Movie Reviews Only
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| 40% | Kickboxer (1989) |
Combine Karate Kid and Rocky with a bit more blood and gore, dull direction and a smattering of inept actors and you have Kickboxer.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Jan 11, 2018
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| 44% | She-Devil (1989) |
The casting is a real coup, with Barr going her everywoman TV persona one better by breaking the big screen heroine mold, and Streep blowing away any notion that she can't be funny.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Jan 10, 2018
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| 60% | With a Song in My Heart (1952) |
While not entirely at home in the dancing accompaniment to some of the production numbers, Susan Hayward punches over the straight vocal-simulation and deftly handles the dramatic phases.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Jan 8, 2018
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| 43% | Le Casanova de Fellini (1976) |
Donald Sutherland, forced to carry the film, gives the gallant Venetian a measure of dignity and momentarily succeeds in overcoming the mechanics of Fellini's direction.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Dec 11, 2017
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| 100% | Lola (1961) |
It is offbeat, with shafts of tender feeling and truth. But trying to touch on too many subjects makes the film uneven.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Mar 1, 2017
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| 43% | Tracks (1976) |
An incisive, revelatory film about a returning war veteran from Vietnam transporting the body of a friend across the US for burial.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Feb 15, 2017
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| 86% | The Spiral Staircase (1946) |
This is a smooth production of an obvious, though suspenseful murder thriller, ably acted and directed. Mood and pace are well set, and story grips throughout.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Oct 17, 2016
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| 86% | Sign o' the Times (1987) |
Prince provides musicvideo addicts with a pure fix of visual and aural synchronicity.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Apr 25, 2016
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| 50% | Jungle Book (1942) |
As directed by Zoltan Korda, the fiction takes secondary place to the highly interesting and sometimes amazing views of jungle animals in the brilliance of colored photography. ‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Apr 15, 2016
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| 50% | Privilege (1967) |
Trouble with Privilege is that it cannot make up its mind whether it's a crusading film for the intelligentsia or a snide, 'with it' comedy.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Apr 12, 2016
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| 78% | The Devil Is a Woman (1935) |
While Devil is a somewhat monotonous picture, Sternberg has given it clever photography and background.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Apr 8, 2016
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| 0% | Valley of the Kings (1954) |
The backgrounds offer more freshness to the film than does the routine story.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Apr 5, 2016
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| 100% | Mr. Lucky (1943) |
Picture carries an authentic ring to operations of bigtime gamblers, and it faithfully follows the professional premise of 'never give the sucker a break, but never cheat a friend'.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Oct 25, 2015
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| 89% | Cry, the Beloved Country (1952) |
A very moving film, full of simplicity and charm.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Oct 23, 2015
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| 30% | Two Minute Warning (1976) |
An off-the-beaten-track story of a football stadium crowd menaced by a sniper, combined with above-average plotting, acting and direction.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Sep 27, 2015
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| 100% | Age of Consent (1969) |
The picture has immense charm and the actual photography (particularly underwater scenes) and superb scenery make it a good travelog ad for the Great Barrier Reef area where most of it was filmed.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Sep 17, 2015
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| 17% | Viva Knievel! (1977) |
Evel the actor emerges from the wreck in better shape than the bent careers of his veteran co-stars, Gene Kelly, Marjoe Gortner, Red Buttons, Lauren Hutton and Leslie Nielsen. ‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Aug 4, 2015
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| 0% | Inchon (1981) |
Unintentionally laughable.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Jun 24, 2015
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| 94% | Sherlock Jr. (1924) |
This Buster Keaton feature length comedy is about as unfunny as a hospital operating room.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted May 29, 2015
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| 67% | Rowdy Rathore (2012) |
Big, dumb and pretty good fun once the flat first hour is over, Bollywood masala Rowdy Rathore makes the grade on the strength of Akshay Kumar's charismatic dual perfs as a supercop killed on duty and a lookalike thief who takes his place.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Apr 22, 2015
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| 40% | Androcles and the Lion (1953) |
Bernard Shaw's satirical comedy on Romans and Christians provides the basis for a fair film offering. Picture is a curious mixture of basic comedy and Shavian wit.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Mar 4, 2015
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| 100% | Wild River (1960) |
In studying a slice of national socio-economic progress in terms of people, it catches something timeless and essential in the human spirit and shapes it in the American image.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Feb 19, 2015
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| 84% | El Norte (1984) |
It is beautifully lensed and comes across as a kind of giant Renaissance canvas.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Sep 19, 2014
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| 86% | Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987) |
Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll is a joyous docu that effortlessly weaves luminary rock interviews with performance footage mostly shot at Berry's 60th birthday bash concert at the Fox Theatre St Louis.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Sep 10, 2014
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| 75% | Daisies (2012) |
Two zany young teenage girls are the focus of this extremely funny, witty and expertly-fashioned film.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Aug 26, 2014
