TIME Staff
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The Black Pirate (1926) |
The Black Pirate proved to be the most beautiful thing Mr. Fairbanks has ever done. Perhaps it was just a trifle less loaded with excitement than some of his great pictures. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Mar 22, 2023
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The Dark Angel (1935) |
It is notable for the fine acting of its three attractive principals, a superior screen script and a climax which deserves a place on that roll of honor... - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Mar 09, 2023
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Sayonara (1957) |
Brando has to pretend to take the situation seriously, and it plainly bores him. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Mar 02, 2023
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Safety Last (1923) |
Harold Lloyd is one of the very few who can be laughed at in the same breath as the mighty Chaplin. So it is annoying to have him spoil it all in his first seven-reel picture by falling back on a succession of cheap spectacularisms for much of his effect. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 22, 2023
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Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) |
Quinn, though his dese and his dose and his freeform nose get tiresome after awhile, nevertheless gives a heartfelt interpretation of a decent human being taken up by an inhuman racket as casually as if he were a cigarette... - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 07, 2023
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Back to Bataan (1945) |
Convincing as the story is, the picture is at its best in the faked but grimly realistic battle scenes. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 01, 2023
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Spirit of Youth (1937) |
Spirit of Youth will certainly not be duplicated for many a moon. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jan 31, 2023
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) |
This new Capra fable is as whimsical, the Capra directing as slick, the script as fast and funny as in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The acting of the brilliant cast is sometimes superb. But Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is bigger than any of these things. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Nov 08, 2022
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Peter Pan (1924) |
The direction of Herbert Brenon gave heart once more to those who still argue that there is imaginative intelligence in the picture industry. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Oct 20, 2022
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Cobra Woman (1944) |
Cobra Woman is quite a funny picture to have been made in all seriousness. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Sep 20, 2022
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Up the Down Staircase (1967) |
In the end, however, it is the kids themselves who provide the ring of truth. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jul 01, 2022
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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) |
What Mazursky and Tucker obviously had in mind was a sophisticated, controversial comedy, but their work suggests that sex is too important to be left to Hollywood. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jun 15, 2022
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Cleo From 5 to 7 (1961) |
The film intends to show more than this. It intends to show a crise de I'ãme, "a profound transformation of the being." It doesn't. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 16, 2022
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Porgy and Bess (1959) |
Porgy and Bess is only a moderate and intermittent success as a musical show; as an attempt to produce a great work of cinematic art, it is a sometimes ponderous failure. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jan 19, 2022
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The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927) |
Far from beautiful, seldom even witty, The Private Life of Helen of Troy manages to enrapture most of the people who watch it by its simple and consistent formula. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jan 11, 2022
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London After Midnight (1927) |
Well worth squirming about. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jan 11, 2022
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Sunset Blvd. (1950) |
Sunset Boulevard is a story of Hollywood, mostly at its worst, brilliantly told by Hollywood at its best. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Oct 11, 2021
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Seconds (1966) |
Once Rock appears, though, the spell is shattered, and through no fault of his own. Instead of honestly exploring the ordeal of assuming a second identity, the script subsides for nearly an hour into conventional Hollywood fantasy. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Sep 23, 2021
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The Little Fugitive (1953) |
Even though this lowbudget, Manhattan-made film never takes full advantage of its wonderful material, The Little Fugitive is one of the funniest pictures ever produced in the U.S. outside of Hollywood. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Sep 16, 2021
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Call Northside 777 (1948) |
Honestly and resourcefully filmed, the picture was shot, for the most part, against the Chicago backgrounds where the actual events took place. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jul 21, 2021
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The Women (1939) |
The Women, like its original, is a mordant, mature description of the social decay of one corner of the U. S. middle classes. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted May 24, 2021
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The Power and the Glory (1933) |
Playwright Sturges, no O. Henry, no Conrad, has ordered his parts to diminish the suspense, not to heighten it. With a technic calling for smart treatment, he has used it on the simplest possible problems, the simplest types of characters. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted May 13, 2021
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Other inaccuracies mark a picture which as a story seems too disjointed to entertain rustics and as reporting, too slipshod to amuse metropolites. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted May 12, 2021
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The dialog is witty, and Barrymore, hiccupping slightly, plays through one lunatic scene after another with a charmingly satirical manner. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Mar 09, 2021
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Queen of the Nightclubs (1929) |
