Out Of Africa (1985)

Based on Karen Blixen's 1937 memoir of her time spent in British East Africa, Sydney Pollack's unhurried romance stars Meryl Streep, her porcelain skin, Robert Redford, and his blue eyes, and tells a sweeping, poetic, heartbreaking love story - no, not between Streep's Blixen and Redford's Denys but between Blixen and the object of her profoundest love: verdant, spectacular Kenya.

★★★★★

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Michael Clayton (2007)

This legal suspense thriller similar to but more polished and intelligent than a John Grisham adaptation, has George Clooney playing Michael Clayton, a man deeply involved in a mega-corporation's dirty deals but exactly who he is and how he sleeps at night are the questions that keep the movie thrilling to its final scene.

★★★★☆

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