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New York Herald Tribune

New York Herald Tribune is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Judith Crist.

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Point of Order (1963) Judith Crist Point of Order! is not only a testament to the ultimate -- albeit belated -- triumph of democratic decency over demagoguery -- but also a grim reminder of what had happened here.
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A New Kind of Love (1963) Judith Crist Well, it's A New Kind of Love and an old kind of moviemaking and, my, my, but the rubes are supposed to wallow in it.
Posted Aug 15, 2022  Edit critic review
The V.I.P.s (1963) Judith Crist Where once, in a romantic melodrama, we were allowed to see that unloveliness and heartbreak touch the lives of some, today we are permitted only the triumph of love and the pursuit of happiness -- and the cotton wool is tucked around us cozily.
Posted Aug 15, 2022  Edit critic review
Greenwich Village Story (1963) Judith Crist A prime example of all that pretentious amateurism can produce.
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David and Lisa (1962) Judith Crist David and Lisa has something to say in its exploration of troubled adolescents, that it recognizes and probes the wounds of the mind and the heart and the power of love to penetrate even the most private of worlds.
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Hud (1963) Judith Crist We have not before encountered a man so immured from humanity as the Hud created by Paul Newman, so completely uncaring, so alien -- and yet (this is the singular achievement of this film) so very much among us, of our time and of our society.
Posted Aug 15, 2022  Edit critic review
Spencer's Mountain (1963) Judith Crist Spencer's Mountain [is] outstanding for its smirking sexuality, its glorification of the vulgar, its patronizing tone toward the humble, its mealymouthed piety.
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Becket (1964) Judith Crist The power of the film is in the close-up, the concentration on the two protagonists. And what is so fascinating in this exploration is that Burton and O'Toole provide no ultimate answers for each other or for us.
Posted Aug 15, 2022  Edit critic review
The Servant (1963) Judith Crist A "fascinating" film, one from which it is virtually impossible to turn our eye or our attention, for we are watching a snake at work, a poisonous worm of corruption disguised as a servant and brilliantly played with a vicious servility by Dirk Bogarde.
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Night Must Fall (1964) Judith Crist "Psychological" thriller? Psycho is the word -- and sodden the art.
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The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Judith Crist The Fall of the Roman Empire, costing sixteen million dollars, is half the price of Cleopatra but twice as tolerable because there's a complete lack of pretension, a childish innocence, about it.
Posted Aug 15, 2022  Edit critic review
The Best Man (1964) Judith Crist Cliff Robertson gives his best performance to date.
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The Organizer (1963) Judith Crist The bane of American moviemaking has been its perpetual big-think in larger-than-life terms. Certainly The Organizer sets a brilliant standard for big-think in human terms. Our hope would be that it set an example as well.
Posted Aug 15, 2022  Edit critic review
The Long Ships (1964) Judith Crist I choose to think all this was intentional, a straight-faced spoof of all the stuff and nonsense that mythologies are made of -- so straight-faced that it can afford the occasional wisecrack, the here-we-go-again ending.
Posted Aug 15, 2022  Edit critic review
That Man From Rio (1964) Judith Crist The chase goes on and on, the joke is prolonged beyond its juiciest and That Man from Rio passes its peak of fun not too long after the first of its two hours.
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Nothing but the Best (1964) Judith Crist he latest effort in this direction, a successful one, Nothing But the Best, does not have a "lovable" hero, only one who charms us completely because he's our kind of anti-Establishment success story.
Posted Aug 15, 2022  Edit critic review
Monsieur Verdoux (1947) Judith Crist Chaplin's Bluebeard story is ours to revel in for the sheer brilliance of performance, the cinematic excellence of his direction and the simplicity that shines in all its latter-day naivete.
Posted Aug 15, 2022  Edit critic review
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) Judith Crist It stands by itself as not only a psychological suspense thriller but also a top-notch crime-and-detection tale and, above all, a horror film.
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Judith Crist It is all so sweet, so sentimental, so artsy, so craftsy, so pretty, so pretentious, so abysmally simple-minded.
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Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) Judith Crist A witless bore, with neither a smile nor a laugh to augment the smirk for the feebleminded.
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Nothing But a Man (1964) Judith Crist Nothing but a Man is a fine film -- a first one that sets a towering standard for its makers.
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Sylvia (1965) Judith Crist This one has a brain of pure plutonium.
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The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) Judith Crist We sit in lethargy because there are no insights, no illuminations, no fresh or even specific points of view to stimulate or satisfy the beliefs or disbeliefs we have brought to the film.
Posted Aug 15, 2022  Edit critic review
The Pawnbroker (1964) Judith Crist It is distinguished not only by Mr. Steiger's portrayal of a man encased in the world's anguish but also by several other performers and, above all perhaps, by its dealing with its story on its own terms.
Posted Aug 15, 2022  Edit critic review
Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964) Judith Crist Here is a young man caught in the momentum of his rebellion, adults trapped in the dilemma of their helplessness -- and none is theatrical, each is an individual that we know, a familiar face in the crowd.
