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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Gaslight (1944) E. A. Cunningham George Cukor's direction is intelligently planned and carefully paced.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Only Yesterday (1933) Charles Aaronson Miss Sullavan, here playing her initial starring role, offers a portrayal which for its restraint, its intelligence and general appeal would be difficult to match.
Posted Apr 23, 2024  Edit critic review
The Mad Miss Manton (1938) William R. Weaver The convolutions of the screen play by Philip G. Epstein, based on Wilson Collison's story, are too many, adroit and funny to be pursued by an unfunny synopsis.
Posted Apr 22, 2024  Edit critic review
The Caine Mutiny (1954) Mandel Herbstman It is to the everlasting credit of the motion picture industry... that in recent months there have been so many excellent translations into screen terms of great books. Standing preeminently high in that category [is] The Caine Mutiny.
Posted Apr 19, 2024  Edit critic review
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Tom Canning The Lavender Hill Mob is funny in word and deed.
Posted Apr 18, 2024  Edit critic review
Three Godfathers (1936) Gus McCarthy The picture has an impressive quality not ordinarily associated with outdoor western entertainment. While it provides thrill and action, desperation, fear and heroism, it does so more in a manner to play upon the sentimental rather than excitable emotion.
Posted Apr 17, 2024  Edit critic review
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) Gus McCarthy The picture is one that took courage to make.
Posted Apr 16, 2024  Edit critic review
She Done Him Wrong (1933) Charles Aaronson The picture has been extremely well mounted, the atmosphere of the period and the surroundings appearing definitely authentic, and, in common with reproductions of that period, always appealing.
Posted Apr 15, 2024  Edit critic review
Paths to Paradise (1925) T.O. Service Paths to Paradise [is] Raymond Griffith’s best picture to date. It is really a knockout.
Posted Apr 15, 2024  Edit critic review
Sabrina (1954) EH Staff A gay and beguiling movie hit -- with top-notch stars and incomparable direction and production talent.
Posted Mar 28, 2024  Edit critic review
The Big Heat (1953) Mandel Herbstman The story, fashioned in standard mold, is heightened by a good production polish... An effective performance by Ford is matched by the gun moll characterization of Gloria Grahame and that of the gangland czar by Alexander Scourby.
Posted Mar 28, 2024  Edit critic review
The Pill Pounder (1923) EH Staff There is one of the funniest card games in it you ever saw, with Charles Murray as a small town druggist trying to wait on trade and play a social game of poker in the back room. Book this one, boost it and it will send 'em home with a smile.
Posted Mar 27, 2024  Edit critic review
National Velvet (1944) William R. Weaver Every sequence in the picture will be loved by all observers who are not at loggerheads with mankind.
Posted Mar 26, 2024  Edit critic review
The Searchers (1956) William R. Weaver The Searchers is one of the great ones -- one of the greatest of the great pictures of the American West.
Posted Mar 25, 2024  Edit critic review
The Eddie Cantor Story (1953) Vincent Canby This new film, while almost completely devoid of dramatic highlight, is an appealing and sentimental valentine to one of America’s great entertainers.
Posted Mar 18, 2024  Edit critic review
Westward the Women (1951) Fred Hift It is a Western that'll have 'em gap ing and laughing and perhaps crying in spots.
Posted Mar 08, 2024  Edit critic review
Sherlock, Jr. (1924) J. Ray Murray It hasn’t the pep in the early footage -- a thing so necessary in a feature length comedy -- and lacks sprightly gags to hold it together. Rather surprised, too, that Keaton resorted to the old dream sequence to pad it out. He is usually more original.
Posted Feb 23, 2024  Edit critic review
The Sin of Nora Moran (1933) Charles Aaronson It is a difficult picture to sell, having comparatively little action and relieving humor, the story being weighty tragedy. The dramatic aspects of the story and cast for what it may be worth are the best selling points.
Posted Feb 21, 2024  Edit critic review
State Fair (1933) Charles Aaronson Will Rogers... imparts a considerable portion of the humor, in the familiar and popular Rogerian style.
Posted Nov 10, 2023  Edit critic review
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) Gus McCarthy Well mounted and marked by fine individual performances on the part of Nils Asther, Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Connelly, the picture nevertheless takes a long time to tell its story.
Posted Apr 25, 2023  Edit critic review
The Dark Angel (1935) E. A. Cunningham The technique of production and the tempo of story narration equal the quality of the performances, and that is high, at times superbly touching.
Posted Mar 10, 2023  Edit critic review
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) Floyd Stone Everything in the production is top drawer, scene after scene, comic or serious, all blending smoothly.
Posted Mar 08, 2023  Edit critic review
Back to Bataan (1945) William R. Weaver Here is presented, in fiction so much like fact that the film partakes profitably of the flavor of a documentary without sacrificing drama or suspense, the story of the Filipino guerrillas.
Posted Feb 01, 2023  Edit critic review
Spirit of Youth (1937) Joseph F. Coughlin When he gets into character and the ring, Joe is naturally convincing and in his own element. However, when the lines must be recited, Louis' famed dead pan expression becomes as uncomfortably heavy as some of the wooden words he must speak.
Posted Jan 31, 2023  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (1931) Leo Meehan As a production is certainly is an adequate screen version of a famous story... Director James Whale has missed no opportunities to make it precisely what it purports to be.
