Film
Film Reviews
In Alphabetical Order
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The 5th Wave (2016)
50 First Dates
9 to 5 (1980)
1 Message
17 Again*
The 355
13 Going on 30
The 39 Steps (2008)
10 Things I Hate About You
12 Men of Christmas
27 Dresses
2 Hearts
A
The A-Team (2010)
Abduction (2011)
About Hope
About Time (2012)
The Aeronauts (Amazon Prime Original)
The Addams Family (1991)
The Adjustment Bureau
After
After the Ball
The Age of Adeline
Aladdin (2019)
Allegiant (Divergent Series)
All for Love (Hallmark)
All of My Heart
All the Old Knives*
All Things Valentine
Alice (television miniseries)
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Almost a Bride (1949)
Aloha
Along Came a Nanny
Along for the Ride (Netflix)
Always Be My Maybe (Netflix)
An Ideal Husband (1999)
Annie (2014)
Ant-Man
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Anyone But You
Anything for Love
Appetite for Love
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-wrecked
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
American Friends
Angel Eyes
Argylle
The Aristocats
At Risk
Aurora Teagarden: A Bone to Pick
Aurora Teagarden: Real Murders
Austenland
Australia
The Avengers
Avengers, Age of Ultron
Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Infinity War
B
Baby Boom
Baby Driver
The Bachelor (1999)
The Back Up Plan
Ballet Shoes (BBC)
Bandits
Bandslam
Banner 4th of July (Hallmark)
Barbie (2023)
Barefoot
Barely Lethal
Battleship
Batman Begins
Batman v Superman (2016)
Beastly
The Beautician and the Beast
Beautiful (2000)
Beautiful Creatures
Beauty and the Beast (2014, Miniseries)
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Because I Said So
Because of Him (1940)
Bella
Belle
Beyond the Blackboard
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
The Birthday Wish (Hallmark)
A Blast from the Past
Bleak House (2005 miniseries)
Blended
The Bletchley Circle
The Blind Side
Blithe Spirit (2020)
Blood and Chocolate
Bounce
The Bounty Hunter
The Bourne Identity*
The Bourne Legacy
The Bourne Supremacy*
The Bourne Ultimatum*
Brave
Brazen (Netflix)
The Break-Up
Bride and Prejudice
Bride Wars
Bridal Wave (Hallmark)
Brooklyn
The Buccaneers (1995 BBC Mini Series)
Bumblebee
C
Call the Midwife, Series One
Call the Midwife, Series Two
Call the Midwife, Series Three
Call the Midwife, Christmas Special
Call the Midwife, Series Four
Call the Midwife, Series Five
Captain America (2011)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Captain America, the Winter Soldier
Catch me if You Can (2002)
Charlie St. Cloud
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Chocolat
The Choice (2016)
The Christmas Card
Christmas in Connecticut
Christmas in Conway
Christmas with Holly
Christopher Robin
Clifford: The Big Red Dog (2021)
Cinderella (2015)
A Cinderella Story
A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits (2016)
Cloudy with a Chance of Love
Clue (1985)
Clueless
The Confession (and The Shunning)
Confessions of a Shopaholic
The Conspirator
The Convenient Groom (2016)
A Cookie Cutter Christmas
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Coraline
Courageous
The Courier
Cowboys and Aliens (2011)
Cowgirls ‘n’ Angels
Crazy, Stupid, Love
The Crimson Field (ITV Miniseries)
A Country Wedding (Hallmark)
D
Damsel (Netflix)
Dangerous Lies (Netflix)
Dan in Real Life
Dark Shadows (2012)
Dater’s Handbook (Hallmark)
A Dash of Love (Hallmark)
Date Night
Dear John
Death Comes to Pemberley (BBC Miniseries)
Death on the Nile (2022)
Destination Wedding (Hallmark)
Detective Pikachu
The Devil Wears Prada
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Dickensian (BBC Miniseries)
Did you Hear About the Morgans?
