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Keeping Mum
Film Review October 13, 2006
by Marc Savlov
Description: Maggie Smith, Rowan Atkinson, Kristen Scott Thomas, and Patrick Swayze come together for this dark British comedy. 
by Marc Savlov
"...Directed by: Niall Johnson. Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Swayze, Tamsin Egerton-Dick and Toby Parkes..."
Ladies in Lavender
Film Review June 17, 2005
by Steve Davis
Description: Even though grande dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench share the screen in this drama, their immense talents are mostly wasted.
by Steve Davis
"...Directed by: Charles Dance. Starring: Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Daniel Brühl, Natascha McElhone, Miriam Margolyes and David Warner..."
Gosford Park
Film Review January 11, 2002
by Kimberley Jones
Description: It may seem ironic, considering how notorious Altman is for allowing his actors to digress from the script into manic, thrilling improvisation, to note that the success of an Altman... 
by Kimberley Jones
"...Directed by: Robert Altman. Starring: Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon, Bob Balaban, Clive Owens, Emily Watson, Kelly MacDonald, Ryan Philippe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Derek Jacobi and Stephen Fry..."
The Last September
Film Review May 5, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Not even the rich and nuanced performances of stage veterans Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, and Jane Birkin can save this British period drama from languishing amid the story's unfocused longings...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Deborah Warner. Starring: Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Jane Birkin, Lambert Wilson, Keeley Hawes, David Tennant, Fiona Shaw and Richard Roxburgh..."
Sister Act Two: Back in the Habit
Film Review December 17, 1993
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: How do you spell crass? When it is so patently obvious that there is no reason to make a movie other than to capitalize on its predecessor's success, that's how...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Bill Duke. Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, James Coburn, Maggie Smith, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, Barnard Hughes, Michael Jeter, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Lauren Hill and Ron Johnson..."
The Secret Garden
Film Review August 20, 1993
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: The land mapped out in The Secret Garden is, indeed, a special place. This film adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved novel -- a childhood classic -- has a broad...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Agnieszka Holland. Starring: Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott and Maggie Smith..."
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Film Review June 7, 2002
by Steve Davis
Description: When Joan Crawford finally slapped that bratty Ann Blyth on the staircase in Mildred Pierce, the relationship between mothers and daughters onscreen took a prickly turn. The masochistic suffering that...
by Steve Davis
"...Directed by: Callie Khouri. Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Ashley Judd, Maggie Smith, Fionnula Flanagan, Shirley Knight, Angus MacFadyen and James Garner..."
Tea With Mussolini
Film Review May 14, 1999
by Steve Davis
Description: Tea With Mussolini sounds like an elegant affair, but its pinky is barely extended. Franco Zeffirelli's contrived autobiographical film about his youth in fascist Italy has little social grace --...
by Steve Davis
"...Directed by: Franco Zeffirelli. Starring: Paolo Seganti, Massimo Ghini, Baird Wallace, Charlie Lucas, Judi Dench, Lily Tomlin, Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright and Cher..."
Washington Square
Film Review November 7, 1997
by Russell Smith
Description: One reason Henry James is such a hot movie property these days is the relevance of one of his dominant themes -- money's ability to mock and compromise our dearest...
by Russell Smith
"...Directed by: Agnieszka Holland. Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Maggie Smith, Albert Finney and Ben Chaplin..."
Sister Act
Film Review May 29, 1992
by Steve Davis
Description: A high concept comedy so pleasurable it's sinful, Sister Act calls for some rejoicing this summer movie season. Despite its predictability and sappiness, this conventional comedy about a worldly lounge...
by Steve Davis
"...Directed by: Emile Ardolino. Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Harvey Keitel, Mary Wickes, Kathy Nijimy and Bill Nunn..."
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Film Review July 17, 2009
by Kimberley Jones
Description: We're still wild about Harry, even though this new adventure prefers to flush pink with its lovesick teens than forward-thrust toward the mammoth battle of good vs. evil.
by Kimberley Jones
"...Directed by: David Yates. Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Jim Broadbent, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall, David Thewlis, Warwick Davis and Tom Felton..."
Something's Rotten...
