Also with Gore Vidal, Alan Rickman, Giancarlo Esposito, Brian Murray, and Ray Wise.

NEWYORKER: Bob Roberts

The one exception is Laura (Rachel Hurd-Wood), whose father (Alan Rickman) does everything to protect her from the killer.

NEWYORKER: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

But that is to sleight the contributions of Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Ralph Fiennes, Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent and so many others.

CNN: Review: Final 'Harry Potter' goes out with a bang

The talents of Alan Rickman, Juliet Stevenson and Kristen Scott-Thomas nevertheless conspire with Mr Minghella's bravura film-making technique to crush the play's humours.

ECONOMIST: Modern drama

Midway through the party, a team of terrorists led by the stylish Hans Gruber (a scene-stealing Alan Rickman) interrupts the event and holds most of the attendees hostage.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Judi Dench, Daniel Day-Lewis, Anthony Hopkins, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Albert Finney, Colin Firth, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Ben Kingsley, Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, Emma Thompson, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Tom Wilkinson the list is endless.

WSJ: Wanderlust | The Forgiveness of Blood | Aniston Should Have Stayed Home | Film Review by Joe Morgenstern

Up against them is a rank of supernatural forces played by Alan Rickman, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, and Selma Hayek a perplexed earthling (Linda Fiorentino), and a couple of unwitting prophets, played by the grungy Jason Mewes and the bearded Smith himself, back by popular demand from his previous pictures.

NEWYORKER: Dogma

This is not to suggest the Bard of Hogwarts is up there with the Bard of Avon, only that her words turn into music coming out of the mouths of such performers as Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane and Miranda Richardson.

WSJ: Phoenix Is on the Money as Johnny Cash