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Sur is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Jorge Luis Borges.

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The Road Back (1937) Jorge Luis Borges The Road Back is undeniably inferior to All Quiet on the Western Front. Its climactic moment is also a battle... The other scenes, it seems to me, are entirely forgettable.
Posted Dec 15, 2021  Edit critic review
The Woman Alone (1936) Jorge Luis Borges [The film] "is inspired by Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent." The director himself declares so... Skillful photography, clumsy cinematography -- those are the unimpassioned judgments that Hitchcock's latest film "inspires" in me.
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Now, Voyager (1942) Jorge Luis Borges It was directed by a certain Irving Rapper, who, quite possibly, may not be a fool. Unfortunately, this is how they degrade the tragic heroine of The Little Foxes, The Letter, Of Human Bondage.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Jorge Luis Borges For the third time, Hollywood has defamed Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Things to Come (1936) Jorge Luis Borges "Grandiose" in the worst sense of that bad word.
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The 39 Steps (1935) Jorge Luis Borges From an absolutely dull adventure story -- The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan -- Hitchcock has drawn a good film. He has invented episodes. He has inserted wittiness and mischievousness where the original contained only heroism.
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The Petrified Forest (1936) Jorge Luis Borges Once the allegorical motive is dismissed or relegated to a secondary level... the plot of The Petrified Forest seems admirable to me. In this film, death works like hypnosis or alcohol: it brings the recesses of the soul into the light of day.
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Crime and Punishment (1935) Jorge Luis Borges I was expecting the usual von Sternberg nightmare. I was waiting for the suffocation and the madness. In vain!
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The Informer (1935) Jorge Luis Borges I consider it too memorable not to provoke a discussion and not to deserve a reproach. Several reproaches, really, since it has run the beautiful risk of being entirely satisfactory and, for two or three reasons, has not been.
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Street Scene (1931) Jorge Luis Borges Street Scene, adapted from the comedy of the same name by the expressionist Elmer Rice, is inspired by the simple, negative desire not to look "standard."
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City Lights (1931) Jorge Luis Borges In reality -- in what I believe is reality -- this much-seen film from the splendid creator and hero of The Gold Rush is nothing more than a weak collection of minor mishaps imposed on a sentimental story.
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Morocco (1930) Jorge Luis Borges One may watch Morocco with pleasure, but not with the intellectual satisfaction one gets from the first viewing (and even the second) of earlier works by von Sternberg.
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