Posted Jan 18, 2023  Edit critic review
The Lady Eve (1941) William R. Weaver In other hands the story of The Lady Eve might have emerged in any rut of routine from the risqué to the dull. In Sturges' hands it is made to sizzle, to sparkle, sometimes to amaze, always to amuse and entertain.
Posted Dec 29, 2022  Edit critic review
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) William R. Weaver It is a fine artistic accomplishment and it is also a commanding demonstration of shrewd showmanship. It contains the best of all the established Disney devices for instrumenting charm, and establishes a number of new ones.
Posted Dec 20, 2022  Edit critic review
Steamboat Willie (1928) T.O. Service I want to thank Mr. Walter Disney for giving me a laugh, one of the best I have had in a motion picture theatre in quite some time... It is impossible to describe this riot of mirth, but it knocked me out of my seat.
Posted Nov 14, 2022  Edit critic review
The Maltese Falcon (1941) George Spires Here is a picture that is volatile, eruptive melodrama. In its class, in which several similar productions have proved box office attractions, it is an exceedingly good picture.
Posted Nov 11, 2022  Edit critic review
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) William R. Weaver As a thing of beauty for the eye, and as a thing of lively interest for the ear when the currently popular "Trolley Song" is being performed in sparkling fashion, the film compares more than favorably with the best in its category.
Posted Nov 10, 2022  Edit critic review
King Kong (1933) Leo Meehan King Kong is certain to be one of the sensational pictures of the year. There has been nothing comparable with it since The Lost World and this far exceeds that classic in clever process photography and dramatic story interest.
Posted Nov 10, 2022  Edit critic review
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) William R. Weaver This essentially plain, powerful presentation of an implicitly American story about a boy who got into Congress on a pass and stayed in to whip the gas house gang under their own rules is by any and all measures Mr. Capra's greatest picture.
Posted Nov 09, 2022  Edit critic review
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) William R. Weaver Stewart gives his usual smooth portrayal and Margaret Sullavan goes along with him step for step. Frank Morgan handles a fundamentally serious assignment competently and Joseph Schildkraut is adequately reprehensible as the not too villainous villain.
Posted Nov 07, 2022  Edit critic review
The President's Mystery (1936) Gus McCarthy The show is dramatic mystery, into which an exposition of modern economic-social-political philosophy has been woven.
Posted Oct 25, 2022  Edit critic review
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) John S. Spargo The direction of the picture is no less a work of art than is the magnificent staging, and in this display of directorial talent Raoul Walsh has set a mark that will stand for a long time.
Posted Oct 22, 2022  Edit critic review
A Study in Scarlet (1933) EH Staff An active, well paced, mystery melodrama.
Posted Oct 21, 2022  Edit critic review
When Were You Born? (1938) Paul C. Mooney, Jr Because of the time involved in examining he zodiacal charts the action suffers.
Posted Oct 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Limehouse Blues (1934) MPH Staff It has action and above all, considerable suspense.
Posted Oct 20, 2022  Edit critic review
Daughter of the Dragon (1931) MPH Staff [Daughter of the Dragon has] chills and thrills, and the acknowledged splendid work of Warner Oland, Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa.
Posted Oct 18, 2022  Edit critic review
I Walked With a Zombie (1943) Vance King Its many ingredients, most of them calculated to tingle the spine, are woven by producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourner in such fashion as to make them agreeable to the fans seeking thrills.
Posted Sep 28, 2022  Edit critic review
The Pearl (1947) Red Kann Pedro Armendariz, whose performance as the police lieutenant in The Fugitive was memorable for its incisive callousness, plays Kino and, for a second time in a somewhat different histrionic channel, again demonstrates dramatic virility and depth.
Posted Sep 27, 2022  Edit critic review
High Noon (1952) Fred Hift Cooper performs magnificently and the rest of the cast also are very good in what are essentially routine roles.
Posted Sep 20, 2022  Edit critic review
The Life of Emile Zola (1937) Gus McCarthy "Zola" is a very different kind of biography. It is educational, but primarily it is elevating entertainment of the most desirable variety.
Posted Aug 03, 2022  Edit critic review
Ten Modern Commandments (1927) T.O. Service There’s lots of color to the yarn, lots of comedy, lots of action and not a little information concerning the staging of musical productions and the selection of music for the same.
Posted Jun 25, 2022  Edit critic review
Children of Loneliness (1934) William R. Weaver The story consists of two principal threads, tied together about as adeptly as in the B-minus product of the B-minus studios.
Posted May 18, 2022  Edit critic review
You Can't Take It With You (1938) William R. Weaver Most of these [scenes] are funny and some are sad, but all are intensely interesting as executed by players who etch their characterizations and a director who knows what to do with a truck- load of superfire material.
Posted Feb 08, 2022  Edit critic review
The Lost Weekend (1945) Red Kann The Lost Weekend has power, suspense, intelligence and a performance by Ray Milland which unquestionably will rate him serious consideration for the 1945 Academy award.
Posted Feb 01, 2022  Edit critic review
The Miracle Man (1919) EH Staff The best review that could be written would be but scant justice to the production. It must be seen to be appreciated.
Posted Jan 11, 2022  Edit critic review
Sacred and Profane Love (1921) EH Staff Sacred and Profane Love will, because of the star, retain the interest, but will not make a lasting impression.
Posted Jan 11, 2022  Edit critic review
Little Iodine (1946) Thalia Bell Some of the dialogue which Richard Landau's screenplay puts into the mouths of his juvenile characters is far-fetched, to say the least.
Posted Jan 10, 2022  Edit critic review
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