Category: Assholes of the Cinema

Miss Jean Brodie is, as she will utter a good dozen times in the course of this film, “in her prime.” She has sacrificed everything for her craft, and “her girls” – the young ladies attending the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland – are her raison d’etre.

One of the Worst Movies You’ve Never Seen

During her brief few minutes on camera, Irene Dailey’s Samia Glavia inhabits the role of the archetypal intellectual with such perfection, we’re tempted to retire the type for all time

So yes, Mr. Rooney was always and forever a man-child in the promised land, but what he never lacked was nerve. Appalling, grating nerve, to be frank.

It’s 1950. You’re God. Fine, you slept through a recent global conflagration and the Holocaust, but now you’re rested and ready to perform a miracle or two.

Jimmy is hateful, miserable, self-serving, and disgusting, so naturally, Helena falls in love.

Andre Gregory is out of his fucking mind. Over a century plus of cinematic miracles, the greatest of all is that Mr. Gregory never spent a long stint in a mental hospital.

Tony Rivers is a prick. Tremendous head of hair, yes, even as a tender high school student, but a prick nonetheless.