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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Jane Corby An impressive piece of picture making, which combines a highly realistic background with imaginative contraptions, trick photography and a stern moral.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
The Magnificent Seven (1960) Helen Gould "The Magnificent Seven"...is another apt illustration of the effective use of action with dialogue kept to a minimum.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
A Place in the Sun (1951) Jane Corby The emotional entanglements of the three young people prove tragic, but they are true emotions, and their poignancy has a compelling, deeply moving quality. This story of love and frustration goes straight to the heart.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Alice in Wonderland (1951) Jane Corby It's a great, big hurly-burly of action, color, song and dance which Carroll himself would no doubt be astonished to discover he had inspired.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Gold Rush (1925) Martin Dickstein 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.
Posted Jun 24, 2025  Edit critic review
The Gold Rush (1925) Herbert Cohn It is delightfully humorous. But equally important, it is delightfully human -- full of charm and grace and poignance, the work of an artist who has great wit and soul.
Posted Jun 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Only Yesterday (1933) Martin Dickstein The result ta a photodramatic entertainment which, If not exactly brilliant, is at least distinguished.
Posted Apr 23, 2024  Edit critic review
White Heat (1949) Jane Corby Cagney is the whole works in this show, although the story is excellent and the supporting cast is fine. But it’s Cagney who keeps the audience cowed... This Cagney picture is a gangster picture to end all gangster pictures.
Posted Apr 23, 2024  Edit critic review
The Mad Miss Manton (1938) Herbert Cohn A throwback to the school of zany comedies, which had almost played itself out in the first six or seven months of the year, The Mad Miss Manton is an assemblage of madcap antics, confused mystery killings and deliciously bright, sophisticated lines.
Posted Apr 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Three Godfathers (1936) Eagle Staff The first part of the film promises a Western which Is all that a Western should be.... [Then] the action becomes slower, the tragedy thick and improbable so that the final effect is one of tedium.
Posted Apr 17, 2024  Edit critic review
She Done Him Wrong (1933) Martin Dickstein 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.
Posted Apr 15, 2024  Edit critic review
The Big Heat (1953) Jane Corby The Big Heat keeps moving from start to finish. There are no lags in the action, but curiously, almost no suspense.... There's an impersonal newspaper reportorial style about it which makes it temporarily believable.
Posted Apr 11, 2024  Edit critic review
Sabrina (1954) Jane Corby One character is solid -- Humphrey Bogart as the fuddy-duddy financier. You don't have to like him here, but you can admire his skill in a dull role.
Posted Mar 28, 2024  Edit critic review
Westward the Women (1951) Jane Corby Westward the Women has a big idea behind it, but in its sprawling production it loses force and the human touch.
Posted Feb 27, 2024  Edit critic review
Sherlock, Jr. (1924) Martin Dickstein 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.
Posted Feb 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Captain January (1924) Martin Dickstein It has deft touches of unforced humor and pathos which do not slop over into sentimentality, reflecting credit on author, director and star alike.
Posted Dec 21, 2023  Edit critic review
The Devil Dancer (1927) Martin Dickstein The Devil Dancer is a narrative of such utter stupidity as to make a bedtime radio story seem highly intelligent by comparison.
Posted Dec 06, 2023  Edit critic review
The Jungle (1914) Eagle Staff The real worth of the pictures lies in the fact that they reveal life as it existed then and so does today In the stockyards where human life Is cheap.
Posted Dec 05, 2023  Edit critic review
State Fair (1933) Eagle Staff The performances are never particularly brilliant -- we'd pick Mr Rogers' as the mast accomplished -- but we recommend State Fair as a carefully produced and very likable motion picture.
Posted Nov 09, 2023  Edit critic review
Grand Hotel (1932) Martin Dickstein One of the most eminently satisfying photoplays that has ever been our privilege to see.
Posted Jun 06, 2023  Edit critic review
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) Martin Dickstein 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.
Posted Apr 25, 2023  Edit critic review
The Black Pirate (1926) Martin Dickstein 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.
Posted Mar 22, 2023  Edit critic review
The Devil Horse (1926) Martin Dickstein 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.
Posted Mar 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) Martin Dickstein 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.
Posted Mar 21, 2023  Edit critic review
The Dark Angel (1935) John Reddington Blessed by a first-rate job of direction by Sidney Franklin, and three equally impressive acting performances by Merle Oberon, Fredric March, and Herbert Marshal.
Posted Mar 10, 2023  Edit critic review
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) Jane Corby This picture belongs to Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell.
