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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Gaslight (1944) Virginia Wilson Ingrid Bergman was never so lovely as in this terrifying drama
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Alice in Wonderland (1951) Christopher Kane Some of the wonder experienced by Lewis Carroll's Alice may now be shared in Technicolor by us cartoon addicts.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Only Yesterday (1933) Walter Ramsey 'Tis seldom one runs across a picture that is so human and pathetic that even the most hardened need not be ashamed of a tear.
Posted Apr 23, 2024  Edit critic review
White Heat (1949) Modern Screen Staff One of the most brutal and exciting gangster films ever made.
Posted Apr 22, 2024  Edit critic review
The Caine Mutiny (1954) Florence Epstein It’s a brilliant, beautifully acted job.
Posted Apr 19, 2024  Edit critic review
2/4
Three Godfathers (1936) Leo Townsend There's not a buck in a broncho in this westerner. Instead we have three bad men regenerated by a babe. Sounds like a stiff dose to swallow, but surprisingly enough it's good movie fare.
Posted Apr 17, 2024  Edit critic review
The Model and the Marriage Broker (1952) Seymour Peck Thelma Ritter, who very nearly stole A Letter To Three Wives and All About Eve away from their stars, is, at long last, a star herself.
Posted Apr 16, 2024  Edit critic review
She Done Him Wrong (1933) Modern Screen Staff Mae West (Diamond Lil) sure dishes cut plenty of that risque business in this one (that's putting it delicately, but in spite of that, or on account of it, depending on yourself, it is downright funny).
Posted Apr 15, 2024  Edit critic review
National Velvet (1944) Modern Screen Staff The picture is a masterpiece, its beauty enhanced by the Technicolor scenes of the English countryside.
Posted Mar 26, 2024  Edit critic review
The Searchers (1956) Florence Epstein Ford’s touches give humor and individuality to the characters.
Posted Mar 25, 2024  Edit critic review
State Fair (1933) Modern Screen Staff This is a very human sort of picture, for all its truly grand scope. You'll get a kick out of the everyday problems of the characters.
Posted Nov 09, 2023  Edit critic review
3/4
One Night in Lisbon (1941) Wolfe Kaufman Thanks to Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray you will probably want to see this otherwise "so-what" picture.
Posted Oct 02, 2023  Edit critic review
Tomorrow Is Forever (1946) Fannie Hurst Tomorrow Is Forever has what it takes for box office allure, from the moment the potential customer reads the come-hither advertising in the lobby.
Posted Jun 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) Fannie Hurst All hail Claude Rains' imperial performance as Julius Caesar!
Posted Jun 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Casanova Brown (1944) Fannie Hurst Casanova Brown finds its way, straight as the crow flies, to your funny bone, and your approval.
Posted Jun 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Since You Went Away (1944) Fannie Hurst Down with over-long, over-stuffed motion pictures!
Posted Jun 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Spellbound (1945) Fannie Hurst The unwary spectator who finds himself relaxed in the restful darkness of a motion picture theater, is going to be let in for shock.
Posted Jun 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Rhapsody in Blue (1945) Fannie Hurst All of this, naturally, is heightened to the nth degree by a brilliant and flooding accompaniment of Gershwin music.
Posted Jun 15, 2023  Edit critic review
G.I. Joe (1945) Fannie Hurst As stories go, G.I. Joe is well put together, because it is cemented into a kind of cohesive whole by such stuff as blood and tears, dirt and laughter, fears and grandeur.
Posted Jun 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Winged Victory (1944) Fannie Hurst Alive, entertaining and skillfully conceived.
Posted Jun 15, 2023  Edit critic review
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) Fannie Hurst Here is a picturization of a book that will challenge the interest and anticipation of the millions of Americans who love that outstanding novel of two seasons ago: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.
Posted Jun 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Anna and the King of Siam (1946) Fannie Hurst Not one moment of Anna and the King of Siam, is banal. Rather, it is exciting, honest and memorable theater.
Posted Jun 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Henry V (1945) Fannie Hurst "With winged heels, like English Mercuries," the beauty of the Olivier version of Henry the Fifth soars to what comes close to perfect achievement.
Posted Jun 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Grand Hotel (1932) Modern Screen Staff Garbo! John Barrymore! Lionel Barrymore! Joan Crawford! Wallace Beery! Lewis Stone! Jean Hersholt! A real all star cast. And each one superbly masterful of the demands of his role.
Posted Jun 06, 2023  Edit critic review
The Dark Angel (1935) Leo Townsend Number-One tearjerker of the season.
Posted Mar 10, 2023  Edit critic review
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) Florence Epstein It has Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell -- what more does it need? Technicolor? It’s got that, too.
Posted Mar 08, 2023  Edit critic review
Sayonara (1957) Florence Epstein Sayonara means goodbye, but you won't be forgetting this movie for a long, long time.
Posted Mar 03, 2023  Edit critic review
Back to Bataan (1945) Virginia Wilson Back To Bataan has more excitement per reel than anything you've come across in some time and explodes the theory that war pictures are necessarily dated.
