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State Fair (1933) |
All in all, beyond question, here's superb entertainment for the whole family. - Photoplay
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| Posted Nov 10, 2023
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Bringing Up Baby (1938) |
It is so funny, from first to last reel, that you will ache with laughter. - Photoplay
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| Posted Jul 25, 2023
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Weddings and Babies (1958) |
It’s the photography -- never slick or flattering -- that brings us close to these people, to see how human beings can be funny and sad, lovable and irritating, all at once. - Photoplay
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| Posted Jul 25, 2023
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Grand Hotel (1932) |
You may argue about who deserves the most praise and not get anywhere, for the picture, as a whole, steals the show. It is produced on a scale of grandeur that the stage couldn't touch. - Photoplay
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| Posted Jun 06, 2023
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) |
The story... is necessarily slow in tempo, but absorbing, and helps to make logical the melodramatic events. - Photoplay
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| Posted Apr 24, 2023
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The Black Pirate (1926) |
The plot? What do you care about that? It's all about pirates, with Doug, single-handed, capturing a huge galleon to prove he's a good pirate himself. Imagine that! - Photoplay
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| Posted Mar 22, 2023
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The Devil Horse (1926) |
The entire picture is thrilling. The human characters are perfect in their roles, but the laurel wreath rests easily on the tousled head of Rex. - Photoplay
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| Posted Mar 21, 2023
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The Girl in the Rain (1920) |
Crook melodrama pleasantly sweetened with a large lump of romance. - Photoplay
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| Posted Jan 27, 2023
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Frankenstein (1931) |
If you like mystery and spooky pictures, here's your meat. It's strong stuff, and not for faint-hearted folks. - Photoplay
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| Posted Jan 13, 2023
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The Lady Eve (1941) |
Bright as a silver dollar, gay as a Christmas tree and funnier than a cageful of monkeys is this latest Preston Sturges story. Both written and directed by him, it fairly oozes freshness and charm. - Photoplay
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| Posted Dec 29, 2022
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) |
That Walt Disney is a genius in fantasy and drawing needs no restatement here, but in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs he has attempted his most ambitious achievement and succeeds as marvelously as he has in the past with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. - Photoplay
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| Posted Dec 20, 2022
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My Four Years in Germany (1918) |
Its value in the interests of sincere, determined patriotism cannot be exaggerated. William Nigh is the genius of the production -- a combination of fine direction and remarkable assembling and editing. - Photoplay
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| Posted Nov 16, 2022
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The Maltese Falcon (1941) |
This is one of the best mystery pictures since the first Thin Man and a masterpiece of well-sustained and acted entertainment. - Photoplay
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| Posted Nov 10, 2022
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Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) |
A story replete with charm, color, coziness of home and family, to say nothing of romance, is this so-different musical all wrapped up around a gay ninety tune hit Meet Me In St. Louis. - Photoplay
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| Posted Nov 10, 2022
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King Kong (1933) |
It is too bad that "colossal" and "super-colossal" have been bandied about so freely -- for here is a real hair-raiser to which those terms are appropriate. - Photoplay
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| Posted Nov 08, 2022
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The Shop Around the Corner (1940) |
It's directed with the touch of insight and of delicate humor. It is unlikely that you will roar with laughter, or burst into tears, yet throughout the film you will struggle with a desire to cry a little and catch yourself chuckling instead. - Photoplay
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| Posted Nov 08, 2022
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A Study in Scarlet (1933) |
Fairish melodrama, if you don't know what fiction's all-time greatest detective could and should be. - Photoplay
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| Posted Oct 21, 2022
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Java Head (1934) |
Anna May Wong as the unhappy princess is beautiful and arresting, and there is also good direction and atmosphere to recommend the picture. - Photoplay
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| Posted Oct 21, 2022
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When Were You Born? (1938) |
A novel idea... the action goes down and dies.
