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Ladies in Lavender
Film Review  June 17, 2005
Description: Even though grande dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench share the screen in this drama, their immense talents are mostly wasted.

"...Directed by: Charles Dance. Starring: Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Daniel Brühl, Natascha McElhone, Miriam Margolyes and David Warner..."

The Last September
Film Review  May 5, 2000
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...

"...Directed by: Deborah Warner. Starring: Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Jane Birkin, Lambert Wilson, Keeley Hawes, David Tennant, Fiona Shaw and Richard Roxburgh..."

The Secret Garden
Film Review  August 20, 1993
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...

"...Directed by: Agnieszka Holland. Starring: Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott and Maggie Smith..."

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Film Review  July 17, 2009
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.

"...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
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
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.

"...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
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.

"...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
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...."

Keeping Mum
Film Review  October 13, 2006
Description: Maggie Smith, Rowan Atkinson, Kristen Scott Thomas, and Patrick Swayze come together for this dark British comedy.

"...Directed by: Niall Johnson. Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Swayze, Tamsin Egerton-Dick and Toby Parkes..."

Veggie Heaven
Food Story  March 24, 2006
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
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.

"...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
Description: The boy wizard rides again and this outing proves zippier and spookier than the previous two.

"...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
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...

"...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..."

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Film Review  June 7, 2002
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...

"...Directed by: Callie Khouri. Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Ashley Judd, Maggie Smith, Fionnula Flanagan, Shirley Knight, Angus MacFadyen and James Garner..."

Video Reviews
Screens Review  March 8, 2002
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..."

Gosford Park
Film Review  January 11, 2002
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...

"...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..."

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Film Review  November 16, 2001
Description: At two and a half hours, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone runs a full hour longer than the standard kid-film length. Obviously, Chris Columbus wanted to cram in as...

"...Directed by: Chris Columbus. Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, John Cleese, Ian Hart, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Tom Felton..."

Clash of the Titans
Film Review  March 23, 2000
Description: Ray Harryhausen's special effects take center stage in this epic father-and-son saga played out in the forms of Zeus (Olivier) and Pegasus (Hamlin). Harry Knowles and the Ain't-It-Cool gang will...

"...Directed by: Desmond Davis. Starring: Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Judi Bowker, Burgess Meredith, Sian Phillips, Maggie Smith, Claire Bloom and Ursula Andress..."

Show and Tell
Screens Story  February 25, 2000

"...D: Deborah Warner; with Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Keeley Hawes, David Tennant, Richard Roxburgh...."

Tea With Mussolini
Film Review  May 14, 1999
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 --...

"...Directed by: Franco Zeffirelli. Starring: Paolo Seganti, Massimo Ghini, Baird Wallace, Charlie Lucas, Judi Dench, Lily Tomlin, Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright and Cher..."

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