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Joan Didion

Joan Didion's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Informer (1961) 96% EDIT “In its violence and speed and vigour, this absurd jungle of the imagination is more or less bound to photograph well; Melville, however, does a particularly clean job of direction.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review The Servant (1963) 90% EDIT “A movie of great possibilities and great failings.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) 60% EDIT “A good movie to catch (and "catch" is the verb) if it's playing, say, on Eighty-sixth Street and you live on, say, Eighty-first Street and don't feel up to reading Leo Rosten's book of the same name.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review The Cool World (1964) 83% EDIT “The absence of technique is so pronounced as to raise some doubt as to whether Shirley Clarke, who directed it, had ever before seen a movie.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) 88% EDIT “Molly Brown is lively and fun, an exercise in those homely sentiments we learned as children, thrived upon, and, sometimes to our regret, outgrew.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review What a Way to Go! (1964) 25% EDIT “What a Way to Go is supposed to have cost six million dollars, which averages out to about a million and half a laugh.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review The Carpetbaggers (1964) 33% EDIT “Even the downright smuttiness of The Carpetbaggers has an engaging period innocence.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review Zulu (1964) 97% EDIT “A rousing reconstruction of the 1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review The Organizer (1963) 90% EDIT “That someone should have thought to cast Marcello Mastroianni as a seedy, itinerant, and slightly visionary nineteenth century labor organizer -- in The Organizer -- marks the triumph of a certain misapprehension.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review The Thin Red Line (1964) 77% EDIT “The Thin Red Line is a curiosity: a quite mediocre war movie, based upon the James Jones novel about Guadalcanal, with some of the best battle scenes -- fast, lucid, beautiful -- that I've ever seen.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review Good Neighbor Sam (1964) 80% EDIT “Like so much current comedy, it is underwritten; it is underdirected; it is underacted. Resurrect the Thin Man.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review Joy House (1964) 33% EDIT “Alain Delon remains a success story I fail to comprehend.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review Bedtime Story (1941) 33% EDIT “A kind of prolonged sick joke.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review Youngblood Hawke (1964) EDIT “In the book, the venality of Wouk's fantasies merely depresses; in the movie, those same fantasies assume a certain manic charm.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review Lilith (1964) 86% EDIT “For every scene which disturbs the imagination there is an immediate and easy answer; for every uneasy glimpse of that emotional slippage, there are fifty minutes of therapy.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review Ride the Wild Surf (1964) 80% EDIT “I have recently fallen under the spell of teen surfing movies, an enthusiasm I should probably try to pass off as sociological. In fact, they amuse me. Of the current crop, I am pleased to report that Ride the Wild Surf is a first-rate surfer.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review Goodbye Charlie (1964) 50% EDIT “Both Miss Reynolds and Tony Curtis behave gamely, but Goodbye Charlie is one of those games that will never be won.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review Girl With Green Eyes (1964) 83% EDIT “I like the story so much that I wondered for a long time why I so disliked the picture, why it seemed so spurious.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review The Americanization of Emily (1964) 92% EDIT “Although Julie Andrews is supposed to be playing a war widow, she's actually playing Mary Poppins.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review The Pumpkin Eater (1964) 69% EDIT “There are no easy answers here, no inadvertent banality, nothing off-key. Anne Bancroft gives a flawless performance.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review Cheyenne Autumn (1964) 60% EDIT “A melancholy epic which [John Ford] seems to have directed under the misapprehension that it was an action comedy.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review The Guns of August (1964) EDIT “The picture tends ever to the superficial.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review World Without Sun (1965) EDIT “It is, in the strictest sense, wonderful to look at, a pucture of hallucinatory beauty.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review Dear Heart (1965) 33% EDIT “It's a kind of middle-class Marty, a less melancholy Summertime, and, for an hour-and-a-half out of two, touching and pleasant to watch.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) 75% EDIT “Kiss Me, Stupid is quite a compelling and moving picture, and I would very much like to have seen Wilder play it straight.” – Vogue Mar 16, 2020 Full Review
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