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Bosley Crowther

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White Heat (1949) 94% EDIT “Warner Brothers weren't kidding when they put the title "White Heat" on the new James Cagney picture... For the simple fact is that Mr. Cagney has made his return to a gangster role in one of the most explosive pictures that he or anyone has ever played.” – New York Times Apr 22, 2024 Full Review The Model and the Marriage Broker (1952) 80% EDIT “As usual, it is Miss Ritter who runs away with the show, particularly when she is able to get free of the undertow. Her wisedup air, her cynicism disguising a heart of gold, her barrel-house voice, her sudden radiance have never been better employed.” – New York Times Apr 16, 2024 Full Review The Lone Ranger (1956) 90% EDIT “[The Lone Ranger] has the unwearied spirit of a noisy kid. That is to say, Stuart Heisler, who directed this outdoor jamboree, has kept it moving at the pace of a cattle stampede, with dust flying and bodies bouncing around like kegs.” – New York Times Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Third Finger, Left Hand (1940) EDIT “Trifling but sometimes amusing.” – New York Times Oct 2, 2023 Full Review Moon Over Burma (1940) 60% EDIT “Frankly, we prefer to believe that Paramount was simply kidding -- or something -- when it made Moon Over Burma.” – New York Times Oct 2, 2023 Full Review One Night in Lisbon (1941) 40% EDIT “Nothing is more painful than a joke that doesn't come off -- especially when the teller so obviously thinks it is going to rock you on your heels -- and painful is the word for One Night in Lisbon.” – New York Times Oct 2, 2023 Full Review So Ends Our Night (1941) 67% EDIT “It would indeed be gratifying to be able to say that it is told with great dramatic effectiveness, too. But it isn't.” – New York Times Oct 2, 2023 Full Review Night Games (1966) 33% EDIT “[Mai Zetterling] has skill and an eye for color in creating visual images. But she takes us through a chamber of horrors without shedding any real light in Night Games.” – New York Times Sep 20, 2023 Full Review Around the World Under the Sea (1966) 20% EDIT “A deplorable lack of imagination is apparent in Around the World Under the Sea.” – New York Times Sep 20, 2023 Full Review Weddings and Babies (1958) 92% EDIT “The girl is played by Viveca Lindfors, and everything she does -- every movement, every gesture, every reaction, every lift and fall of her voice -- is so absolutely right and convincing that the style drapes most fitly around her.” – New York Times Jul 25, 2023 Full Review Back to Bataan (1945) 86% EDIT “For people who like that sort of picture, it will probably be gratifying... But, from a more realistic viewpoint, it seems a cheap and meretricious conception of the ordeal of the Philippine patriots and of the Americans who stayed behind to aid them.” – New York Times Feb 1, 2023 Full Review Bedazzled (1967) 74% EDIT “Maybe the brand of British banter and buffoonery that Peter Cook and Dudley Moore bombard us with in Stanley Donen's Bedazzled would be very funny if it came in small bursts at not too frequent intervals in an expansive musical comedy or revue.” – New York Times Sep 15, 2022 Full Review The Perfect Furlough (1959) 100% EDIT “There is nothing about The Perfect Furlough to warrant superlatives, but there's plenty to keep you giggling.” – New York Times Sep 13, 2022 Full Review The Breaking Point (1950) 100% EDIT “It may not be spiritually ennobling, but it is Hemingway. And it is pretty true to life. ” – New York Times Aug 31, 2022 Full Review A Raisin in the Sun (1961) 90% EDIT “It is a wonderful, warm comprehension of a people's humor, strength and dignity under a multitude of sad and silly burdens. It should generate love, not hate. ” – New York Times Aug 23, 2022 Full Review Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) 93% EDIT “Its principal asset as motion picture is the brilliant reproduction of ancient customs and traditional sentiments. It also has a spectacular and abundant musical score that carries much more emotion than the actors convey.” – New York Times Feb 28, 2022 Full Review Cleo From 5 to 7 (1961) 93% EDIT “Generally, Mlle. Varda is so absorbed with her camera stunts, as she is in that scene in the hat shop or when she is screening that comedy short, that the essential concentration on the heroine is neglected and the interest lost.” – New York Times Feb 17, 2022 Full Review Nothing But a Man (1964) 98% EDIT “Ivan Dixon is excellent... and Abbey Lincoln plays the wife with such warm, gentle, sentient responses that she keenly touches the heart.” – New York Times Jan 31, 2022 Full Review The Thing (1951) 87% EDIT “Taking a fantastic notion (or is it, really?), Mr. Hawks has developed a movie that is generous with thrills and chills and comes up with just enough light, bantering dialogue so that the film does not appear to take itself too seriously.” – New York Times Sep 21, 2021 Full Review The Littlest Outlaw (1955) 85% EDIT “A thoroughly juvenile film in its story, its comprehension and particularly in the way it is played. It offers a children's fiction in elementary and often hackneyed terms.” – New York Times Aug 23, 2021 Full Review A Man Called Adam (1966) 38% EDIT “The picture fails, although it tries hard and, in some ways, admirably.” – New York Times Aug 10, 2021 Full Review Intruder in the Dust (1949) 93% EDIT “The stanch and magnificent integrity that Mr. Hernandez displays in his carriage, his manner and expression, with never a flinch in his great self-command, is the bulwark of all the deep compassion and ironic comment in this film.” – New York Times Jan 28, 2021 Full Review Anna Lucasta (1958) 44% EDIT “[An] incredibly artless film.” – New York Times Jan 14, 2021 Full Review A View From the Bridge (1961) 80% EDIT “The one great obstruction to the drama -- and a fatal obstruction it becomes -- is the slowly evolving demonstration that the principal character is a boor.” – New York Times Nov 17, 2020 Full Review Isn't It Romantic? (1948) 13% EDIT “A formless and rambling musical, which looks as though it were made with at least a half dozen previous musical successes in mind.” – New York Times Oct 29, 2020 Full Review
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