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Les Tontons Flingueurs [Crooks in Clover] * (1963, Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Sabine Sinjen, Claude Rich) – Classic Movie Review 12,303

Director Georges Lautner’s 1963 French crime comedy film Les Tontons Flingueurs [Crooks in Clover] is exceptionally slack and lame, a waste of talent and a bit of a waste of time. The pathetic lowbrow slapstick […]

Sep, 11

Only When I Laugh *** (1981, Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol, James Coco, Joan Hackett, David Dukes, Kevin Bacon) – Classic Movie Review 11,950

Director Glenn Jordan’s 1981 comedy Only When I Laugh [It Hurts Only When I Laugh] stars Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol, James Coco, and Joan Hackett. Neil Simon revamps his play The Gingerbread Lady as a […]

Feb, 22

Take Her, She’s Mine ** (1963, James Stewart, Sandra Dee) – Classic Movie Review 11,729

James Stewart is the main asset of the 1963 comical movie Take Her, She’s Mine. Director Henry Koster’s 1963 20th Century Fox American comedy film Take Her, She’s Mine is based on the 1961 Broadway […]

Nov, 17

Apostasy **** (2017, Sacha Parkinson, Siobhan Finneran, Molly Wright, Robert Emms) – Movie Review

Writer-director Daniel Kokotajlo’s 2017 British drama Apostasy looks at the Jehovah’s Witnesses through a sharply clear, critical eye in his Oldham-set story of a working class family of three Jehovah’s Witness, a mother and her […]

Dec, 10

Native Son *** (1986, Victor Love, Matt Dillon, Elizabeth McGovern, Geraldine Page, Oprah Winfrey, Carroll Baker) – Classic Movie Review 7321

Director Jerrold Freedman’s earnest and honorable 1986 drama Native Son is the second film version of Richard Wright’s powerful 1940 novel about Bigger Thomas (Victor Love), a poor, African American young man in Thirties Chicago who takes a […]

Jul, 21

Leave No Trace **** (2018, Ben Foster, Thomasin McKenzie, Jeff Kober, Dale Dickey) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Debra Granik’s haunting 2018 outsider survivalist drama Leave No Trace is totally compelling and absolutely first rate. Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie star as troubled dad Will and his surprisingly grown-up 13-year-old daughter Tom, […]

Jun, 03

Where Love Has Gone *** (1964, Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Mike Connors, Joey Heatherton, Jane Greer, George Macready, DeForest Kelley) – Classic Movie Review 6284

Director Edward Dmytryk’s lurid 1964 drama is an unseemly but suitably overwrought version of Harold Robbins’s best-selling novel, doubtless sparked off by the real-life story of Lana Turner’s daughter Cheryl killing Lana’s lover in 1958. (She was […]

Nov, 22

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