Screens Blog August 18, 2008
by Kimberley Jones
Description: Kim stacks the deck with Richard III
"...The setting is transposed to 30’s England, and not arbitrarily but to real effect: Just watch as Richard circles nearer the crown – the costumes, already militaristic, grow increasingly fascist-inspired. The sitting-duck Queen (Annette Bening) and her brother (Robert Downey Jr.) are ladder-climbing American upstarts; the wretched Queen Anne (Kristin Scott Thomas) is now in a druggie slide toward covert heroin injection; and after Dame Maggie Smith delivers her withering “I curse you” speech to son Richard, he quivers just a moment to reveal a lifetime of hurt of the “mommy never loved me enough” variety...."
Becoming Jane
Film Review August 10, 2007
by Toddy Burton
Description: Jane Austen could spot a phony, and, as a result, she would not have been happy with this romanticized account of her early years.
by Toddy Burton
"...Directed by: Julian Jarrold. Starring: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith, Joe Anderson, Lucy Cohu, Laurence Fox, Ian Richardson and Anna Maxwell Martin..."
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Film Review July 13, 2007
by Marc Savlov
Description: Yes, it's true: Harry Potter manages his first kiss, in between all manner of expository storytelling, and never was a young man's wand more ever-ready.
by Marc Savlov
"...Directed by: David Yates. Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Michael Gambon, Imelda Staunton, Gary Oldman, Ralph Fiennes, Brendan Gleeson, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter and Evanna Lynch..."
Arts Review
Arts Review April 13, 2007
by Iris Brooks
Description: Different Stages' Lettice and Lovage is a treat for Peter Shaffer's excruciatingly witty script and the easy rapport between the two lead actresses
"...Created by playwright Peter Shaffer as a vehicle for Dame Maggie Smith (known to Harry Potter fans for her portrayal of professor Minerva McGonagall, the tart deputy headmistress of Hogwarts in the film adaptations), Lettice and Lovage is the story of the unlikely friendship that springs up between Lettice Doufett, a tour guide with a taste for the dramatic, given to elaborating what she considers the scant historical interest of the Tudor house where she is employed, and Charlotte Schoen, her straitlaced superior at the British Preservation Trust. Charlotte, far from charmed by the inventive inaccuracies of Lettice's narrative style, terminates her employment, and out of this inauspicious incident, with a little help from a potent Elizabethan cordial, the two women soon recognize each other as kindred spirits, bonding over a shared a love for the colorful trappings of the past and a mutual distaste for the dull aesthetics and general mediocrity of the present era...."
Veggie Heaven
Food Story March 24, 2006
by MM Pack
Description: A visit to Angel Valley Organic Farm
"..."Eating these kinds of pure vegetables is how I grew up," offers customer Maggie Smith. "On a farm near Lampasas..."
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Film Review November 18, 2005
by Marrit Ingman
Description: This fourth Potter film is qualitatively different from the first three: It doesn’t linger on the gothic curlicues of the source material, and it emphasizes the emotional development of its characters with dramatic interplay rather than expressionistic, atmospheric gloom.
by Marrit Ingman
"...Directed by: Mike Newell. Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith and Timothy Spall..."
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Film Review June 4, 2004
by Marrit Ingman
Description: The boy wizard rides again and this outing proves zippier and spookier than the previous two.
by Marrit Ingman
"...Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón. Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Gary Oldman, Michael Gambon, David Thewlis, Alan Rickman and Maggie Smith..."
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Film Review November 15, 2002
by Kimberley Jones
Description: It seems like an awful waste of print, but in case you're one of the few uninitiated: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second in a proposed...
by Kimberley Jones
"...Directed by: Chris Columbus. Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Harris, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Kenneth Branagh, Robbie Coltrane, John Clease and Shirley Henderson..."
Video Reviews
Screens Review March 8, 2002
by Kimberley Jones
Description: Dame Maggie Smith won an Oscar for her work here as a flinty, flamboyant Scottish schoolmarm who inspires a dangerous hero worship in her young students.
"...D: Ronald Neame; with Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Celia Johnson, Jane Carr. "Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life." A splash of exoticism at the conservative Marcia Blaine's School for Young Girls in 1930s Edinburgh, Miss Jean Brodie (Smith) is very good at making her students -- the "Brodie girls" -- hers for life..."
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