By Rex Reed 5/02/12 11:50am

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Don’t Discount The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Movies that celebrate the wisdom and ingenuity of senior citizens without condescension and ridicule are rare as pink giraffes. This is just one of the reasons I am so enthusiastic about The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) and starring a royal collection of the most brilliant and accomplished British actors alive—the cinematic equivalent of the crown jewels, headed by two actual Dames, Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. If that’s not enough to get you out of the sludge, then you deserve the usual avalanche of vampires, Avengers and cabins in the woods that epitomize the dumbing down of the motion picture industry. Read More

By Rex Reed 12/16/09 12:00am

Italian for Beginners

NINE
Running time 119 minutes
Written by Michael Tolkin and
Anthony Minghella   
Directed by Rob Marshall
Starring  Daniel Day-Lewis, Penélope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson, Judi Dench, Sophia Loren, Stacy Ferguson

To the already overcrowded list of year-end disappointments bringing 2009 to a sorry close, you can add Read More

By Rex Reed 11/11/08 7:19pm

The Spy Who Bored Me

Quantum of Solace
Running Time 106 minutes
Written by Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis, and Robert Wade
Directed By Marc Forster
Starring Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Mathieu Amalric, Olga Kurylenko

James Bond movies long ago outgrew the original fun and thrills invented by Ian Fleming, and they’ve been coasting on noise Read More

By David Foxley 11/20/07 5:35pm

British Royals Rekindle Romance on Malta

In a rare loosening of one’s stiff upper-lip, Queen Elizabeth II and her hubby, the Duke of Edinburgh, chose to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary tonight on the Mediterranean island of Malta, where the crowned couple lived for two years after getting hitched. The private overnight visit will come just one day before Read More

By Rex Reed 12/25/06 12:00am

Judi, Judi, Judi! I’ll Take Notes

I know that they’ve been sleeping. I know they’re not awake. But I hoped in the year-end glut of holiday movies that the Hollywood Santa would be good for goodness’ sake. Instead of a turkey with trimmings, we got a bag of stale Chicken McNuggets. When the people who make movies yelled “It’s a wrap!”, Read More

By Rex Reed 5/02/05 12:00am

Dench, Smith Play Spicy Dames

The word “legend” is randomly kicked around so much these days that it seems to apply to just about everyone who has lived long enough to win an Oscar, sell a million rock CD’s, headline at Carnegie Hall or survive at least one war. With so many phony legends jockeying for applause, it’s hard to Read More