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Alexander Bakshy

Alexander Bakshy's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Rogue Song (1930) 79% EDIT “The appearance of a singer of the Metropolitan Opera in a full-length motion picture may be a portent of the times... but Mr. Lawrence Tibbett’s vocalizing in The Rogue Song fails to make this musical travesty a notable achievement in any other respect.” – The Nation Jun 28, 2022 Full Review Earth (1930) 75% EDIT “There is no denying, of course, the extraordinary power of Dovzhenko’s imagination, but it seems rather late in the day to bring out of the symbolist bag such ancient devices as the masklike face and the stylized movement.” – The Nation Mar 1, 2022 Full Review Arsenal (1929) 83% EDIT “The picture as a whole is an amazing performance, no less rich in its technical resourcefulness than in its dramatic sense of human character; and it is splendidly acted.” – The Nation Mar 1, 2022 Full Review The Wedding March (1928) 64% EDIT “[The Wedding March] is interesting only for its insistence on realistic detail -- an insistence so shrieking and sometimes so incongruous that it loses even the little virtue that one might be willing to concede it.” – The Nation Jan 20, 2022 Full Review The End of St. Petersburg (1928) 75% EDIT “As a photographic record of the reconstructed events of the Russian Revolution it is superb. As a dynamic narrative -- as a cinematic drama -- it is loosely connected, jerky, and often flat.” – The Nation May 13, 2020 Full Review The Wings of a Serf (1926) EDIT “The chief honors of the film go to Leonidoff for his extraordinary impersonation of Ivan the Terrible. Nothing so subtle and yet so dynamically expressive had ever before been seen on the screen.” – The Nation Apr 9, 2020 Full Review Show People (1928) 92% EDIT “Show People is a fairly amusing comedy, though most of its laughs, one is sorry to say, come from the titles.” – The Nation Apr 9, 2020 Full Review Lonesome (1928) 71% EDIT “[Lonesome] shows many extremely interesting and suggestive effects such as the combination of a number of independent images within the same frame. It is marred by an unnecessary talking sequence.” – The Nation Apr 9, 2020 Full Review 4 Devils (1928) 82% EDIT “Murnau's Four Devils, though less firmly knit than his Sunrise... shows the hand of a master in its flowing style, which shapes and modulates its equally fluid emotional content.” – The Nation Apr 9, 2020 Full Review EDIT “A straightforward realistic drama directed by Jacques Feyder with a subtlety reminiscent of Chaplin's Woman of Paris.” – The Nation Apr 9, 2020 Full Review October (1928) 92% EDIT “Ten Days That Shook the World is replete with magnificent scenes of mass movement, with amazingly observed characters (a gallery of types that can never be forgotten), and with extremely striking and beautiful camera shots.” – The Nation Feb 21, 2020 Full Review Chang (1927) 94% EDIT “A film, to be truly dramatic, must organize its material as a dynamic sequence in which all scenes are emotionally related to one another. There is no such unity in Chang.” – The Nation Feb 21, 2020 Full Review White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) EDIT “[It is] a very effective picture, in fact, too effective, with that characteristic Hollywood sleekness and prettifying.” – The Nation Feb 21, 2020 Full Review Tabu (1931) 92% EDIT “Tabu is deliberate and forced in its playfulness, cheaply melodramatic in its tragedy, and unconscionably long-winded.” – The Nation Jan 18, 2013 Full Review The Front Page (1931) 88% EDIT “By far the highest honors in this go to Mr. Menjou, who gives as polished a performance of a gruff and unscrupulous editor as he used to give of a man about town.” – The Nation Jan 18, 2013 Full Review Trader Horn (1931) 100% EDIT “The picture is a magnificent record of wild life in Central Africa, abounding in thrilling episodes and in scenic splendors.” – The Nation Jan 18, 2013 Full Review City Lights (1931) 95% EDIT “Chaplin's growing seriousness, his desire to be more than a mere comedian have deceived him into holding sentiment more precious than fun.” – The Nation Jan 18, 2013 Full Review
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