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Variety Staff
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Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) |
Finally ‘Superstar’ blares forth with the shallow impact of an inferior imitation of Isaac Hayes. - Variety
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| Posted Oct 13, 2023
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Nice Girl? (1941) |
Producer Joe Pasternak indicates that he is. having, difficulty, selecting story material for Miss Durbin during her debutante years. - Variety
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| Posted Oct 02, 2023
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Utu (1983) |
Murphy has produced powerful images and strong performances, particularly from Wallace, Wi Kuki Kaa (as Wirimu) and a big cast of Maori actors. - Variety
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| Posted Sep 13, 2023
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The Great Outdoors (1988) |
The Aykroyd-Candy pairing is charmed. - Variety
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| Posted Jun 16, 2023
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The Color Purple (1985) |
Steven Spielberg’s turn at "serious" filmmaking is marred in more than one place by overblown production... But the characters created in Alice Walker’s novel are so vivid that even this doesn’t kill them off and there is still much to applaud here. - Variety
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| Posted May 25, 2023
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Yentl (1983) |
In league with ace cinematographer David Watkin, Streisand has created a fine-looking period piece, working on Czech locations and in English studios. - Variety
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| Posted May 12, 2023
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The Black Pirate (1926) |
The continuity has its lapses... and the heroics are strictly of the screen. But it's easy to watch, there is a distinct appeal to the Imagination, and It's Fairbanks. The youngsters should eat it up. - Variety
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| Posted Mar 22, 2023
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Main Street (1923) |
For those who read the book and enjoyed it the celluloid version will disappoint. - Variety
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| Posted Jan 26, 2023
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The President's Mystery (1936) |
Chief mystery about The President's Mystery is why the producers attempted to improve on the Liberty magazine version that subsequently appeared as a novel. - Variety
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| Posted Oct 25, 2022
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When Were You Born? (1938) |
Cluttered up with signs of zodiac... slows up the films gait when it might when it might have bee subordinated, or more cleverly adapted to the films plot. - Variety
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| Posted Oct 21, 2022
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Lady From Chungking (1942) |
This is just grist for the grinds. - Variety
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| Posted Oct 20, 2022
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Daughter of the Dragon (1931) |
Too much effort concentrated in the wrong directions. - Variety
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| Posted Oct 18, 2022
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Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) |
It still packs considerable punch as a character study, although its action has slowed to where the plot padding is often obvious. - Variety
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| Posted Sep 26, 2022
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La Strada (1954) |
Acting by Quinn and Basehart is tops, but Giulietta Masina, one of Italy's best performers, easily steals show with her clownish mimicry, a job which should finally earn her more consistent work in local pix. - Variety
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| Posted Sep 14, 2022
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The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956) |
This amusing comedy affair whiles away a pleasant 98 minutes of screen time. Sassy dialogue and situations predominate and make for sly fun. - Variety
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| Posted Sep 13, 2022
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A Raisin in the Sun (1961) |
Poitier gives a striking, commanding performance. - Variety
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| Posted Aug 23, 2022
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Up the Down Staircase (1967) |
With only one major star (Sandy Dennis) and virtually a single setting, this pic is nevertheless thoroughly cinematic and completely engrossing. This is mainly because it is well acted, carefully scripted and directed and finely photographed. - Variety
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| Posted Jul 05, 2022
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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) |
The film is almost flawless, presenting the issues in a pleasing, entertaining and thought-provoking manner. - Variety
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| Posted Jun 15, 2022
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The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) |
A film of challenging ideas, and not salacious provocations, The Last Temptation of Christ is a powerful and very modern reinterpretation of Jesus as a man wracked with anguish and doubt concerning his appointed role in life. - Variety
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| Posted May 06, 2022
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The Last Starfighter (1984) |
With The Last Starfighter, director Nick Castle and writer Jonathan Betuel have done something so simple it's almost awe-inspiring: they've taken a very human story and accented it with sci-fi special effects, rather than the other way around. - Variety
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| Posted Apr 27, 2022
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The Witches of Eastwick (1987) |
With a no-holds-barred performance by Jack Nicholson as the horny Satan, it’s a very funny and irresistible set-up for anyone who has ever been baffled by the opposite sex. - Variety
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| Posted Apr 22, 2022
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Mississippi Masala (1991) |
Washington is savvy and attractive as the enterprising carpet cleaner destined for a brighter future. Choudhury is a discovery as the Americanized Mina, who calls herself a kind of masala. Together, they carry the film smoothly and agreeably. - Variety
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| Posted Apr 15, 2022
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Mishima (1985) |
Paul Schrader’s film Mishima is a boldly conceived, intelligent and consistently absorbing study of the Japanese writer and political iconoclast’s life, work and death. - Variety
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| Posted Apr 05, 2022
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Cleo From 5 to 7 (1961) |
Sometimes invention falters, as in the scene with the songwriters. But Varda then easily picks up the threads and keeps alive interest in the girl and her plight. - Variety
