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Actor: Diane Venora

Diane Venora played the wife in Heat, whose speech about living with a man who is never present is the film’s clearest statement about its own subject. She played Hamlet on stage and appeared in Bird and Romeo and Juliet.

The Jackal (1997) Review

Bruce Willis plays a cold, charming assassin who changes faces like coats, Richard Gere the IRA sniper sent to catch him, and the target is a real surprise. Critics hated it. It's an 8.5 and my favorite Jackal.

Russell Crowe in a business suit sits across from Al Pacino during an intense conversation in a corporate office setting.

The Insider (1999) Review

The Insider (1999) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Michael Mann made a two-and-a-half-hour thriller about a man giving a television interview, in which the entire plot is legal procedure and corporate liability, and it is one…

Heat (1995) film poster

Heat (1995) Review

Heat is the best of the best. De Niro, Pacino, Kilmer, Voight.