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- Call Her Savage ** (1932, Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Monroe Owsley) – Classic Movie Review 13,262
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- Yossi *** (2012, Ohad Knoller, Oz Zehavi, Lior Ashkenazi) – Classic Movie Review 13,260
- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
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- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
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Crossfire **** (1947, Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Paul Kelly, Sam Levene, William Phipps) – Classic Movie Review 2171
Director Edward Dmytryk’s gripping and intelligent 1947 low-budget film noir crime thriller Crossfire is a flashback-told conscience-raiser about the hate murder of a Jewish man in a New York hotel. Apart from being a fine thriller, […]
The Crying Game **** (1992, Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker, Miranda Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 2096
Writer-director Neil Jordan’s striking and involving 1992 political thriller greatly impressed audiences with its unusual story and weird mix of sex and terrorism, especially in America, where it was a surprise hit, taking $62.5million there after […]
Platoon ***** (1986, Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe) – Classic Movie Review 2074
Writer-director Oliver Stone’s 1986 Oscar-winner for Best Picture and Best Director focuses on the trials and tribulations of American infantrymen in 60s Vietnam and boasts the solid, traditional movie-making virtues of an engrossing story, muscular performances and […]
Cold Mountain *** (2003, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Donald Sutherland, Ray Winstone, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Charlie Hunnam, Jena Malone) – Classic Movie Review 1821
After fierce fighting in the American Civil War, wounded Confederate soldier Inman (Jude Law) is on a perilous journey home to his North Carolina mountain community, hoping to reunite with his pre-Civil War sweetheart Ada […]
Fury **** (2014, Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman) – Movie Review
Brad Pitt stars as battle-hardened American army sergeant named Wardaddy, who commands a Sherman tank called Fury and her five-man crew. They set out on a do-or-die mission to wipe out as many German SS […]
Carrington *** ( Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington) – Classic Movie Review 1708
Writer-director Christopher Hampton’s 1995 drama provides another peep behind the scenes of English literature dissecting the odd, platonic but deep relationship between the sexually confused painter Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) and gay writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce), […]
The Guest *** (2014, Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Ethan Embry) – Movie Review
Dan Stevens stars as David, an American soldier who suddenly turns up at the house of the Peterson family, introducing himself as the buddy of their son who’s died in action in Afganistan. Without too much hesitation or suspicion (though […]