Feeble directing of these elements is compensated chiefly by the beautiful... Lila Lee as a night club entertainer. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Mar 09, 2021
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The Hitch-Hiker (1953) |
The drama itself is confined to one basic situation: captives at the gunpoint mercy of a trigger-happy killer. But, playing this conflict for all it is worth, the movie works up a good deal of sweaty suspense without using false theatrics. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 24, 2021
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The Defiant Ones (1958) |
Director Kramer makes a story of human understanding slowly carved out of two men's common violence, loneliness and desperation. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jan 29, 2021
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The Man With the Golden Arm (1955) |
At its best, though, the story lays bare the naked truth of human bondage, and this truth shines like a sword. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Dec 22, 2020
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The Champ (1931) |
Utterly false and thoroughly convincing, The Champ is a monument to the cinema's skill in achieving second-rate perfection. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Dec 08, 2020
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The Thing (1951) |
The humans staked out by The Thing for its victory garden are a bit more convincing, but not by much. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Nov 24, 2020
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A Night at the Opera (1935) |
Groucho follows his own formula of throwing out gags, good and bad. as fast as he can talk, letting the good ones float the bad ones, trusting that the average will favor him. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Nov 20, 2020
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Home of the Brave (1949) |
For all its faults, the film has novelty, emotional wallop and the excitement that comes from wrestling with a real problem, rather than fencing with a cooked-up plot. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Nov 17, 2020
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The Raven (1935) |
The picture is stuffed with horrors to the point of absurdity. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Oct 14, 2020
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Dead of Night (1945) |
It offers the same sort of spine-cooling thrill you get from listening to a group of accomplished liars swapping ghost stories. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Oct 13, 2020
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Faust (1926) |
From the ever-serviceable Faust story is derived a weird fairytale, a picture story of the powers of evil on earth. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Oct 07, 2020
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) |
Fredric March, ably assisted by Miriam Hopkins and Rose Hobart, is magnificent as Hyde, and he gives Jekyll a stilted Victorian elegance which, being a little false, makes Hyde's existence seem more credible. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Oct 07, 2020
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Song of the Flame (1930) |
Audiences who like operetta and audiences in the country who have never had much chance to decide whether they like it or not may find Song of the Flame to their taste. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Sep 29, 2020
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) |
Altogether, in its slyly sympathetic exposition of gold-digging as a fine art, the picture has precisely the delicious flavour of its literary model. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Sep 29, 2020
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That Royle Girl (1925) |
Perhaps it is not one of Mr. Griffith's best... It is, however, one of Miss Dempster's best and that is of immense importance. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Sep 29, 2020
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Kismet (1930) |
The only remaining element that might give interest to Kismet is the able performance of 72-year-old Otis Skinner in the role he first acted 19 years ago. The rest of the players are indifferent and the play itself is pretty well outdated. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Sep 28, 2020
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The Divine Woman (1928) |
The Divine Woman is another vehicle for the extraordinarily tempestuous passions of Actress Greta Garbo. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Sep 18, 2020
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Babe Comes Home (1927) |
Ruth, variously known as the Home Run King, the Biffing Bambino, the Sultan of Swat, the Mogul of Mayhem, etc., does poorly in a film recounting the life story of a baseball player. Mr. Ruth is not even qualified to hold a cinema actor's lipstick. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Sep 16, 2020
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Ladies of the Mob (1928) |
Ladies of the Mob is excellent entertainment, if you refrain from getting analytical about the plot. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Sep 15, 2020
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The Shepherd of the Hills (1928) |
Old-fashioned as a hair sofa is this movie carved from a Harold Bell Wright best seller. Dully, the story preaches the value of turning the other cheek, the ex-minister here involved turning his with the monotony of a metronome. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Sep 10, 2020
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Rough House Rosie (1927) |
Moderately diverting nonsense - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Sep 09, 2020
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) |
Though some of the characters may be bad and others beautiful, few are either real or believable. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Aug 31, 2020
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The Dove (1927) |
Plot, photography, direction and the performances of Noah Beery and Norma Talmadge, make the picture about three notches better than the run of hot country idylls. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jul 27, 2020
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The Madonna of Avenue A (1929) |
It is a dull, wandering fiction. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jul 25, 2020
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Little Man, What Now? (1934) |
Little Man, What Now is not one of Director Borzage's best pictures but it has the qualities of intelligence, honesty and observance which are indelibly part of his style. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jul 20, 2020
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The Navigator (1924) |
You will watch [Buster Keaton] on shipboard, attacked by cannibals, prodded by swordfish. You will continue happily in his constituency. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jul 20, 2020
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