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Don Druker

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The Heartbreak Kid (1972) 92% EDIT “May’s style (long takes, perfectly controlled improvisations, wry compassion for characters who never claim to be in control or even entirely aware of what’s going on) comes through clearly.” – Chicago Reader Feb 22, 2022 Full Review To Each His Own (1946) 81% EDIT “A fine example of the genre, but not for jaded tastes.” – Chicago Reader Apr 21, 2020 Full Review Jeremiah Johnson (1972) 91% EDIT “The dialogue is spare, the scenery the real star. Satisfying and impressive.” – Chicago Reader Nov 17, 2017 Full Review La Grande Bouffe (1973) 60% EDIT “Hilarious, stomach-turning, morbid, breezy, funny, and sad.” – Chicago Reader Nov 16, 2017 Full Review Applause (1929) 80% EDIT “Though this is Mamoulian's earliest, it's possibly his freshest film.” – Chicago Reader Apr 7, 2016 Full Review The Harder They Come (1972) 91% EDIT “With this 1972 cult hit, Jamaican filmmaker Perry Henzell produced a proud, forthright indictment of national and personal corruption.” – Chicago Reader Oct 2, 2015 Full Review Papillon (1973) 73% EDIT “Director Franklin J. Schaffner has succeeded in making a two-and-a-half-hour film that seems like six.” – Chicago Reader Sep 23, 2015 Full Review Shoot the Piano Player (1960) 90% EDIT “Made with enthusiasm and audacity, it still seems fresh.” – Chicago Reader Sep 23, 2015 Full Review The Lost World (1925) 100% EDIT “Harry Hoyt directed, combining incredible special effects (the monsters) and unbearable melodrama (the actors).” – Chicago Reader Jun 8, 2015 Full Review Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1973) 42% EDIT “Soft-focus spiritual gunk.” – Chicago Reader Mar 11, 2015 Full Review Salesman (1969) 100% EDIT “This 1968 study of door-to-door Bible salesmen in the Boston area and in the south is a superb and truthful look at an American institution -- and at the troubling relationship between fact and fiction, materialism and spiritual values.” – Chicago Reader Mar 9, 2015 Full Review Boy (1969) 100% EDIT “Oshima, the Japanese filmmaker most often compared with Godard, treats the material in a matter-of-fact manner that serves to heighten the dramatic impact and to create one of the most interesting films about children ever made.” – Chicago Reader Oct 16, 2014 Full Review The Lion in Winter (1968) 91% EDIT “James Goldman's screenplay, so chic and sophisticated to the ears of suburbanites, is chock-full of the worst kind of sophomoric fiddling with what Goldman takes to be genuine highfalutin lingo.” – Chicago Reader Jul 14, 2014 Full Review Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) 90% EDIT “The material is trite, but Hancock's slow-motion treatment of the experience of athletic performance is adroit and graceful.” – Chicago Reader May 7, 2014 Full Review Through a Glass Darkly (1961) 100% EDIT “Elaborately rhetorical at the end, this 1961 film nevertheless develops its theme lucidly and with some of Bergman's most unforgettable sequences.” – Chicago Reader Jul 23, 2013 Full Review The Rite (1969) 75% EDIT “A rarely seen but thoroughly captivating example of filmed chamber theater.” – Chicago Reader Jul 22, 2013 Full Review The Gang's All Here (1943) 100% EDIT “Busby Berkeley's most audacious film.” – Chicago Reader Jun 13, 2013 Full Review Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969) 69% EDIT “A thoughtful, intelligent film that nearly makes up in style and conviction what it lacks in dramatic substance.” – Chicago Reader May 1, 2013 Full Review Detroit 9000 (1973) 25% EDIT “A gritty, disturbing evocation of the ambiguities of big-city police work.” – Chicago Reader Apr 4, 2013 Full Review Woman in the Dunes (1964) 100% EDIT “A bizarre film, distinguished not so much by Kobo Abe's rather obvious screenplay as by Teshigahara's arresting visual style of extreme depth of focus, immaculate detail, and graceful eroticism.” – Chicago Reader Mar 4, 2013 Full Review Pandora's Box (1929) 93% EDIT “One of the classic films of the German silent era.” – Chicago Reader Feb 27, 2013 Full Review Bicycle Thieves (1948) 99% EDIT “Undeniably the most important neorealist film after Rossellini's Open City.” – Chicago Reader Jan 14, 2013 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (1946) 96% EDIT “A sublime, sumptuous film directed by Jean Cocteau with the help of Rene Clement.” – Chicago Reader Dec 7, 2012 Full Review Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 97% EDIT “This is classic Capracorn.” – Chicago Reader Aug 29, 2012 Full Review Operation Petticoat (1959) 81% EDIT “Blake Edwards directs with his customary wit, breeziness, and acute sense of pacing.” – Chicago Reader May 15, 2012 Full Review
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