Movie Gazette

Reviews Featuring Dustin Hoffman

Rain Man
One of the triumphs of the 1980s, this is a movie Tom Cruise’s career is unlikely ever to top.

Confidence
A good con film, but unfortunately in a world full of great ones. Worth, however, seeing more than once, which cannot be said of a lot of other films.

The Kid Stays in the Picture
This story of one producer's contribution to Hollywood's finest period – the late 1960s and 1970s – all packaged like a hyperbolic pitch for a schmaltzy blockbuster. Self-mythologisation has never been so fascinating, and so fun.

Moonlight Mile
Well made and strongly-performed, but lacking in that spark needed to make it memorable.

Runaway Jury
With a perfect cast and multi-layered plot, it rattles along like a runaway train - a thrilling enough ride, even if it must come crashing at the end.

Finding Neverland
Discover the power of imagination with this enchanting tale of the original boy who never grew up.

I Heart Huckabees
This intelligent and quirky trip beneath the surface of human existence is either a profound marvel or a meaningless absurdity – but either way, that’s life, and ain’t life funny!

Meet the Fockers
A return visit well worth making. In adding some new names, a new scenario, and plenty of new laughs, the bods behind ‘Meet the Fockers’ have come up with a winner.

The Graduate
Put this much-loved silly 60s coming-of-ager into your DVD player and let it seduce you.

Kung Fu Panda
Better than your typical “family” film, Kung Fu Panda has all the laughs, love, and action you could hope for in any movie, let alone one about a noodle-selling panda doing Kung Fu.

News Items For Dustin Hoffman

Bye bye to the real Rain Man
Our regular column covering the passing of significant - but lesser reported - people of the past month.

Coming of age for South Asian stars in Hollywood
American actors of South Asian origin are finding success on and off screen in the US television and film industry, Salim Rizvi writes.

Protest singer and a gorilla king
Our regular column covering the passing of significant - but lesser-reported - people of the past month.

M*A*S*H writer Gelbart dies at 81
Larry Gelbart, best known for writing the hit US TV series M*A*S*H, dies in California at the age of 81.

Autistic impressions
Hollywood movies rarely deal with disability - except for autism, when characters are shown as unusually intelligent. Why do we like to think everyone with autism is blessed with special abilities?

News feed from BBC News
BBC News for Dustin Hoffman