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L'Obs (France)

L'Obs (France) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): André Bazin.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
The Swindle (1955) André Bazin Far from negating my admiration for La Strada, Il Bidone seemed to me to confirm the genius that was manifested in it.
Posted Jun 13, 2023  Edit critic review
Niagara (1953) André Bazin It is quite possible that Hathaway originally took this rather conventional script seriously, because he hoped he could renew interest in it through his employment of the mise-en-scene.
Posted Jun 13, 2023  Edit critic review
Due soldi di speranza (1952) André Bazin This pure masterpiece... proves once again that the Italian cinema has managed to discover a new relationship between the realistic calling of film and the eternal demands of dramatic poetry.
Posted Jun 13, 2023  Edit critic review
The Roof (1956) André Bazin Despite the small reservations one might have if one happens to be in a picky mood, The Roof, then, is an admirable film and should therefore not be missed.
Posted Jun 13, 2023  Edit critic review
Senso (1954) André Bazin Visconti claims that in Senso he wanted to show the “melodrama” (read: the opera) of life. If this was his intention, his film is a complete success.
Posted Jun 12, 2023  Edit critic review
High Noon (1952) André Bazin Without question, this is one of the three best westerns since Stagecoach (the other two being The Westerner and My Darling Clementine). But my admiration for it is not without qualification.
Posted Oct 04, 2022  Edit critic review
Touch of Evil (1958) André Bazin It is indeed a "true" Welles film, yet one in which the artistic freedom and imaginative invention of the author are reduced to indirect manifestation through the conventional grid of a genre that he would otherwise not have chosen.
Posted May 26, 2022  Edit critic review
The High and the Mighty (1954) André Bazin All of this nullifies any possibility of intellectual depth and is in fact only a foolish privileging of character analysis over any other kind.
Posted May 26, 2022  Edit critic review
The Gold Rush (1925) André Bazin Sadness at the heart of laughter: it is certain that, with The Gold Rush, Chaplin perfectly expressed this emotion.
Posted May 26, 2022  Edit critic review
The Caine Mutiny (1954) André Bazin An interesting and often appealing picture.
Posted May 26, 2022  Edit critic review
The Bottom of the Bottle (1956) André Bazin Obviously, Hathaway has devoted all his efforts here to creating social realism at the expense of psychological truth, and one regrets this all the more because the dramatic particulars of the scenario did not in any way call for such a sacrifice.
Posted May 26, 2022  Edit critic review
Queen Christina (1933) André Bazin Beyond the ridiculousness of certain situations, of their primitive and naïve character... the film does radiate lost nobility and elegance, a simplicity that can suddenly and naturally achieve greatness.
Posted Jan 27, 2022  Edit critic review
On the Waterfront (1954) André Bazin On the Waterfront's value as a gangster film is in itself mediocre. The best of the picture lies elsewhere, in the character of Marlon Brando... I don't know of any young movie actor in the world who can compare with him.
Posted Jan 27, 2022  Edit critic review
Broken Lance (1954) André Bazin What is also noteworthy is the laborious dutifulness with which CinemaScope is used in Broken Lance, which gives the mise-en-scène a rigidity that makes for a certain dryness. Such severity, as one might guess, is not for me.
Posted Jan 05, 2022  Edit critic review
While the City Sleeps (1956) André Bazin Even when he is reduced to working with scant means or idiotic stories, Lang can create something of substance.
Posted Dec 09, 2021  Edit critic review
The Last Hunt (1956) André Bazin If The Last Hunt is an excellent western, it is nevertheless, as I have attempted to show, an impure western, the result of the transition to the form of a scenario that, in essence, has nothing to do with the genre.
Posted Dec 09, 2021  Edit critic review
David and Bathsheba (1951) André Bazin The Technicolor in David and Bathsheba... may in fact be the best American Technicolor I've ever seen. That is because its function here is not decorative and illustrative but, again, psychological.
Posted Dec 08, 2021  Edit critic review
Hallelujah (1929) André Bazin Great cinematographic events like Hallelujah are thus always the fruit of great sociological events. Indeed, this film is an eternal testament that transcends both its author-director and the history of cinema itself.
Posted Dec 08, 2021  Edit critic review
Giant (1956) André Bazin Let me say it right away: this film is a disappointment, at least relative to what we had hoped for.
Posted Dec 08, 2021  Edit critic review
Peyton Place (1957) André Bazin The greatness of American cinema resides not so much in its realism as in its aptitude for integrating that realism into the most varied styles or genres, setting them artistically free in the process. That is what's missing from Peyton Place.
