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Howard Thompson

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Let It Be (1970) 81% EDIT “The documentary, their third feature appearance, is none too artfully made... But the film is arresting. ” – New York Times May 9, 2024 Full Review The Turning Point (1952) 80% EDIT “A sober but uninspired drama of anti-crime crusading in a midwestern city.” – New York Times Apr 4, 2022 Full Review Too Late Blues (1962) 82% EDIT “Mr. Cassavetes' direction has noiseless-needle precision. Young Man With a Horn may have been plusher and Pete Kelly's Blues gaudier -- and both more entertaining -- but we'll take Mr. Cassavetes' head-on honesty.” – New York Times Jul 15, 2020 Full Review Let's Kill Uncle (1966) EDIT “Mr. Castle... has paced the film like molasses.Even so, the situation itself is beguiling and the two youngsters and the blandly wide-eyed Mr. Green sustain the tension with their pert playing, at times blithely humorous.” – New York Times Jun 23, 2020 Full Review Untamed Frontier (1952) 17% EDIT “While Director Hugo Fregonese starts the proceedings at a brisk pace, it becomes obvious that both he and the three scenarists... intended to fashion a medium-sized Duel in the Sun, piling on the same contrived tawdriness.” – New York Times May 8, 2020 Full Review The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) 89% EDIT “Roger Corman has evoked a genuinely chilling mood of horror.” – New York Times Mar 18, 2020 Full Review Crack in the World (1965) 88% EDIT “The best science-fiction thriller this year.” – New York Times Mar 5, 2020 Full Review Hell to Eternity (1960) 83% EDIT “[It's] no great, soaring World War II drama. But as a sturdy anti-war sermon, trimly told and performed with realistic compassion, this medium-sized picture is tough, thoughtful and, especially in one extended battle sequence, tingling.” – New York Times Feb 7, 2020 Full Review Easy Living (1949) 40% EDIT “But perhaps the most persuasive thing about "Easy Living" is the forthright depiction of professional football as a stimulating, cash-on-the-line business, one Mr. Schnee seems to understand from locker room to goalpost.” – New York Times Aug 16, 2019 Full Review A Matter of Days (À Quelques Jours Pres) (1969) EDIT “A Matter of Days is an affectionate, picturesque look at campus unrest. But coated with a double love story, it seems pretty and remote compared to recent events here and elsewhere.” – New York Times Jul 23, 2019 Full Review The Glory Brigade (1953) EDIT “While The Glory Brigade falls short in general impact and conviction, this Twentieth Century-Fox Korean war drama... has a couple of solid attributes.” – New York Times Jul 23, 2019 Full Review Images (1972) 71% EDIT “This clanging, pretentious, tricked-up exercise, is almost a model of how not to dramatize the plight of a schizoid.” – New York Times Jan 14, 2019 Full Review EDIT “Adults and the more sophisticated youngsters probably will find Island of the Blue Dolphins a bit thin and sugary. Never mind, though, kiddies. This one is strictly for you.” – New York Times Nov 19, 2018 Full Review Joy in the Morning (1965) 0% EDIT “Joy in the Morning, with television's teen-age idol, Richard Chamberlain, and young Yvette Mimeux braving the woes of young married life, is a soap opera for teen-agers.” – New York Times Nov 19, 2018 Full Review Tamahine (1963) EDIT “Under Philip Leacock's smooth direction, the picture moves at a brisk clip, with some deft dialogue, and all in the spirit of light, iconoclastic fun.” – New York Times Oct 12, 2018 Full Review Two on a Guillotine (1965) 0% EDIT “A dull, silly, tedious clinker-and about as hair-raising, be warned, as a jack-o'-lantern.” – New York Times Jan 30, 2018 Full Review A Matter of Morals (1961) EDIT “[Matter of Morals] is a baffling, yet curiously compelling exercise in ethics-philosophical and sexual.” – New York Times Jan 17, 2018 Full Review The Jungle Book (1967) 88% EDIT “Smple, uncluttered, straight-forward fun.” – New York Times Apr 15, 2016 Full Review Vali: The Witch of Positano (1965) EDIT “The trouble with "Vali," a feature documentary portrait of a professional eccentric, is that neither the picture nor the heroine is very interesting.” – New York Times Feb 17, 2015 Full Review The President's Lady (1953) 60% 2/5 EDIT “The stars make sincere and energetic but hardly memorable protagonists.” – New York Times Jun 18, 2012 Full Review Toby Tyler (1960) 3/5 EDIT “"Toby Tyler" can boast some of the most engaging, unstrained performers in many a Disney moon.” – New York Times Apr 3, 2012 Full Review Battle Circus (1953) 3/5 EDIT “An absorbing, often tingling background of a mobile Army surgical hospital at the Korean front. Unfortunately for the general pace and impact, considerable time is allotted to a dawdling and familiar personal drama.” – New York Times Apr 8, 2008 Full Review My Side of the Mountain (1969) 71% 3.5/5 EDIT “A slender, honest study of a boy learning to be a man his own way.” – New York Times Oct 30, 2007 Full Review Trilogy (1969) 3.5/5 EDIT “It quietly says and conveys more about the human heart and spirit than most of today's free-wheeling blastaways on the screen. Delicately, it towers.” – New York Times Oct 30, 2007 Full Review Conflagration (1958) 100% 4/5 EDIT “This dignified, purposeful film is often touching as a case history of doomed innocense at bay. But its coils of compromise and corruption are even more credible and haunting.” – New York Times Oct 23, 2007 Full Review
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