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Zita Short

Zita Short's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Drowning Dry (2024) 80% A EDIT “It should come as no surprise that Laurynas Bareiša’s Drowning Dry manages to be darkly funny while tackling an almost unbearably bleak subject.” – InSession Film Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Dawn Dusk (2024) A- EDIT “a more fully rounded, three-dimensional study of the messiness of the mourning process when it expands its subject out to consider the professional life of one of the people directly impacted by this event.” – InSession Film Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Family Portrait (2023) 96% B+ EDIT “This playful, totally unfettered quality extends to Kerr's morally ambiguous, occasionally discomfiting consideration of the natural landscape that surrounds the family and the effect that it has on their behavior.” – InSession Film Aug 16, 2024 Full Review Black Narcissus (1947) 100% EDIT “Kathleen Byron is also fantastic but Kerr’s subtlety means that she is allowed to go wild and become unrestrained in the second act. The yin and yang that they form is central to the film’s success...” – InSession Film Feb 10, 2023 Full Review The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) 97% EDIT “A more precious, overly serious young actress would have given a stiff, overly mannered performance in the role Kerr was handed but she works wonders with it.” – InSession Film Feb 10, 2023 Full Review The Innocents (1961) 95% EDIT “I’m so happy that this fairly strange picture has been so widely embraced and it is heartening to realize that audiences do gravitate towards artistically ambitious fare sometimes.” – InSession Film Feb 10, 2023 Full Review The Sundowners (1960) 79% EDIT “This serves as an effective rebuke to critics of Kerr who claim that she was only capable of playing ladylike, aristocratic types.” – InSession Film Feb 10, 2023 Full Review Bonjour Tristesse (1958) 84% EDIT “Watch Bonjour Tristesse and marvel at her strength and confidence. She was a rare creature and we should have had more actresses like Kerr...” – InSession Film Feb 10, 2023 Full Review Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) 83% EDIT “Kerr makes diffidence exciting as her character brushes up against some troubling emotions. She is held back by a story that doesn’t let her do much but in many ways, this film serves as a testament to her abilities...” – InSession Film Feb 10, 2023 Full Review Separate Tables (1958) 68% EDIT “These little touches make the film worth watching and with an exquisite Wendy Hiller on screen for a few highly memorable scenes it is hard not to be riveted.” – InSession Film Feb 10, 2023 Full Review The Arrangement (1969) 15% EDIT “Kerr finds a way to avoid engaging in cheap theatrics. She provides a nice counterbalance to the icy, sleek Dunaway who glides through every scene as she finds a way to explore her character’s deep insecurities...” – InSession Film Feb 9, 2023 Full Review Julius Caesar (1953) 96% EDIT “This is a fairly stolid adaptation of William Shakespeare’s famous play but when James Mason starts talking in that mellifluous voice of his it is hard to look away...” – InSession Film Feb 9, 2023 Full Review The Three Faces of Eve (1957) 94% EDIT “I simply adore the incredibly talented Joanne Woodward...” – InSession Film Feb 9, 2023 Full Review Next Time We Love (1935) 83% EDIT “Something is thrilling about watching a star come into his own, and you get to see the Stewart persona molded into near perfection here.” – InSession Film Feb 9, 2023 Full Review The Shopworn Angel (1938) EDIT “Sullavan’s character comes across as mean in this film as she has none of the redeeming features that make a lot of her other tough broads so easy to like.” – InSession Film Feb 9, 2023 Full Review The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 99% EDIT “...one of the greatest and most influential romantic comedies ever made...” – InSession Film Feb 9, 2023 Full Review The Mortal Storm (1940) 100% EDIT “As a pair, they can make the audience invest in the relationship between their characters as well as bringing even the most jaded moviegoer to tears, and it’s utterly magical.” – InSession Film Feb 9, 2023 Full Review Random Harvest (1942) 82% EDIT “Everything about Random Harvest, from the score to the art direction, feels like it was put in place to make voters feel like they couldn’t not include it on their ballots.” – InSession Film Feb 9, 2023 Full Review Sunrise (1927) 98% EDIT “Murnau really was a visionary and I do see what made him such a talent...” – InSession Film Feb 9, 2023 Full Review Vertigo (1958) 93% EDIT “Novak feels like she was left out to dry by Hitchcock as he spent far more time paying attention to the location of the brooch on her lapel than he spent instructing her on how to convey her character’s emotions.” – InSession Film Feb 9, 2023 Full Review Woman of the Year (1942) 83% EDIT “I don’t think this is a successful romantic comedy. I am almost offended...” – InSession Film Feb 9, 2023 Full Review Double Indemnity (1944) 97% EDIT “I can only imagine how inadequate other actresses playing femme fatales feel when they have to live up to Stanwyck’s legend.” – InSession Film Feb 9, 2023 Full Review Love Story (1970) 63% EDIT “The production values here are not very strong as the imagery is bland and unmemorable, the costumes don’t tell you anything about the characters and the production designers seemingly forgot what it was like to be a university student.” – InSession Film Feb 9, 2023 Full Review Casablanca (1942) 99% EDIT “Casablanca is best enjoyed for its production values...” – InSession Film Feb 9, 2023 Full Review Notorious (1946) 96% EDIT “Hitchcock is able to weave locations into scenes in which things actually happen. In the 1950s so many films featured five-minute-long montages in which audiences were bombarded with shots of landmarks in a certain city...” – InSession Film Feb 9, 2023 Full Review
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