THE BEST UNDERRATED CLASSICS

EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) 18 ▲

Stanley Kubrick died before his erotic drama with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman (right) came out and tanked. But after Metoo, it can be seen as a prescient story of wealthy men

preying on young women.

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FRANKIE AND JOHNNY (1991) 15 ◆

Garry Marshall’s bittersweet love story was a hit, but critics reckoned Michelle Pfeiffer was miscast. She gives a very sensitive, nuanced performance as waitress Frankie (left), wary of men after being abused, who’s wooed by her colleague Johnny (Al Pacino), fresh out of jail.

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KLUTE

(1971) 15 ◆

Jane Fonda (right) is great as a call girl who gets involved with Donald Sutherland’s detective. She spent time with hookers for research – but no one tried to pick her up!

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THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER

(1955) 12 ◆

Actor Charles Laughton died in 1962 thinking his only director credit was a flop, but it’s not now. Robert Mitchum was scary psychopath Harry Powell (left), who seduces a widow to find a stash of hidden money.

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CASINO (1995) 18 ▲

Martin Scorsese’s movie was unfairly seen as a rip-off of his 1990 classic Goodfellas. Yes, he also cast Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci and used a voiceover to tell a story of organised crime, but Casino has one great asset that Goodfellas conspicuously lacks – Sharon Stone (below with De Niro) on top, top form as a high-class call girl.

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JAWBONE (2017) 15

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This tale of a washed-up boxer trying to make a comeback really engaged me. Johnny Harris doesn’t just play the part, he inhabits it. Ray Winstone also appears.

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