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Fernando F. Croce

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Out of the Past (1947) 87% EDIT “The film noir apex is an extension of Val Lewton's lambent death-drive—the uncanny calm with which Jacques Tourneur lays the grids turns the chump's fall into a perverse three-way dance, crystalline to the point of obscurity. ” – CinePassion Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Death Race 2000 (1975) 80% EDIT “Open roads and red splashes in Paul Bartel's pop-punk satire, a subversive grenade concealed in the handshake of drive-in shlock. ” – CinePassion Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Re-Animator (1985) 88% EDIT “Jeffrey Combs' resemblance to Anthony Perkins as the scientific seeker is complemented by mock-Herrmann strings in the opening credits. ” – CinePassion Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “A spacious Walter Hill study.” – CinePassion Sep 25, 2025 Full Review Explorers (1985) 49% EDIT “Joe Dante's earnest and acerbic sides in fascinating conflict, a fond build-up for a caustic punchline.” – CinePassion Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Day of the Dead (1985) 61% EDIT “George A. Romero's supreme distillation of existential splatter, thrifty and vast, furious and melancholy.” – CinePassion Jun 24, 2025 Full Review Night Moves (1975) 78% EDIT “Interconnection and desolation comprise the paradoxical mystery, Penn's piquant textures plus Alan Sharp's inspired dialogue in the distillate of Seventies malaise. ” – CinePassion May 23, 2025 Full Review Starman (1984) 83% EDIT “An insipid New Age Gospel dried up by Carpenter's crispness, generosity and weirdness. ” – CinePassion May 12, 2025 Full Review At Long Last Love (1975) 22% EDIT “The celluloid Thirties as an incantation of affecting clumsiness, fabricated facsimiles and authentic melancholy for a lost genre. ” – CinePassion Mar 15, 2025 Full Review The Yakuza (1974) 49% EDIT “Mitchum and Takakura Ken forge a moving sense of mutual admiration for each other’s honor codes and life-worn experience.” – Slant Magazine Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966) 100% EDIT “The recurring vision of the staring blonde child comes from Flemish painting, the early image of sundry crucifixes like mushrooms on a mossy boulder comes from Mario Bava.” – CinePassion Sep 27, 2024 Full Review Home (2008) 93% 3/4 EDIT “Home is finally hopeful in its view of familial bonds holding together as the characters are forced to face the far from idealized world they are inescapably a part of.” – Slant Magazine Mar 29, 2024 Full Review The Last Picture Show (1971) 98% EDIT “The Fifties vu par the Seventies, the Texas backwater shot like a vintage backlot. ” – CinePassion Oct 24, 2023 Full Review The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) 86% EDIT “Capra [is] not out of his element but rather in a sustained state of discovery.” – CinePassion Apr 24, 2023 Full Review Diabolique (1955) 95% EDIT “Clouzot's clammy virtuosity builds to a scabrous coup de théâtre with a rattling typewriter ahead of The Shining, unmistakably emulated in Young's Wait Until Dark. ” – CinePassion Jan 26, 2023 Full Review Frankenstein (1931) 94% EDIT “"The great ray that first brought life into the world" lends a divine elation quickly faded, what's left is the wrathful bewilderment of the shunned offspring, a magnificent pantomime by Karloff. ” – CinePassion Jan 12, 2023 Full Review The Lady Eve (1941) 99% EDIT “A comedy of famous perfections, of the pratfall that seasons the shimmering repartee, of the magical character actors who crowd the frame as if in a Phiz illustration.” – CinePassion Dec 28, 2022 Full Review The Seventh Continent (1989) 2/4 EDIT “Michael Haneke could be cinema’s Debbie Downer, if only he had any sense of humor.” – Slant Magazine Dec 16, 2022 Full Review King Kong (1933) 97% EDIT “An inexhaustible fountain of pulp poetry, erected by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack on the divide between documentarian and fantasist. ” – CinePassion Nov 8, 2022 Full Review Stalag 17 (1953) 91% EDIT “The road ahead leads to The Bridge on the River Kwai on one side, MASH on the other.” – CinePassion Nov 4, 2022 Full Review Cobra Woman (1944) 73% EDIT “Smack in the middle of this gaudy artifice, a cinéma-vérité portrait of the inept diva blissfully playacting, a queen in her own mind.” – CinePassion Sep 20, 2022 Full Review EDIT “With Rio Grande and Wagon Master, the last third of John Ford's unofficial musical trilogy of 1950” – CinePassion Apr 8, 2021 Full Review Moon Over Harlem (1939) 33% EDIT “A ragged wonder.” – CinePassion Jan 26, 2021 Full Review The Man With the Golden Arm (1955) 81% EDIT “A midpoint for [Preminger] between noir impressionism and hot-button topicality.” – CinePassion Dec 22, 2020 Full Review The Champ (1931) 96% EDIT “Not a "weepie" but an emotive examination of tangled milieus.” – CinePassion Dec 8, 2020 Full Review
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