anthony hopkins – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

LOCKED – Review by Susan Granger

May 27, 2025June 2, 2025 Susan Granger anthony hopkins, Ashley Cartwright, Bill Skarsgard, David Yarovesky, Locked, Michael Arlen Ross, Prime Video

Locked is terrifying because of its believability. Sleazy, selfish Eddie Barrish is a petty thief and deadbeat dad who forgets to pick up his daughter from school and is perpetually behind on child support payments. He spots a black luxury SUV in a remote parking lot. Hoping to find cash, perhaps in the glove compartment, he’s stunned to find the car unlocked. Surreptitiously slipping inside for a quick search, Eddie suddenly realizes that he can’t get out.

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THOSE ABOUT TO DIE – Review by Susan Granger

September 9, 2024September 9, 2024 Susan Granger anthony hopkins, Cinecitta Studios, drama series, Iwan Rheon, Jojo Macari, peacock, Roland Emmerich, Those About to Die, Tom Hughes, Year of Four Emperors

Director Roland Emmerich recruited Anthony Hopkins to head the cast and created a cutting-edge virtual production to replicate ancient Rome for his first television series Those About to Die, streaming on the Peacock network. This brutal, bloody sword-and-sandal epic explores despicable trickery and feverish gambling in the world of Circus Maximus chariot racing and, although it’s derivative, disjointed, repetitive and somewhat incoherent, it should whet your appetite for Ridley Scott’s upcoming Gladiator 2, scheduled for release later this year.

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ONE LIFE (TIFF 2023) – Review by Ulkar Alakbarova

September 11, 2023September 11, 2023 Ulkar Alakbarova anthony hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, James Hawes, Johnny Flynn, jonathan pryce, Kindertransport, lena olin, Lucinda Coxon, Nicholas Winton, Nick Drake, One Life, TIFF 2023, truth-based

Based on true events, One Life follows Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker who was deeply affected by the fate that Jewish children could face when Nazi Germany declared the beginning of the occupation of Czechoslovakia. Nicholas (Johnny Flynn, portraying a younger Winton) promptly decided to involve all the friends he could find in Prague to save as many Jewish children as possible who were at risk of imminent danger.

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ARMAGEDDON TIME – Review by Susan Granger

April 3, 2023April 8, 2023 Susan Granger anthony hopkins, Armageddon Time, Banks Repeta, Darius Khondji, James Gray

It’s often been said that while we are free to make our own choices, we can’t choose the consequences that accompany them. Armageddon Time is all about making those life-altering decisions. Released at the end of last year with little fanfare, James Gray’s melancholy, semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age drama is definitely worth another look.

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THE SON – Review by Susan Granger

January 18, 2023January 19, 2023 Susan Granger anthony hopkins, florian zeller, Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, The Son, vanessa kirby

The Son revolves around an affluent family, headed by workaholic Peter Miller (Hugh Jackman) who is struggling, along with his ex-wife (Laura Dern), to help their volatile, self-destructive 17-year-old son, Nicholas (Zen McGrath), while grappling with an infant, a younger partner (Vanessa Kirby) and the psychological trauma inflicted by his tyrannical father (Anthony Hopkins.)

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ARMAGEDDON TIME – Review by Diane Carson

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 Diane Carson anthony hopkins, Armageddon Time, Banks Repeta, Darius Khondji, James Gray

Writer/director James Gray’s Armageddon Time begins in New York City’s Public School 173, 1980, sixth grade for Paul Graff. Gray immediately immerses viewers in classroom interaction which establishes Paul’s personality and his friendship with Johnny Davis, a Black fellow student. The racism that pervades the film’s developments also rears its ugly head immediately through teacher Mr. Turkeltaub.

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ZERO CONTACT – Review by Susan Granger

June 8, 2022June 17, 2022 Susan Granger anthony hopkins, Rick Dugdale, scifi, Zero Contact

As an avid Anthony Hopkins fan, I’ll see any of his movies BUT here’s an oddity: Zero Contact. Reportedly produced remotely in 17 different countries during the 2020 global pandemic, it’s intended to be a high-tech, sci-fi thriller. Anthony Hopkins always oozes charisma, inviting viewers into his Southern California home, where he delivers mind-melding monologues. He ruminates about art and science, in addition to playing one of his own musical compositions on the piano. But that’s not enough to save this cinematic waste of time.

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THE VIRTUOSO – Review by Susan Granger

May 7, 2021May 8, 2021 Susan Granger Anson Mount, anthony hopkins, Diora Baird, eddie marsan, Nick Stagliano

What a shame that – after winning the 2021 Best Actor Academy Award for The Father – Anthony Hopkins’ new neo-noir thriller is such a dud! The titular character (Anson Mount) is a nameless contract killer, a methodical mercenary, who shows no remorse about the way he earns a living…until a woman, an innocent bystander, is burned to death in front of her young child. He knows it’s “collateral damage,” but the horror awakens his conscience.

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THE FATHER – Review by Diane Carson

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 Diane Carson anthony hopkins, florian zeller, Imogen Poots, olivia coleman, the father

Director Florian Zeller realistically depicts the mental confusion of octogenarian Anthony who weaves in and out of reality, struggling with a dementia he refuses to acknowledge, one symptom of his cognitive deterioration. Second, Anthony’s primary caregiver, daughter Anne, elicits empathy through scenes focusing on her painful coping.

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THE FATHER – Review by Susan Granger

February 10, 2021February 13, 2021 Susan Granger anthony hopkins, florian zeller, Imogen Poots, olivia coleman, the father

First seen sitting in a chair, reading a book while listening to classical music in his posh London flat, Anthony Hopkins delivers a heartbreaking performance as an 80-year-old gentleman trying to come to terms with the subtle disorientation of dementia. At this point, Anthony – that’s his character’s name, since director Florian Zeller wrote the role for Hopkins – barely recognizes his daughter, Anne (Olivia Colman), who is trying to introduce him to Laura (Imogen Poots), a new caregiver.

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