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Joe Clay

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A Good Year (2006) 26% EDIT “A Good Year is a light snack of comfort-food cinema and Scott’s only comedy— not that there are a huge amount of laughs.” – The Times (UK) Apr 23, 2024 Full Review The Blair Witch Project (1999) 86% EDIT “So convincing was this clever, chilling fake documentary that Donahue’s mother received sympathy cards from people who believed that her daughter was actually dead or missing. ” – The Times (UK) Apr 4, 2024 Full Review Death on the Nile (1978) 80% EDIT “... The Egyptian locations are the ideal backdrop to colonial intrigue and the cast is a corker, including Jane Birkin, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, David Niven and Maggie Smith. ” – The Times (UK) Mar 28, 2024 Full Review Fiddler on the Roof (1971) 81% EDIT “Topol, Israel's best-known actor, played Tevye... delivering an unforgettable and barnstorming (literally — see the If I Were a Rich Man number) performance in the film. ” – The Times (UK) Feb 28, 2024 Full Review The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) 81% EDIT “The film captures the lively spirit of Anne, writing down her feelings without a hint of self-pity and always striving to look for the best in a world turned upside down.” – The Times (UK) Feb 1, 2024 Full Review The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) 86% EDIT “Told through two reporters, played by Edward Judd and Leo McKern, it’s a gripping mix of thriller and science fiction. ” – The Times (UK) Jan 29, 2024 Full Review Mean Girls (2004) 84% EDIT “Fey does not take the book too seriously, finding plenty of cruel humour in the bitchy battles between Cady and Regina.” – The Times (UK) Jan 25, 2024 Full Review Mary Poppins (1964) 97% EDIT “Shot entirely indoors in a Hollywood fantasy version of late Victorian London, Disney’s evergreen family classic is arguably Walt Disney’s finest moment” – The Times (UK) Jan 22, 2024 Full Review Zulu (1964) 97% EDIT “Epic in scale, Cy Endfield’s stirring account of the Battle of Rorke’s Drift ... features bruisingly authentic battle sequences and Michael Caine, dodging spears, in one of his most memorable performances. ” – The Times (UK) Jan 2, 2024 Full Review Ghostbusters (1984) 95% EDIT “Ivan Reitman’s enjoyably silly (and occasionally genuinely scary) supernatural blockbuster about a team of amateurish ectoplasmic exorcists rescuing New York from a plague of ghouls was the most expensive comedy of its time.” – The Times (UK) Dec 27, 2023 Full Review The Commitments (1991) 90% EDIT “[A] rollicking rags-to-rags story. ” – The Times (UK) Dec 27, 2023 Full Review Radio Days (1987) 92% EDIT “A Jewish family in Thirties New York seek airwave escapism in this indulgent but lovely Valentine to the golden age of radio — one of the best Woody Allen films in which he stayed behind the camera.” – The Times (UK) Dec 14, 2023 Full Review Hilary and Jackie (1998) 88% EDIT “Based on the tell-all memoir by du Pré’s sister Hilary, played here by Rachel Griffiths, the director Anand Tucker’s beautifully composed drama explores the tensions of creative genius spiced by terrible illness, sibling rivalry and adultery.” – The Times (UK) Nov 9, 2023 Full Review The Man Who Never Was (1956) 88% EDIT “Ronald Neame’s superior Second World War espionage drama recounts the story of Operation Mincemeat. ” – The Times (UK) Oct 30, 2023 Full Review Julius Caesar (1953) 96% EDIT “Joseph L Mankiewicz’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s play is something of a triumph, with Marlon Brando disproving the doubters who thought this was a “stunt casting”...” – The Times (UK) Oct 26, 2023 Full Review Escape to Athena (1979) EDIT “Moore’s German accent is one of the many tongue-in-cheek elements of the film, which is best enjoyed if you don’t take it too seriously.” – The Times (UK) Jul 6, 2023 Full Review Shalako (1968) 50% EDIT “... A western adventure clearly indebted to the 1967 Paul Newman film Hombre.” – The Times (UK) Apr 28, 2023 Full Review Galaxy Quest (1999) 90% EDIT “The washed-up cast of a beloved TV space show, clearly based on Star Trek, are recruited by gullible extraterrestrials to fight a genuine alien war in this lightweight but enjoyable spoof. ” – The Times (UK) Apr 11, 2023 Full Review Meet Joe Black (1998) 48% EDIT “[A] glossy but overlong update of Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 comedy Death Takes a Holiday. ” – The Times (UK) Mar 28, 2023 Full Review Pretty in Pink (1986) 76% EDIT “[Pretty in Pink] has a storyline as old as cinema itself, but is testament to his uncanny ability to capture what it’s like to be 16 and in love. ” – The Times (UK) Mar 28, 2023 Full Review Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) 89% EDIT “This light-hearted yet poignant buddy movie is very much in the style of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)...” – The Times (UK) Mar 21, 2023 Full Review Far North (2007) 86% EDIT “[A] starkly beautiful, fable-like thriller shot in the Arctic Circle.” – The Times (UK) Mar 10, 2023 Full Review All That Breathes (2022) 99% EDIT “Sen’s mesmerising masterpiece is also a worrying look at how pollution and overpopulation are placing an intolerable strain on the balance between humans and nature. ” – The Times (UK) Feb 8, 2023 Full Review To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) 89% EDIT “The high point of the film is a stunning car chase, in which the agents drive against the flow of traffic on a busy six-lane freeway that is only surpassed by the one in Friedkin’s earlier masterpiece, The French Connection. ” – The Times (UK) Feb 7, 2023 Full Review Black Rain (1989) 52% EDIT “It’s full of cultural clichés and implausible plot twists, but Scott’s vision of modern-day Osaka as a glittering, futuristic metropolis is dazzling. ” – The Times (UK) Dec 14, 2022 Full Review
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