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Jay Carmody

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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 93% EDIT “The picture carries a special [place] for Washington in that it all happens right here, with local backgrounds, and with a strong suggestion that we might behave like idiots in a panicky situation. ” – Washington Star Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Gaslight (1944) 94% EDIT “A taut, exciting tale worthy of a cast which also includes Dame May Whitty. ” – Washington Star Jan 13, 2026 Full Review A Place in the Sun (1951) 90% EDIT “This is a grown-up screen at work and Stevens is a man whose taste is more than adequate to the handling of delicate material without evasion.” – Washington Star Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Out of the Past (1947) 87% EDIT “Tourneur's method of building suspense has an icy urbanity about it.” – Washington Star Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Alice in Wonderland (1951) 83% EDIT “Disney's brilliantly plumaged fantasy follows rather closely the formula he has established for winning customers and influencing everybody. ” – Washington Star Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) 93% EDIT “[The] principals are supported by a competent cast which includes some of the most brutal, stupid faces ever found to give force to a terror picture.” – Washington Star Jan 3, 2026 Full Review Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 91% EDIT “Even with due allowance made for the under-development of those identified with today's delinquency, the parents and adolescents represented in the film are too painfully subhuman.” – Washington Star Oct 23, 2025 Full Review White Heat (1949) 94% EDIT “It has a cast worthy of a super-criminal, with such supporting players as Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien and Margaret Wycherly. What these and the others are up to is undeniably alive with action.” – Washington Star Apr 23, 2024 Full Review The Mad Miss Manton (1938) 84% EDIT “Director Leigh Jason has kept his farce moving at a suitable farce tempo and contrives to get the fullest value from the various episodes -- tense, funny and somewhere between -- with which the script endowed him.” – Washington Star Apr 22, 2024 Full Review The Big Heat (1953) 95% EDIT “The Big Heat covers familiar ground, it is true, but with a sharp eye to every value that makes a movie something special.” – Washington Star Apr 10, 2024 Full Review National Velvet (1944) 98% EDIT “The great moment of National Velvet, to be sure, is that in which Butcher Brown's little daughter, posing as a boy, rides the Pi in the Grand National. A finer, more smashing piece of film-making we never have seen than that in which the race is run.” – Washington Star Mar 26, 2024 Full Review The Searchers (1956) 87% EDIT “It is in keeping alive this seemingly endless [quest] that Ford's genius asserts Itself. He has landscape to work with, and colored film and a Vista-Vision camera. With these he can achieve miracles and, to the picture's great advantage, he does.” – Washington Star Mar 25, 2024 Full Review Foreign Intrigue (1956) 60% EDIT “[Foreign Intrigue] is pretty much the pat formula that Sheldon Reynolds uses in the small economy, or television, version of his serial. Expanded to fit the large screen, it suffers from what might be called self-consciousness and pretentiousness.” – Washington Star Mar 21, 2024 Full Review The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) 89% EDIT “Hitchcock made the same picture in 1935, before he came to this country, but that should deter nobody. The story has been brought quite up to date, dressed in Vista Vision and color, and starts in Marrakesh.” – Washington Star Mar 21, 2024 Full Review Gaby (1956) EDIT “Both in the joy of love’s quick blooming and the pathos into which it turns. Miss Caron and Kerr are performers easily at home.” – Washington Star Mar 21, 2024 Full Review Westward the Women (1951) 69% EDIT “The hardships which provide the exciting incident of Westward the Women are the familair ones of such trips. ” – Washington Star Mar 8, 2024 Full Review Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) 88% EDIT “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, whatever its defects, is the perfect representatives of Lorelei Lee, and... Dorothy. ” – Washington Star Mar 8, 2023 Full Review Sayonara (1957) 82% EDIT “Warners should find themselves rolling in money, popularity, and the old conviction that there is nothing wrong with the movies that a good picture cannot correct.” – Washington Star Mar 2, 2023 Full Review Flower Drum Song (1961) 79% EDIT “It is sweet, sentimental, sad and seemingly endless.” – Washington Star Feb 27, 2023 Full Review Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) 89% EDIT ““Requiem for a Heavyweight” is assured a top rung among 1962’s movies. Man's subhumanity to man is the theme of the film.” – Washington Star Feb 14, 2023 Full Review Back to Bataan (1945) 86% EDIT “This is the story of the Filipino refusal to give up, a blending of fact and fiction which adds up to a dramatic spectacle of gallantry of an appeal rarely achieved in its field.” – Washington Star Feb 1, 2023 Full Review Diabolique (1955) 95% EDIT “This is a superbly chilling slice of life, one indeed to challenge the best of Alfred Hitchcock. It is a tale of murder which turns the innately innocent setting of a boarding school into a hair-raising labyrinth of passion.” – Washington Star Jan 31, 2023 Full Review Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 97% EDIT “There is uproarious comedy, heartbreaking poignance, suspense, excitement and a dozen other elements fused into a masterpiece that involves more imagination than has gone into the making of all other films to date.” – Washington Star Dec 21, 2022 Full Review The Maltese Falcon (1941) 99% EDIT “Young Huston establishes himself immediately as a director who can teach a lot of tricks to his elders. They add up to the major trick of producing a melodrama that is chockfull of entertainment... which masks the fact that it was made once before.” – Washington Star Nov 11, 2022 Full Review Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 97% EDIT “The Capra genius for creating unforgettable incident manifests itself in a dozen sequences in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” – Washington Star Nov 9, 2022 Full Review
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