The Dig (Netflix)
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Dirty Dancing (2017)
Divergent
Divergent Series: Allegiant
Divergent Series: Insurgent
Doctor Thorne (Amazon Miniseries)
Doctor Strange
Dog Days
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991)
Dorfman in Love
Dog
The Double (2011)
Downton Abbey: The Feature Film
Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)
Downton Abbey, Series One
Downton Abbey, Series Two
Downton Abbey, Series Three
Downton Abbey: A Journey to the Highlands
Downton Abbey, Series Four
Downton Abbey, The London Season
Downton Abbey, Series Five
The DUFF
Dumbo (2019)
Dumplin’ (Netflix)
Duplex
E
Eagle Eye
Elvis
Emma (1996)
Emma (2009)
Emma. (2020)
Enchanted
Endless Love (2014)
Enola Holmes
Enola Holmes 2
Enough
Ever After
Everybody’s Fine
EXmas
F
Failure to Launch
The Family Plan (Apple TV)
The Family Stone
Fallen (2017)
A Family Affair
Far From the Madding Crowd (2015)
The Fault in our Stars
Feel the Beat (Netflix Original)
Fever Pitch
Finding Christmas
Finding You
Firelight (2012)
Fisherman’s Friends
Five Blind Dates (Amazon Prime)
Fletch (1985)
Fools Gold
Fools Rush In
Footloose (2011)
For Love or Money
Foyle’s War, Series Seven
Framed for Murder: A Fixer Upper Mystery
Free Guy
From Prada to Nada
From Time to Time
Front of the Class
Frozen
G
Gambit
The Game Plan
Garage Sale Mystery: Deadly Room
Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016)
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire*
Ghosted (Apple TV)
The Giant Mechanical Man*
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
G.I. Joe: the Rise of Cobra
Gifted
The Giver •
Glass Onion: A Knives out Mystery
Gnomeo and Juliet
God’s Not Dead
Going Postal (television miniseries)
Gone
Good Sam (Netflix)
The Good Witch’s Wonder
A Good Woman
Gosford Park
Gourmet Detective
Grace Unplugged
The Grand Seduction
Grantchester (2014 ITV Series)
Grantchester, Series 2 (2016 ITV Series)
The Gray Man (Netflix)
Great Expectations (2011 ITV television miniseries)
Great Expectations (2012)
The Greatest Showman
Grease: Live (2016)
The Greatest Hits
The Great Gatsby (2013)
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Netflix Original)
Gulliver’s Travels (with Jack Black)
A Guy Thing
H
Hanna (2011)
Hansel and Gretel, Witch Hunters
Happiness for Beginners (Netflix)
Harvest Moon
Hatfields and McCoys (2012)
Hats off to Christmas
A Haunting in Venice (Hercule Poirot)
A Hazard of Hearts
Heart of Stone (Netflix)
Heart of the Country
Heaven is Waiting
He’s All That (Netflix)
The Holiday
The Help
Hello, It’s Me
High Strung
Hit Man
Holiday Affair
Home Again
Home Fires (2015, ITV Series)
Home Sweet Home
Home Team (2022, Netflix)
Honest Thief
Hope Floats
Hotel for the Holidays
Hotel Transylvania
The House Bunny
Housesitter
How do You Know
How to Fall in Love
How to Train Your Husband
The Hundred Foot Journey
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games, Catching Fire
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2
The Hunters
The Huntsman: Winter’s War
The Hustle
The Hyperions
I
I Am Number Four
I Capture the Castle ●
I Could Never be Your Woman
Ice Castles
Ice Princess
I Do, I Do, I Do
I Don’t Know How She Does It
I Feel Pretty
The Idea of You
If I Stay
The Illusionist
The Imitation Game
In Good Company
In Her Shoes
In My Dreams
In the Key of Love
The Intern
In Time
Instant Family
Insurgent
Into the Woods
The Irresistible Blueberry Farm (2016)
Iron Man
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3
The Italian Job (2003)
It Could Happen to You
It Happened on 5th Avenue
J
Jackie and Ryan
Jack Reacher
Jack Ryan, Shadow Recruit (2013)
Jack the Giant Slayer
Jane Eyre (2006 Masterpiece)
Jane Eyre (2011)
Jason Bourne
The Jerk Theory
Jerry and Marge Go Large
Joe Somebody
Joy (2015)
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
June in January
Jupiter Ascending
Just Married
Justice League (2017)
Just My Luck
Just the Way You Are
K
Kate and Leopold
Keeping the Faith (2000)
Keeping up with the Joneses
Killers
Kindergarten Cop*
The Kissing Booth (Netflix Original)
The Kissing Booth 2
The Kissing Booth 3
Knight and Day
The Knight Before Christmas (Netflix)
Knives Out
Knives Out 2 (Glass Onion)
L
La La Land
Ladies in Black
The Lady Vanishes (2013)
Land Girls, Series One
Land Girls, Series Two
Lark Rise to Candleford, Series One
The Last Letter from Your Lover
The Last Song
The Last Summer (Netflix Movie)
Late Bloomer
Laws of Attraction
Leap Year
Legal Eagles
Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde
The Legend of Zorro
Les Misérables (2012)
Let it Snow (2013, Hallmark)
Let it Snow (2019, Netflix)
Letters to Juliet
Life as we Know it
Life or Something Like It
Lift (Netflix)
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
Little Dorrit (Miniseries Review)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Little Women (2019)
The Lone Ranger (2013)
The Longest Ride
Lorna Doone
The Losers
The Lost City (2022)
The Lost Husband
Lost in Austen (television miniseries)
The Lost Valentine
Love Accidentally
Love Again
Love and Friendship
Love and Gelato
Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade (Hallmark)
Love at First Bark (Hallmark)
Love at First Glance (Hallmark)
