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Genre: Dramedy   Director: Dustin Hoffman   Starring: Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins   Running Time: 98 minute...

A comedy of manners combined with a frivolous mystery, Gosford Park is overstuffed with ill-defined characters floundering for a purpose. I...

A tactless comedy with dashes of drama, California Suite oscillates between pompous and cretinous. Four unrelated stories take place over o...

A low-key drama about an elderly woman living in a van, The Lady In The Van starts and ends with its title. It's the 1970s in Engl...

A school drama with a difference, The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie is an engrossing study of surreptitious manipulation in all its forms. T...

All movies starring Maggie Smith and reviewed on the Ace Black Movie Blog are linked below: The V.I.P.s...

A whodunit comedy satire, Murder By Death offers laughs aplenty but also runs out of ideas rather quickly. The world's best de...

A sharply written comedy about the pitfalls women face in middle age, The First Wives Club is an often hilarious film with a superb cast...

An adaptation of the E.M. Forster novel about a young British woman falling in love with a free-spirited man, A Room With A View is a gorg...

An ensemble cast multi-story drama set in and around a London airport, The V.I.P.s maintains a steady level of interest thanks to the nume...

A thoughtful comedy about new beginnings in the twilight of life, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel tackles themes of growing old, starting o...