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The Blue Caftan ***** (2022, Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Missioui) – Classic Movie Review 12,521
The impeccable 2022 Moroccan drama film The Blue Caftan tells the story of Mina and her closeted gay husband Halim, who run a traditional caftan store in Morocco. They decide to hire talented, handsome young […]
Unstrung Heroes *** (1995, Andie MacDowell, John Turturro, Nathan Watt, Maury Chaykin, Michael Richards) – Classic Movie Review 10,470
Director Diane Keaton’s 1995 drama Unstrung Heroes is an odd but sweet and good-hearted yarn about a 12-year-old lad (Nathan Watt), sent to live happily with his crazily eccentric uncles (Maury Chaykin and Michael Richards) […]
Not as a Stranger ** (1955, Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, Gloria Grahame,Charles Bickford, Broderick Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 7898
Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s strongly cast but little known 1955 film noir-style romantic drama Not as a Stranger stars Robert Mitchum as ego-driven aspiring physician Lucas Marsh, who marries Swedish nurse Kristina Hedvigson (Olivia de Havilland) […]
Terms of Endearment ***** (1983, Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson) – Classic Movie Review 7507
Director James L Brooks’s extraordinarily successful 1983 Terms of Endearment scooped up Five Oscars, including Best Picture (James L Brooks), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Shirley MacLaine), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jack Nicholson), Best […]
Tuesdays with Morrie **** (1999, Jack Lemmon, Hank Azaria, Wendy Moniz) – Classic Movie Review 7093
In one of his last roles, the great Jack Lemmon touches the heart in a clever, intense, intimate performance as the old Morrie Schwartz, who is dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease, in director Mick Jackson’s […]
Dad **** (1989, Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy Baker, Kevin Spacey, Ethan Hawke, Zakes Mokae, JT Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 7046
Writer-producer-director Gary David Goldberg’s sweet but, happily, not too sickly 1989 comedy drama Dad is taken from the novel by William Wharton and stars the splendid team of Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy […]
The Mouth Agape [La Gueule Ouverte] **** (1974, Monique Mélinand, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Léotard, Nathalie Baye) – Classic Movie Review 6052
Director Maurice Pialat’s 1974 French drama film The Mouth Agape [La Gueule Ouverte] is a realist depiction of a woman undergoing the late stages of a terminal illness, going through several deeply emotional moments. Monique Mélinand plays […]