Posted Feb 01, 2023  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (1931) Modern Screen Staff It's guaranteed to chill your spinal column and to hold you powerless in its hypnotic spell, for the strange literary classic has been wrought into a film thriller that is grotesque, weird, eerie, terrible.
Posted Jan 13, 2023  Edit critic review
4/4
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Leo Townsend Snow White, Walt Disney's much anticipated feature-length cartoon, is here at last -- and it is a pleasure to report that as screen entertainment and as an artistic achievement it is a remarkable piece of work.
Posted Dec 21, 2022  Edit critic review
The Maltese Falcon (1941) Modern Screen Staff There's a good twist, but we don't want to spoil it for you by telling too much!
Posted Nov 11, 2022  Edit critic review
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) Virginia Wilson Given Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien, supported by a fine cast, any picture would be good. This one has the additional advantages of an amusing story, and Technicolor.
Posted Nov 10, 2022  Edit critic review
King Kong (1933) Modern Screen Staff It took Radio two years to make this picture. But what a masterpiece! It's so different that the memory of it will linger with you a long time after seeing it. And you won't so easily forget Kong, the biggest beast in all Animal Kingdom!
Posted Nov 10, 2022  Edit critic review
4/4
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Lois Svensrud When Mr. Smith goes to Washington, he takes Mr. Average American with him to learn both the good and the bad of what goes on there. The picture is a thought-provoker, done with a simplicity that is smoldering dynamite.
Posted Nov 09, 2022  Edit critic review
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Modern Screen Staff Possibly the most welcome change, however, is the refreshing treatment of Frank Morgan as a dramatic actor, rather than a stooge for laugh-getting.
Posted Nov 07, 2022  Edit critic review
2/4
The President's Mystery (1936) Leo Townsend Wilcoxon is outstanding, while Betty Furness and Evelyn Brent contribute good work. The comedy scenes are carried off with a flourish by Barnett Parker.
Posted Oct 25, 2022  Edit critic review
Limehouse Blues (1934) Walter Ramsey A rather dull evening.
Posted Oct 20, 2022  Edit critic review
High Noon (1952) Jonathan Kilbourn High Noon tries for art, but it succeeds only in being overly arty.
Posted Sep 20, 2022  Edit critic review
Gentleman's Agreement (1947) Dorothy Kilgallen It rings all the bells and hits all the bulls' eyes -- chiefly because of Moss Hart's taut and intelligent screenplay and the splendid fury of Gregory Peck's performance.
Posted Aug 17, 2022  Edit critic review
4/4
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) Leo Townsend Of the cast, Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh is villainously superb, and the portrayals of Clark Gable and Franchot Tone are first-rate, Tone being especially good in an impassioned plea at the trial for the mutineers. Here is really and epic of the sea.
Posted Jul 27, 2022  Edit critic review
How Green Was My Valley (1941) Modern Screen Staff A deeply emotional picture, never far from tears. Transience and change and decay are everywhere implicit in the gaiety and beauty; the fragrance exists only in memory, like that of a small flower sentimentally pressed between the pages of an album.
Posted Jul 26, 2022  Edit critic review
It Happened One Night (1934) Walter Ramsey Boy, howdy, this is one that you cannot afford to miss.
Posted Feb 17, 2022  Edit critic review
The Lost Weekend (1945) Fannie Hurst In the book, words slip into crevices too small for the camera to enter. Words describe aspects and nuances of the human mind that are too minute for the broader medium of movies. Nevertheless the result is a good brave try, surprisingly achieved.
Posted Feb 01, 2022  Edit critic review
Porgy and Bess (1959) Florence Epstein Haunting music, beautifully sung and a love story that tears your heart. That's Porgy and Bess.
Posted Jan 20, 2022  Edit critic review
The Wizard of Oz (1939) Lois Svensrud Audiences will fall under the spell of The Wizard of Oz just as does Dorothy, the heroine of this story, when a Kansas tornado blows her into the wonderful land of Oz. Remarkable technical effects and beautiful photography create an air of sheer magic.
Posted Oct 14, 2021  Edit critic review
His Girl Friday (1940) Modern Screen Staff The cast comes to life with an equally amusing vehemence, Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy behaving like three people imitating the Marx brothers, and doing a swell job of it, too.
Posted Oct 14, 2021  Edit critic review
Leave Her to Heaven (1945) Virginia Wilson The result is a tense and terrifying story.
Posted Sep 29, 2021  Edit critic review
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) Florence Epstein Ever see a man four inches tall? There he is, living in a doll's house, until the cat puts him out. Two inches tall -- he's moved into a match box in the cellar and is fighting a spider for food in a duel to the death with a straight pin.
Posted Sep 24, 2021  Edit critic review
Unfaithfully Yours (1948) Christopher Kane You get a little bit of everything here, and it's all Preston Sturges'.
Posted Jun 29, 2021  Edit critic review
Macbeth (1948) Christopher Kane I thought Orson Welles, as the ambitious but tortured Macbeth, was both impressive and moving.
Posted Jun 29, 2021  Edit critic review
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