A Star is Born (2018)
[8] Director/co-star Bradley Cooper decided it was time for a fourth version of A Star is Born (previous versions were released in 1937, 1954, and 1976). I haven't yet seen any of those versions, so I'm coming into this one…
Love, Simon (2018)
[8] Nick Robinson (Jurassic World, Kings of Summer) stars as a closeted high school student who carries on an anonymous email relationship with another closeted student, all while trying to gather the courage to 'come out' to his family and…
Green Card (1990)
[4] Gerard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell star in this subdued, kinda boring rom-com from Peter Weir (Dead Poets Society, Witness). Depardieu plays a Frenchman trying to enter the U.S. by marrying an American woman. It's an under-the-counter sort of arrangement…
The Children’s Hour (1961)
[8] Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine co-star as women running their own private girls' school in The Children's Hour. Hepburn's character is about to get married to James Garner and MacLaine's character is pretty melancholy about it. But all their…
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973)
[6] While vacationing separately in Spain, a teenager (Timothy Bottoms) and a woman in her thirties (Maggie Smith) strike up an unlikely friendship that blossoms into romance. Both characters are introverts who help each other come out of their shells,…
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
[8] Frances McDormand and Amy Adams star in this ebullient female bonding flick set in the early 1930s, about a recently fired governess (McDormand) who ingratiates herself into the employment of a ditzy actress (Adams). This film, particularly in its first half,…
Blind Dating (2006)
[6] Chris Pine stars as a young blind man trying to enter the dating world. His brother (American Pie's Eddie Kaye Thomas) steers him in plenty of wrong, comedic directions before Pine realizes he's attracted to the young Indian receptionist…
Dogfight (1991)
[6] Lili Taylor and River Phoenix star in this 'all in one night' drama about a marine who participates in a dirty game where men try to win a betting pool by bringing the homeliest woman to a dance. Taylor…
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981)
[4] Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons star in dual roles, as Victorian lovers and the actors portraying them in a film production. The parallel storylines are a tedious gimmick. We're told half way through the movie that in one story,…
Live, Love and Learn (1937)
[6] Robert Montgomery is a care-free painter and Rosalind Russell is a socialite looking for a more rustic lifestyle. In the tradition of screwball comedy, the unlikely lovers get married and revel in their poverty. But after Montgomery's talent catches…