Posted Aug 15, 2022  Edit critic review
A Boy Ten Feet Tall (1963) Judith Crist Suspense, humor, adventure and some home truths are embodied in the film.
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The Rounders (1965) Judith Crist The Rounders is one of those utterly relaxed comedies that make ideal entertainment because there's tender loving care every step of the way and no sweat.
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Eva (1962) Judith Crist A quintessentially a midadolescence night's dream of how the arty-smarty set must live and love and suffer.
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The Collector (1965) Judith Crist It is Stamp who raises The Collector to heights of parable, who brings significance to and sustains the suspense. His performance is brilliant in its gauge of the madness of a madman.
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The Knack... and How to Get It (1965) Judith Crist Richard Lester, the director who demonstrated his own knack with A Hard Day's Night, knows just how to disorganize a fragile little plot to make it a wonderfully rollicking, go-with-the-breeze film.
Posted Aug 15, 2022  Edit critic review
These Are the Damned (1962) Judith Crist A film that sticks to the ribs, that bothers you in its implication, that makes you do some of the work of interpreting what you have watched.
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Ship of Fools (1965) Judith Crist Despite the aspirations of his title, Mr. Kramer has done little beyond floating Grand Hotel out to sea, with a handful of brilliant performances to keep it above water.
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Juliet of the Spirits (1965) Judith Crist Miss Masina is transcendent.
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The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965) Judith Crist The result is a compassionate but unsentimental portrait worthy of his subject, a vivid reconstruction of a fascinating and inspiring life.
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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) Judith Crist The framework is there, ready for all the clichés of the desert-survival story, but somehow each expected cliché never quite develops as one.
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The Oscar (1966) Judith Crist Nowhere, on stage or screen or even in a revue skit, has there been so complete a cliché of the Hollywood-heel-on-the-rise-and-fall theme to the tune of such ripe dialogue. "Ripe"? The word is all too feeble, and "dialogue" itself inadequate.
Posted Aug 15, 2022  Edit critic review
Harper (1966) Judith Crist Harper can be dismissed as just another private-eye story... But we'd rather hold on to it as a return to a classic -- a triumphant return to something that's been missing from the screen, something for grown-ups by grown-ups.
Posted Aug 15, 2022  Edit critic review
Seduced and Abandoned (1964) Judith Crist Seduced and Abandoned is a hilarious and ferocious film, seething with anger and sparkling with scorn of the hypocrisies -- nay, the crimes -- that are committed in the name of honor and the sanctity of the family and society.
Posted Aug 10, 2022  Edit critic review
Cat Ballou (1965) Judith Crist Well, let’s get those old superlatives out again, this time for a small package of enormous delight labeled Cat Ballou, a western to end all westerns... and a comedy that epitomizes the sheer fun of moviemaking and movie watching.
Posted Aug 10, 2022  Edit critic review
A Thousand Clowns (1965) Judith Crist A Thousand Clowns comes to the screen with a joyous vitality and a probing compassion that are irresistible.
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Billy Liar (1963) Judith Crist There's vigor, high comedy, dry wit, and subtlety in Billy Liar. And it presents to us an adolescent nonhero whose dreams, alas, are far more likable than his reality.
Posted Aug 10, 2022  Edit critic review
Loves of a Blonde (1965) Judith Crist Mr. Forman is shrewdly aware of the foolish hearts and simple minds at hand, but fondness and understanding make comedy rather than condescension the touchstone of his realism.
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This Sporting Life (1963) Judith Crist A brilliantly ruthless portrait of a professional football player and his brutish world.
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The Sandpiper (1965) Judith Crist [A] jamboree of tastelessness, pretentiousness and unadulterated idiocy with a cynicism and venality that are indeed something to behold.
Posted Aug 08, 2022  Edit critic review
8 1/2 (1963) Judith Crist Of its importance there can be little question: it is a masterwork of one of the great filmmakers, his obviously definitive statement of creative doctrine. But it is an "in" movie, a strangely cold and uninvolving one for the nondevout.
Posted Aug 08, 2022  Edit critic review
The Silence (1963) Judith Crist The Silence is a symphony of despair, a harrowing harmony of the unspoken anguish and the unheard lament of the loveless. And it is, perhaps, the most psychologically complex and symbol-laden of Ingmar Bergman's movies and one of his most demanding.
Posted Aug 08, 2022  Edit critic review
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) Judith Crist It's a comic's field day. We haven't seen such a salute to the gift of lunacy for decades.
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High and Low (1963) Judith Crist Detail piles upon detail as Kurosawa proves himself far more the painstaking novelist than the author of the original fiction.
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Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Judith Crist Dr. Strangelove is irreverent to a point of savagery; it is funny and it is engrossing. And it’s heady stuff for movie-goers, for Kubrick, boy genius that he is, assumes that we’re grown-up enough to share his bitter laughter.
Posted Aug 08, 2022  Edit critic review
Cleopatra (1963) Judith Crist I must report that this film is at best a major disappointment, at worst an extravagant exercise in tedium.
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