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67%
|
The Fox (1967) |
"
A beautifully photographed, dramatically uneven Canadian-made film."
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Variety
Posted May 8, 2013
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63%
|
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972) |
"
[The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid] may be a valiant attempt but fails to come off."
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Variety
Posted May 8, 2013
|
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29%
|
Hurry Sundown (1967) |
"
An outstanding, tasteful but hard-hitting, and handsomely-produced film."
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Variety
Posted May 8, 2013
|
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25%
|
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970) |
"
All this is well mounted and lensed but sans the right dramatic flourishes to get human depth, melodramatic gusto or humane symbolism into the right focus."
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Variety
Posted May 8, 2013
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60%
|
Gaily, Gaily () |
"
A lushly staged, handsomely produced, largely unfunny comedy."
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Variety
Posted May 6, 2013
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0%
|
The Art of Love (1965) |
"
Writer Carl Reiner and director Norman Jewison go aground by allowing too many bits to fill their pot."
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Variety
Posted May 6, 2013
|
|
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91%
|
A Woman of Paris (1923) |
"
A Woman of Paris is a serious, sincere effort, with a bang story subtlety of idea-expression."
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Variety
Posted Apr 2, 2013
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78%
|
F.I.S.T. (1978) |
"
F.I.S.T. is to the labor movement in the United States what All the King's Men was to an era in American politics."
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Variety
Posted Mar 25, 2013
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|
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90%
|
Pandora's Box (1929) |
"
Louise Brooks, especially imported for the title role, does not pan out, due to no fault of hers. She is quite unsuited to the vamp type which was called for by the play from which the picture was made."
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Variety
Posted Feb 27, 2013
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80%
|
Hangmen Also Die! (1943) |
"
From a directorial standpoint this is a triumph for Fritz Lang, who succeeds with singular success in capturing the spirit of the Czech people in the face of the Nazi reign of terror."
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Variety
Posted Feb 25, 2013
|
|
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81%
|
...And Justice For All (1979) |
"
Attempts to alternate between comedy and drama, handling neither one incompetently, but also not excelling at either task."
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Variety
Posted Jan 24, 2013
|
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50%
|
Some Girls (Sisters) (1988) |
"
A cross-cultural teen sex farce with some good moments, Some Girls hinges on the deadpan comic timing of Patrick Dempsey."
—
Variety
Posted Dec 17, 2012
|
|
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80%
|
The Neverending Story (1984) |
"
A marvelously realized flight of pure fantasy."
—
Variety
Posted Nov 26, 2012
|
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73%
|
Promised Land (1988) |
"
Many scenes are extended to the point that all potential dramatic tension is drained out of them."
—
Variety
Posted Oct 17, 2012
|
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95%
|
Supercop (Police Story 3) (Ging chaat goo si 3: Chiu kap ging chaat) (1992) |
"
All this is executed with a good deal of panache, if not originality, by stunt coordinator Stanley Tong."
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Variety
Posted Aug 15, 2012
|
|
|
100%
|
The Ring (1927) |
"
Gordon Harker, on the screen for the first time, nearly steals this one as a hard-boiled cynical trainer."
—
Variety
Posted Mar 20, 2012
|
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40%
|
A Royal Scandal (1945) |
"
A Royal Scandal is a highly hilarious comedy with superb performances by Tallulah Bankhead and Charles Coburn."
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Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
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——
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40 Pounds of Trouble (1963) |
"
Precocious and likeable."
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Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
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——
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Stella Dallas (1925) |
"
A mother picture. Not a great picture, but a great mother picture. Its sentiment is terrific."
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Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
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100%
|
This Happy Breed (1944) |
"
Film's excellence comes mainly in the performances."
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
|
98%
|
Das Boot (The Boat) (1981) |
"
Everything described in the film is authentic."
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
|
80%
|
Breaking the Sound Barrier (The Sound Barrier) (1952) |
"
Technically, artistically and emotionally, this is a topflight British offering."
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Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
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|
——
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The President's Lady (1953) |
"
Through it all, Charlton Heston supplies the kind of ammunition to this film that is as loaded as any carbine slung across his broad shoulders."
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Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
|
92%
|
Beauty and the Beast (2012) |
"
A lovely film that ranks with the best of Disney's animated classics."
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
|
96%
|
The Wedding Banquet (Xi yan) (1993) |
"
Most of this is smoothly done and scripted with plenty of incident."
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
|
100%
|
The Cool World (1964) |
"
Sometimes the characters get a bit lost in the general schematics of the pic, which at times waters down its underlying irony. But, overall, Clarke has a firm hold on her characters and story."
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
|
100%
|
Stagecoach (1939) |
"
Directorially, production is John Ford in peak form, sustaining interest and suspense throughout, and presenting exceptional characterizations. Picture is a display of photographic grandeur."