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| 91% | Cluny Brown (1946) |
Whammo entertainment.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Jun 5, 2014
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| 65% | Wild in the Streets (1968) |
An often chilling political science fiction drama, with comedy, the production considers the takeover of American government by the preponderant younger population.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Jun 4, 2014
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| 29% | The Rookie (1990) |
Overlong, sadistic and stale even by the conventions of the buddy pic genre ...‐ Variety
Read More | Posted May 27, 2014
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| 60% | Running Scared (1986) |
No more original or eventful than an average police TV show, so it must sink or swim on the moment-by-moment cleverness of the dialog and the behavioral talents of Hines and Crystal. Fortunately, these elements prove formidable.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted May 27, 2014
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| 60% | Salome (1923) |
Picturesquely it is very pretty as to lightings, setting and photography, but there ends about all that can be said in praise.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Mar 12, 2014
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| 43% | Sodom and Gomorrah (1963) |
Sodom and Gomorrah has many of the faults of the Biblical epic, but many good qualities.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Mar 5, 2014
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| 71% | The Hot Spot (1990) |
The Hot Spot seeps with atmosphere, unfolds at a deceptively relaxed pace, steadily accumulates noirish grit, then dizzily plunges into a Lynch-like plumbing of the dark passions and nasty secrets at the heart of Main Street, USA.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Feb 1, 2014
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| 99% | Gloria (2014) |
A divorced woman in her late 50s recaptures her life in Sebastian Lelio's pitch-perfect, terrifically written Gloria.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Jan 21, 2014
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| 57% | The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972) |
Producer-director Paul Newman has made his finest behind-the-camera film to date in the screen version of Paul Zindel's play.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Jan 14, 2014
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| 55% | Now, Forager (2012) |
A lack of dramatic force and zero chemistry between the leads make the film play like a compilation of episodes rather than a flowing narrative, but two sequences are inspired, and the rest has an earnest if underwhelming appeal.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Aug 20, 2013
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| 100% | Abraham Lincoln (1930) |
Abraham Lincoln is a startlingly superlative accomplishment.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2013
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| 92% | Our Nixon (2013) |
A brisk, eye-opening documentary about the Nixon White House, this triumph of editing is composed of homemovies, accompanied by later TV interviews and priceless audio from the secret tapes, making it a must-see for anyone interested in Americana. ‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Jul 31, 2013
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| 89% | The Big Easy (1987) |
Until conventional plot contrivances begin to spoil the fun, The Big Easy is a snappy, sassy battle of the sexes in the guise of a melodrama about police corruption.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Jul 31, 2013
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| 20% | Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970) |
Hampered by a thin screenplay, film is padded further by often-pretentious direction by Sidney J. Furie against expansive physical values.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Jul 22, 2013
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| 67% | The Fox (1967) |
A beautifully photographed, dramatically uneven Canadian-made film.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted May 8, 2013
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| 67% | The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972) |
[The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid] may be a valiant attempt but fails to come off.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted May 8, 2013
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| 29% | Hurry Sundown (1967) |
An outstanding, tasteful but hard-hitting, and handsomely-produced film.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted May 8, 2013
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| 22% | Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970) |
All this is well mounted and lensed but sans the right dramatic flourishes to get human depth, melodramatic gusto or humane symbolism into the right focus.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted May 8, 2013
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| 60% | Gaily, Gaily (1969) |
A lushly staged, handsomely produced, largely unfunny comedy.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted May 6, 2013
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| 0% | The Art of Love (1965) |
Writer Carl Reiner and director Norman Jewison go aground by allowing too many bits to fill their pot.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted May 6, 2013
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| 92% | A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923) |
A Woman of Paris is a serious, sincere effort, with a bang story subtlety of idea-expression.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Apr 2, 2013
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| 80% | F.I.S.T. (1978) |
F.I.S.T. is to the labor movement in the United States what All the King's Men was to an era in American politics.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Mar 25, 2013
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| 90% | Pandora's Box (1929) |
Louise Brooks, especially imported for the title role, does not pan out, due to no fault of hers. She is quite unsuited to the vamp type which was called for by the play from which the picture was made.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Feb 27, 2013
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| 83% | Hangmen Also Die (1943) |
From a directorial standpoint this is a triumph for Fritz Lang, who succeeds with singular success in capturing the spirit of the Czech people in the face of the Nazi reign of terror.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Feb 25, 2013
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| 81% | ...And Justice for All (1979) |
Attempts to alternate between comedy and drama, handling neither one incompetently, but also not excelling at either task.‐ Variety
Read More | Posted Jan 24, 2013
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