Good Will Hunting: Directed by Gus Van Sant. With Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård, John Mighton. Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.
First and foremost, Good Will Hunting is a film riding young, exuberant energies. By Jay Carr FULL REVIEW 90 The New York Times The script's bare bones are familiar, yet the film also has fine acting, steady momentum, a sharp eye and a very warm heart. ...
Good Morning Britain review: Steady start for ITV's Us-style breakfast TV Well, it's definitely better than Daybreak.It might not be the highest praise ever heaped on a breakfast TV show, but ITV's big cheeses will probably be breathing a sigh of relief this afternoon that they haven't...
Richard Lawson is the chief critic at Vanity Fair, reviewing film, television, and theater. He is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics. Richard’s novel, All We Can Do Is Wait, was published by Penguin Random House in 2018. You can......
The movie opens with the flat, confiding voice of Tommy Lee Jones. He describes a teenage killer he once sent to the chair. The boy had killed his 14-year-old
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Robin Hood Makes Good: Directed by Chuck Jones. With Mel Blanc, Bernice Hansen, Margaret Hill-Talbot. Three little squirrels act out the story of Robin Hood. A fox, thinking he can make a meal out of them, joins in. The squirrels have to find a way to ge
How do you encourage honest feedback but shutdown the viral trend of review bombing and sustained downvoting campaigns? In the video above YouTube confirms that, rolling out gradually from today, it'll address part of the challenge by hiding the dislike 'count' on videos. The b...
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff: Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. With Anne Heywood, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn, Earl Holliman. An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her stru
Australian critic James Halliday, who gave the wine 94 points, says this rounded wine is really built for the long haul. 2= 2011 Ernie Els Proprietor's Blend and 2007 Meerlust Rubicon, Stellenbosch, South Africa Many insiders declare that red blends from South Africa really shine and our ...