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Don Druker

Don Druker

Agrees with the Tomatometer 86% of the time.

Publications:
Chicago Reader , Globe and Mail
Total Reviews:
272

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
92% Mister Roberts (1955) " Henry Fonda stars, as brilliant as ever." — Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 10, 2012
97% The Thin Man (1934) " One of the most popular comedies ever made." — Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 10, 2012
100% I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) " Based on a true story, its style is simple, direct, forceful -- even after more than six decades." — Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 10, 2012
95% Stage Door (1937) " While it sometimes lapses into pure corn, it nevertheless manages to capture the manic-depressive dormitory atmosphere of young actresses trying to make it in New York." — Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 10, 2012
100% Captain Blood (1935) " Michael Curtiz, the most polished of Warner's studio technicians, starts Flynn off royally." — Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 10, 2012
77% The Towering Inferno (1974) " Irwin Allen, the Busby Berkeley of natural disasters and other people's troubles, teams up with John Guillermin, a competent if undistinguished action director." — Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 3, 2012
86% Wanda (1971) " A brilliantly atmospheric film with a superb performance by Loden." — Chicago Reader
Posted Sep 22, 2011
88% Thieves Like Us (1974) " At times unbearably objective." — Chicago Reader
Posted May 23, 2011
—— Hong se niang zi jun (The Red Detachment of Women) (1971) Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 4, 2011
—— Menilmontant () Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 4, 2011
100% National Velvet (1944) " A good movie for kids and armchair Freudians." — Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 23, 2011
—— Bank Shot (1974) " The best thing about the film is Harry Stradling Jr.'s super photography - but that's scarcely enticement to see a really minor Scott vehicle." — Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 23, 2010
100% Ikiru (Doomed) (Living) (To Live) (1956) " Akira Kurosawa's greatest film." — Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 27, 2009
100% The Dark Corner (1946) " A pretty good thriller." — Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 3, 2009
100% Chinatown (1974) " Polanski's film suggests that the rules of the game are written in some strange, untranslatable language, and that everyone's an alien and, ultimately, a victim." — Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 27, 2009
100% There Was a Father (1942) Chicago Reader
Posted Oct 18, 2008
82% On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) " Director Peter Hunt manages to inject some life into this 1969 exercise with a wonderful ski chase, but otherwise the film is a bore." — Chicago Reader
Posted Oct 13, 2008
90% The Women (1939) " [Cukor is] at his best with a cast that includes Rosalind Russell, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Hedda Hopper, Ruth Hussey, Paulette Goddard, and Joan Fontaine." — Chicago Reader
Posted Sep 11, 2008
75% Charlotte's Web (1973) " It preserves some of the form and language of White's original but fattens and sweetens his lean and pungent prose with songs by Richard and Robert Sherman." — Chicago Reader
Posted Sep 9, 2008
88% La Plančte Sauvage (The Savage Planet) (The Fantastic Planet) (Planet of Incredible Creatures) (1973) " The film has a flat quality that cannot entirely be overcome by the sensational animation and the obvious good intentions of its creators." — Chicago Reader
Posted Sep 9, 2008
90% Pat and Mike (1952) " The best of the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn cycle." — Chicago Reader
Posted Aug 4, 2008
94% Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) (1930) " The first film collaboration between Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich, this reeks with decay and sexuality." — Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 28, 2008
79% Richard III (1956) " Laurence Olivier's classic rendition (1956) of Shakespeare's total villain contains one of his most engaging performances and reveals some of his best spatial manipulation of action." — Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 9, 2008
63% The Way We Were (1973) " A for effort; C for execution." — Chicago Reader
Posted May 26, 2008
90% Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different (1972) " Fans will have most of it memorized by now." — Chicago Reader
Posted May 14, 2008
100% The Big Heat (2001) " Brutal, atmospheric, and exciting -- highly recommended." — Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 9, 2008
100% The Killers (1946) " An example of film noir at its most expressive." — Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 8, 2008
89% Blazing Saddles (1974) " One of the funniest awful movies ever made." — Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 2, 2008
91% California Split (1974) " Robert Altman's masterful 1974 study of the psychology of the compulsive gambler." — Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 25, 2008
57% Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) " The music quickly becomes monotonous, and the operatic dialogue is silly right from the start." — Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 19, 2008
92% The Quiet Man (1952) " John Ford's 1952 Oscar winner is a tribute to an Ireland that exists only in the imaginations of songwriters and poets like Ford." — Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 11, 2008
60% Toute Une Vie (And Now My Love) (1974) " If Lelouch's sensibilities are too flimsy to substantiate his quasi-epic ambitions, the film nevertheless offers some cozy comforts and more than a few inside filmmaking jokes." — Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 15, 2008
75% Un Homme et une Femme (A Man and a Woman) (1966) " It's full of misty romps in the meadows, rain-soaked windshields, assorted puppies and lambs, and a 'bittersweet' theme song that drones incessantly on the sound track." — Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 15, 2008
100% Top Hat (1935) " This 1935 musical finds Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at the top of their form." — Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 11, 2008
—— Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) " One of Ernst Lubitsch's greatest accomplishments." — Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 11, 2008
96% Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945) " It runs 187 minutes, and it's worth every one of them." — Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 9, 2008
100% A Raisin in the Sun (1961) " It does have enough gritty insights and (for the time) strikingly accurate production details to keep the level of interest up." — Chicago Reader
Posted Nov 13, 2007
79% It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) " Stanley Kramer strikes out again with this elephantine 1963 attempt at uproarious comedy." — Chicago Reader
Posted Nov 7, 2007
100% Oliver Twist (1951) " Alec Guinness as the master pickpocket Fagin is the high point of David Lean's 1948 version of the Dickens classic." — Chicago Reader
Posted Nov 6, 2007
86% Brief Encounter (1945) " Rarely rises above the level of the old women's magazines." — Chicago Reader
Posted Nov 6, 2007
100% Great Expectations (1947) " The graveyard scene is still a shocker, the details are still astonishingly well assembled, and the performances are wonderful." — Chicago Reader
Posted Nov 6, 2007
94% Pygmalion (1938) " A marvelous 1938 adaptation of the Shaw classic." — Chicago Reader
Posted Nov 6, 2007
90% The Day of the Jackal (1973) " It's a polished and exciting thriller, mercifully unburdened with heavy political/philosophical digressions." — Chicago Reader
Posted Nov 1, 2007
92% The Last Detail (1973) " A tough-talking, sparely directed effort by Hal Ashby, with an immaculate performance by Jack Nicholson." — Chicago Reader
Posted Oct 31, 2007
100% The Adversary (Pratidwandi) (Siddharta and the City) (2007) " Ray's incredible warmth and superbly understated visual style can charm even those (like me) who don't find his films particularly compelling." — Chicago Reader
Posted Oct 24, 2007
93% Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew) (1964) " Pasolini uses a complex but seemingly stark and simple visual style, and he evokes wonderful performances from nonprofessionals Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, and Marcello Morante." — Chicago Reader
Posted Oct 23, 2007
84% Mildred Pierce (1945) " The archetypal Joan Crawford movie." — Chicago Reader
Posted Oct 17, 2007
100% The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) " Movies like this are beyond criticism." — Chicago Reader
Posted Oct 16, 2007
91% Cat People () " More a film about unreasoning fear than the supernatural, this work demonstrates what a filmmaker can accomplish when he substitutes taste and intelligence for special effects." — Chicago Reader
Posted Sep 26, 2007
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