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- You Will Remember ** (1941, Robert Morley, Emlyn Williams, Dorothy Hyson) – Classic Movie Review 13,384
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- The Strong Ones [Los Fuertes] **** (2019, Samuel González, Antonio Altamirano, Marcela Salinas) – Classic Movie Review 13,382
- Mandragora *** (1997, Miroslav Čáslavka, David Švec) – Classic Movie Review 13,383
- The Agitator *** (1945, William Hartnell, Mary Morris, John Laurie, Moore Marriott, Edward Rigby, George Carney, Elliott Mason, Frederick Leister)– Classic Movie Review 13,382
- Account Rendered *** (1957, Griffith Jones, Ursula Howells, Honor Blackman, Ewen Solon) – Classic Movie Review 13,381
- The Scarlet Web **½ (1954, Griffith Jones, Hazel Court, Zena Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 13,380
- Maximum Overdrive * (1986, Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington) – Classic Movie Review 13,379
- Friends Forever [Venner for altid] [Innocence is No Excuse] *** (1987, Claus Bender Mortensen, Thomas Elholm, Thomas Sigsgaard) – Classic Movie Review 13,378
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The Browning Version ** (1994, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Matthew Modine, Julian Sands, Greta Scacchi, Ben Silverstone, Maryam D’Abo) – Classic Movie Review 4013
Albert Finney tries very hard in director Mike Figgis’s completely unwanted 1994 remake of The Browning Version, the fine 1951 film version of Terence Rattigan’s touching one-act play. It is now way out of its time, […]
The Browning Version **** (1951, Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick, Wilfrid Hyde White, Bill Travers, Ronald Howard, Peter Jones, Sarah Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 4,012
Anthony Asquith’s 1951 British drama film The Browning Version is based on the 1948 play by Terence Rattigan and stars Michael Redgrave as an ageing classics master at an English public school forced into retirement […]
Good Burger ½ (1997, Kel Mitchell, Kenan Thompson, Sinbad, Abe Vigoda, Ron Lester) – Classic Movie Review 3,885
Good Burger is the movie that memorably cleared the London film critics preview theatre back in 1997 and thereafter was known as Bad Burger. Now there’s a sequel! Director Brian Robbins’s excruciating 1997 juvenile teen […]
Clockwork Mice ** (1995, Ian Hart, Rúaidhrí Conroy, Art Malik, John Alderton, James Bolam) – Classic Movie Review 3788
This 1995 British effort is an old-style heart-warming school drama with Ian Hart as Steve, an idealistic new special needs education teacher at a school for deprived and struggling kids. For a while, Clockwork Mice is enjoyable enough […]
Shout ** (1991, John Travolta, Jamie Walters, Heather Graham, Richard Jordan, Linda Fiorentino, Scott Coffey, Gwyneth Paltrow, Glenn Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 3743
John Travolta stars as runaway Jack Cabe who is hired by a 1955 West Texas school for interned wayward delinquent boys as its rock-n-rolling new music teacher. Alas, despite a good cast, there is nothing that […]
The Wiz ** (1978, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Richard Pryor, Lena Horne) – Classic Movie Review 3629
Director Sidney Lumet’s 1978 movie version of the hit Broadway show, an all-African American musical of The Wizard of Oz, is generally much maligned and unloved. It was advertised as ‘The Motown remake of The […]
Jacknife **** (1989, Robert De Niro, Kathy Baker, Ed Harris) – Classic Movie Review 3371
Director David Hugh Jones’s emotionally intense 1989 movie version of a modest three-hander play is lifted high by a trio of brilliant first-class performances, showing how the quality of the acting can totally transform and […]