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Partisan Review

Partisan Review is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer^® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Pauline Kael.

Rating	Title \| Year	Author	Quote
	Devi (1960)	Pauline Kael	If there had been no [Apu] trilogy, I would say of Devi, “This is the greatest Indian film ever made.” Posted Oct 17, 2023 Edit critic review
	Yojimbo (1961)	Pauline Kael	Yojimbo is not a film that needs much critical analysis; its boisterous power and good spirits are right there on the surface. Lechery, avarice, cowardice, coarseness, animality, are rendered by fire; they become joy in life, in even [its] lowest forms. Posted Oct 17, 2023 Edit critic review
	A Taste of Honey (1961)	Pauline Kael	[Director Tony Richardson] doesn’t take a chance on our reaching out to the characters or feelings; everything is pushed at us. What should be a lyric sketch is all filled in and spelled out until it becomes almost a comic melodrama. Posted Sep 11, 2023 Edit critic review
	Lolita (1962)	Pauline Kael	The surprise of Lolita is how enjoyable it is: it’s the first new American comedy since those great days in the 1940’s when Preston Sturges recreated comedy with verbal slapstick. Posted Sep 11, 2023 Edit critic review
	Jules and Jim (1962)	Pauline Kael	Jules and Jim is the most exciting movie made in the West since L’Avventura and Breathless and Truffaut’s earlier Shoot the Piano Player; because of the beauty and warmth of its images, it is a richer, a more satisfying film than any of them. Posted Sep 11, 2023 Edit critic review
	Hamlet (1948)	Mary McCarthy	Behind the gesture and the impulse is there a Hamlet at all? That is the question which in Olivier's unique performance is kept open and aching, like a wound. Posted Aug 30, 2019 Edit critic review