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Sleuth
Film Review November 9, 2007
by Josh Rosenblatt
Description: Surprisingly, this powerhouse combination of writer Harold Pinter, director Kenneth Branagh, and co-stars Michael Caine and Jude Law adds up to a load of nonsense. 
by Josh Rosenblatt
"...Directed by: Kenneth Branagh. Starring: Michael Caine, Jude Law and Harold Pinter..."
The Quiet American
Film Review February 14, 2003
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Delayed from national distribution last year in the midst of the country’s post-9/11 mood of circumspection, The Quiet American is now finally going into wider release this week, just in...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Phillip Noyce. Starring: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Tzi Ma, Robert Stanton, Holmes Osborne and Pham Thi Mai Hoa..."
Miss Congeniality
Film Review December 20, 2000
by Marc Savlov
Description: Any film that gets William Shatner singing again is an ace in my book, and when it's topped off by an appealingly spunky performance from Bullock, well, that's just icing...
by Marc Savlov
"...Directed by: Donald Petrie. Starring: Steve Monroe, Candice Bergen, Ernie Hudson, Jennifer Gareis, William Shatner, Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt and Sandra Bullock..."
Get Carter
Film Review October 13, 2000
by Marc Savlov
Description: It's far too easy to poke fun at Sylvester Stallone, the man behind Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot and Tango & Cash, and again, too easy to forget the...
by Marc Savlov
"...Directed by: Stephen Kay. Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook, Alan Cumming, Mickey Rourke, Michael Caine and John C..."
On Deadly Ground
Film Review February 25, 1994
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Let's just say this: I didn't leave On Deadly Ground liking Steven Seagal any better than I did before going in. With On Deadly Ground, Seagal steps beyond his usual...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Steven Seagal. Starring: Steven Seagal, Michael Caine, Joan Chen and John C..."
Is Anybody There?
Film Review May 1, 2009
by Marc Savlov
Description: Michael Caine stars as a magician who's come to live in a retirement home when his mental faculties start to fail.
by Marc Savlov
"...Directed by: John Crowley. Starring: Michael Caine, Bill Milner, David Morrissey, Charli Janeway, Anne-Marie Duff, Rosemary Harris and Angie Inwards..."
The Dark Knight
Film Review July 18, 2008
by Marc Savlov
Description: Although the visuals soar and Heath Ledger's Joker is magnificent, this new Batman movie is grim and chilly, as if made for our new age of anxiety. 
by Marc Savlov
"...Directed by: Christopher Nolan. Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Eckhart, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Eric Roberts, Monique Curnen and Chin Han..."
Children of Men
Film Review January 5, 2007
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Children of Men brims with cinematic gusto, but the plot raises more questions than it answers.
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón. Starring: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofore, Claire-Hope Ashitey, Pam Ferris, Danny Huston and Peter Mullan..."
The Weather Man
Film Review October 28, 2005
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: In this heartfelt comic drama, a wonderfully controlled Nicolas Cage plays a man who, despite the appearance of success, is despondent over his superficiality.
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Gore Verbinski. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis, Gemmenne de la Peña, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Rispoli and Gil Bellows..."
Bewitched
Film Review June 24, 2005
by Kimberley Jones
Description: Again Kidman goes for another nose-centric role, yet Nora Ephron's very meta remake of the old TV show still misfires.
by Kimberley Jones
"...Directed by: Nora Ephron. Starring: Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Jason Schwartzman, Kristin Chenoweth, Heather Burns, Jim Turner, Stephen Colbert and David Alan Grier..."
Batman Begins
Film Review June 17, 2005
by Marc Savlov
Description: Batman Begins … and it's about time. The movie is great fun, and also a terrific relief.
by Marc Savlov
"...Directed by: Christopher Nolan. Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Morgan Freeman and Ken Watanabe..."
Around the Bend
Film Review October 22, 2004
by Marc Savlov
Description: Family elixir is by turns weepy and hilarious, a little bit Caine and a whole lotta Walken.
by Marc Savlov
"...Directed by: Jordan Roberts. Starring: Michael Caine, Christopher Walken, Josh Lucas, Jonah Bobo, Glenne Headly and David Eigenberg..."
The Statement
Film Review March 12, 2004
by Steve Davis
Description: The pace of this political thriller about a Nazi collaborator on the run for four decades ( Michael Caine) is as listless as the justice system that pursued him.
by Steve Davis
"...Directed by: Norman Jewison. Starring: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam, Charlotte Rampling, Alan Bates, Ciarán Hinds and John Neville..."
Secondhand Lions
Film Review September 19, 2003
by Marc Savlov
Description: This is a unique family film that can both moisten your eyes and quicken your pulse.
by Marc Savlov
"...Directed by: Tim McCanlies. Starring: Robert Duvall, Michael Caine, Haley Joel Osment, Kyra Sedgwick and Nicky Katt..."
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Film Review July 26, 2002
by Kimberley Jones
Description: Like a patient too long under laughing gas, the latest installment in the Austin Powers series has stopped making much sense at all, but it sure gets its giggle on,...
by Kimberley Jones
"...Directed by: Jay Roach. Starring: Mike Myers, Michael Caine, Beyoncé Knowles, Verne J..."
Last Orders
Film Review March 29, 2002
by Steve Davis
Description: The wintry reminisces of four lifelong friends, recalled in the wake of the death of one of their own, are just about all that comprises the nonlinear plot of the...
by Steve Davis
"...Directed by: Fred Schepisi. Starring: David Hemmings, Ray Winstone, Tom Courtenay, Helen Mirren, Bob Hoskins and Michael Caine..."
Quills
Film Review December 29, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: “Tell me more,” whisper the titillated listeners of the imprisoned Marquis de Sade's stories of sexual perversion in this fictionalized account of the notorious writer's latter years. Adapted by Doug...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Philip Kaufman. Starring: Billie Whitelaw, Amelia Warner, Michael Caine, Joaquin Phoenix, Kate Winslet and Geoffrey Rush..."
The Cider House Rules
Film Review December 31, 1999
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Novelist John Irving wrote the screenplay for The Cider House Rules based on his own novel, and the film certainly shows signs of the novelist's recurrent narrative gambit of young...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Lasse Hallström. Starring: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Michael Caine, Delroy Lindo, Paul Rudd, Jane Alexander, Kieran Culkin, Kathy Baker, Kate Nelligan, Heavy D and Erykah Badu..."
Little Voice
Film Review February 5, 1999
by Steve Davis
Description: The decibel level in Little Voice ranges from a delicate whisper to seismic bellowing; aurally speaking, it traverses the spectrum of human sounds. Sitting on the floor in her lonely...
by Steve Davis
"...Directed by: Mark Herman. Starring: Ewan McGregor, Brenda Blethyn, Michael Caine and Jane Horrocks..."
Office Killer
Film Review January 9, 1998
by Marc Savlov
Description: In the modern business world, the office, subdivided into its depressing little cubicles with co-workers linked by ethernet and e-mail, has for many become a substitute for life itself. Job...
by Marc Savlov
"...Sherman and screenwriters Elise MacAdam and Tom Kalin (Swoon) have a lot to say about office politics and the nature of the worker's place in a healthy (or unhealthy) workplace, but these wicked insights fall flat in the face of the film's ghoulish horror-show banalities. Looting past shock-fests, Office Killer feels vaguely reminiscent of everything from the superlative Michael Caine vehicle A Shock to the System to William Lustig's infamous Maniac (with Kane filling in for Joe Spinell) to Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer..."
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