Little Men (1940)

Little Men (1940)

[6] This particular adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's book ends on a morally ambiguous note (I don't think children should ever be lied to), but the film is otherwise passable family entertainment. Jimmy Lydon does a decent job as Dan,…
Twilight (2008)

Twilight (2008)

[5] You know this story by now, even if you haven't seen the movie: Girl meets vampire, girl wants to screw the vampire, but vampire is too good for that shit. I don't generally like a story where one character…
Gaslight (1944)

Gaslight (1944)

[7] Ingrid Bergman won the first of her three Oscars for this psychological thriller from George Cukor. Bergman plays a woman increasingly traumatized by her husband, a thief who nearly succeeds in convincing her that she's losing her mind. It's…
Till the End of Time (1946)

Till the End of Time (1946)

[4] A young soldier (Guy Madison) struggles to find purpose to his life after returning home from service in WWII. The guy's problem isn't as clear as I'd like it to be. His friends (Robert Mitchum and Bill Williams) have…
A Summer Place (1959)

A Summer Place (1959)

[6] A bold film for its time, A Summer Place deals with sexual awakening and reawakening. Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue play the teenaged lovers; Richard Egan and Dorothy McGuire play the adulterous middle-aged ones. The first forty-five minutes of…
A Beautiful Mind (2001)

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

[7] Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly are at the top of their game in A Beautiful Mind, Ron Howard's Oscar-winning biopic about John Nash, the brilliant but haunted mathematician who overcame schizophrenia and received the Nobel Prize. These are the…
The Searchers (1956)

The Searchers (1956)

[7] John Ford reteams with frequent leading man John Wayne in what is often considered one of the best Hollywood westerns ever made. Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, a loner returning home from the Civil War. After his brother's family is…
Twilight: Eclipse (2010)

Twilight: Eclipse (2010)

[4] Director David Slade (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night) tries to elevate the material to Lord of the Rings status, with several gratuitous aerial fly-over shots and a suitably brooding score from 'Rings' composer Howard Shore. But, somehow, infuriatingly,…
Pale Rider (1985)

Pale Rider (1985)

[6] Eastwood directs and stars in this Western tale of revenge. The most interesting thing about Pale Rider is the mysterious nature of Eastwood's character, a preacher/gunfighter who enters a mining colony's life in answer to a young girl's prayer.…
To Each His Own (1946)

To Each His Own (1946)

[6] Olivia de Havilland won her first Oscar for this sudsy soap opera about a woman who gives up her infant son and spends the rest of her life trying to reconnect with him. The melodrama may be an acquired…