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    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 […]...

    It’s a good guess that you watched All the President’s Men (1976, rated PG, 138 min) a long time ago. Now’s a good time to watch it again. […]...

      Most of the time in 12 Angry Men (1957, rated “approved,” 96 minutes) the jurors aren’t angry. They’re sullen, confused, afraid—they’re strangers in the defendant’s world. Some […]...

      It’s not a feel-good movie because it’s an all-too-believable incarnation of Edward Albee’s play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which is not a feel-good play. After you […]...

      There is some decent, even thought-provoking dialogue in Thief, a 1981 semi-action production that has James Caan’s name all over it. He’s a tough guy, he’s a […]...

      Red Dawn is more than a shoot ‘em up movie. Red Dawn (1984, rated PG-13, 114 minutes) is all-American stuff—the mountaineering teenage heroes, with Boy Scout gear […]...

      Sure, you can figure out real quick how Pretty Woman is going to end, but Edward (Richard Gere) and Vivian (Julia Roberts) don’t figure it out until […]...