Posted Dec 08, 2021  Edit critic review
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) André Bazin Johnny Guitar was the first movie of his to make me reconsider the tempering of my esteem and to make me think that the Nicholas Ray fanatics were right. After Rebel Without a Cause, there can no longer be any doubt about it.
Posted Dec 08, 2021  Edit critic review
Monkey Business (1952) André Bazin In my view, the moral satire of Monkey Business remains at the stage of intention, and the writers ceased to develop their idea with any seriousness beyond the two-thirds point in the picture.
Posted Dec 08, 2021  Edit critic review
Conquest of Space (1955) André Bazin It unfortunately confirms ten times over what I have written in the past about science-fiction movies: Hollywood's repeated failures in this field ironically derive from the most realizable and least expensive element, the screenplay.
Posted Dec 08, 2021  Edit critic review
East of Eden (1955) André Bazin I was much more sensitive, on a second viewing, to Kazan's sincerity and the undeniable lyrical power of his mise-en-scene, which, though probably too willful or conscious, is elevated from within by its powerful grounding in art as well as life.
Posted Dec 08, 2021  Edit critic review
Stalag 17 (1953) André Bazin [Stalag 17 is] remarkably realized within the framework of an adaptation whose chief weakness, its over-theatricalization, is inherited, and as sympathetic a work in its intent as in its spirit.
Posted Dec 08, 2021  Edit critic review
Fourteen Hours (1951) André Bazin It all unfolds with too calculated an ease to qualify as a valid treatment of the subject.
Posted Dec 08, 2021  Edit critic review
Attack! (1956) André Bazin Such relative reservations on my part cannot prevail against the intellectual and formal beauties of Robert Aldrich's admirable -- and therefore eminently defensible -- film.
Posted Dec 08, 2021  Edit critic review
Diplomatic Courier (1952) André Bazin Diplomatic Courier is skillfully made, rich in twists and turns, but totally lacking in significance. This little cinematic escapade never goes beyond what it literally portrays.
Posted Dec 08, 2021  Edit critic review
Bitter Victory (1958) André Bazin With all its faults, this disappointing film is still a beautiful piece of work, if only on account of its subject or thesis, and also because its director could not be anyone other than himself.
Posted Dec 08, 2021  Edit critic review
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) André Bazin John Sturges's mise-en-scene is careful to expand to the dimensions of CinemaScope... Bad Day at Black Rock is not, however, a masterpiece; it is at best a sympathetic film, well done, that is sometimes engaging.
Posted Dec 08, 2021  Edit critic review
The Last Command (1955) André Bazin The exceptional variety of this cast is underlined and deepened by much stronger directing of the actors than is common in a genre where character psychology remains mostly conventional, hence superficial.
Posted Dec 08, 2021  Edit critic review
Bigger Than Life (1956) André Bazin I must now confirm that I find almost nothing in this movie other than the talent of Ray -- at least what made me once love that talent. Hear me out! Bigger than Life is obviously not a negligible work, and I would advise my friends to see it anyway.
Posted Dec 07, 2021  Edit critic review
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) André Bazin Although The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is noteworthy, then, for its intentions and the clarity of its exposition, even, to a certain extent, for the sincerity of its purpose, it is nevertheless a dishonorable undertaking.
Posted Dec 07, 2021  Edit critic review
The Killing (1956) André Bazin The Killing may be a film that sometimes rings hollow. But technically, it stands apart from the rest. This is not the primary reason to be satisfied with it, yet, all things considered, its qualities are such that Kubrick's picture does not disappoint.
Posted Dec 07, 2021  Edit critic review
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) André Bazin The Solid Gold Cadillac is a made-to-order film for Judy Holliday, an amazing actress who perfectly justifies the operation.
Posted Dec 07, 2021  Edit critic review
The Racers (1955) André Bazin Do we remember the story of The Racers after the film For my part, fortunately, I remember just the admirable images and the repeated shots of the photogenic racecars.
Posted Dec 07, 2021  Edit critic review
Kangaroo (1952) André Bazin Perhaps the reader who goes to see Kangaroo will judge that I have given disproportionate significance to this failed, fake western... But it is in films like these that one at least gets the glimpse of a better, hypothetical work of art.
Posted Dec 07, 2021  Edit critic review
The Sheepman (1958) André Bazin Probably the best Western I've seen in months, if not years.
Posted Dec 07, 2021  Edit critic review
Quo Vadis? (1951) André Bazin Conscientious work has been done with the means to do it, but one would look in vain here for the grain of amused madness one would find in a similar film by Cecil B. DeMille.
Posted Dec 07, 2021  Edit critic review
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