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Ardis Smith

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Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) 95% EDIT “"The Confessions of a Nazi Spy" has two masterly touches. They are in the good temper of the Robinson character and other American officials and in the pervading feeling that the Reich ideology is incredible to the general run of Americans.” – Buffalo News Dec 31, 2025 Full Review High and Low (1963) 97% EDIT “It is all very tricky and blood-and-thunder; likewise, great fun.” – Buffalo News Aug 13, 2025 Full Review The Gold Rush (1925) 98% EDIT “In the case of The Gold Rush, [Charles Chaplin] is like a favorite uncle telling a favorite tale of a favorite character to boys and girls. Infinitely mellow he is, but never sloppy or sentimental as he unwinds the old reels to a happy ending.” – Buffalo News Jun 24, 2025 Full Review Planet of the Apes (1968) 86% EDIT “A colossal agglomeration of cinematic stunts, wildly spectacular and often very funny.” – Buffalo News May 1, 2024 Full Review The Mad Miss Manton (1938) 84% EDIT “Mr. Stanley Ridges... is the most appealing felon, one of the crazed, glazed-eyed and quiet kind.” – Buffalo News Apr 22, 2024 Full Review The Big Heat (1953) 95% EDIT “Fritz Lang, a masterful crime violence and mob-psychology specialist for a couple of decades (M and Fury), gives his sure timing to the ambushing, skull-cracking and assorted shooting.” – Buffalo News Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Sabrina (1954) 89% EDIT “For once, the big budget brought to bear on a successful one-set Broadway comedy of last season has paid dividends in delightful nonsense. ” – Buffalo News Mar 28, 2024 Full Review Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) 88% EDIT “Howard Hawks lost everything subtle and really humorous by dropping the period aspects. ” – Buffalo News Mar 8, 2023 Full Review Sayonara (1957) 82% EDIT “Brando comes equipped with one of the deepest Dixie accents ever served up without corn pone and turnip greens...” – Buffalo News Mar 2, 2023 Full Review Diabolique (1955) 95% EDIT “A rather startling victory of art -- or anyway fiendishly skillful craft -- over the language barrier. ” – Buffalo News Jan 31, 2023 Full Review The Lady Eve (1941) 99% EDIT “Possibly Preston Sturges is the U.S. Wodehouse of the screen. Certainly he has that master's tendencies to make the trivial amusing... That's how he seems at present, anyway, exhibiting his third smash hit, The Lady Eve. ” – Buffalo News Dec 29, 2022 Full Review The Maltese Falcon (1941) 99% EDIT “The Maltese Falcon belongs with the year's superior movies of all classes. In the crime and mystery categories it makes its competitors look like the Little Peppers series.” – Buffalo News Nov 16, 2022 Full Review Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 97% EDIT “[Stewart] is more fiery in this performance than one is accustomed to expect... With Mr. Capra's expertness human touches are injected into the play which bring laughs one after the other like machine-gun fire or stir emotions to the depths.” – Buffalo News Nov 9, 2022 Full Review The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 99% EDIT “Little feats of salesmanship become exciting and funny under [Lubitsch's] touch; also the rages of the leather goods merchant and his pride of establishment, and the corps spirit that prevails in the Christmas rush.” – Buffalo News Nov 8, 2022 Full Review Stalag 17 (1953) 91% EDIT “[The film] Stalag 17 is superior to the play as written; liberation from a cramping stage set the dusting out of some especially embarrassing dirt arid the brisker pace in Billy Wilder's script and direction account for most of the improvements.” – Buffalo News Nov 5, 2022 Full Review How Green Was My Valley (1941) 93% EDIT “How Green Was My Valley isn't John Ford's most exciting movie, but it is his most beautiful, far and away. It really should be called a musical.” – Buffalo News Jul 26, 2022 Full Review The Wizard of Oz (1939) 98% EDIT “It would appear that the Metro people have managed the extraordinary and made persons very nearly as amusing as Disney drawings. The Wizard of Oz in a word is all it ought to be and sometimes a bit more.” – Buffalo News Jun 21, 2022 Full Review
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