Rope (1948)
Hitchcock’s (Suspicion, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) first color film is also one of his most renown. It is one of his most experimental films, as he decides to try to tell this tale from beginning...
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The Accidental Husband (2008)
Warning: The following review will contain some spoilers, especially the first paragraph. The film is so predictable, this caveat is somewhat debatable, but I still feel the need to offer a fair warning. Read...
Jumper (2008)
My advice to studios: don’t plan for a trilogy when you can’t even get the first film developed thoroughly. This is what happens when a good idea gets studio-botched by too many people with...
Witness (1985)
Director Peter Weir (The Mosquito Coast, The Truman Show), in his first American production, crafts this thriller based on subtle touches and honest characterizations to success. His film would earn 8 Academy Award nominations, including...
Braveheart (1995)
Introductions are hardly necessary for the Best Picture winner of 1995, and a bit of an odd pick for the Academy, given the rather graphic violence and grim battles that fill up much of...
2 Days in Paris (2007)
Actress Julie Delpy writes and directs her starring vehicle with 2 Days in Paris, a look at the tricky relationship that emerges between a French woman and an American man, especially in the culture clashes...
North by Northwest (1959)
Although many people associate the famous scene of Cary Grant (To Catch a Thief, Suspicion) being chased out in farm country by a crop-duster with the movie as a whole, that stretch of film alone...
Rain Man (1988)
Cruise (Cocktail, Top Gun) stars as self-absorbed California businessman Charlie Babbitt, who heads to the Midwest to attend his estranged father’s funeral and to see what will happen to his $3 million estate. Surely it...
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
One of the more overlooked gems in Harrison Ford’s (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Return of the Jedi) career, The Mosquito Coast gives the perennial everyman hero personality the chance to branch out by playing...
27 Dresses (2008)
There are crowd-pleasing elements in most romantic comedies, some of which come off successful and some not. In many such films in the genre, you’ll find two people who, for whatever reason, can’t quite...