Merl Edelman

Merl Edelman's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Los Angeles Free Press
Publications:
Los Angeles Free Press
Movie Reviews Only
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93% | Fail-Safe (1964) |
It's a well done television play that somehow got on a large screen where its literate but talky script and excellent acting can't make up for the lack of action or monotony of pace that so bog it down. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Feb 5, 2020
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90% | Topkapi (1964) |
It's strictly entertainment, but Peter Ustinov and Robert Morley are worth it for fun even without the ingenious jewel robbery around which this colorful spoof focuses. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Feb 5, 2020
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95% | Popiól i diament (Ashes and Diamonds) (1958) |
This honest film shows a greater degree of artistic and political freedom in Poland (at least in 1959) than we are led to expect. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Feb 5, 2020
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No Score Yet | The Kitchen (1961) |
Arnold Wesker's off-beat and interesting view of a restaurant kitchen as a microcosmic world tells some truths about us all. A good film, often hard to find. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Feb 4, 2020
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76% | Becket (1964) |
Worth a look... for a single performance:... Peter O'Toole as Becket's king, Henry II. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Feb 4, 2020
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62% | Cleopatra (1963) |
Worth a look.... for a single performance: Rex Harrison as Caesar. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Feb 4, 2020
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33% | Joy House (Les Félins) (1964) |
Though Joy House, with its pyramid of tricks, chases, surprises, secret panels - the lot - never quite thinks to poke the finger of fun at itself, viewers make no such mistake. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Feb 4, 2020
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80% | Zorba the Greek (1964) |
[Director Michael] Cacoyannis' skills as a craftsman are considerable. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Feb 4, 2020
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80% | 36 Hours (1965) |
Even when it becomes just another spy thriller, it's as well done as the best of the genre. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Feb 4, 2020
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93% | The Americanization of Emily (1964) |
Despite a title which smacks of war-bride sop, [the film] is in some ways the most impressive film since Strangelove. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Feb 4, 2020
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No Score Yet | Image of Love (1964) |
When the Intellectual brings the pretense of Art and Sophistication to the screen, it is fair to demand from him something of value: cinematic art preferably; but at least a snatch of content. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Jan 28, 2020
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No Score Yet | Free, White and 21 (1962) |
This is an insidious piece of propaganda, the more dangerous for its clever stab at realism. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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76% | Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) |
I found the film dull because its theatrical conception robbed me of involvement with the characters. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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No Score Yet | Arturo's Island (Isola di Arturo, L') (1962) |
[Director Damiano] Damiani handles the explosive, though not new, father-wife-son triangle with deific delicacy. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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No Score Yet | Family Portrait (Cronaca familiare) (1963) |
There's an audience for this. We were not it, and found it impossible to stay to the end. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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100% | I Vitelloni (1953) |
Probably no one since Chaplin has so well revealed the moments of simultaneous humor and tragedy which underscore human life. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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98% | Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis) (1946) |
If acting and directing awards were given but once in a century, Carne, Barrault and Brasseur would still be nominees. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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99% | Goldfinger (1964) |
The third, and by far the best, of the Bond jobs. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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No Score Yet | La Donna Scimmia (The Ape Woman) (1964) |
Annie Girardot and Ugo Tognazzi give beautiful performances, which together with Ferreri's delicate taste and fine eye for detail make this far-out story unbelievably believable. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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No Score Yet | Friends for Life (Amici per la pelle) (1959) |
Director Rossi tells this story with a disarming simplicity, sticking as he should to the wealth of small details which are the real events in a boy's life. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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No Score Yet | The Troublemaker (1964) |
Much of the humor works and some of the satire is brilliant. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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No Score Yet | Night Must Fall (1964) |
If you're thinking of Psycho, this is much, much better. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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67% | The Pumpkin Eater (1964) |
Miss Bancroft's performance is in a class few besides Garbo and Ingrid Bergman have ever achieved on the screen. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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98% | Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) (The Bicycle Thief) (1949) |
So immediate is the reality of its experience that the audience seldom notices the excellence of its directorial craftsmanship. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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No Score Yet | The Bus (1965) |
The superb documentary photography and brilliant editing have resulted... in a succession of images which accumulate meaning right to the end. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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100% | One Potato, Two Potato (1964) |
It is a film which should be seen. Perhaps cheered. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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No Score Yet | Black like Me (1964) |
Such unnecessary devices as flashbacks after the opening (so that the film could open with pizazz and fill in background later) reduce a unique and fascinating story to mere low-budget cliche. - Los Angeles Free Press
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| Posted Jan 24, 2020
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