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  • The Company (2003)
    Robert Altman follows a Chicago ballet company as it prepares for a major show.
  • Cookie's Fortune (1998)
    Review preview for Cookie's Fortune

    Altman has chosen the perfect cast.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Ensemble drama centring on a death.
  • Dr T And The Women (2000)
    A successful Dallas gynaecologist comes up against problems in his private life.
  • The Gingerbread Man (1998)
    Review preview for The Gingerbread Man

    In the end, the story twists itself stupid.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A lawyer falls for a one-night stand girl and tries to protect her from her father.
  • Gosford Park (2001)
    Review preview for Gosford Park

    Altman's great triumph is in galvanising the energies of exceptional actors into a living, breathing entity.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Murder and mystery at a party in a stately home.
  • A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
    Review preview for A Prairie Home Companion

    A delightful, genial, lovable movie - the product of an idiosyncratic artist and master storyteller.

    Scott Macdonald · 5 out of 5
    Garrison Keillor's live radio variety show bows out with a final performance.
  • Streamers (1983)
    Review preview for Streamers

    Though the tone is lower-key and much darker than in M*A*S*H, there is still some of the sense of the ridiculous which made Altman’s cult classic so watchable.

    Emma Slawinski · 3 out of 5
    Tense and dark alternative take on the Vietnam movie which focuses on four paratroopers preparing to ship out.
  • Vincent & Theo (1990)
    Review preview for Vincent & Theo

    The acting is so committed that it sparks the imagination and makes two-and-a-half hours feel inadequate.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    The tempestuous relationship between Vincent Van Gogh and his art dealer brother.
  • A Wedding (1978)
    Review preview for A Wedding

    Altman handles it all beautifully, with his trademark 'hands off' direction and overlapping dialogue capturing the mood perfectly.

    Gary Duncan · 3 out of 5
    Trouble at a high society wedding.

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