All The President's Men (1975)

Two Washington Post journalists (Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, showing everyone how it is done) are assigned to investigate a burglary, but little do they realise the story they are about to uncover will go right to the very top and result in the first resignation of a President of the United States - a riveting account of the Watergate scandal from start to...well, resignation, but not finish.

★★★★★

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Into The Labyrith (L'uomo del labirinto) (2019)

Author Donato Carrisi directs for a second time an adaptation of one of his own books and like the first effort (The Girl In The Fog) this is again an unrestrained nonsense, a murder mystery that plays out like a garish fairytale, so over-the-top with its allusions to witches and dungeons and masked killers, none of it ends up mattering or even making sense, least of all the grandiose twists that you'd have to be a real dummy not to see coming.

★★☆☆☆

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Rain Man (1988)

After his father's death, self-interested wheeler-dealer Charlie Babbage discovers he has an older brother with autism who has inherited his father's entire estate, and so with his eyes on the money, Charlie whisks this brother, Raymond, out of his care facility and on a transAmerican roadtrip where the two engage on topics such as airlines, underwear, hot water, smoke alarms and "watchmans", and that's it.

★★★☆☆

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Esio Trot (2015)

The lengths Dustin Hoffman's Mr Hoppy goes to woo Judi Dench, the woman who lives below him in an apartment complex, are quite creepy: he repeatedly steals and replaces her pet tortoise to give her the impression it is growing, like the wooden leg trick in The Twits, another wickedly amusing Roald Dahl creation; this one is his story of elderly romance for young audiences!

★★★☆☆

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