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Only Yesterday (1933) Red Kann The cast -- a long one -- is very competent. Boles does what strikes us as his best work. But nobody in the picture approximates Miss Sullavan's performance for understanding and emotional depth.
Posted Apr 23, 2024  Edit critic review
The Mad Miss Manton (1938) Gus McCarthy The Mad Miss Manton combines the thrills of an exciting detective story and the laughs of a high speed comedy.
Posted Apr 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Sayonara (1957) Sherwin Kane An engrossing and visually memorable production.
Posted Feb 28, 2023  Edit critic review
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) MPD Staff In leaping the immense time chasm between his Silly Symphonies and upper bracket specials Walt Disney utilized every production device in his rich repertoire and some others the world has yet to learn about.
Posted Dec 20, 2022  Edit critic review
The Maltese Falcon (1941) Edward Grief A first rate mystery yarn free from the usual clichés and packed with excitement.
Posted Nov 11, 2022  Edit critic review
Lady From Chungking (1942) Vance King The picture is effective film entertainment.
Posted Oct 18, 2022  Edit critic review
Gigi (1958) James M. Jerauld Wholly delightful! Light, sophisticated, beautifully photographed in Paris, and with distinctive, music of Frederick Loewe, it leaves the spectator with a buoyant feeling and a desire to see it again.
Posted Mar 24, 2022  Edit critic review
From Here to Eternity (1953) Al Steen The picture is a smooth mixture of almost every ingredient which goes to make up box-office entertainment. It has romance, comedy, pathos, rowdiness, brutality, dramatic impact and... a thrilling climax.
Posted Mar 15, 2022  Edit critic review
The Apartment (1960) Sherwin Kane Entertaining and often engrossing.
Posted Mar 08, 2022  Edit critic review
The Lost Weekend (1945) Sherwin Kane The fine direction of Billy Wilder, the distinctive performances of an earnest cast and Charles Brackett's fitting production, as well as its subject matter, set The Lost Weekend apart from other pictures.
Posted Feb 01, 2022  Edit critic review
Porgy and Bess (1959) Sherwin Kane The production shines with memorable individual performances... Sidney Poitier as Porgy, Dorothy Dandridge as Bess, Brock Peters as Crown, Sammy Davis, Jr. as Sportin' Life and Pearl Bailey as Maria are outstanding.
Posted Jan 19, 2022  Edit critic review
Little Iodine (1946) Charles L. Franke Reginald Le Borg's direction points up slapstick of the straight comic-strip variety which should be accorded a good reception by the kiddies, especially, but which, in spots, may strain adult patience.
Posted Jan 10, 2022  Edit critic review
Nightmare Alley (1947) Red Kann It has stretches of impact. It is able to boast of a generally strong performance by its star, aided principally by Miss Blondell and Miss Walker.
Posted Dec 03, 2021  Edit critic review
The Great Ziegfeld (1936) MPD Staff It is more than merely a lavishly mounted girl-song-dance spectacle. Stripped of all its embellishing grandeur, it is dramatic romance with a heart interest that will thrill the emotions of all who see it.
Posted Dec 01, 2021  Edit critic review
All the King's Men (1949) Red Kann All the King's Men has production scope in addition to pungency and force. It holds a shattering mirror to an unpleasant side of the American political scene, and, as such, is provocative, thought-inducing, serious entertainment of a high order.
Posted Nov 24, 2021  Edit critic review
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Richard Gertner Theorists who assert that the motion picture is the most perfect medium yet devised by man by which to tell a story -- simply out of the pleasure of storytelling -- will find one of the strongest to date in Sam Spiegel's The Bridge on the River Kwai.
Posted Nov 17, 2021  Edit critic review
Marty (1955) Lester Dinoff Absorbing throughout its entirety, Chayefsky's creation is heart-warming and sensitive.
Posted Oct 18, 2021  Edit critic review
Sunset Boulevard (1950) Sherwin Kane Let it be said now that Miss Swanson's performance is fascinating and persuasive, certain to intrigue and captivate the oldsters, and to bemuse the latter day audience.
Posted Oct 11, 2021  Edit critic review
Leave Her to Heaven (1945) Red Kann Here is a beautifully made attraction with an engrossing story, fine performances and top-level production values from go to finish.
Posted Sep 29, 2021  Edit critic review
Them! (1954) MPD Staff Suspense-filled from beginning to end.
Posted Sep 28, 2021  Edit critic review
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) James D. Ivers The tricks of photography necessary to achieve the effect are sufficient to convince the audience of the reality of what they see and the unexpected climax will leave them talking.
Posted Sep 24, 2021  Edit critic review
House of Usher (1960) James D. Ivers The suspense and the horror mount from the moment Damon arrives, puzzled and fearful, at the crumbling and fog wreathed mansion until the hair-raising climax. The picture is good Poe, excellent cinema and a practically certain box office success
Posted Sep 22, 2021  Edit critic review
The Thing (1951) Mandel Herbstman The picture's theme is frequently approached from a technique of standard melodramatics rather than from mature and thoughtful insights.
Posted Sep 21, 2021  Edit critic review
The Little Fugitive (1953) MPD Staff The adventures of a little Brooklyn boy at Coney Island becomes an absorbing, and extremely amusing, tale under the deft direction of Morris Engel, Ray Ashley and Ruth Orkin.
Posted Sep 16, 2021  Edit critic review
Gun Crazy (1950) Mandel Herbstman In its classification as a nerve-tingling melodrama, the picture is superb, for it sets a relentless pace and is continuously absorbing.
