American movies (34)
Suspicion (1941)
A good Hitchcock but not a great Hitchcock, but his good is better than most people’s best
Rating: 7/10
Quiet Man, The (1952)
An almost perfect movie, with an actually perfect screen couple in John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara
Rating: 10/10
Dream Wife (1953)
The casual sexism and racism of this Cary Grant-Deborah Kerr rom-com have not aged well at all
Rating: 4/10
Trouble with Harry, The (1955)
Lesser-known black comedy from Hitchcock starring John Forsythe and Shirley Maclaine in winning form
Rating: 9/10
Pal Joey (1957)
Frank Sinatra is torn between Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak and every song is a hit
Rating: 8/10
Mister Buddwing (1965)
Atmospheric and intriguing film in which James Garner is an amnesiac stumbling around a hostile New York
Rating: 6/10
It! (1966)
Sub-Hammer horror movie in which a man in a rubber suit fails to terrorise London while Roddy McDowall tries to save it
Rating: 1/10
Earthquake (1974)
Very much a disaster movie of two halves, but sadly the first half establishes characters about whom it is hard to care about in the second
Rating: 5/10
Parallax View, The (1974)
Tense political thriller from that sweet spot in Warren Beatty's career when he could almost do no wrong
Rating: 9/10
Time After Time (1979)
Cracking sci-fi tale with Malcolm McDowell as HG Wells chasing Jack the Ripper into 1970s San Francisco
Rating: 8/10
Hopscotch (1980)
Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson outwit the world’s spy agencies in this sparkling caper
Rating: 9/10
Tuff Turf (1984)
Lesser-known 80s teen drama in which no-one is an actual teen—with early roles for James Spader and Robert Downey Jr
Rating: 6/10
Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
For my money, the very best of the John Hughes movies, even if everyone looks way too old to be in school
Rating: 8/10
Split Decisions (1988)
There have been some great films about boxing; this is not one of them
Rating: 3/10
Cut Above, A (1989)
Plodding medical comedy which suffers from an unlikeable lead character and a lack of humour
Rating: 3/10
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