Posted Mar 09, 2023  Edit critic review
Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) Jane Corby There is an appealingly human quality about this film that may well get to any adult audience, even to those who never had a glove laid on them or even saw a prize fight.
Posted Feb 14, 2023  Edit critic review
Back to Bataan (1945) Jane Corby Wayne gives one of his best performances.
Posted Feb 01, 2023  Edit critic review
Main Street (1923) Eagle Staff There ought to be a law passed prohibiting movie producers from picturizing books that they haven't read.
Posted Jan 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (1931) Martin Dickstein 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.
Posted Jan 18, 2023  Edit critic review
The Lady Eve (1941) Herbert Cohn The Lady Eve is Preston Sturges' way of sneering at the law of averages and laying down the gauntlet to the fates... Sometimes he has got to crack, but that is not now: The Lady Eve is a honey.
Posted Dec 29, 2022  Edit critic review
Gentleman's Agreement (1947) Herbert Cohn It states its case with such frankness, such screen grace and such persuasiveness that it will do more for man's understanding of man than the most militant haranguer. And not for an instant does it fail to be a captivating screen show.
Posted Nov 16, 2022  Edit critic review
The Maltese Falcon (1941) Herbert Cohn The Maltese Falcon is a beguiling melodrama that does nothing the ordinary way. In fact, by strict motion picture standards, it shouldn't even click. But it does, and big.
Posted Nov 11, 2022  Edit critic review
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) Jane Corby Vincente Minnelli has been sensible about directing Meet Me in St. Louis. He didn't go out of his way to spill tears, or even try hard for laughs -- he just let things take their course.
Posted Nov 10, 2022  Edit critic review
King Kong (1933) Martin Dickstein 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.
Posted Nov 10, 2022  Edit critic review
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Herbert Cohn [The supporting players] make a pleasant gallery of simple people talking chit-chat while Mr. Lubitsch and his charming leading couple magically transform a small bundle of comedy into a good-sized lark.
Posted Nov 07, 2022  Edit critic review
Stalag 17 (1953) Jane Corby Stalag 17 is one of those rare pictures that has an intrinsically arresting quality. This overall effect stems from the script itself, the racy dialogue (which, in fact, only seems racy) and the casting, which is uniformly superb.
Posted Nov 05, 2022  Edit critic review
The President's Mystery (1936) Winston Burdett The picture works up considerable interest.
Posted Oct 25, 2022  Edit critic review
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) Martin Dickstein [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.
Posted Oct 22, 2022  Edit critic review
Java Head (1934) Winston Burdett [Java Head] proceeds from a fairly arresting situation, becomes suddenly vague toward the middle and hastens thence to a pat and unsatisfying conclusion.
Posted Oct 21, 2022  Edit critic review
When Were You Born? (1938) Herbert Cohn It takes more than novel atmosphere to make a good mystery out of a flimsy crime.
Posted Oct 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Shanghai Express (1932) Martin Dickstein 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.
Posted Oct 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Lady From Chungking (1942) Jane Corby It is a stirring film, well directed by William Nigh.
Posted Oct 20, 2022  Edit critic review
Peter Pan (1924) Martin Dickstein 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.
Posted Oct 20, 2022  Edit critic review
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) Arthur Pollock We have never believed the movie capable of amounting to anything worth mentioning. This film gives evidence that they can if the men who make them want them to.
Posted Oct 03, 2022  Edit critic review
Cobra Woman (1944) Jane Corby It is in an atmosphere, therefore, of uncertainty, though undeniable beauty, that Jon Hall pursues his oft-pursued romance with Maria Montez in Cobra Woman.
Posted Sep 21, 2022  Edit critic review
High Noon (1952) Jane Corby High Noon is just what a Western should be -- a page out of American folklore, a close-to-the-soil delineation of human characters, played against a true-to-life background.
Posted Sep 20, 2022  Edit critic review
Battling Butler (1926) Morris Kinzler The first half of the picture drags with an awkwardness and weariness that should never be there. Mr. Keaton evidently prefers a whirlwind finish, and his aim. it seems, is to leave a last impression. He accomplishes his aim, and admirably, too.
Posted Aug 26, 2022  Edit critic review
The Life of Emile Zola (1937) Gould Cassal By compressing and transposing events, the scenarists have been able to distill a satisfactorily active account which is always sincere, dignified and arresting.
Posted Aug 03, 2022  Edit critic review
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) John Reddington By any standard, one of the most picturesque and beautifully photographed of movies, it is that rare avis among films -- an excellent story retold in a manner possible only for the screen.
Posted Jul 28, 2022  Edit critic review
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