Posted Sep 14, 2021  Edit critic review
The Littlest Outlaw (1955) Lester Dinoff Young Velasquez plays his role with fresh charm and competence despite his little previous experience in films.
Posted Aug 23, 2021  Edit critic review
Black Orpheus (1959) MPD Staff Naturalism is blended with spectacular fantasy by M. Camus, as effective a film-maker as has been seen on the international scene in many years.
Posted Jul 23, 2021  Edit critic review
Ladies Lake (1934) MPD Staff This French importation of the adaptation of a story by Vicki Baum presents strong and interesting drama, and features a new and young player, Simone Simon.
Posted Jun 29, 2021  Edit critic review
The Philadelphia Story (1940) Edward Grief The Philadelphia Story brings to the screen a talented cast, a sophisticated tale and direction that keeps accelerating its pace.
Posted Jun 09, 2021  Edit critic review
North by Northwest (1959) James D. Ivers As unmistakably Hitchcock as the famed pencil profile, this sparkling production is crammed to the edges of the Vista Vision widescreen with the trademarks of the Old Master.
Posted Jun 08, 2021  Edit critic review
The Women (1939) William R. Weaver The dialogue that was hot in the play has been cooled off enough for picture purposes, but that part of its heat which derived from humor and viewpoint is still intact; only the vulgar was stricken.
Posted May 24, 2021  Edit critic review
Squadron Leader X (1943) MPD Staff There is no lag in continuity or realism in the Emeric Pressburger story.
Posted May 14, 2021  Edit critic review
Home of the Brave (1949) Mandel Herbstman Although the picture underlines a social problem, it primarily has been fashioned for entertainment and as such is a first-class job that mounts to moments of raw power and excitement.
Posted May 11, 2021  Edit critic review
Modern Times (1936) Red Kann Chaplin [has] returned to basic fundamentals in story construction, coupling with it an ironic poke or two at the System, as constituted today, and combined with that his great talent in his first screen appearance since City Lights.
Posted May 06, 2021  Edit critic review
Seven Samurai (1954) Lawrence J. Quirk Akira Kurosawa, the Japanese director whose artistry and solid craftsmanship were first revealed in this country in Rashomon, has come forward with a fine action drama with a deeply human emphasis.
Posted May 04, 2021  Edit critic review
The Wizard of Oz (1939) Alfred Finestone The Wizard of Oz is of the essence of screen entertainment that lives for a long time. It probably will prove to be a popular revival at appropriate seasons.
Posted Apr 30, 2021  Edit critic review
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Sherwin Kane The homecoming of a trio of World War II veterans, each to his own problems, is the subject of this warmly human and exceptionally well acted Samuel Goldwyn production.
Posted Apr 13, 2021  Edit critic review
Mrs. Miniver (1942) Charles S. Aaronson Never has the screen more clearly demonstrated its ability to be powerfully articulate in the expression of human emotion or in the conveyance of the highest idealism in terms of utter simplicity than in M-G-M's beautiful production of Mrs. Miniver.
Posted Apr 13, 2021  Edit critic review
Rebecca (1940) Roscoe Williams Alfred Hitchcock's first American film is a highly polished and workmanlike production of a Daphne du Maurier novel dealing morbidly with a sordid incident in the life of an English gentleman.
Posted Apr 10, 2021  Edit critic review
All About Eve (1950) Red Kann [Bette Davis] has not had so good a role in years. She and the others are characters living in a tinsel and largely artificial world, but nevertheless there is a believability about them which attests fully to the measure of their histrionic abilities.
Posted Apr 01, 2021  Edit critic review
It Happened One Night (1934) MPD Staff Gable registers all his rough and ready romantic flair, adding a new comedy wrinkle to top off the love stuff in grand style.
Posted Mar 31, 2021  Edit critic review
Citizen Kane (1941) Charles S. Aaronson The performances are of the finest, attuned perfectly to the production technique employed, although, besides Welles, the names are unknown to the average motion picture audience.
Posted Mar 01, 2021  Edit critic review
The Hitch-Hiker (1953) Murray Horowitz Competently produced, directed and acted, The Hitch-Hiker measures up well as an exciting picture, repetitious in spots but never lacking in suspense.
Posted Feb 24, 2021  Edit critic review
Babes in Arms (1939) MPD Staff From music, editing, acting on up or down, Babes in Arms is anyone's money's worth of entertainment.
Posted Feb 12, 2021  Edit critic review
Casablanca (1942) MPD Staff As an excellent though melodramatic background to today's stirring headlines of the "second front" in North Africa, Casablanca is as topical a film as has ever been made.
Posted Feb 10, 2021  Edit critic review
Boy! What a Girl (1947) Mandel Herbstman A generous offering of melodious tidbits are served in [Boy! What a Girl!]... A good deal of comedy and clowning are also thrown in, and as a special attraction, Gene Krupa makes a guest star appearance.
Posted Feb 01, 2021  Edit critic review
Imitation of Life (1934) Red Kann Universal has a grand woman's picture here and one that looks like a winner.
Posted Jan 30, 2021  Edit critic review
The Defiant Ones (1958) James M. Jerauld The impression of reality lingers on after the picture has been unreeled.
Posted Jan 29, 2021  Edit critic review
Intruder in the Dust (1949) Sherwin Kane It moves into its story swiftly and draws upon menace, suspense and eerie situations to capture and hold the interest of its audience.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Stormy Weather (1943) Charles Ryweck The film should meet with a good reception for it has all the requisites of a successful musical with its eye and ear appeal.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
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