Gosford Park
Universal Home Video
Three decades after McCabe and Mrs. Miller (next review), Robert Altman proves he still has the moves, twisting an Agatha Christie?style parlor mystery into a razor-sharp examination of the British class system. Maggie Smith steals the show as a bilious old hag, but Gosford is often touching, with a vast cast of top-notch character actors, including Alan Bates, Derek Jacobi and Richard E. Grant — and that’s just the butlers!
