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Joanna Connors Cleveland Plain Dealer 3 days ago If it is not the best movie ever made of a Shakespearean play, it is definitely the "most" movie to hit the Bard -- and one can't help but suspect that the showman in Shakespeare would approve. Go to Full Review William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) 79% 77%

Joanna Connors Cleveland Plain Dealer Oct 26, 2026 Eyes Wide Shut is oddly unadventurous -- and far from sexy. In fact, outside the realm of porn, it might be the dullest, most humorless movie ever made about the erotic impulse and our hopeful, pitiful efforts to express it and control it. Go to Full Review Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 79% 74%

Donna Chernin Cleveland Plain Dealer Oct 19, 2026 Shelley Duvall's performance is so real that it's almost excruciating; she epitomizes terror. But the find is little Danny Lloyd as the child. Danny begins with deadpan and then grows into a larger-than-life mountain of feelings. Go to Full Review The Shining (1980) 74% 90%

Emerson Batdorff Cleveland Plain Dealer Oct 18, 2026 The movie retains even the ambiguities of the novel and is quite likely the best job of translation from printed page to screen to come around in years. Go to Full Review A Clockwork Orange (1971) 83% 93%

W. Ward Marsh Cleveland Plain Dealer Oct 16, 2026 The viewer shudders at the deeper implications while laughing himself sick at furious satire fashioned on the calamities of tomorrow -- if it ever comes? Go to Full Review Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 97% 94%

W. Ward Marsh Cleveland Plain Dealer Oct 15, 2026 If ever a find was made, assuredly she is Sue Lyon, who creates the title role with so much conviction that she gives her Lolita the necessary touches of the premature, the innocent, and the passionate without understanding. Go to Full Review Lolita (1962) 82% 84%

W. Ward Marsh Cleveland Plain Dealer Oct 14, 2026 In many respects it is the greatest, certainly the mightiest melodramatic walloper of them all, excelling in tautness, if not necessarily in suspense, since the spectator knows from the outset that the hero is doomed. Go to Full Review Spartacus (1960) 89% 87%

W. Ward Marsh Cleveland Plain Dealer Oct 13, 2026 This is a “war picture” with little of the bigness of such past melodramas… But Paths of Glory does have bigness and courage in theme. Go to Full Review Paths of Glory (1957) 96% 95%

Glenn C. Pullen Cleveland Plain Dealer Oct 13, 2026 Lucien Ballard's camera work is as gripping as the ironic action. Go to Full Review The Killing (1956) 96% 92%

Joey Morona Cleveland Plain Dealer Oct 7, 2026 The irony of "The Social Reckoning" is that a film about the proliferation of rage bait could itself be considered rage bait. How meta! (See what I did there? 😂) Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Roxanne T. Mueller Cleveland Plain Dealer Oct 2, 2026 Part II was where the grown-up Jason came a calling to wreak havoc and Part III was the same thing only in three dimensions. "The Final Chapter" is, uh, the same thing only back on the flat screen. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) 20% 51%

Joey Morona Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 30, 2026 The film's bonkers finale will leave you hating its three main characters, everyone involved in the making of it and even yourself for falling for it. Whether or not you consider that a fun night at the movies is up to you. Go to Full Review Verity (2026) 31% - -

Donna Chernin Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 30, 2026 The sequel serves up more of the same. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) 28% 48%

Roxanne T. Mueller Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 23, 2026 3/4 Everything in it you've probably seen enacted a dozen or more times before, but its hero is so infectious and his innocence so believable that you're willing to suspend belief and give yourself over to the fun. Go to Full Review Crocodile Dundee (1986) 87% 59%

Joey Morona Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 23, 2026 Forgotten Island delivers an emotional wallop you won’t see coming, one that will resonate with — or devastate — anyone who’s had a deep friendship with someone only to have them drift apart. Go to Full Review Forgotten Island (2026) 95% - -

Nancy Bigler Kersey Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 21, 2026 Soon the unpredictable becomes routine. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th (1980) 49% 60%

Mark Dawidziak Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 20, 2026 Directed by David Carson, NBC'S "Carrie" certainly doesn't have the firepower to sear away the memory of De Palma's film. Go to Full Review Carrie (2002) 32% 49%

Joanna Connors Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 19, 2026 They play off one another with speed and agility. Go to Full Review The First Wives Club (1996) 56% 68%

Joey Morona Cleveland Plain Dealer Aug 25, 2026 ‘Buddy’ might be the most bonkers movie of the year so far. Go to Full Review Buddy (2026) 88% - -

Julie E. Washington Cleveland Plain Dealer Aug 24, 2026 When the steam is a rising and the bullets are a flying and the rock n roll zombies are a swarming, it's a sure thing that Resident Evil is a guilty-pleasure candy bar with a gooey chewy center. Go to Full Review Resident Evil (2002) 36% 67%