Bob Baker
Bob Baker's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times film critic.
Movies reviews only
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Ladies Lake (1934) |
Colette's dialogue, some moody photography and Allégret's showcasing of his youthful cast are the main attractions. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 29, 2021
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Quatorze Juillet (1932) |
It's lovely but, oh dear, you think, I bet there's going to be a story. In fact, there isn't much of one. - Time Out
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| Posted Jul 08, 2020
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The Texas Rangers (1936) |
Nothing else is amusing though. - Time Out
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| Posted Apr 24, 2020
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Bird of Paradise (1932) |
This is Vidor at his most erratic, combining bathetic plotting and uninflected stereotypes with some smouldering pre-Code sexuality and the exercise, intermittently, of a powerful cinematic imagination. - Time Out
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| Posted Apr 21, 2020
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Gabriela (1983) |
Number one item on the agenda, however, is the camera's on-going perusal of the Braga bod. Mastroianni as Gabriela's main man lends an air of consequence to the proceedings. - Time Out
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| Posted Mar 13, 2015
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Downhill (1927) |
It's directed by Hitchcock with imagination and, especially in the first half, much comedy. - Time Out
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| Posted Mar 20, 2012
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How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (2005) |
Another victory for a first-time, full-length feature filmmaker with a curious, inventive eye and an unsparing point of view. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Oct 18, 2008
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I Accuse (1919) |
This WWI melodrama is bursting with ideas and energy but void of such concepts as consistency, subtlety, credibility. - Time Out
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| Posted Oct 18, 2008
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Tyler Perry's the Family That Preys (2008) |
The film takes off when Woodard's and Bates' characters go on a Thelma & Louise-style road trip. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Sep 15, 2008
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Vice (2008) |
You've see this movie before, but you haven't seen it filtered through Madsen. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted May 09, 2008
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I Accuse (1938) |
Pure Gance. - Time Out
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| Posted Nov 15, 2007
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The Man Who Laughs (1928) |
Baclanova is amusing as a decadent duchess, but it's Leni's pictorial genius -- aided here by what must have been an enormous budget -- that marks the film as one of the most exhilarating of late silent cinema. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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Un Chien Andalou (1929) |
[It's] a documentary rendering of the dream state, of dream logic... and/or a contrivance by two ambitious young Spaniards to offer as much outrageousness as an artistic alibi can cover. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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Return to Oz (1985) |
Despite the presence of Billina the talking hen, the emphasis on insecurity and peril harks back to the treat-'em-rough days of children's fiction, and the disturbing/comforting ratio tilts conclusively towards the former. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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The Blue Light (1932) |
Riefenstahl's affirmation of the occult has a certain morbid interest, but it's as a performer, posing leggily atop cloudswept crags, that she most compels attention. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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Le Roman D'un Tricheur (1936) |
The peculiarity of the narrative is that it forgoes dialogue in favour of a non-stop commentary by the author... it's quite unique, with the hero's ruthlessness paralleled by Guitry's own in never letting anyone else get a look in. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) |
Nothing here to upset the kids, little to interest grown-ups except for Tony Hancock admirers. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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Bolero (1984) |
Erotic, surely, only for the very easily pleased. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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Mercury Rising (1998) |
Such is the not very high concept which the fitfully interesting Becker has to dumb himself down to the point of ignominy to put over. - Time Out
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| Posted Jun 24, 2006
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The Trout (1982) |
Losey's penultimate film is one of his most assured, depicting with unusual objectivity the impact of a type of personality met with in life from time to time, but not often in the movies. - Time Out
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| Posted Feb 09, 2006
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Night of the Lepus (1972) |
Impossible not to admire the total withholding of irony in Claxton's approach to this kamikaze project. - Time Out
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| Posted Jan 26, 2006
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Les Vampires (1915) |
There's a hero (a resolute reporter), but all the interest goes to Irma and Co -- their heists, their feuds with a rival gang and with the agents of law and order, all conducted by means of slaughter... on a scale and insouciance appropriate to the time. - Time Out
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| Posted Jan 26, 2006
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Fanny by Gaslight (1944) |
And 'ere we are again indeed, with this time the fastidious Asquith mediating the addictive pleasures of a Gainsborough period melodrama. - Time Out
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| Posted Jan 26, 2006
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The Westerner (1940) |
Toland's landscapes are superb. - Time Out
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| Posted Jan 26, 2006
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No Man of Her Own (1932) |
Lightly brushing at least three separate genres, this good-natured yarn (from a story by Edmund Goulding and Benjamin Glazer) eschews conflict at every turn. - Time Out
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| Posted Jan 26, 2006
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