart-tugger film Marvin’s Room, Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton are at their best as sisters Lee and Bessie who have been estranged since their father Marvin (Hume Cronyn)’s stroke 17 years […]

Mar, 10

Great Expectations (1998, Ethan Hawke) Classic Film Review 842

Here’s director Alfonso (Gravity) Cuarón’s flashily filmed 1998 American revised and modernised version of the Charles Dickens novel, aimed accurately in style and tone at pop-video teenagers. There’s surprising, but largely successful casting in Ethan […]

Feb, 18

Brazil ***** (1985, Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Jim Broadbent, Michael Palin, Ian Holm, Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 836

Co-writer/director Terry Gilliam’s dazzling 1985 movie provides an ambitious, horrifying vision of a dystopian world in the style of George Orwell’s novel 1984, predicting and condemning a bizarrely convoluted and inefficient state. Gilliam’s nightmarish vision makes for […]

Feb, 16

Grudge Match ** (2013, Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Kim Basinger, Alan Arkin, Jon Bernthal, Kevin Hart) – Movie Review

Robert De Niro is 71 and Sylvester Stallone a mere stripling at 67. In any other business, they’d have been retired, but in the showbusiness they’re about the busiest folks around. Somehow, they’ve managed to keep […]

Jan, 22

Ronin *** (1998, Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgaard, Sean Bean, Michel Lonsdale, Jonathan Pryce, Jan Triska) – Classic Movie Review 718

A 1998 noir-style action thriller with a great cast and some sensational car chases, Ronin is about a group of five mercenaries, headed by ex CIA man Sam (Robert De Niro), hired to ambush a convoy of […]

Jan, 19

Sleepers **** (1997, Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric, Brad Renfro, Ron Eldard, Billy Crudup) – Classic Movie Review 695

In the nostalgic movie glow of the 1960s, four normally nice, basically decent New York kids torment a hot-dog man and a passer-by is killed with his cascading trolley in a thoughtless prank. They are incarcerated […]

Jan, 17

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