Sorrell and Son 1927 with H.B. Warner and Alice Joyce. Long-thought-lost ‘Sorrell and Son’: Surprisingly effective father-love melodrama stars a superlative H.B. Warner Partially shot on location in England and produced…
The Letter movie with Jeanne Eagels and Herbert Marshall. Having watched William Wyler’s masterful 1940 film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s 1927 play The Letter and having read quite a…
Affliction movie: Nick Nolte plays a psychotic police officer. ‘Affliction’ movie: Great-looking psychological drama fails to coalesce Set in a snowy New Hampshire town, Affliction could have been an excellent…
Sleepless in Seattle with Meg Ryan as the romantic Annie. Sleepless in Seattle review: Meg Ryan & Tom Hanks in an affair to forget In Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colors: Red,…
Euthanasia drama The Sea Inside with Javier Bardem. In Alejandro Amenábar’s euthanasia drama, Javier Bardem plays a tetraplegic Spaniard fighting for the right to end his life in a country…
The Hands That Bilked America: To not choose the revolutionary Citizen Kane as the Best Motion Picture of 1941 is to commit an unforgivable act of cinematic sacrilege. Courageously (or…
Johnny Depp family movie Finding Neverland. Directed by Marc Forster, and starring Johnny Depp as Peter Pan creator J.M. Barrie and Kate Winslet as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, the audience-friendly, truth-distorting…
Ray movie: Ray Charles played by Jamie Foxx. Taylor Hackford’s prosaic biopic Ray offers no more than a superficial look at the life and career of legendary singer and composer Ray…
The Aviator movie with Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes: Bizarre billionaire bloated biopic. The Aviator movie review: Leonardo DiCaprio is excellent – but not as Howard Hughes Imagine Citizen Kane…
The Hurricane movie: Denzel Washington as Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter. Like Stanley Kramer, Norman Jewison has often been dedicated to commercial filmmaking with a socially conscious edge: labor relations in F.I.S.T.;…
Closer film: Julia Roberts in glib Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? redux. Closer film review: The perfect dysfunctional date movie Mike Nichols’ first feature film, an adaptation of Edward Albee’s…
Marathon Man with Laurence Olivier. The deadliest sin a good-guy-vs.-bad-guy movie can commit is to – unintentionally – have us root for the evildoer. That is exactly what director John…
JFK movie with Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison. ‘JFK’ assassination movie: Gripping political drama gives added meaning to ‘Rewriting History’ If it’s an Oliver Stone film, it must be bombastic,…
Vera Drake with Imelda Staunton. Director Mike Leigh’s touches are found everywhere in Vera Drake, from the film’s drab, working-class social setting to the somewhat bizarre characters that inhabit that…
Gangs of New York with Daniel Day-Lewis. Keep Away Your Poor, Your Tired… Those who think that gangs and urban violence are a modern phenomenon should take a look at Martin…