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Sime Silverman

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The Gold Rush (1925) 98% EDIT “It may have impressed friends of Chaplin's on the coast to that degree, but... it does not live up to the rave from the west. It's just a good Chaplin comedy, a picture that's certain at the film theatres because of Chaplin's name.” – Variety Jun 24, 2025 Full Review The Jungle (1914) 80% EDIT “More misery! And the gloom in The Jungle was laid on with a shovel.” – Variety Dec 5, 2023 Full Review Safety Last (1923) 97% EDIT “This Harold Lloyd high-class low comedy has thrills as well as guffaws.” – Variety Feb 22, 2023 Full Review The Toll of the Sea (1922) 89% EDIT “Nothing in a moving picture story can rise superior to the story. Coloring never will, never has, and doesn't here.” – Variety Oct 18, 2022 Full Review Hiawatha (1909) EDIT “There has been much pudding to send the picture to the thousand-font length... but on the other hand, considering this is a "first release" of a new concern, Hiawatha is a tribute at once to Laemmle, in its inception and execution.” – Variety Jun 7, 2021 Full Review The Renunciation (1909) EDIT “The Renunciation, a current Biograph subject, has an amount of comedy unexpectedly revealed at the finale, which more than recompenses for the absence of any fun previously in the reel.” – Variety Jun 3, 2021 Full Review Damaged Goods (1914) 86% EDIT “See Damaged Goods, and alter seeing it, tell your son or daughter to see it, and let them tell other boys or girls, and you tell other fathers or mothers, until all of the world has seen Damaged Goods on the picture screen.” – Variety Mar 12, 2021 Full Review Brewster's Millions (1914) 83% EDIT “Plenty of vim and vigor to this feature picture. It pulsates with a palpitating motion after the first two reels of planting the foundation are finished.” – Variety Feb 5, 2021 Full Review Black and Tan (1929) EDIT “The all-dialog short has some excellent fancy photography as the second attraction, with the music the first, and the Harlem cafe life for the rest.” – Variety Jan 28, 2021 Full Review Song of the Flame (1930) 82% EDIT “With Technicolor, which runs more smoothly later than earlier, the likeable background are Russian peasant mobs as the rule. At one time the film goes to the wide screen for a pleasant festival and this looks quite nice.” – Variety Sep 29, 2020 Full Review Human Wreckage (1923) 71% EDIT “There is little new in the picture, excepting the trend of the story, that has not been exhibited in other film exposes of the past two decades.” – Variety Sep 9, 2020 Full Review Ravished Armenia (1919) 91% EDIT “As a picture it is a superfine production, with the direction and photography no small part.” – Variety Sep 5, 2020 Full Review Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) 93% EDIT “Very good entertainment.” – Variety Aug 18, 2020 Full Review Hypocrites (1915) 100% EDIT “In a way Hypocrites is daring, but only because no one else has attempted as much or has gone as far... After seeing It you can't forget the name of Lois Weber, though It be well known already in and out of the trade.” – Variety Aug 12, 2020 Full Review Neptune's Daughter (1914) 95% EDIT “"The Cave of the Wind" and "The Witch of the Sea," all in one scene, with the Witch employing her supernatural powers of transformation... are sufficient in themselves for the youthful to ask their elders to please take them again "to see that picture."” – Variety Jul 24, 2020 Full Review Trifling Women (1922) 82% EDIT “The main defect is that you are always looking for something to happen that doesn't.” – Variety Jul 23, 2020 Full Review Cabiria (1914) 93% EDIT “To place Cabirla where it belongs among moving pictures it can be said that it starts as a spectacular where Antony and Cleopatra leaves off.” – Variety Jul 18, 2020 Full Review The Life of General Villa (1914) 80% EDIT “The Villa film was poorly directed in spots. A distinct titter ran through the house when Villa as he raced from his prison cell, after his unexpected liberation, stopped to consult with himself before the camera.” – Variety Jul 18, 2020 Full Review The Kingdom of Youth (1918) 100% EDIT “Just mush for the most part, it is charmingly mushy when It's mush, and good comedy when It's not.” – Variety Dec 23, 2019 Full Review EDIT “There is sufficient variety to An Exciting Honeymoon to cause both interest and amusement.” – Variety Oct 3, 2019 Full Review EDIT “A long and interesting moving picture is the Life of a Cowboy shown at Pastor's. It covers a wide range of subjects and the locale seems to be really the Western plains.” – Variety Oct 3, 2019 Full Review EDIT “The story is a familiar but intimate tale vividly illustrated on the screen.” – Variety May 11, 2018 Full Review
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