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Paul Mavis

Paul Mavis's reviews do not count toward the Tomatometer®. This is not a Tomatometer-approved critic, and this critic's reviews are not published on a Tomatometer-approved publication.
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White House Revealed (2008) EDIT “Shapeless and willy-nilly, skipping from one anecdote to another about working in the White House, without ever really telling the viewer even the most basic facts about the Residency Staff.” – DVDTalk.com Jul 20, 2010 Full Review Appointment With Danger (1951) EDIT “Solid, entertaining crime meller (particularly when Alan Ladd is clipped and violent), but not a long-lost noir classic.” – DVDTalk.com Jul 20, 2010 Full Review In Search of Mozart (2006) 81% EDIT “Beautiful to look at and listen to, In Search of Mozart imparts a lot of information in an accessible, entertaining fashion - this isn't a dry lecture by any means.” – DVDTalk.com Mar 23, 2010 Full Review Herb and Dorothy (2008) 96% EDIT “The central biography of the Vogels is so strong that it doesn't matter in the end that Herb & Dorothy as a doc leaves a lot of questions unanswered.” – DVDTalk.com Mar 23, 2010 Full Review Outlaw Women (1952) EDIT “Certainly not Johnny Guitar, but interesting, nonetheless. An early feminist Western - until the ending, of course, when paternalism is restored to its rightful place.” – DVDTalk.com Feb 20, 2010 Full Review The Verdict (1982) 88% EDIT “A late career triumph for Newman and director Sidney Lumet, with a hard, lean, uncompromising script by the brilliant David Mamet.” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review Quintet (1979) 27% EDIT “The entire film operates keeping its secrets and feelings so close to its vest, we eventually give up and start laughing at the inane, pseudo-intellectual claptrap that passes for dialogue here. Characters talk about how things used to be, and death, and” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976) 61% EDIT “The mostly left-wing-leaning movie critics have always made room for films that attack American institutions, so why didn't they enjoy Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson more when it came out? Simple - it's not v” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review The Towering Inferno (1974) 69% EDIT “For sheer star wattage (Newman and McQueen were the two biggest male movie stars on the planet in 1974, while Dunaway was no slouch at the box office, either - a coup for the lowly disaster genre), for epic length (it's the longest of the 70s disaster fli” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 89% EDIT “Achieves an elegiac tone that, mixed with it humorous performances and its kinetic/spoofy action sequences, keeps it fresh even forty years (!) after its premiere” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review Hombre (1967) 94% EDIT “This film is about relationships - both societal and personal - with the gunplay only added in small doses to keep the viewer aware that in such an unforgiving landscape as the transformational Old West, your views could get you killed.” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review What a Way to Go! (1964) 25% EDIT “This star-packed "project" plays like It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Meets Doris Day, with the obvious black comedy sex elements blown up to gargantuan proportions through the casting.” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review The Hustler (1961) 94% EDIT “What continues to intrigue me now are the subtleties of the performances, and the absolutely dead-on production design that recreates the crummy, seamy underbelly of an urban America that must have been disquieting to mainstream audiences who came to see” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review Exodus (1960) 65% EDIT “When Exodus sticks to the action, it's impressive. Unfortunately, everything else in Dalton Trumbo's pedantic script plays off-key, with dialogue that sounds like posturing rather than real people talking to each other, and political discussions t” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review From the Terrace (1960) 31% EDIT “Huge and glossy - and most of the time very stupid - From the Terrace nonetheless delivers precisely what its audience expects: high-tone tears as the rich suffer beautifully.” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) 30% EDIT “Unfortunately, what starts off as a promising but unremarkable mixture of domestic romantic comedy and a mild spoof of 50s affluent suburban lifestyle, degenerates badly into a strained out-and-out farce with good actors looking lost amid a sea of unconvi” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review The Long, Hot Summer (1958) 85% EDIT “Broadly-played Southern-fried farce, considering the copious double entendres, the constant farcical nature of the bartering for sex between the three couples, and the overall cartoonish tone of the piece.” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review Radio Patrol (1937) EDIT “Fast-moving as a serial should be, Radio Patrol may not rank as one of the best of Universal's 30s serials, but most of the cliffhangers are tightly executed, the story has enough twists and turns to keep your interest, and the performances, for th” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review Vegas (1978) EDIT “Aaron Spelling junk: glamorous, glitzy, expertly produced, slick, fast-paced...with not a thought in its head other than to entertain you.” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review Easy to Love (1953) EDIT “Easy to Love's big selling point, though, is the grand finale directed by Busby Berkeley. On an epic scale surpassing anything he had attempted before, the waterskiing aqua-cade gymnastics on the ocean is still an amazing sight.” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review Pagan Love Song (1950) EDIT “Pagan Love Song is short (only 76 minutes - barely feature-length), sweet, and to the point. It comes in and tells it little story with charm and a dash of wit, and it gets out before you have time to question the logic of it all.” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review EDIT “Slight, with one of Williams' most non-descript co-stars.” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review Thrill of a Romance (1945) EDIT “Doesn't exactly offer the aquatic thrills that one might expect for a film that was supposed to capitalize on Williams' dynamic swimming prowess.” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) 86% EDIT “If there's anything to recommend it, the spectacular aqua-numbers staged by the peripatetic Busby Berkeley, and the smooth chemistry between Williams and Mature, would be about it.” – DVDTalk.com Feb 1, 2010 Full Review Stepfather II (1989) 22% EDIT “Everyone on the commentary tracks and documentary stress Stepfather II isn't nearly as good as the first film. And they're right. But small, isolated pleasures can be found in this relatively mild slasher flick from 1989 - chief among them Terry O'” – DVDTalk.com Jan 30, 2010 Full Review
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