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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
She Done Him Wrong (1933) Picture Parade Whatever you may think of the sensational career of the heroine with her gowns, parasols, jewels and drooping glances you will cheer the presence of Mae West's colorful personality in the movies.
Posted Apr 15, 2024  Edit critic review
Captain January (1924) Picture Parade The tiny youngster has taken a large emotional leap since she appeared solely in two-reelers. [Baby Peggy] expresses changing emotions with a real gift of talent, there being little evidence of coaching to make her feel the shadings of her role.
Posted Dec 19, 2023  Edit critic review
State Fair (1933) Picture Parade It is amusing, colorful, and restful.
Posted Nov 10, 2023  Edit critic review
Grand Hotel (1932) Picture Parade Joan Crawford may surprise you by running a dead heat with the great Garbo for premiere feminine honors.
Posted Jun 06, 2023  Edit critic review
Mickey (1918) Gladys Hall (Junius) An entertaining comedy with Mabel Normand in the lead. Excellently played and photographed. Some of the western scenes were artistic in the extreme and the types and rural characters are excellent. There is something in this play to please everybody.
Posted Mar 23, 2023  Edit critic review
The Black Pirate (1926) Laurence Reid In our opinion, it reveals the best color job ever shown. There are some beautiful scenes showing the moon kissing the Water, the pirates swarming on the decks and clambering about in the rigging, and burying their treasure on the tropical isle.
Posted Mar 22, 2023  Edit critic review
The Dark Angel (1935) Eric L. Ergenbright Merle Oberon is established by this one picture as a star of the first magnitude. Her emotional scenes are unusually convincing.
Posted Mar 10, 2023  Edit critic review
Safety Last (1923) Adele Whitley Fletcher It was hours after leaving the theater before we had recovered from the exhaustion occasioned by the thrills and hysterical laughter.
Posted Feb 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Main Street (1923) Adele Whitley Fletcher Main Street causees us to bemoan the fact that a portrayal as sincere and sympathetic as Florence Vidor's should be to so great an extent lost in a mediocre production.
Posted Jan 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (1931) Picture Parade This warning cannot be made too strong. Children should not be allowed to see this picture. Nervous people should keep away from it. For the strong-stomached, however, it is a new sensation.
Posted Jan 13, 2023  Edit critic review
My Four Years in Germany (1918) Hazel Simpson Naylor [It's] a photoplay of current history which every patriot should see. With dramatic vividness, the facts leading up to our declaration of war with Germany are disclosed. It is a great work, because it will reach the hearts of the people.
Posted Nov 16, 2022  Edit critic review
King Kong (1933) Picture Parade It's fantastic, novel and thrilling if you catch its mood.
Posted Nov 10, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Picture Parade Whether you are shopping for a movie or not, we urge you to drop in and take a look at The Shop Around the Corner.
Posted Nov 08, 2022  Edit critic review
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) Adele Whitley Fletcher Between these screenic miracles there are interludes when the story needs reinforcement... when the interest lags unfortunately. The story, lacking dramatic suspense to any great extent, is far too slim for the production's length.
Posted Oct 22, 2022  Edit critic review
Daughter of the Dragon (1931) Picture Parade It seems a pity to bring back the really excellent acting and great beauty of Anna May Wong in such flimsy stuff.
Posted Oct 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Shanghai Express (1932) Picture Parade An amazing tour de force has been attempted -- successfully -- by von Sternberg in this remarkable picture. With a great star and a distinguished cast at his disposal, he has deliberately subordinated them to an idea.
Posted Oct 20, 2022  Edit critic review
The Cat and the Canary (1927) Picture Parade A mystery play that mystifies, a thrill that thrills, a picture so perfectly timed, and mechanically correct that it never lets down for a minute, but develops from one tense and blood-curdling situation into another with convincing realism.
Posted Sep 28, 2022  Edit critic review
Mutiny (1917) Nina Dorothy Gregory Realistic sea pictures -- you can almost smell and taste the fishy tang of the briny. Captain. Whittaker's fighting spirit puts sufficient fistic action into Mutiny to give it the right punch.
Posted Sep 07, 2022  Edit critic review
The Secret of the Swamp (1916) Hazel Simpson Naylor A slumberous, Southern, bucolic photoplay, not only guilty of a tame plot, but criminally uninteresting.
Posted Sep 07, 2022  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) Picture Parade This is the most spectacular drama of the high seas that has ever been brought to the screen. It is destined to live as one of the true epics of all film history.
Posted Jul 27, 2022  Edit critic review
The Rogue Song (1930) Picture Parade The only thing that matters is Lawrence Tibbett, who not only has a glorious voice and a considerable dramatic gift, but IT. You owe it to yourself to take a look at this new heart-throb.
Posted Jun 28, 2022  Edit critic review
The Queen of Sheba (1921) Adele Whitley Fletcher Undoubtedly a fortune, many fortunes, have been expended in the making of this production, but it has all been for some purpose. It has given the cinema Court of Solomon a glory commensurate with that which has been sung of it down thru the ages.
Posted Jan 12, 2022  Edit critic review
The Miracle Man (1919) Hazel Simpson Naylor The Miracle Man is a sincere work, and the nearest approach to any rival of Mr. Griffith for screenic honors, falls to Mr. Tucker. It will be interesting to see what he will do next.
Posted Jan 11, 2022  Edit critic review
Sherlock, Jr. (1924) Adele Whitley Fletcher The story... is not so ingenious as Our Hospitality in regard to property inventions, but it does suffice in rousing the risibilities because there is a compact line of laughs in the incidents -- which are projected without any slackening of pace.
