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A Place in the Sun (1951) 90% EDIT “..."A Place in the Sun" is a distinguished work, a tribute, above all, to its producer-director and an effort now placed among the ranks of the finest films to have come from Hollywood in several years.” – New York Times Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Muskrat Lovely (2005) EDIT “With development pressure covering so many areas (including parts of the Eastern Shore) with bland McMansions and golf-course compounds, it’s heartening to see there’s still room for a scruffy community that’s actually a community.” – New York Times May 31, 2024 Full Review Destiny (1921) 79% EDIT “An occasionally effective but none the less depressing German production... Fritz Lang produced this weird, symbolical picture about five years ago, and it seems as if the American cutter had been forced to draw its dramatic teeth.” – New York Times Dec 19, 2023 Full Review Captain January (1924) 79% EDIT “This is a beautiful show for children and one which will be a source of pleasure to parents, who will undoubtedly derive no end of joy from watching the effect the passing shadows have upon the mentality of their youngsters.” – New York Times Dec 19, 2023 Full Review The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (1918) 100% EDIT “The audience applauded wildly when a young German Captain, resenting an insult of the Kaiser, laid the monarch low with a right-hand uppercut to the jaw. ” – New York Times Dec 5, 2023 Full Review Safety Last (1923) 97% EDIT “Harold Lloyd's latest effort is filled with laughs and gasps. When people are not rocking in their seats at the strand they will be holding on to the chair arms to keep them down.” – New York Times Feb 21, 2023 Full Review Main Street (1923) 57% EDIT “Harry Beaumaunt has brought out in the first three reels more than was anticipated by many, but it's a pity that this photoplay was permitted to run so long, as it drags and becomes tedious before it ends. ” – New York Times Jan 25, 2023 Full Review Upstairs (1919) 88% EDIT “[Mabel Normand] is in trouble most of the time and most of her troubles are laughable. There is not enough in the farce, however, to make all of its five or six reels entertaining.” – New York Times Jun 2, 2021 Full Review Experience (1921) 57% EDIT “As you look it over, you may notice that nowhere does Truth appear in it. Consistency, Logic and Sincerity are also absent. Tediousness and Triteness are present from the beginning, however.” – New York Times May 19, 2021 Full Review Romeo and Juliet (1916) 100% EDIT “[Theda Bara and Harry Hilliard] proved creditable attempts to translate to the screen the greatest romance of the ages.” – New York Times Mar 5, 2021 Full Review The Miracle (1912) 85% EDIT “What was seen and heard last night went far to emphasize that the moving picture under certain circumstances... may be capable of providing entertainment to be taken seriously by audiences which have never seen the inside of a "movie" house.” – New York Times Feb 26, 2021 Full Review The Eternal Sapho (1916) 60% EDIT “[Bara] has vampired so much that she has lost her sense of values and caricatures a type of woman she formerly gave a vivid portrait of... The fault is really the director's for making her repeat so often a thing that was exaggerated in the beginning.” – New York Times Feb 6, 2021 Full Review Merton of the Movies (1924) 81% EDIT “A brilliant pictorial effort which draws laughter with a lump in one's throat and makes one smile through tears.” – New York Times Feb 5, 2021 Full Review The Fall of a Nation (1916) 43% EDIT “An example of good motion picture photography without any evidences of the advance for which one must watch with interest in the handling of this new art form.” – New York Times Nov 20, 2020 Full Review Deliverance (1919) 88% EDIT “All through the photoplay there is symbolism, and some of it is impressive and peculiar to the power of motion pictures. And, let it be repeated, the story, as a story, grips and holds the interest as few photo stories do.” – New York Times Nov 10, 2020 Full Review Treasure Island (1920) 82% EDIT “Those least familiar with Stevenson's story will enjoy it most, because, while it has many excellent scenes and some good acting, it falls so far short of its original that any comparison of the two must emphasize its defects.” – New York Times Nov 5, 2020 Full Review Unpardonable Sin (1919) 43% EDIT “Nothing can make The Unpardonable Sin pleasant. It is unpleasant to no purpose, and there its unpleasantness is unjustified.” – New York Times Nov 5, 2020 Full Review Thunder (1929) 75% EDIT “When the picture gets away from railroad procedure. Mr. Chaney seems admirable.” – New York Times Nov 5, 2020 Full Review The White Heather (1919) 80% EDIT “Melodramas do not have to obey many laws, but they ought to hold together, and this one does not.” – New York Times Nov 4, 2020 Full Review Rolled Stockings (1927) 73% EDIT “Apparently it is merely meant to be enjoyed by those looking for entertainment and coolness on a hot day.Yesterday afternoon's audience seemed to think so, anyhow.” – New York Times Nov 3, 2020 Full Review The Great Air Robbery (1920) 100% EDIT “The melodrama's use of airplanes for midnight mail deliveries, highway, or rather highair, robberies, and battles between the forces of law and lawlessness adds excitement.” – New York Times Oct 22, 2020 Full Review Double Speed (1920) 100% EDIT “[The laughs] prove worth waiting for. This is principally because of Reid, but is also due to clever complications in the story, which is such an involved arrangement of nonsense that no satisfactory outline of it can be given in the space available.” – New York Times Oct 21, 2020 Full Review A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921) 100% EDIT “There are some really irresistible scenes in A Connecticut Yankee. Its main idea, of course, offers many opportunities for hilarious fun, and a good number of these have been seized.” – New York Times Oct 21, 2020 Full Review The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) 96% EDIT “The picture is significant, though... because it is expressionistic in the general sense that all of its elements, its settings, its plot, its people, are expressive, eloquent, and, for the most part, harmoniously so.” – New York Times Oct 14, 2020 Full Review Vampyr (1932) 98% EDIT “The scenario was so bad that the author had to excuse it by pretending it was a dream.” – New York Times Oct 14, 2020 Full Review
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