This Woman is Dangerous (1952)

This Woman is Dangerous (1952)

[4] Joan Crawford seems born to play a lady gangster fighting blindness, but unfortunately, This Woman is Dangerous isn't nearly as interesting as it sounds. The 'gangster' aspect of the movie is kept to a bare minimum, with most of…
Cleopatra (1963)

Cleopatra (1963)

[3] Elizabeth Taylor plays the powerful and sexy Egyptian queen who fends off Roman conquest while falling in love with its leaders -- first Rex Harrison's Caesar, and then Richard Burton's Antony. First I'll be nice to Cleopatra. The sets…
Turnabout (1940)

Turnabout (1940)

[6] Carole Landis and John Hubbard star as a bickering husband and wife who each believes the other has the easier life. They wish upon a statue of Buddha to trade places, and lo and behold, their wish comes true.…
Desire Me (1947)

Desire Me (1947)

[6] Greer Garson, Richard Hart, and Robert Mitchum star in this twisted romantic drama about a woman who learns of her husband's death from his visiting WWII buddy. She and the man then strike up their own romantic relationship, but…
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

[8] James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan star in this fluffy romantic comedy from director Ernst Lubitsch. Stewart and Sullavan play clerks at a Hungarian general store during Christmastime. Both are courting anonymous, romantic pen pals, with no idea that the…
Perfect (1985)

Perfect (1985)

[4] John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis star in this bungled, misbegotten movie about a Rolling Stone reporter who joins an L.A. fitness center to research the aerobics boom that happened in the late '70s and early '80s. There he…
Move Over, Darling (1963)

Move Over, Darling (1963)

[7] Doris Day and James Garner star in this remake of 1940's My Favorite Wife, about a woman (Day) who returns home after five years lost at sea only to discover she's been declared dead and her husband (Garner) has…
Gloria Bell (2019)

Gloria Bell (2019)

[5] Julianne Moore stars as the title character in this remake of a Chilean film, both directed by Sebastián Lelio. Moore plays a middle-aged divorcee whose children have grown up and no longer need her. She's stuck in a boring…
Passengers (2016)

Passengers (2016)

[7] Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence star as passengers of an enormous spaceship en route to a new colonial planet. They're two of five thousand, all in hibernation for their 120-year voyage. But when asteroids damage the ship and cause…
These Glamour Girls (1939)

These Glamour Girls (1939)

[5] Lew Ayres and Lana Turner headline this fluffy comedy about a dancer (Turner) who is invited to a posh weekend party with a rich boy (Ayres) and his rich friends. The problem is that Ayres was drunk when he…