Movie Reviews From Zero To Z

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Stand-alone Reviews

0-9

The 39 Steps (1935)

102 Minutes That Changed America (2008)

The 300 Spartans (1962)

A

A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

A Man Called Peter (1955)

A One-Sided Affair (2021)

A Strange Brand of Happy (2013)

The Abyss (1989)

Adam’s Rib (1949)

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)

The Adventures of Tartu (1943)

Air Force (1943)

All the Old Knives (2022)

All the President’s Men (1976)

An American In Paris (1951)

The Andromeda Strain (1971)

And Then There Were None (1945)

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)

Anna Karenina (1935)

Apollo 13 (1995)

Armageddon (1998)

Arrival (2016)

The Atomic Cafe (1982)

Attack of the Hawkmen (1995)

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)

Attack Of the Mushroom People (1963)

B

Back To Bataan (1945)

The Band Wagon (1953)

The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)

The Bat (1959)

Bathing Beauty (1944)

The Beautician And the Beast (1997)

Being the Ricardos (2021)

Benny and Joon (1993)

Between Two Worlds (1944)

Beverly Hills Family Robinson (1997)

Bewitched (1945)

Bewitched (2005)

The Big Sleep (1946)

Bill and Ted Face the Music (2020)

Birdemic (2010)

The Birds (1963)

Black Angel (1980)

Blackmail (1929)

Blast From the Past (1999)

Blue Crush (2002)

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)

The Booksellers (2020)

Boom Town (1940)

Born To Dance (1936)

Boys Town (1938)

The Breakfast Club (1985)

The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)

Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016)

Bright Star (2009)

The Broadway Melody (1929)

The Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)

The Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)

The Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)

Broadway Rhythm (1944)

The Brothers Warner (2007)

Buck Privates (1941)

The ‘Burbs (1989)

C

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Calamity Jane (1953)

The Canadian (1926)

Casablanca (1942)

The Cat And the Canary (1927)

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Champagne (1928)

The Changeling (1980)

Changeling (2008)

Chariots of Fire (1981)

Christmas In Connecticut (1945)

The Clock (1945)

Coda (2019)

College (1926)

Cool Runnings (1993)

Corpse Bride (2005)

Cosmos: War of the Planets (1977)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Cry Danger (1951)

D

Damien, Omen II (1978)

The Dark Corner (1946)

Dark Passage (1947)

Dark Victory (1939)

David Copperfield (1935)

Desk Set (1957)

Destiny (1921)

Designing Woman (1957)

The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

Dinner At Eight (1933)

Double Indemnity (1944)

Doubt (2008)

The Doughgirls (1944)

Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Bomb (1964)

Dracula’s Daughter (1936)

The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916)

Dune (2021)

E

Easter Parade (1948)

Elizabethtown (2005)

Elmer Gantry (1960)

Emma (1996)

Empire Records (1995)

The Enchanted Cottage (1945)

Encino Man (1992)

Escape (1940)

Ever After (1998)

Extraordinary Tales (2013)

F

The Fallout (2021)

Far and Away (1992)

Father’s Little Dividend (1951)

Father Of the Bride (1950)

The Fighting Sullivans (1944)

The Final Cut (2004)

Follow the Fleet (1936)

Forbidden Planet (1956)

For Me And My Gal (1942)

Four Jills In A Jeep (1944)

Frankenstein (1931)

Free At Last: The Movie (2002)

From Here To Eternity (1953)

Funny Face (1957)

G

The Gang’s All Here (1943)

The General (1927)

Gilda (1946)

Going My Way (1944)

Gone With the Wind (1939)

Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)

Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)

Good News (1947)

Grand Hotel (1932)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

The Great American Broadcast (1941)

The Greatest Show On Earth (1952)

The Great Race (1965)

The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

Greenwich Village (1944)

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)

H

The Happening (2008)

The Hard Way (1943)

The Heiress (1949)

Hello Frisco, Hello (1943)

Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

He’s Just Not That Into You (2009)

Hollow Triumph (1948)

Hollywood Canteen (1944)

House of Dracula (1945)

House On Haunted Hill (1958)

How To Steal A Million (1966)

How To Stuff A Wild Bikini (1965)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)

Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

The Hyperions (2022)

I

I Don’t Know How She Does It (2011)

I’ll Be Seeing You (1945)

The Illusionist (2006)

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (2008)

The Imposter (2008)

Independence Day (1996)

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)

In the Good Old Summertime (1949)

The Invisible Man (1933)

In Which We Serve (1942)

It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)

It’s Love I’m After (1937)

I Wake Up Screaming (1941)

J

Jane Eyre (1944)

Joni (1979)

Josie and the Pussycats (2001)

Journey To the Seventh Planet (1962)

Judy (2019)

K

Kate and Leopold (2001)

Keep Your Powder Dry (1945)

Key Largo (1948)

King Richard (2021)

Killer Pinata (2015)

The King’s Speech (2010)

L

The Lady Eve (1941)

Lake Michigan Monster (2018)

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

The Last Man On Earth (1964)

Laura (1944)

Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)

Legally Blonde (2001)

Legally Blonde 2 (2003)

Liberal Arts (2012)

Lights Of Old Broadway (1925)

Like Water For Chocolate (1992)

Listen, Darling (1938)

Little Annie Rooney (1925)

The Little Foxes (1941)

