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Retro Movie Review: The Producers (2005)
Go watch it. That’s the verdict, and I’ll spend the rest of this telling you why, but I don’t want you sitting through eight paragraphs wondering whether I’m going to recommend a musical comedy about...
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Retro Movie Review: The Miracle of Marcelino (1955)
The Miracle of Marcelino opens the way a lot of great fables do, with an ending. A priest is called to the deathbed of a woman he doesn’t know, and to comfort her he tells the story of a boy named...
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Retro Movie Review: High Noon (1952)
High Noon opens on the happiest morning of Marshal Will Kane’s life. Played by Gary Cooper, Kane has just married Amy Fowler, played by Grace Kelly, and turned in his badge, ready to leave the small...
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Retro Movie Review: Life of Brian (1979)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian came out in 1979, directed by Terry Jones, written by all six Pythons together, and produced by John Goldstone, with George Harrison quietly saving the whole production by...
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Retro Movie Review: The King and I (1956)
There’s a moment in the King and I when Yul Brynner, playing a king who’s just been told by a schoolteacher that he’s wrong about something, doesn’t yell. He goes still. You watch a man who’s never...
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Retro Movie Review: The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Philadelphia Story opens with one of the great silent gags in American film. Cary Grant, playing the newly ex-husband of Katharine Hepburn, storms out of their house carrying golf clubs while she...
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Before Parts Unknown, There Was Provincetown
Nobody has actually reviewed Tony yet. Rotten Tomatoes has a page and no score. There’s no wide critical consensus, no embargo lift, nothing but a trailer, a featurette, and one room full of chefs who...
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Retro Movie Review: The Trouble with Harry (1955)
There’s a dead man on a Vermont hillside, and nobody in this movie can be bothered to call the police. That’s the joke. It shouldn’t work. It works. Alfred Hitchcock spent two decades getting rich off...
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Retro Movie Review: Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
There is a moment early in Yankee Doodle Dandy when James Cagney, playing George M. Cohan as a boy performing on a vaudeville stage, turns to the audience with his chin out and his eyes bright and...
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Retro Movie Review: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and...
Stanley Kubrick read more than forty books about nuclear war before he made this film, and what he concluded was that nobody really knew anything and the whole situation was absurd. That conclusion is...
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Retro Movie Review: Rear Window (1954)
Rear Window (1954) — Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr. 112 minutes. Rated PG. Alfred Hitchcock made films that asked you to...
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Retro Movie Review: The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Philadelphia Story was released in 1940 and has never once felt like it needed updating. George Cukor directed it with such confidence in the material that time has had nothing to work with....
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Retro Movie Review: Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
There are war films that show you what war looks like, and there are war films that show you what war does to people. The Bridge on the River Kwai belongs firmly in the second category, which is why...
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Retro Movie Review: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The street is quiet in the uneasy way only a frontier town can be. Lamps glow faintly through the windows of Shinbone’s storefronts, and the townspeople line the boardwalk in tense silence. In the...
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Retro Movie Review: Some Like it Hot (1959)
Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959) remains one of cinema’s most enduring comedies, a film that effortlessly blends sharp wit, sophisticated farce, and pointed social commentary. At its heart, the...
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Retro Movie Review: Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Sunset Boulevard doesn’t waste time explaining itself. A dead screenwriter narrates his own downfall, and that alone tells you how little Billy Wilder cared about comfort. The plot mechanics are...
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Movie Review: Song Sung Blue (2025)
Song Sung Blue is a tender musical drama starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as Mike and Claire Sardina, a married couple performing together in a Neil Diamond tribute band. The film follows their...
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Retro Movie Review: White Christmas (1954)
White Christmas (1954) is a film that turns nostalgia into spectacle without sacrificing its emotional core. Directed by Michael Curtiz and built around Irving Berlin’s most famous song, it remains...
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Retro Movie Review: Oklahoma! (1955)
The 1955 film version of Oklahoma! opens the way all great American myths should: with a handsome man on horseback singing into the sunrise like he invented daylight. Gordon MacRae’s Curly is the kind...
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Retro Movie Review: Easy Rider (1969)
Few films capture the restless spirit of a generation quite like Easy Rider (1969). Released in 1969, this countercultural classic follows two bikers, Wyatt—better known as “Captain America”—played by...
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