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    Gary Oldman was 59 years old when he won an Oscar (Best Actor) for giving us a completely believable Winston Churchill who decided in June 1940 to fight […]...

    Arrival is a reflective experience of first contact with aliens who are not like us. These are aliens who, ultimately, want to do good, but the humans have […]...

    A Little Chaos (2014, rated R, 117 minutes) didn’t win any prizes but it’s a modest prize of a movie. It’s a fictional story about the very real […]...

    Three Days of the Condor (1975, rated R, 117 minutes) is transparently a 1970s spy flick, and Robert Redford, as the bookish CIA spy code-named “Condor,” is the […]...

    Bernhard Schlink created a noble and compelling illumination of one aspect of the horrific, barely imaginable realities of the second great war: the mindset of the good people […]...

    This bitter story of squandered lives was Williams’ first successful play. It won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1945 and has been transformed for film […]...

    Which one of the kids in The Breakfast Club (1985, rated R, 97 minutes) is most like you? Claire (Molly Ringwald), John (Judd Nelson), Andrew (Emilio Estevez), Allison […]...

    Break the egg labeled Close Encounters of the Third Kind and break the egg labeled Jane Eyre, and scramble them with some special sauce, and you get Starman […]...

    Not too many movies make you really feel like you’re sweating. Or really crying. Norma Rae (1979, rated PG, 114 minutes) is one of the good ones. It’s […]...

    It’s hard to get past the sterling ability of Ian McKellen to create spectacular life in any character, and the Sherlock Holmes character is fertile ground for McKellen’s […]...

      Louise (Susan Sarandon) and Thelma (Geena Davis) can’t escape from almost every conceivable way of living on the edge. They keep ending up in situations they have […]...

    Sean Connery plays Mulay Achmed Mohammed el-Raisuli, Lord of the Rif and Sultan to the Berbers. In real life the man was Mulai Ahmed er Raisuni (Raisuli) (1871-1925), […]...