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| Posted Oct 21, 2022
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The Thief of Bagdad (1924) |
Here is magic. Here is beauty. Here is the answer to the cynics who give the motion picture no place in the family of the arts. Here is all the color and fantasy of the greatest work of imaginative literature, Arabian Nights, done so beautifully. - Photoplay
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| Posted Oct 21, 2022
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Shanghai Express (1932) |
What a ride! Through the skill of Director Von Sternberg and realistic camera work, you hop aboard the Shanghai Express and crawl through a revolution. - Photoplay
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| Posted Oct 20, 2022
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Limehouse Blues (1934) |
It's a bit gruesome for the kiddies, and old stuff for the grownups. - Photoplay
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| Posted Oct 20, 2022
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Lady From Chungking (1942) |
It's pretty well done. - Photoplay
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| Posted Oct 20, 2022
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Peter Pan (1924) |
If you are young, you will live and triumph with Peter Pan in all the glorious episodes that your imagination ever dreamed. If you are old, you will find yourself young again. - Photoplay
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| Posted Oct 20, 2022
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House on Haunted Hill (1959) |
When ghosts are promised, let’s have real ghosts; this it-was-all-a-trick stuff makes a body feel awfully let down. - Photoplay
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| Posted Sep 20, 2022
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The Perfect Furlough (1959) |
The pace is fast; all the wacky proceedings have a winning air of gaiety; and Tony has himself a ball. - Photoplay
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| Posted Sep 13, 2022
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Pather Panchali (1955) |
It's a truly amazing accomplishment which Hollywood and its mass- production thinking could well ponder on. - Photoplay
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| Posted Sep 13, 2022
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Gentleman's Agreement (1947) |
Laura Z. Hobson's best-seller on anti-Semitism has been made into a highly significant picture that pulls no punches. - Photoplay
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| Posted Aug 17, 2022
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The Life of Emile Zola (1937) |
Warner Brothers prove, once and for all, their aptitude for combining fascinating biography with dramatic entertainment in this superb picture. It is a solemn, carefully synthesized, expensively equipped film. - Photoplay
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| Posted Aug 02, 2022
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Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) |
A brutal, sweat-and-blood tale of man's inhumanity to man, and its tragic consequences. It is not a pretty film, but it is grand and real, and so are its characters. - Photoplay
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| Posted Jul 27, 2022
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How Green Was My Valley (1941) |
Poignantly tender, at times sonorously deafening in its emotional thunder, it never once gets out of tone, out of harmony, out of atmosphere. - Photoplay
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| Posted Jul 26, 2022
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The Rogue Song (1930) |
Here is a picture. Lusty as a north wind, wild as a virgin forest. Lawrence Tibbett, grand opera star, is a personality like none other that has flashed across the screen. - Photoplay
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| Posted Jun 28, 2022
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The Sea Hawk (1924) |
This romantic yarn by Rafael Sabatini -- of the corsairs who swept the seven seas in the good old Elizabethan days -- has reached the screen with considerable more vitality than most costume efforts of the silversheet. - Photoplay
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| Posted Jun 27, 2022
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The White Shadow (1924) |
The story is worthy of better handling. Miss Compson does good work but better directing would have made the picture one of the best of the
year. As it is, it intrigues from the start and carries the interest almost to the end. - Photoplay
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| Posted Jun 27, 2022
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The Apartment (1960) |
Witty or serious, it makes a sharp comment with each expert scene. The picture’s a tricky mixture of comedy and tragedy. - Photoplay
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| Posted Mar 08, 2022
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You Can't Take It With You (1938) |
This is everything you could want from a motion picture. - Photoplay
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| Posted Feb 07, 2022
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The Queen of Sheba (1921) |
The principal moral lesson is that Los Angeles is a great place to run a lumberyard, a dry-goods store, a paint-house, a carpenter-shop and a decorating business, to say nothing of an agency for extras. - Photoplay
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| Posted Jan 12, 2022
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Nightmare Alley (1947) |
It's a rousing, nerve-tingling show on the sordid side. - Photoplay
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| Posted Dec 03, 2021
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His Girl Friday (1940) |
No matter what fault you might find with the picture itself, you know you'll be entertained by a cast like that. - Photoplay
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| Posted Oct 14, 2021
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House of Usher (1960) |
Roger Corman puts it across with plenty of weird camera effects to match the flavor of Edgar Allan Poe's words. - Photoplay
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| Posted Sep 22, 2021
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Black Orpheus (1959) |
What a strange and lovely and haunting picture this is! - Photoplay
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| Posted Jul 23, 2021
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Anatomy of a Murder (1959) |
People will talk about this startling courtroom drama. - Photoplay
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| Posted Jun 23, 2021
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The Horse Soldiers (1959) |
Ford once again gets the most out of the cast, his fine instinct giving form to the maturing experiences of a couple of soldiers who, then as now, are obliged to come to terms with a world they never made. - Photoplay
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| Posted Jun 23, 2021
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Porgy and Bess (1959) |
Producer Samuel Goldwyn and director Otto Preminger have assembled it with such artistry and loving care that it almost seems to have been written for the movies. - Photoplay
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| Posted Jun 23, 2021
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The Big Fisherman (1959) |
Among scenes of breathtaking spectacle and settings of colorful splendor, you see the dramatic, stirring beginnings of Christianity unfold before you. - Photoplay
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| Posted Jun 23, 2021
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Ninotchka (1939) |
Following the fashion of so many of Hollywood's more serious actresses who are turning to lighter roles, Greta Garbo, in her newest picture, brings a smile to her face and a rare buoyancy to her step. - Photoplay
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| Posted Jun 23, 2021
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) |
Stewart plays his ingenuous, sincere character with finesse, and others, including Beulah Bondi and Harry Carey contribute fine performances. But it's Capra's direction that makes the picture what it is. - Photoplay
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| Posted Jun 23, 2021
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The Philadelphia Story (1940) |
My word, how clever! - Photoplay
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| Posted Jun 09, 2021
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North by Northwest (1959) |
Can a movie be fast, funny and frightening at the same time? Ordinarily, no, but this time there's a Hitch: Hitchcock -- who's been at it for over thirty years and getting better all the time. - Photoplay
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| Posted Jun 08, 2021
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The Women (1939) |
There are lots more women, no men -- but both sexes will have fun. - Photoplay
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| Posted May 24, 2021
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