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Film Responses

Film Responses

Best of PACINO

Best of PFEIFFER


Directed by Brian De Palma

Scarface (1983, Brian De Palma)
Dressed to Kill (1980, Brian De Palma)
The Untouchables (1987, Brian De Palma)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974, Brian De Palma)
Passion (2012, Brian De Palma)
Mission to Mars (2000, Brian De Palma)

Best of the Late 2010s


Starring Frank Morgan

Dancing Pirate (1936, Lloyd Corrigan)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936, Robert Z. Leonard)
The Emperor’s Candlesticks (1937, George Fitzmaurice)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)

Directed by John Sturges

The Capture (1950, John Sturges)
The Great Escape (1963, John Sturges)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955, John Sturges)
Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen star in THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, directed by John Sturges for United Artists. The Magnificent Seven (1960, John Sturges)
Escape from Fort Bravo (1953, John Sturges)
The Eagle Has Landed (1976, John Sturges), the extended version

Best of 2020


Starring Paul Newman

The Color of Money (1986, Martin Scorsese)
Cool Hand Luke (1967, Stuart Rosenberg)
The Hustler (1961, Robert Rossen)
Twilight (1998, Robert Benton)
Nobody’s Fool (1994, Robert Benton)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971, Paul Newman)

Starring Russell Crowe

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022, Taika Waititi)
The Nice Guys (2016, Shane Black)
Man of Steel (2013, Zack Snyder)
Les Misérables (2012, Tom Hooper)
Russell Crowe and Christian Bale star in 3:10 TO YUMA, directed by James Mangold for Lionsgate. 3:10 to Yuma (2007, James Mangold)
Russell Crowe stars in VIRTUOSITY, directed by Brett Leonard for Paramount Pictures. Virtuosity (1995, Brett Leonard)

Best of HARTNETT

Halloween H20 (1998, Steve Miner)

Worst of HARTNETT


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