Love at First Sight (Netflix)
Love at Sea (Hallmark)
Love Blossoms (Hallmark)
Love by Chance (Hallmark)
Love by the Book (Hallmark)
Love, Guaranteed
Love Happens
Love in the Villa (Netflix)
Love on Ice (Hallmark)
Love on the Sidelines (Hallmark)
The Love Punch
Love, Rosie •
Love Sarah
Love the Coopers
Love, Wedding, Marriage
Loving Leah
Lucky 7
Lucky in Love
The Lucky One
M
Made of Honor
Maid in Manhattan
The Makeover (2012)
The Making of a Lady (2013)
Maleficent
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Man of Steel
Man on a Ledge
The Man who Knew Too Much
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
The March Sisters at Christmas
Married Life
Marry Me (2022)
Marry Me (television miniseries)
Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)
The Mask of Zorro
Matilda: The Musical (Netflix)
Maybe I Do
The Maze Runner
Me and Orson Welles
Mean Girls
Mean Girls 2
Mean Girls (2024)
The Memory Book
Middlemarch(1994)
Midnight at the Magnolia
Midnight in Paris
The Mighty Macs (2009)
Military Wives
Mirror Mirror (2012)
Miss Congeniality
Miss Congeniality 2
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Series One (TV Series)
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020, Movie)
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible II
Mission: Impossible III
Mission: Impossible, Dead Reckoning (2023)
Mission: Impossible, Fallout (2018)
Mission: Impossible, Ghost Protocol (2011)
Mission: Impossible, Rogue Nation (2015)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Mockingjay, Part One
Mockingjay, Part Two
Modern Persuasion
The Money Pit
Monte Carlo (2011)
Moonlight in Vermont (Hallmark)
Morning Glory
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Mortdecai
Mother of the Bride (Netflix)
Mother’s Day (2016)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Mr. Baseball
Mr. Mom
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Mulan (1998)
Mulan (2020)
Murder Among Friends (2010), aka Lies Between Friends*
Murder Mystery (Netflix)
Murder Mystery 2 (Netflix)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Murdoch Mysteries, Season One •
Music and Lyrics
My Best Friend’s Wedding
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3*
My Boyfriends’ Dogs
My Favorite Wedding (Hallmark)
My Future Boyfriend
My Sassy Girl
My Spy
My Spy: The Eternal City
The Mystery of Edwin Drood(2011)
Mystic Pizza
N
Nancy Drew (2007)
The Nanny Diaries
Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee Returns*
National Treasure
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Nature of Love (Hallmark)
Never Been Kissed
Neverland (television miniseries)
New in Town
New Year’s Eve
The Next Three Days
Night Train*
No Clue
North & South (2004, BBC Miniseries)
North by Northwest* (1959)
Not Another Happy Ending
Not Since You
Notting Hill
Now you See Me
O
Ocean’s 11
Ocean’s 12
Ocean’s 13
Ocean’s Eight
October Baby
October Kiss
On a Wing and a Prayer
One Day
One for the Money (2012)
One Small Hitch*
One True Loves
Only You
Operation Christmas Drop
Operation Mincemeat
The Other End of the Line
The Other Woman
Our Zoo (BBC Miniseries) ●
The Out-of-Towners
Overboard (2018)
Overnight Delivery
Oz: the Great and Powerful
P
Pan*
The Paradise, Series One, Episode One
The Paradise, Series One
The Paradise, Series Two
Patrick
Pearl in Paradise (Hallmark)
Penelope
The Peanuts Movie
People Like Us
The Perfect Bride (Hallmark)
The Perfect Catch (Hallmark)
A Perfect Pairing (Netflix)
Peter Rabbit
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
The Philadelphia Story
Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Pitch Perfect
Pitch Perfect 2
Pitch Perfect 3 (2017)
Playing for Keeps
Poldark, Season One (2015 ITV Series)
Polite Society
Portrait of Love
Power Rangers (2017)
Practical Magic
The Prestige
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
The Prince and Me (2004)
The Princess (Hulu)
The Princess Diaries
The Princess Diaries 2: A Royal Engagement
A Princess for Christmas
The Princess Diaries
The Princess Switch (Netflix)
Private Valentine
Prom
Pure Country 2: the Gift
The Proposal
Q
– none –
R
Rear Window (1954)*
Red Dawn (2012)
Road Less Traveled
Ramona and Beezus
Rebecca (2020 Netflix Original)
Red (2010)
Red 2
The Redemption of Henry Myers
Red Notice (Netflix)
Red Riding Hood
Reel Love
Remember Sunday
Rescued by Ruby
Restless (2012 BBC Miniseries) •
Return to Me
Revenge of the Bridesmaids
Riding in Cars with Boys
Rio
Rip Tide
Robin Hood (2018)
The Rocketeer
Romeo and Juliet (2013)
Roped (Netflix)
Rosaline (Hulu)
The Royal Treatment (Netflix)
A Royal Christmas
A Royal Winter
The Ruby in the Smoke
Runaway Jury*
Run the Race
The Russell Girl
S
Safe Haven (2013)
Sahara (2003)
The Saint (1997)*
Salt
Sally Lockhart: The Ruby in the Smoke
Sally Lockhart: The Shadow in the North
The Sapphires
Saved by Grace
Saving Mr. Banks
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
Scoop •
The Secret: Dare to Dream
The Secret Garden (2020)
The Secret of Moonacre •
See How They Run
Sense & Sensibility (2008)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Serving Sara
Set it Up (Netflix Original)
The Seven Year Hitch
The Shadow in the North
Sharper (Apple TV)
Shazam!
