Ronald Bergan

Ronald Bergan
Ronald Bergan's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s): Film Comment Magazine Radio Times
Publications: Film Comment Magazine, House Next Door, Radio Times

Movie Reviews Only

T-Meter Title | Year
4/5 91% Häxan (Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages) (The Witches) (1929) [An] illuminating, frightening and amusing film. - Radio Times EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 6, 2020
4/5 100% Gamlet (Hamlet) (1964) It may lack the depth of other film versions, but the images, enriched by the dramatic Shostokovich music, are bold and powerful... - Radio Times EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 20, 2019
4/5 100% Blind Husbands (1919) Cynical, witty and erotic. - Radio Times EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 11, 2019
4/5 77% O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) The movie also contrives to encapsulate every con-on-the-run picture one has ever seen, as well as southern period crime dramas. Yet again, the Coens' cinematic alchemy has worked a treat. - Radio Times EDIT
Read More | Posted Jun 7, 2018
4/5 86% Spirits of the Dead (1969) Out of the three episodes based on the macabre tales by Edgar Allan Poe, the third -- the only modern-day one, directed by Federico Fellini -- is far and away the best. - Radio Times EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 18, 2016
100% The Man Who Laughs (1928) The superb German actor Conrad Veidt plays the pathetic protagonist, while Mary Philbin, whose most celebrated screen role was opposite another physically damaged hero in The Phantom of the Opera, is extremely touching as his beloved. - Radio Times EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 17, 2016
4/5 85% Die Marquise von O... (The Marquise of O) (1976) Without actual imitation, Rohmer and his cinematographer Nestor Almendros were inspired by German Romantic painters and bathe the neo-classical interiors in an unearthly light. - Radio Times EDIT
Read More | Posted May 3, 2016
5/5 100% Master of the House (1925) This domestic tragicomedy with a feminist slant was [Dreyer's] seventh feature and anticipates his greatest films. - Radio Times EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 10, 2016
2/5 29% The Struggle (1931) Griffith turned it into a rather maudlin and naive morality tale -- though it didn't merit the hostile reviews that it initially received. - Radio Times EDIT
Read More | Posted Apr 8, 2016
4/5 100% The Clowns (I Clowns) (1970) Italy's great ringmaster of the cinema returns to the source of his inspiration -- the circus -- and skilfully absorbs it into his own personal vision. - Radio Times EDIT
Read More | Posted Mar 11, 2015
5/5 98% Playtime (1973) It took Jacques Tati close to ten years to realise his greatest achievement, but it left him virtually broke. No wonder. - Radio Times EDIT
Read More | Posted Nov 7, 2014
4/5 96% The Cat and the Canary (1927) Moodily shot, this classic "old dark house" picture is played mostly for laughs. - Radio Times EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 20, 2014
4/5 96% Cabiria (1914) The international success of this Italian spectacle, the longest and most expensive motion picture made up to that date, allowed DW Griffith to gain support for his large-scale projects. - Radio Times EDIT
Read More | Posted Aug 12, 2014
3/5 96% Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) (Strangers) (The Lonely Woman) (1954) If one accepts the narrative simplicity and that the journey is both physical and spiritual, the film offers many rewards. - Radio Times EDIT
Read More | Posted May 16, 2013
41% The Flowers of War (2011) A waste of money and 140 minutes of one's time. - House Next Door EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 14, 2012
No Score Yet Captured (2012) English is the lingua franca of Brillante Mendoza's The Captive, which seems to have been directed by his younger brother, Mediocre Mendoza. - House Next Door EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 14, 2012