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Martin Dickstein

Martin Dickstein's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Gold Rush (1925) 98% EDIT “While I find that The Gold Rush is no chrystallized mirror of unmatched genius, it is at the same time as far superior to the usual run of celluloid foolishment as to discard any immediate necessity for comparison. ” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Jun 24, 2025 Full Review Only Yesterday (1933) 100% EDIT “The result ta a photodramatic entertainment which, If not exactly brilliant, is at least distinguished.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Apr 23, 2024 Full Review She Done Him Wrong (1933) 93% EDIT “It is rowdy, coarsely written melodrama, which, under a less vigorous guidance than Mae West's, might easily have been more objectionable than picturesque. But Miss West... is always a colorful character, never an offensive one.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Apr 15, 2024 Full Review Sherlock, Jr. (1924) 86% EDIT “The result, is seven or eight reels of asininity, spread out thin to cover the distance, with Just about enough really, funny incidents to make it a screaming two-reeler.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Feb 23, 2024 Full Review Captain January (1924) 79% EDIT “It has deft touches of unforced humor and pathos which do not slop over into sentimentality, reflecting credit on author, director and star alike.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Dec 21, 2023 Full Review The Devil Dancer (1927) 71% EDIT “The Devil Dancer is a narrative of such utter stupidity as to make a bedtime radio story seem highly intelligent by comparison. ” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Dec 6, 2023 Full Review Grand Hotel (1932) 85% EDIT “One of the most eminently satisfying photoplays that has ever been our privilege to see.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Jun 6, 2023 Full Review The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) 86% EDIT “Nils Asther is magnificent as General Yen, Barbara Stanwyck is good, and Walter Connolly contributes a fine performance as a renegade American on Yen's staff. It is, in spite of its minor flaws, a dramatic, interesting picture.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Apr 25, 2023 Full Review The Black Pirate (1926) 100% EDIT “It is my guess that you will like The Black Pirate immensely. It will afford you as exciting an evening as ever you are likely to spend before the screen.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Mar 22, 2023 Full Review The Devil Horse (1926) 100% EDIT “This may afford rare entertainment for, as they say, lovers of horseflesh. More practical moviegoers will find... a number of lovely desert and mountain scenes together with many instances of moving camera manipulations by the aforementioned Hal Roach.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Mar 21, 2023 Full Review Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) 96% EDIT “This is not perhaps the funniest picture which the stony-faced pantomimist has ever made(The Navigator, for example) but it will provide you with at least halt ta laughs of the, er, abdominal variety.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Mar 21, 2023 Full Review Frankenstein (1931) 94% EDIT “It might have degenerated into mere stuff and nonsense. Instead, it sets you quivering on more than one occasion, and leaves you a bit shaken after it's all over. ” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Jan 18, 2023 Full Review King Kong (1933) 97% EDIT “King Kong is, to say the least, a novelty among talking pictures. It is also, if you will allow us to be entirely honest, a little bit silly... Cooper and Schoedsack, we think, should have devoted their talents to some more credible theme.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Nov 10, 2022 Full Review The Thief of Bagdad (1924) 97% EDIT “[Anna May Wong] furnishes one of the outstanding personalities in this new Fairbanks film. So-Jin is splendid... and Snitz Edwards, as the evil associate of The Thief, is also deserving of much credit for his very effective interpretation of the role. ” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Oct 22, 2022 Full Review Shanghai Express (1932) 96% EDIT “The contributory characterizations by Lawrence Grant, Louise Closser Hale, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Emile Chautard and Anna May Wong are as nearly perfect as they can be.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Oct 21, 2022 Full Review Peter Pan (1924) 98% EDIT “Betty Bronson, playing her first really Important role in the films, leaves no doubt concerning Sir Barrie's good Judgment In choosing her to play Peter.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Oct 20, 2022 Full Review The Rogue Song (1930) 79% EDIT “Frankly, The Rogue Song is hardly a composition of such merit as to deserve the distinction of serving as Mr. Tibbett's first vehicle before the movie microphones.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Jun 29, 2022 Full Review Ten Modern Commandments (1927) 90% EDIT “Directress Arzner has been notably successful in depicting the flurry of an opening night backstage.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Jun 25, 2022 Full Review Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) 93% EDIT “Gold Diggers of Broadway is set off by some of the most gorgeous stage trappings that have been seen in these parts for a long time, and it is these settings which give the picture a certain visual beauty.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle May 20, 2021 Full Review EDIT “Less because of the story it has to tell and more because of the imaginative manner in which it is told, Speakeasy becomes a fast-moving, vivid and often exciting entertainment.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle May 12, 2021 Full Review All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 98% EDIT “[It] turned out to be, in spite of its numerous faults, a pretty good war film. If you go to see it, however, in the hope of discovering another Journey's End, or even another What Price Glory, you will probably be disappointed.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Apr 7, 2021 Full Review It Happened One Night (1934) 98% EDIT “In case you've missed the point of all this, we enjoyed It Happened One Night tremendously. We can't, to be entirely honest, remember when we've had quite as good a time at a movie.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Mar 31, 2021 Full Review EDIT “The Man from Blankley's is an oddly stuffy, mechanical transcription of a dated stage farce and as such it is less man a notable addition to the talkies.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Mar 9, 2021 Full Review Queen of the Nightclubs (1929) 56% EDIT “[The picture] is about the poorest In the series of cabaret-underworld specimens that the screen has offered.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Mar 9, 2021 Full Review Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929) 86% EDIT “Here is a musical show which has been fashioned purposely to meet the requirements of the motion picture screen.” – Brooklyn Daily Eagle Mar 6, 2021 Full Review
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