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| Posted Feb 16, 2022
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The Bobo (1967) |
A clever, sophisticated and charming farce. - Variety
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| Posted Jan 05, 2022
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Critters (1986) |
Critters resemble oversize hairballs and roll like tumbleweeds when prodded into action, the perfect menace for this irritatingly insipid and lightweight film which unfolds with plodding predictability and leaves few cliches unturned. - Variety
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| Posted Oct 28, 2021
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Salomy Jane (1914) |
[Salomy Jane] is a three times' winner. Here Is a western drama at its best. - Variety
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| Posted Sep 07, 2021
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Hangin' With the Homeboys (1991) |
[Hangin' with the Homeboys] is infused with an aggressive and engaging street energy and plenty of humor. - Variety
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| Posted Aug 12, 2021
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The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England (1914) |
The whole atmosphere of the tale is light and as graceful as a minuet and colored with the nicety of a pastel. - Variety
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| Posted Jul 28, 2021
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Ladies Lake (1934) |
Classes among the best French mades of the year. - Variety
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| Posted Jun 29, 2021
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The Last Days of Pompeii (1913) |
In no other film has the immense sweep of the old Athenian playgrounds been so impressively conveyed. You don't see merely a corner of what might be an arena. You see it all. - Variety
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| Posted Jun 04, 2021
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Traffic in Souls (1913) |
Despite its choppy form, the drama moves along briskly, concluding with a fine piece of movie staging in a raid by a squad of cops on one of the vice dens, a picture conceit that shows the sides and roof of the resort, photographed obliquely from above. - Variety
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| Posted May 11, 2021
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Muhomatsu, the Rikshaw Man (1958) |
The Rickshaw Man is a most impressive film, combining superb visual imagery with humor, touching pathos and a simple, story acted and directed beautifully. - Variety
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| Posted May 06, 2021
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A Fool There Was (1915) |
Miss Bara as the vampire scores easily. - Variety
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| Posted Mar 10, 2021
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) |
The picture has several comedy characters, those by Fred Woodward being the leaders in the comedy end. - Variety
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| Posted Mar 09, 2021
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The Crucible (1914) |
It moves forward by fits and starts of separate incidents rather than by smooth cumulative progress. There is no orderly arrangements of the narrative and one is constantly bothered by puzzlement. - Variety
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| Posted Mar 08, 2021
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Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929) |
It's good entertainment all the way and occasionally arresting in Its implications of the possibilities to come. - Variety
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| Posted Mar 06, 2021
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Upstairs (1919) |
Victor L. Schertzinger directed this story... and did better work in putting it on the screen than anything that has come from his hand recently. Or is Miss Normand herself more responsible than her director? - Variety
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| Posted Mar 05, 2021
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Reform School (1939) |
A good bet. - Variety
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| Posted Jan 26, 2021
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The Bar Sinister (1917) |
Under this title Edgar Lewis has produced an eight-reel drama of the South In a manner which, aside from the interest of the story, is bound to attract attention. The photography, by Edward C. Earle, shows some marvelously beautiful pictures - Variety
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| Posted Jan 25, 2021
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Turksib (1929) |
The picture is well photographed and is excellent, pictorially, but It is strictly an educational of the well-known category and would be effective if clipped to short length. - Variety
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| Posted Jan 22, 2021
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The Interns (1962) |
The film somehow succeeds in depicting the average intern as some kind of a Hippocratic oaf. - Variety
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| Posted Jan 13, 2021
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Nine Hours to Rama (1963) |
At the core, this dramatization of circumstances surrounding the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi is an achievement of insight and impact. - Variety
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| Posted Jan 13, 2021
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Hamlet (1921) |
Miss Nielsen's abilities are exceptional, but they are not the type to enrapture the American public. - Variety
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| Posted Dec 11, 2020
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Tevye (1939) |
Schwartz has graced this folk tale of the Ukraine with a shrewd comedy flair that his stage roles of recent years have not called for. - Variety
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| Posted Dec 11, 2020
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The Duke Is Tops (1938) |
[The Duke Is Tops] starts off as a very poor film and winds up as a passable vaudeville show via later half devoted to musical type finale. - Variety
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| Posted Dec 02, 2020
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Branded (1950) |
Branded is a pleasing western that has a bit more plot and appeal than the average. - Variety
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| Posted Nov 24, 2020
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The Carpet from Bagdad (1915) |
Partially melodramatic and with an interesting theme centered around an Egyptian locale, the feature possesses a good picture punch. - Variety
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| Posted Nov 20, 2020
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Men of Tomorrow (1932) |
Disappointing picture. - Variety
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| Posted Nov 14, 2020
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Deliverance (1919) |
This is a fascinating picture. Going there expecting a rather tiresome piece of "uplift" propaganda, the reviewer came away inspired, and the audience was with him in that mood. - Variety
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| Posted Nov 10, 2020
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