Little Women (1949)

Liz and Dick (2012)

The Longest Day (1962)

Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)

The Love Punch (2013)

M

Made For Each Other (1939)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Manos: The Hands Of Fate (1966)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)

Marie Antoinette (1938)

The Matrix: Resurrections (2021)

Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)

The Memphis Belle (1944)

Memphis Belle (1990)

Men of Boys Town (1941)

Metropolis (1927)

The Miracle Of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)

Miss Congeniality (2000)

Miss Meadows (2014)

Moana (1926)

Mogambo (1953)

The Monster Club (1981)

Moon Over Miami (1941)

The More The Merrier (1943)

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)

Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995)

Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)

The Muppet Movie (1979)

Murder By Death (1976)

Murder On the Orient Express (1974)

My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

My Father the Hero (1994)

My Fellow Americans (1996)

My Man Godfrey (1936)

My Spy (2020)

N

Neptune’s Daughter (1949)

Never Wave At A WAC (1953)

Newsies (1992)

Night and Day (1946)

Ninotchka (1939)

Noah’s Ark (1929)

Nosferatu (1922)

Now, Voyager (1942)

The Nun’s Story (1959)

O

Of Human Bondage (1934)

Orphans Of the Storm (1921)

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)

P

The Painted Desert (1931)

The Pajama Game (1957)

Passage To Marseille (1944)

Pat and Mike (1952)

The Patsy (1928)

Peter Pan (1924)

The Phantom Of the Opera (1925)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Pieces of April (2003)

Pirates Of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

The Pit And the Pendulum (1961)

Platinum Blonde (1931)

The Preacher’s Wife (1997)

The Prestige (2006)

Prefontaine (1996)

Pride of the Marines (1945)

The Proud Rebel (1958)

Psycho (1960)

Q

R

Radioactive (2020)

Ragamuffin (2014)

Raiders Of the Lost Ark (1981)

The Ramen Girl (2008)

Random Harvest (1943)

Rattle And Hum (1988)

Rear Window (1954)

The Red Shoes (1948)

Revenge Of the Middle-aged Woman (2004)

Romance On the High Seas (1948)

Roman Holiday (1953)

Royal Wedding (1951)

Rudy (1993)

S

Sabrina (1954)

Salute To the Marines (1943)

San Francisco (1936)

Save the Last Dance (2001)

Scenes From A Mall (1991)

The Sea Hawk (1924)

The Second Chance (2006)

Second Chorus (1940)

Secondhand Lions (2006)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

Selena (1997)

Send Me No Flowers (1964)

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens (2016)

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Short Circuit (1986)

Show People (1928)

Shut In (2022)

The Sign of the Cross (1932)

Signs (2006)

Simply Irresistible (1999)

Since You Went Away (1944)

Singin’ In the Rain (1952)

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Soldier (1998)

Something To Sing About (1936)

The Song of Freedom (1936)

So Proudly We Hail! (1943)

The Spanish Prisoner (1997)

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute By Katharine Hepburn (1986)

The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)

Stagecoach (1939)

Stage Door Canteen (1943)

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)

State Fair (1945)

State Fair (1962)

State of the Union (1948)

The Stranger (1946)

Straight Talk (1992)

Sunday Dinner For A Soldier (1944)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Supergirl (1984)

Superman (1978)

Sweet Home Alabama (2002)

Swing Hostess (1944)

Swing Kids 1993

Swing Time (1936)

Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

T

Tell It To the Marines (1926)

Tenet (2020)

The Terminal (2004)

Test Pilot (1938)

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

That Night In Rio (1941)

That Thing You Do! (1996)

That Uncertain Feeling (1941)

Them! (1954)

They Drive By Night (1940)

Things To Come (1936)

This Is Paris (2020)

Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)

Three Guys Named Mike (1951)

The Three Musketeers (1993)

Thunderbolt (1947)

THX-1138 (1971)

Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)

Time Bandits (1981)

Titanic (1953)

Titanic II (2010)

The Tomorrow War (2021)

Too Hot To Handle (1938)

To Sir, With Love (1967)

Touch of Evil (1948)

The Towering Inferno (1974)

Transmorphers (2007)

Treasure Island (1990)

Tron (1982)

The Truman Show (1998)

Two Girls And A Sailor (1944)

U

Uptown Girls (2003)

V

Van Helsing (2004)

Vertigo (1958)

Vibes (1988)

Voyage To the Bottom Of the Sea (1961)

W

Wake Island (1942)

Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

The Wasp Woman (1959)

The Way Ahead (1944)

The Wedding Planner (2001)

Week-End In Havana (1941)

When Knighthood Was In Flower (1922)

While You Were Sleeping (1995)

White Christmas (1954)

William and Kate (2011)

Win A Date With Tad Hamilton! (2004)

Woman of the Year (1942)

X

X-Men (2000)

Y

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Yesterday (2019)

You For Me (1952)

You Never Know Women (1926)

Young And Willing (1943)

Young Frankenstein (1974)

The Young Victoria (2009)

You’ve Got Mail (1998)

Z

Ziegfeld Follies (1946)

Ziegfeld Girl (1941)

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Bela Lugosi

Ben-Hur

Betty Grable and Don Ameche

The Christmas Prince

Esther Williams

Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello

Joan Crawford

Robin Williams

Rita Hayworth

Steve Prefontaine