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Angela Lansbury won six Tonys (including Best Actress for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street), but Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy nominations came just as reliably in a most dynamic and multifaceted entertainment career across eight decades. Lansbury was a perennial at the Emmys with a dozen nominations for her comfort-television role as small-town sleuth Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote. And decades earlier within film, Lansbury had been an immediate sensation. She was Oscar nominated for her debut as the maid Nancy in 1944’s Gaslight, the movie that originated the ‘gaslighting’ expression used today. Lansbury would never be long gone from cinema screens after that, appearing in over 30 films until the 1970s, with more Oscar nominations for 1945’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and 1962’s The Manchurian Candidate, playing the plotting, sinister Eleanor in John Frankenheimer‘s classic paranoid thriller. Lansbury received an Academy Honorary Award in 2013.
With Murder, She Wrote taking off in the ’80s, Lansbury reduced her time spent in movies, mostly choosing animated and family roles. She was a frequent and soothing figure for multiple generations of young filmgoers, starting with 1971’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and furthered with The Last Unicorn, Anastasia, Nanny McPhee, and as recently as The Grinch and Mary Poppins Returns, both in 2018. And Lansbury’s voice would become legend through the enchanted Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast: Her Grammy-nominated rendition of the theme song attached to the swooning chandelier waltz between Belle and Beast is arguably the most romantic moment in Disney history.
#1
Adjusted Score: 102413%
Critics Consensus: A classic blend of satire and political thriller that was uncomfortably prescient in its own time, The Manchurian Candidate remains distressingly relevant today.
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Adjusted Score: 103092%
Critics Consensus: Enchanting, sweepingly romantic, and featuring plenty of wonderful musical numbers, Beauty and the Beast is one of Disney’s most elegant animated offerings.
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Adjusted Score: 88941%
Critics Consensus: Beautiful animation, an affable take on Russian history, and strong voice performances make Anastasia a winning first film from Fox animation studios.
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Adjusted Score: 84277%
Critics Consensus: It provides an entertaining experience for adults and children alike.
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Adjusted Score: 103561%
Critics Consensus: Mary Poppins Returns relies on the magic of its classic forebear to cast a familiar — but still solidly effective — family-friendly spell.
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Adjusted Score: 79546%
Critics Consensus: A bit alarming at first, Nanny McPhee has a hard edge to counter Mary Poppins-style sweetness, but it still charms us and teaches some valuable lessons.
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Adjusted Score: 103200%
Critics Consensus: National Velvet makes the most of a breakout performance from Elizabeth Taylor, delivering a timeless family-friendly tearjerker that avoids straying into the sentimental.
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Adjusted Score: 47412%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
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Adjusted Score: 75000%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
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Adjusted Score: 99443%
Critics Consensus: A witty spoof of medieval swashbuckler movies, The Court Jester showcases Danny Kaye at his nimble, tongue-twisting best.
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Adjusted Score: 93791%
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Adjusted Score: 93250%
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Adjusted Score: 87868%
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Adjusted Score: 72439%
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Adjusted Score: 81585%
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Adjusted Score: 56201%
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Adjusted Score: 27196%
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Adjusted Score: 79050%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
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Adjusted Score: 74008%
Critics Consensus: The Last Unicorn lacks the fluid animation to truly sparkle as an animated epic, but offbeat characters and an affecting story make it one of a kind for the true believers.
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Adjusted Score: 73546%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
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Adjusted Score: 70189%
Critics Consensus: Bedknobs and Broomsticks often feels like a pale imitation of a certain magical guardian and her wards, but a spoonful of Angela Lansbury’s witty star power helps the derivativeness go down.
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Adjusted Score: 60983%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
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Adjusted Score: 70605%
Critics Consensus: The Grinch gives the classic Seuss source material a brightly animated update that’s solidly suitable for younger viewers without adding substantially to the story’s legacy.
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Adjusted Score: 56612%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
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Adjusted Score: 40971%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
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Adjusted Score: 52569%
Critics Consensus: Blandly inoffensive and thoroughly predictable, Mr. Popper’s Penguins could have been worse — but it should have been better.
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Adjusted Score: 42101%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
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Adjusted Score: 21026%
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Adjusted Score: 15905%
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Adjusted Score: 20562%
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Adjusted Score: 10051%
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Adjusted Score: 10051%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
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Adjusted Score: 4711%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
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