After nearly 30 years as the LA Times' chief film critic, Kenneth Turan steps back from weekly duties with a list of 14 time-tested classics to get movie fans through the hardest of times.
testifies, Jane Austen continues to knock them dead but nothing beats the high gloss of impeccable studio craftsmanship that elevates this Laurence Olivier-Greer Garson vehicle.Who doesn’t love a good amnesia movie, and this one, starring Ronald Colman and Greer Garson, pulls out more stops than one would have thought possible.Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart star in “The Shop Around the Corner” .
The onscreen chemistry between James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan was the stuff of legend, never better displayed than in this Ernst Lubitsch romantic charmer. Powered by the work of Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’Connor and with the joy of performance as one of its themes, this has proved to be the most durable example of the Hollywood musical, the real tinsel underneath all the fake stuff.
Finally, above all else, what I want to say as I step back is that having this job, being trusted by readers as a guide for all this time, has been a great, great privilege. I’ve never lost sight of that and I never will.
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