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"Blue Blazes" Rawden (1918) Kitty Kelly A fine example of Hartology, excellently devised as to plot and excellently performed as to playing.
Posted Feb 24, 2023  Edit critic review
The Hired Man (1918) Kitty Kelly Anybody who lets himself miss The Hired Hand is letting slip a mighty nice piece of entertainment.
Posted Feb 24, 2023  Edit critic review
Southern Justice (1917) Kitty Kelly The atmosphere is the thing, the Spring atmosphere that has been caught and celluloided so vividly that it gets across to you.
Posted Feb 24, 2023  Edit critic review
His Picture in the Papers (1916) Juanita Gray A corking good novelty comedy.
Posted Feb 24, 2023  Edit critic review
My Four Years in Germany (1918) Kitty Kelly William Nigh has made his production with a serious care worthy of his material.
Posted Feb 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Neptune's Daughter (1914) Chicago Examiner Staff 1 The fairy story told to a nursery tot for the first time was never more interesting than Neptune's Daughter was to the hundreds of adults who flocked to see her yesterday.
Posted Jun 24, 2022  Edit critic review
The Bargain (1914) Kitty Kelly It's an interesting wild West story of its own, making up in speed what it lacks in finesse.
Posted Jun 29, 2021  Edit critic review
Modern Musketeer (1918) Kitty Kelly Again blows the Fairbanks breeze carrying its full quota of health-bracing laughter. There's no disappointment in it from any angle.
Posted Jun 29, 2021  Edit critic review
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917) Kitty Kelly The picture abounds not only in plausibilities, but in happy memories, for things are done here which strike answering reminiscent chords in the observers. The little childish happenings are very real.
Posted May 13, 2021  Edit critic review
Damaged Goods (1914) James Warren Currie The experience was profitable, not only because the picture under any circumstances is always interesting, but also because of what the censors did not do to it.
Posted Mar 12, 2021  Edit critic review
The Crucible (1914) Chicago Examiner Staff 1 The drama, while not remarkable for its originality of subject, is convincing and, by commendable acting of its impersonators and evident good directorship, will be classed as a good number on the theater program.
Posted Mar 08, 2021  Edit critic review
Daughter of the Gods (1916) Bob McKnight Safely we can stamp A Daughter of the Gods as the most beautiful yet come from the studios. Never have we seen a more artistically photographed entertainment.
Posted Dec 05, 2020  Edit critic review
The Fall of a Nation (1916) Ashton Stevens The first-nighters of the screen appear to not care a tinker's imprecation whether a film battledrama be for war or for peace so long as there is plenty of fighting in it. And believe me when I tell you there was fighting a-plenty in The Fall of a Nation.
Posted Nov 20, 2020  Edit critic review
The Battle Cry of Peace (1915) James Warren Currie The Battle Cry of Peace does not make for moderation. It causes the blood to pound through the veins, driven by a heart aroused over the prophetic picture of a vital menace of the future.
Posted Sep 28, 2020  Edit critic review
The Raven (1915) James Warren Currie The director has succeeded in consistently blending the spiritual and the real without offense to credulity.
Posted Sep 24, 2020  Edit critic review
(undefined) Kitty Kelly Miss Garden as the courtesan of Alexandria, and Hamilton Revelle, the monk, who saved her at his own peril, are two splendidly contrasted types who set the opera's story into picture language rich in color and texture, if not particularly warm in thrill.
Posted Sep 24, 2020  Edit critic review
Inspiration (1915) James Warren Currie Audrey Munson's grace and pure beauty justify the producer in presenting what otherwise might have been a mere gross exhibition.
Posted Sep 14, 2020  Edit critic review
The Coward (1915) James Warren Currie [Charles Ray] plays a difficult role in a natural unaffected manner, avoiding the hysteria of action so often seen in film melodrama.
Posted Sep 04, 2020  Edit critic review
Old Heidelberg (1915) James Warren Currie Young [Wallace] Reid assumes the burden of action as Prince Karl in the Old Heidelberg picture and does it very well.
Posted Sep 04, 2020  Edit critic review
Carmen (1915) James Warren Currie Not a single detail which contributes to realism has been neglected. Thrill follows thrill in endless procession.
Posted Sep 04, 2020  Edit critic review
Madame Jealousy (1918) Kitty Kelly Pauline Frederick is a force to be reckoned with, even when she is effacing herself, a vital, concrete individual, a real gift to filmland.
Posted Aug 01, 2020  Edit critic review
Hearts of the World (1918) Kitty Kelly Hearts of the World reaches the hearts of the world, which Is the ultimate accomplishment of any one who seeks to bring a message. It sinks into the thoughts, it asks another seeing.
Posted Jul 31, 2020  Edit critic review
(undefined) Kitty Kelly It is a seemly, timely piece about love and patriotism, proceeding with nice discrimination, expressed in fine photography, illuminated throughout by the sparkling Alice Brady.
Posted Jul 31, 2020  Edit critic review
Down to Earth (1917) Kitty Kelly Down to Earth gives concrete expression to Mr. Fairbanks' good cheer notions.
Posted Jul 31, 2020  Edit critic review
(undefined) Kitty Kelly There's no place for carping -- except maybe we are getting unused to close-ups and are as happy without them -- in the whole thing from any angle.
Posted Jul 31, 2020  Edit critic review
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (1939) Kitty Kelly Aladdin is a lovely picture, material for much juvenile and grownup joy. But one wishes in a private, quiet way, that some producer would rise up and tell the old tales with true fidelity to their old ways -- that would be screen literature.
Posted Jul 31, 2020  Edit critic review
Stella Maris (1918) Kitty Kelly Another milestone In the long lane of Pickford triumphs.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
Men Who Have Made Love to Me (1918) Kitty Kelly In Miss MacLane's animated, short-syllabled -- and sometimes profane -- musings, there's no such thing as soul. It's Mary MacLane here, there and everywhere, the essence of the ego.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
A Dog's Life (1918) Kitty Kelly A Dog's Life is a crystallization of the best Chaplinese.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
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