—
Variety
Posted Feb 10, 2012
|
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|
75%
|
A Single Girl (2000) |
"
A Single Girl delivers 80 unbroken and ultimately irritating minutes in the life of a pretty hotel waitress (Virginie Ledoyen)."
—
Variety
Posted Feb 7, 2012
|
|
|
100%
|
The Love Parade (1929) |
"
It's a fine, near-grand entertainment."
—
Variety
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
|
83%
|
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) |
"
Heaven is film theatre at its best."
—
Variety
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
|
67%
|
America, America (The Anatolian Smile) (1963) |
"
Elia Kazan gives a penetrating, thorough and profoundly affecting account of the hardships endured and surmounted at the turn of the century by a young Greek lad"
—
Variety
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
|
100%
|
Hold Back the Dawn (1941) |
"
While Hold Back the Dawn is basically another European refugee yarn, scenarists Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder exercised some ingenuity and imagination and Ketty Frings' original emerges as fine celluloidia."
—
Variety
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
|
100%
|
One Foot in Heaven (1941) |
"
A warm and human preachment for godliness."
—
Variety
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
|
——
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Here Comes the Navy (1934) |
"
It's light on story, and because of that it borders on being an elaborate newsreel."
—
Variety
Posted Jan 31, 2012
|
|
|
80%
|
The Citadel (1936) |
"
Picture is studded with many brilliantly human and dramatic sequences."
—
Variety
Posted Jan 31, 2012
|
|
|
71%
|
Kitty Foyle (1940) |
"
Despite its episodic, and at times, vaguely-defined motivation, picture on whole is a poignant and dramatic portraiture of a typical Cinderella girl's love story."
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Variety
Posted Jan 31, 2012
|
|
|
——
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East Lynne (1931) |
"
An excellent piece of work in taking a legendary meller play and transposing it into a screen drama of strength and charm."
—
Variety
Posted Jan 31, 2012
|
|
|
83%
|
The Champ (1931) |
"
A good picture, almost entirely by virtue of an inspired performance by a boy, Jackie Cooper."
—
Variety
Posted Jan 31, 2012
|
|
|
71%
|
Sons and Lovers (1960) |
"
Sons and Lovers is a well-made and conscientious adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's famed novel, smoothly directed by Jack Cardiff and superbly acted by a notable cast."
—
Variety
Posted Jan 31, 2012
|
|
|
50%
|
In Old Arizona (1928) |
"
It's the first outdoor talker and a western, with a climax twist to make the story stand out from the usual hill and dale thesis."
—
Variety
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
|
100%
|
Carry on Spying (Agent Oooh!) (1964) |
"
Kenneth Williams' brand of camp comedy, while very funny in smallish doses, can pall when he has a lengthy chore as here. But Bernard Cribbins brings some useful virility to his fatuous role."
—
Variety
Posted Oct 18, 2011
|
|
|
95%
|
Island of Lost Souls (The Island of Dr. Moreau) (1933) |
"
While the action is not designed to appeal to other than the credulous, there are undoubtedly some horror sequences which are unrivaled."
—
Variety
Posted Oct 17, 2011
|
|
|
100%
|
Le Beau Serge (1958) |
"
An important new French director, Claude Chabrol, is unveiled in this pic."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 19, 2011
|
|
|
96%
|
Dazed and Confused (1993) |
"
The teenage wasteland, 1976-style, of Dazed and Confused is smack-dab between The Brady Bunch and Children of the Damned , and it's a scary, if sometimes giddily amusing, place to visit."
—
Variety
Posted Aug 8, 2011
|
|
|
75%
|
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) |
"
As the broadcasting tycoon, Fredric March is excellent, and the scenes between him and Peck lift the picture high above the ordinary."
—
Variety
Posted Jun 27, 2011
|
|
|
75%
|
Three Men and a Baby (3 Men and a Baby) (1987) |
"
Film is a good showcase for the comic abilities of this threesome, all of whom seem to have their one-liner timing down pat."
—
Variety
Posted May 23, 2011
|
|
|
50%
|
The Long Ships (1964) |
"
Any attempt to put this into the epic class falls down because of a hodge-podge of a storyline, a mixture of styles and insufficient development of characterization."
—
Variety
Posted Apr 23, 2011
|
|
|
100%
|
Kes (1969) |
"
Simply, the filmmakers have brought the background of the boy's life vividly into reality."
—
Variety
Posted Apr 18, 2011
|
|
|
54%
|
Secret Beyond the Door... (1949) |
"
Mental complexities of the principals makes it sometimes hard to sort out the various motivations used to spin the tale."
—
Variety
Posted Apr 4, 2011
|
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