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B.R. Crisler

B.R. Crisler's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Sayonara (1957) 82% EDIT “It seems unlikely that any American can sit through "Sayonara" without gaining some new measure of love and respect for the Japanese.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 2, 2023 Full Review Pather Panchali (1955) 98% EDIT “Pather Panchali is a film of unusual distinction. Written and directed by Satyajit Roy it has an effective and occasionally humorous musical score by Ravi Shankar. The cinematography by Subrata Mitra is in key with the moody tones of the story.” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 17, 2022 Full Review The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 96% EDIT “For all of its grim setting and tragic conclusion, The Bridge on the River Kwai becomes a slyly humorous study in the limitations as well as the stoical splendors of the British “military mind."” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 17, 2022 Full Review In a Lonely Place (1950) 96% EDIT “A case of artistic introversion of a highly unstimulating order.” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 16, 2022 Full Review Show Boat (1951) 83% EDIT “Above all, Show Boat represents the fine, artificial flower of America's golden age of professional competence in the popular arts.” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 16, 2022 Full Review The River (1951) 92% EDIT “On the whole, the casual narrative technique of its adapters is more interesting than either its story content or its characters. And its picturesque background... is more interesting still.” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 16, 2022 Full Review Sunset Boulevard (1950) 98% EDIT “Thematically, Sunset Boulevard is depressing fiction, but it isn't commonplace, and in its incidental realism, it has a peculiar, ingrown integrity. And for Miss Swanson, of course, it constitutes a veritable triumph.” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 16, 2022 Full Review All About Eve (1950) 99% EDIT “The writing and directing by Joseph L. Mankiewicz are superb, and the acting is Academy-Award all the way.” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 16, 2022 Full Review Zanzibar (1940) 67% EDIT “Despite all its melodramatic frenzy, Zanzibar still seems more like a continued-next-week serial than a feature picture.” – New York Times May 4, 2020 Full Review Secret Agent (1936) 86% EDIT “The picture as a whole is marred by inexpert camera technique, film editing whose incorrectness hits one between the eyes, and strangely uneven sound recording.” – New York Times Aug 8, 2006 Full Review The House of the Seven Gables (1940) 80% EDIT “"The House of the Seven Gables" offers dreary and slightly stale fare.” – New York Times Mar 25, 2006 Full Review Dr. Cyclops (1940) 79% EDIT “Dr. Cyclops is the best bad picture of the year, an epic of silliness, and, more than that, a triumph of the process screen and the department of trick effects all combined very tastefully with Technicolor.” – New York Times Mar 25, 2006 Full Review The Awful Truth (1937) 91% 4/5 EDIT “To be frank, The Awful Truth is awfully unimportant, but it is also one of the more laughable screen comedies of 1937, a fairly good vintage year.” – New York Times May 21, 2003 Full Review The Green Pastures (1936) 78% EDIT “[It's] hard not to like the simple and gratifying theology of [Pastures] as much as anything about it. It has concreteness and gives one a nostalgic feeling that it ought to be true and that if it isn't we are all, somehow, obscurely the worst for it.” – New York Times May 21, 2003 Full Review
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