[5] At her sister’s funeral, an eccentric woman meets her uptight nephew and takes him globe-trotting to find an old flame. The combination of the great George Cukor and the ever-acerbic Maggie Smith doesn’t add up to anything compelling in this Auntie Mame wannabe. The screenplay, based on Graham Green’s novel, is distractedly episodic and Smith’s performance is over-the-top even for her. The tone is …
[9] A close-knit group of teenagers relish their last night of summer vacation before their paths diverge, changing their lives forever, in George Lucas’s American Graffiti. Most of the cast succeed in creating wholly believable characters with compelling dilemmas, and Lucas lets the night’s events unfold in a striking, documentary style that makes the film feel immediate and real. The groundbreaking soundtrack features over forty …
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