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...arrival of Blanchett’s Sheba Hart at the gritty London middle school where Covett chairs the history department. Hart is an instant school celebrity, more for her figure than for her teaching abilities. “Is she a sphinx, or merely stupid?” Dench??s character inquires with characteristic acidity in one of the narrative voice-overs that take regular—and usually shocking—extracts from her journal entries. According to the movie’s tagline, “one woman’s mistake is another?...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Gold Star for Dame Judi's 'Notes' | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...status after two assassinations in rapid succession, giving him license to kill. From the first scene, the film is intense and more or less keeps that tension up right until the end.His first assignment thereafter—given to him by M, played by the incomparable Judi Dench??is to stop the sinister Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen, whose last American film was “King Arthur”), banker to the world’s terrorist organizations. The pic is centered around a high stakes poker game that Bond must win to keep the money from getting...

Author: By Christopher C. Baker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review: Casino Royale | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

...terms “full frontal nudity” and “Dame Judi Dench?? do not normally go in the same sentence. Usually shunted aside by filmmakers as the tart older woman in favor of showcasing the youthful skin of Gwyneth Paltrow or Keira Knightley, Dench plays the title role in “Mrs. Henderson Presents,” a film that attempts to be at once a bawdy comedy of manners and a sentimental war-time drama...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mrs. Henderson Presents | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

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