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Edwin F. Melvin

Edwin F. Melvin's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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White Heat (1949) 94% EDIT “It is violent melodrama keyed to such a pitch that at times it almost overreaches itself.” – Christian Science Monitor Apr 23, 2024 Full Review Back to Bataan (1945) 86% EDIT “Mr. Wayne gives a straightforward performance as the able but undemonstrative officer who organizes the guerrilla bands... Anthony Quinn, too, does a first-rate job.” – Christian Science Monitor Feb 1, 2023 Full Review Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 99% EDIT “From the stories Sally Benson wrote for the New Yorker... a generally amusing film has been derived, replete with the flavor of the Middle West as it might have been discovered in St. Louis at the time of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.” – Christian Science Monitor Nov 10, 2022 Full Review The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 99% EDIT “An engagingly simple and warmly human comedy.” – Christian Science Monitor Nov 7, 2022 Full Review The Lost Weekend (1945) 97% EDIT “It displays with pitiless realism the humiliation, the degradation and the horror experienced by an alcoholic.” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 18, 2022 Full Review Hamlet (1948) 96% EDIT “Though questioning eyebrows may be raised over some of the measures adopted. even those who may be inclined to take exceptions will find that the film holds their close attention. ” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 18, 2022 Full Review Gentleman's Agreement (1947) 82% EDIT “Even when the tale is in full motion, if it were examined dispassionately, it might be found a bit meager in action. It depends, in short, on its central theme. But that is presented with a vigor and dramatic ability to hold attention and enlist sympathy.” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 17, 2022 Full Review Out of the Past (1947) 87% EDIT “So much stress is placed on atmosphere and plot that the people involved never seem real or sufficiently attractive to awaken your sympathy.” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 17, 2022 Full Review Nightmare Alley (1947) 87% EDIT “[Nightmare Alley] is a grim drama about the rise and fall of a completely unscrupulous carnival barker, set forth with dramatic power under the direction of Edmund Goulding and acted with vigor by Tyrone Power.” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 17, 2022 Full Review Home of the Brave (1949) 98% EDIT “The film mingles war drama with psychiatric analysis. It sets forth the combination in a tense ably told narrative that provide: abundant food for thought.” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 17, 2022 Full Review The Third Man (1949) 99% EDIT “Carol Reed is a master of the art of building melodramatic suspense, equally adept at employing sight and sound to achieve his purpose.” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 17, 2022 Full Review An American in Paris (1951) 95% EDIT “Conspicuous among its merits is Gene Kelly, pretending to be an ambitious young artist and dancing with a professional that is unmistakably genuine.” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 16, 2022 Full Review All the King's Men (1949) 97% EDIT “Robert Rossen has skilfully performed a triple function as producer, director, and author of the screen play from a novel by Robert Penn Warren. The acting has both vigor and finesse,” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 16, 2022 Full Review The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 97% EDIT “On the surface, the tale seems easy-going and loosely knit. But it is compounded of an abundance of illuminating detail. The characters are of more than one dimension.” – Christian Science Monitor Aug 16, 2022 Full Review
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