The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Drama
The Bostonians (1984)
The Bostonians spends a great deal of time dancing around its central issue – the issue being the emancipation of women which, in 1875, was...
Last Night at the Alamo (1984)
I really struggled with Last Night at the Alamo, because I know that this movie was made with a little passion and with a lot...
The Karate Kid (1984)
There are moments when I am watching some movies when I wish that it would settle down, take a step back and be about more...
The Natural (1984)
What exactly is this movie about? Is it baseball movie or a religious parable? I don’t get it. I am not a person who lionizes...
Alphabet City (1984)
Alphabet City is one of those tiresome overwrought melodramas about Life in the Streets that you just know was made by people who have seen...
The Bounty (1984)
Being that this is the third cinematic version of the story of the 1797 mutiny aboard the H.M.S. Bounty, I guess I thought I knew...
Champions (1984)
I’ll admit it. I breathed a sigh of weary derision when I heard the plot of Champions. It is the story – based on fact...
