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Mean Girls (2024) Movie Review, Cast, Crew, and Summary

A Broadway Spectacle: "Mean Girls" Musical on the Big Screen In an unexpected turn of events, Tina Fey's brilliant adaptation...

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Ten years after Sam Raimi’s Spider-Manreinvigorated the superhero genre with spectacular financial success and a measure of aesthetic worth,...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

As a proclaimed aficionado of both John le Carre’s 1972 novel and the original mini-series adaptation, I approached this...

The Debt (2011) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

This remake of a 2008 Israeli film by John Madden is a peculiar and initially compelling blend of heavy...

King Kong (1976) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Whilst Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake of the classic Merian C. Cooper-Ernest B. Schoedsack film of 1933 had some major faults,...

Clash of the Titans (2010) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Neither the outright disaster I expected nor a good movie, Louis Leterrier's remake of the semi-classic 1980 Desmond Davis-helmed...

The Three Musketeers (1948) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Whilst perpetually tackled as a public domain text with a ready supply of iconic characters and rollicking action, thus...

The Wolfman (2010) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Painfully uneven, wildly silly, and occasionally interesting, this messy remake of the epochal 1941 George Waggner-Lon Chaney Jnr The...

All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

The second of the four films Robert Taylor made with director Richard Thorpe in the early 1950s and successor...

Algiers (1938) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Hollywood remakes of popular foreign films don’t have much of a reputation these days; in fact, they’re...

Quarantine (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

American remake of the well-received Spanish film takes the now-familiar stunt of offering what is purportedly a documentary...

The Cry of the Owl (2009) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Absorbing, well-acted, moody adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith novel, previously filmed by Claude Chabrol as one of his less...