The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Terms of Endearment (1983)
[reviewed February 8, 2016] Historically, I have not been entirely kind to Terms of Endearment. In at least one previous essay, I declared that I was...
Yentl (1983)
When Yentl was over, I caught myself smiling. I got caught up in the story and even teared up at one point while Barbra Streisand...
D.C. Cab (1983)
I once got into a taxi cab that pulled up with the company logo printed on the side, “We get you there.” I like it...
The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
When I bash the good ‘ol boy movies that Burt Reynolds makes, it is only in the hopes that he will make something serious, and...
Two of a Kind (1983)
I like to think that I am pretty savvy when it comes to the reasons that a movie doesn’t work. I don’t know anything at...
Silkwood (1983)
I lived the early years of my life in Arkansas and my family often took road trips that took us past the Nuclear Power Plant...
Scarface (1983)
One of the saddest images in movie history occurs at the end of The Godfather Part II, as Michael Corleone sits out back of his...
