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      You might think The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989, rated R, 114 minutes) is a yawner—two brothers play cocktail lounge pianos, two boys meet girl, she sings real […]...

      “Terms of Endurance” seems like a better title for this movie. It takes willpower to stick with it to the end. Terms of Endearment (1983, rated PG, […]...

    It’s titled News of the World (2020, rated PG-13, 118 minutes), but that’s really not what this see- it-again movie is all about. This out-of-the-ordinary Tom Hanks film […]...

    Dances With Wolves (1990, rated PG-13, 181 minutes) is the movie you know all about.  It won the 1991 Oscar for Best Picture, but it’s not perfect. There […]...

    If you know a little bit about baseball, you’ll learn more by watching Bull Durham (1988, rated R, 108 minutes).  Of course, that’s not the main reason to […]...

    You can enjoy a few good story lines in A Few Good Men. For sure, defense lawyer Lt. Kaffee (Tom Cruise) gets his man by heroically provoking the […]...

    Maybe there is a movie with two more urbane characters than Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) and Vicki Anderson (Faye Dunaway), but I have doubts galore. The Thomas Crown […]...

    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969, rated PG, 116 minutes) is all Maggie Smith, all the time.  There is a story line: deeply committed and outspoken teacher […]...

    “It’s 1183—we’re barbarians!” Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn) gets it just right in The Lion in Winter as she tries, with the aging King Henry II (Peter O’Toole), […]...

    You think Clint Eastwood can’t be a heart-throb sensitive guy, the kind of guy who you wouldn’t mind at all if he married your sister?  Million Dollar Baby […]...

    As a big-time “fixer” for a wayward company, Michael Clayton (George Clooney) knows all about right and wrong and fixing mostly little things before they become serious trouble. […]...

    An honest-to-gosh suspense movie doesn’t come along all that often. It’s a good bet that you’re not going to be able to guess how Dinner Rush (2000, rated […]...