Mike Newell is a director who has worked across blockbuster franchises and intimate dramas, bringing his steady hand to everything from the fourth Harry Potter film to the swashbuckling Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I have reviewed 3 of his films on the site so far.
Rating: 3.0★
By 1994, the British romantic comedy had become something of a rare and slightly embarrassed creature. Hollywood had been churning out polished but unremarkable examples of the genre for years, and homegrown British efforts rarely found much purchase beyond domestic television. Then Richard Curtis, a writer best known at that
Genre Crime
★★★★ — Donnie Brasco (1997)
Genre Adventure
★★★ — Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
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