Romance
Romance
Top Hat
This Astaire and Rogers classic has dancing near or at the level of their other best collaborations, with a story that hangs together better, to boot.
The Gay Divorcee
In a departure from the other Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers pictures I’ve seen, this movie’s strengths were in its script and its weaknesses were in its dancing.
Breaking Away
How resonant you find this coming of age sports movie, about growing up working class in the 70s, may be tied more to your personal experiences than the strength of the storytelling.
Love, Guaranteed
My worst fears, that this movie would be disappointingly cliche, proved charitable in the wake of this ninety minutes of wasted potential.
The Best Years of Our Lives
This ambitious anthology film about World War II veterans is not just one of the best films on the topic, but one of the all time greats in general.
Legend
The strange, dreamlike quality and campy tone of this fairy tale fantasy will appeal to some, but not to most.
Wuthering Heights
This Gothic romance adaptation offers compelling drama for those who won’t mind the callowness of its main characters, or its more supernatural elements.
The Cat’s Meow
A dull and disappointing stab at telling a salacious “true” story from Hollywood’s early years.
About Time
Airtight internal logic and a deep connection to what it means to be human aid this genre-bending time travel fantasy navigate in, and out of, the structures of a traditional romantic comedy.
Vision Quest
An uneven coming of age story.
Flower Drum Song
This overlooked Rodgers and Hammerstein adaptation hits (almost) all the right notes.
The Bodyguard
Great songs, solid premise, disappointing everything else.