All the Money in the World

Christopher Plummer mesmerizes as the greediest man alive

"...Directed by: Ridley Scott. Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, Charlie Plummer, Teresa Mahoney, Romain Duris, Timothy Hutton..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

The real Parnassus of this story is director Terry Gilliam, who salvaged his movie despite the sudden death of his star, Heath Ledger, midway through shooting.

"...Directed by: Terry Gilliam. Starring: Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, Lily Cole, Andrew Garfield, Verne Troyer,..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Boundaries

Take a pleasant road trip with Christopher Plummer up the PCH

"...Directed by: Shana Feste. Starring: Vera Farmiga, Christopher Plummer, Lewis MacDougall, Christopher Lloyd, Kristen Schaal, Bobby Cannavale..."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Exception

WW II melodrama lacks a charismatic lead

"...Directed by: David Leveaux. Starring: Lily James, Jai Courtney, Christopher Plummer, Janet McTeer, Ben Daniels, Mark Dexter and Eddie..."

July 7, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Wes Craven Presents: Dracula

"...Lussier. Starring: Gerard Butler, Jonny Lee Miller, Justine Waddell, Christopher Plummer, Omar Epps, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Esposito and Jeri..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Last Station

This nimble movie about Tolstoy's last days stars Christopher Plummer as the author and Helen Mirren as his high-strung wife, Sofya.

"...Directed by: Michael Hoffman. Starring: Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy, Helen Mirren, Paul Giamatti, Anne-Marie Duff..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Knives Out

Cunning if slight murder mystery revives the whodunit

"...Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Toni Collette, Christopher Plummer, Ana de Armas, Don Johnson, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Danny Collins

Al Pacino is an aging rock & roller who makes an entertaining play for redemption

"...Directed by: Dan Fogelman. Starring: Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale, Katarina Cas, Giselle Eisenberg,..."

April 3, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Rooney Mara completely nails the role of Lisbeth Salander, and director David Fincher is no slouch either in this perhaps unnecessary remake of the Swedish thriller.

"...Directed by: David Fincher. Starring: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Robin Wright, Stellan Skarsgård, Steven Berkoff, Tony Way,..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beginners

Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor play father and son in this lovely drama about what happens to both after the older man discovers near the end of his life that he's gay.

"...Directed by: Mike Mills. Starring: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic, Kai Lennox, Mary Page..."

June 24, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens' picaresque teems with wonderful performances and bright direction by McGrath (who also did the same for Jane Austen in Emma).

"...Directed by: Douglas Mcgrath. Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Christopher Plummer, Tom Courtenay, Jamie Bell, Nathan Lane, Barry Humphries,..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Harangued in Huntsville

Officers from the Office of the Inspector General arrest a political activist for asking a question. There, now don't you feel safer?

"...When local political activist and Independent Media Center reporter Christopher Plummer traveled to Huntsville's Sam Houston State University last..."

Sept. 13, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Way, Way Outer Space

Dusting off Starcrash, an interstellar swashbuckler

"...And Christopher Plummer was apparently lost in a reverie of former..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Must Love Dogs

Convinced that one is the loneliest number, a divorced woman uses man's best friend to catch a new mate.

"...David Goldberg. Starring: Diane Lane, John Cusack, Elizabeth Perkins, Christopher Plummer, Dermot Mulroney, Stockard Channing and Ben Shenkman. Writer/director..."

July 29, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

National Treasure

Odd casting and unimaginative, workmanlike direction make the painfully overlong National Treasure an exercise in mediocrity.

"...Justin Bartha, Sean Bean, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel and Christopher Plummer. Absurdism taken to a new extreme, this Disney-Michael..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wolf

"...Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan and Christopher Plummer. A werewolf movie for the Nineties. Nicholson is..."

June 24, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...kicked out of a nursing home. Cast: Vera Farmiga, Christopher Plummer, Lewis MacDougall, Bobby Cannavale, Kristen Schaal, Dolly Wells,..."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

This Is What Mourning Looks Like

Beginners sits shivah, postmodern-style and with profound humor and heart

"...called into question when his widowed, 75-year-old father, Hal (Christopher Plummer), announces he is gay and that he wants..."

June 24, 2011 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

SXSW Film: The Whole Enchilada

Red-hot and really long list of all the titles to date

"...Anna (Mélanie Laurent) only months after his father Hal (Christopher Plummer) has passed away, this new love floods Oliver..."

Feb. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Sherlock Holmes

This movie reinvents the chilly, brainiac sleuth as a tortured genius and occasional backroom brawler, and Robert Downey Jr. almost makes the character work.

"...vaguely homoerotic The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes), and Christopher Plummer (in the excellent Holmes/Ripper face-off Murder by Decree,..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Gospel of John

The last years of Jesus are presented with more realism than pageantry.

"...like an endless church pageant, and the narration by Christopher Plummer is often a redundancy of what we are..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Man Who Invented Christmas

How Charles Dickens created Ebenezer Scrooge

"...Directed by: Bharat Nalluri. Starring: Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Justin Edwards, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Callow, David McSavage,..."

Nov. 21, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Simon Pegg stars as a shrink trying to heal himself.

"...Collette, Rosamund Pike, Stellan Skarsgård, Jean Reno, Barry Atsma, Christopher Plummer, Ming Zhao, Veronica Ferres and Togo Igawa...."

Oct. 3, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Lake House

This tale of magical realism has potential for delightful originality, but the Sandra Bullock-Keanu Reeves love story lacks heat and the science fiction premise spirals into senselessness.

"...Directed by: Alejandro Agresti. Starring: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Christopher Plummer, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Dylan Walsh, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Willeke..."

June 16, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Inside Man

Although with Denzel, Jodie, and Clive in tow it would be difficult to go wrong, Spike Lee and screenwriter Russell Gewirtz have created a truly original film from various shopworn genre clichés.

"...Spike Lee. Starring: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kim Director and James..."

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Syriana

One of the most uncompromising movies of the year, Syriana is like a living tableaux composed from all the stories that lurk just behind the news, the stories that put human faces on the demand for oil.

"...Stephen Gaghan. Starring: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Christopher Plummer, Chris Cooper, William Hurt, Alexander Siddig, Amanda Peet,..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cold Creek Manor

Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone are home alone in a haunted house in this film that was not screened before press time.

"...Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Stewart, Christopher Plummer and Ryan Wilson. One of the great, unsung..."

Sept. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Insider

"...Directed by: Michael Mann. Starring: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Philip Baker Hall, Diane Venora, Debi Mazar, Colm..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dolores Claiborne

"...Hackford. Starring: Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt, Christopher Plummer, David Strathairn and Eric Bogosian. It's been quite..."

March 31, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Fragile Minds

Dementia and Remember find terror in age

"...of memory that is severe senile dementia. Zev Guttman (Christopher Plummer) wakes to find his wife missing. As a..."

May 28, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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