Posted Oct 07, 2021  Edit critic review
The Philadelphia Story (1940) Miriam Nadel Hepburn is magnificent, Cary Grant gives one of his best performances and Jimmy Stewart plays a newspaperman as no one else on stage or screen could play him.
Posted Jun 10, 2021  Edit critic review
The Great Gatsby (1926) Elisabeth Goldbeck Herbert Brenon has gone about misinterpreting F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel to the very best of his ability.
Posted May 19, 2021  Edit critic review
Experience (1921) Adele Whitley Fletcher This story may have been all right on the stage with clever lines and good dialog, but on the screen it fails to convince us... the plot interest has been sacrificed in favor of the throbbing moral, and, personally, we prefer entertainment sans a sermon.
Posted May 19, 2021  Edit critic review
The Power and the Glory (1933) Picture Parade Here is something startlingly new in screen storytelling.
Posted May 13, 2021  Edit critic review
4/4
Modern Times (1936) Picture Parade Remaining silent, Charlie is more eloquent in pantomime than many other comedians are with the added use of spoken words. Poking gentle fun at mechanized industry, Charlie is comic indeed.
Posted May 06, 2021  Edit critic review
4/4
Rebecca (1940) Picture Parade Rebecca is the most literal translation of a fascinating book and is not only this year's but any year's best picture.
Posted Apr 10, 2021  Edit critic review
It Happened One Night (1934) Picture Parade [A] brilliantly-written, cleverly-directed comedy of love in transcontinental buses.
Posted Mar 31, 2021  Edit critic review
The Unchastened Woman (1925) Laurence Reid There is little to remind you of the exotic Theda Bara of former years in this adaptation heralded as the vehicle which was to briny back the screen's favorite vamp.
Posted Mar 10, 2021  Edit critic review
The She Devil (1918) Gladys Hall (Junius) Toward the end it begins to look like merely a series of adventures or episodes.
Posted Mar 10, 2021  Edit critic review
Citizen Kane (1941) Laurence Reid To my way of thinking, Gregg Toland, the photographer, has accomplished the best job ever turned out by a camera.
Posted Mar 01, 2021  Edit critic review
Merton of the Movies (1924) Picture Parade James Cruze has done an excellent job in his direction. And Hunter's supporting players earn- on the Wilson portrayals with good authority.
Posted Feb 05, 2021  Edit critic review
Convention City (1933) Picture Parade One of the funniest pictures of the year.
Posted Jan 04, 2021  Edit critic review
Flaming Youth (1923) Picture Parade It tries hard to be naughty -- but only succeeds in being artificial -- tho it has been excellently staged with an eye upon its opulent appeal.
Posted Dec 29, 2020  Edit critic review
A Dog's Life (1918) Picture Parade Anybody who cannot enjoy this farce should consult a specialist.
Posted Dec 09, 2020  Edit critic review
A Day's Pleasure (1919) Hazel Simpson Naylor It is high time our best comedian took to hustling out another comedy as good as Shoulder Arms. He can if only he will.
Posted Dec 09, 2020  Edit critic review
Tarzan of the Apes (1918) Gladys Hall (Junius) A thrilling, spectacular drama that contains a little of everything.
Posted Dec 09, 2020  Edit critic review
The Splendid Sinner (1918) Hazel Simpson Naylor A Mary Garden triumph is this second silent opera of the Metropolitan prima donna.
Posted Dec 09, 2020  Edit critic review
(undefined) Hazel Simpson Naylor So naturally is the whole played that it is like a day of life.
Posted Dec 09, 2020  Edit critic review
Ladies of the Mob (1928) Elisabeth Goldbeck There is the usual popping of bullets necessary to any underworld drama, but the human interest story of the boy and girl is more thrilling than the gun battles.
Posted Dec 09, 2020  Edit critic review
Manhattan Cocktail (1928) Elisabeth Goldbeck The picture is full of pitfalls, badger games, opening nights, and other terrors of the city. Nancy is awfully cute, and does some audible songs and dances.
Posted Dec 09, 2020  Edit critic review
The Champ (1931) Picture Parade Was there, by any slightest chance, the tiniest bit of doubt in your mind when you heard that Wally Beery and Jackie Cooper were to be co-starred, that the picture would be a wow?
Posted Dec 08, 2020  Edit critic review
Daughter of the Gods (1916) Gladys Hall (Junius) Annette Kellermann's great physical beauty and wonderfully graceful swimming and diving feats add decidedly to the interest and appeal of the whole production. The photography from beginning to end is of the best.
Posted Dec 05, 2020  Edit critic review
The White Heather (1919) Hazel Simpson Naylor An old English melodrama which Maurice Tourneur presents with considerable thrills, excellent photography, but a few discrepancies of plot.
Posted Dec 02, 2020  Edit critic review
A Night at the Opera (1935) Eric L. Ergenbright Sandwiched between the mad pranks of Groucho, Chico, and Harpo are a number of operatic selections and non-classical songs, which are exceptionally well rendered by Kitty Carlisle -- who looks like a future star -- and Allan Jones.
Posted Nov 20, 2020  Edit critic review
The Three Ages (1923) Adele Whitley Fletcher One of the funniest comedies of the silversheet.
Posted Nov 16, 2020  Edit critic review
Hollywood (1923) Adele Whitley Fletcher This picture is novel and rich, expertly written and adapted, and directed by James Cruze with a real sympathetic treatment. The elements of pathos and humor are finely balanced and the incident and details are embroidered with vital cinema trimmings.
Posted Nov 16, 2020  Edit critic review
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