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      Cate Blanchett has a many-splendored smile. You see several of them in Carol (2015, rated R, 118 minutes). Blanchett’s smile is deep, almost inexplicably alluring, enduring, and […]...

      This is a girl-gets-boy, boy-gets-girl kind of movie, with bells on. Don’t waste a lot of time being thrilled and appalled by the harsh antics of basic […]...

      It’s an obvious story line, and you can sorta guess how Albert Nobbs (2011, rated R, 113 minutes) will end. Glenn Close rather convincingly plays a woman […]...

      You have to watch hard to get to truth in The Good Liar (2019, rated R, 109 minutes). There are several layers of lies, and Betty McLeish […]...

      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 […]...