Shazam! Fury of the Gods*
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Sherlock Holmes, A Game of Shadows (2011)
Sherlock, Series One (2009)
Sherlock, Series Two (2011)
Sherlock, Series Three (2013)
She’s the Man
Shirin in Love
Shotgun Wedding (Amazon Prime)
The Shunning (and The Confession)
Shut In (2022)
Sing
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2
Skyfall
Sliding Doors
Smart Cookies
Smoke Jumper (a.k.a. Trial by Fire)
Smooch
Snow White and the Huntsman
Son-In-Law
The Spitfire Grill
Splash
So You Said Yes
Someone Like You
Sometimes Always Never
Spectre (2015)
Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Spider-Man 3
Spider-Man: Far from Home
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Something Borrowed
Soul Surfer
The Sound of Music: Live! (2013, NBC)
The Sound of Music: Live! (2015, ITV)
So Undercover
Source Code
Space Cadet
Stardust
Stars Fell on Alabama
Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
State Fair (1945)
Step Up
Step Up: Revolution
Stonehearst Asylum
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Suicide Squad
Summer Catch
Summer of Dreams
Summer Love
Superman: Man of Steel
Superman Returns
Surprised by Love
Suspicion (1941)
Sweet Home Alabama
Swing Vote
T
Tackling the Past
Taken
Taken 2
Taken 3*
Tall Girl (Netflix)
Tall Girl 2*
Tangled
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
Terror on the Prairie
That’s Amor
This Beautiful Fantastic (2017)
This Means War
The Three Musketeers (2011)
Three to Tango
Ticket to Paradise
Time of Death
Thor
Thor, the Dark World
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Three Smart Girls
Thunder Force (Netflix)
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Tin Man (television miniseries)
Titanic (2012 ITV / ABC miniseries)
To All the Boys: Always and Forever (Netflix)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
TRON: Legacy
Tomb Raider (2018)
The Tooth Fairy
Top Gun (1986)
Top Gun: Maverick
Tortilla Soup
Trouble Along the Way (1953)
Trust Fund
The Tourist
Two Weeks Notice
U
The Ultimate Gift*
The Ultimate Life*
Uncharted
Under the Greenwood Tree
Unfinished Song
Unknown
Unleashing Mr. Darcy
Upside Down
Upstairs, Downstairs: Series One (2010)
Upstairs, Downstairs: Series Two (2012)
Undercover Bridesmaid
An Unfinished Life
Uptown Girls
V
Valentine’s Day
The Valet (Hulu)
Vampire Academy
Vamps
Vantage Point*
Veronica Mars (2014)
The Vow
W
Wallis and Edward
Walking the Dog (Hallmark)
War and Peace (2007)
War and Peace (2016)
Warm Bodies
A Warrior’s Heart
Water for Elephants
Watermelon
We Bought a Zoo
The Weekend Away
We Love You, Sally Carmichael (2017)
The Wedding Date
Wedding Planner Mystery (Hallmark)
The Wedding Veil
The Wedding Veil: Legacy
The Wedding Veil: Unveiled
What a Girl Wants (2003)
What If
What’s Love Got to Do with It?
What to Expect when You’re Expecting
When Calls the Heart (Pilot Film)
When Sparks Fly (Hallmark)
When in Rome
When We First Met(Netflix)
While You Were Sleeping
White Hot (Hallmark Movies and Mysteries)
White House Down
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton
Winchester
Winter’s Tale
A Wish Come True (Hallmark)
Who is Simon Miller?
Wild Target
The Wolverine
Wonder
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman 1984
The Words
Words on Bathroom Walls
X
X-Men
X-Men, Days of Future Past
X-Men: First Class (2011)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men: The Wolverine
Y
Yes Day
You Again
Your Place or Mine? (Netflix)
Yours Mine and Ours (2005)
You’ve Got Mail
Z
Zootopia (2016)
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