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Actor: Joan Allen

Joan Allen was nominated three times in five years, for Nixon, The Crucible and The Contender, playing women whose public composure is the subject.

Face/Off and the Bourne films gave her commercial work, and Pleasantville gives her a 1950s housewife discovering color, which is a strange and effective performance. She came from Steppenwolf in Chicago and won a Tony for Burn This.

A young boy with long hair looks upward with wonder, bathed in bright natural light streaming down.Brie Larson

Room (2015) Review

Room (2015) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Emma Donoghue adapted her own novel and kept the one decision that makes it bearable, which is that everything is narrated by a five-year-old who thinks the shed is…

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James Garner and Gena Rowlands in a nursing home scene, with Garner reading from a notebook to Rowlands, who sits besideGena Rowlands

The Notebook (2004) Review

The Notebook (2004) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The young romance is a competent, conventional and occasionally irritating class melodrama. The framing story, an old man reading to a woman with dementia who does not know…

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Face/Off (1997) film posterAlessandro Nivola

Face/Off (1997)

1997 John Woo action with Travolta and Nicolas Cage swapping faces as cop and terrorist. Face/Off is John Woo's 1997 American action film and one of the principal entries in both Woo's filmography and the broader 1990s American action canon.

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The Bourne Series (2002-2016) film posterBrian Cox

The Bourne Series (2002-2016) Review

The Bourne series is one of the most influential American action franchises of the past twenty-five years and the production that basically transformed how mainstream action cinema is shot, edited, and choreographed. Two additional Ludlum novels followed.

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