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Thomas Archer

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Peking Express (1951) EDIT “It's a patched up affair but it has the merit of plenty of action and it moves fairly fast.” – Montreal Gazette Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Cattle Drive (1951) EDIT “There is some truly great photography of a wild stallion who is the only villain in the piece. Kurt Neumann's direction here is masterly. ” – Montreal Gazette Jan 8, 2026 Full Review On the Riviera (1951) EDIT “Without Kaye it would fall to pieces, with him it adds up to some 90 minutes of acceptable entertainment. ” – Montreal Gazette Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Alice in Wonderland (1951) 83% EDIT “As adults we would have liked a simpler Alice in Wonderland. But when we went yesterday we were youngsters in company and we were compelled to agree that it was best to feel as a youngster. ” – Montreal Gazette Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Westward the Women (1951) 69% EDIT “It is an authentic bit of American folklore, crudely dealt with, but nonetheless, well worth seeing. ” – Montreal Gazette Mar 2, 2024 Full Review The Lady Eve (1941) 99% EDIT “With The Lady Eve, Preston Sturges sets a new standard for ingenious screen comedy. He has said himself that he writes and directs for sheer entertainment and this picture is a case in point to prove him true. ” – Montreal Gazette Dec 29, 2022 Full Review How Green Was My Valley (1941) 93% EDIT “It comes as close to a screen poem as any picture this reviewer has seen. That was what Ford was aiming at in The Long Voyage Home. That is what he achieves here. ” – Montreal Gazette Jul 26, 2022 Full Review Mrs. Miniver (1942) 93% EDIT “William Wyler has done some fine work in the past. But Mrs. Miniver would seem to be his masterpiece to date. It is not only his direction that is so magnificent, it is also his selection of the cast.” – Montreal Gazette Jan 4, 2022 Full Review All the King's Men (1949) 97% EDIT “The story is told expertly in technical fashion and at times achieves what looks very much like greatness.” – Montreal Gazette Nov 24, 2021 Full Review Sunset Boulevard (1950) 98% EDIT “Here the search into the collective studio soul is carried out with a vengeance in an atmosphere consistently feverish... Yet its component parts add up to something of genuinely tragic import.” – Montreal Gazette Oct 11, 2021 Full Review The Philadelphia Story (1940) 100% EDIT “Throughout, the picture is beautifully staged and photographed. And there isn't a bad piece of acting in the whole two hours of it.” – Montreal Gazette Jun 10, 2021 Full Review Modern Times (1936) 98% EDIT “Charlie gets a job as a singing waiter, during the functions of which he sings a song in a kind of Esperanto. His performance of this sons is a masterpiece. One could not even begin to describe it.” – Montreal Gazette May 6, 2021 Full Review An American in Paris (1951) 95% EDIT “This is easily the best musical film of the year. It has just about everything it should have, exceptional talent in the leading roles, highly imaginative settings, unusually good color work by the cameras and, above ail, George Gershwin's music.” – Montreal Gazette Apr 13, 2021 Full Review Citizen Kane (1941) 99% EDIT “It sets a new style in screen biography and it also confirms the genius of Orson Welles as representative of the modern theatre.” – Montreal Gazette Feb 27, 2021 Full Review Macbeth (1948) 86% EDIT “Mr. Welles' effort with Macbeth should be honored. The faults are obvious. But his film has great moments which repay a visit.” – Montreal Gazette Jan 4, 2021 Full Review Cabin in the Sky (1943) 81% EDIT “[Cabin in the Sky is] a fantasy that has great moments and other moments which rise little above the routine of the common or garden Hollywood musical.” – Montreal Gazette Dec 16, 2020 Full Review Outrage (1950) 61% EDIT “It is a very sincere film which achieves its purpose through its honest handling of a difficult subject and its presentation of it without preaching about it.” – Montreal Gazette Dec 15, 2020 Full Review Double Indemnity (1944) 97% EDIT “Double Indemnity, for all its chills and thrills, never really takes on lifelike features.” – Montreal Gazette Nov 18, 2020 Full Review Home of the Brave (1949) 98% EDIT “Home of the Brave is likely to rank not only as one of the best films of the year but also as being among the best of all war films. The tale is told with simplicity and with a technique of understatement that adds up to 90 minutes of extreme tension.” – Montreal Gazette Nov 17, 2020 Full Review
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