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Sternberg suppresses direct emotional appeal to concentrate on something infinitely fine: a series of minute, discrete moral discoveries and philosophical realignments among his characters. February 27, 2013 | Full Review…
Sternberg suppresses direct emotional appeal to concentrate on something infinitely fine: a series of minute, discrete moral discoveries and philosophical realignments among his characters.
Dave Kehr
In a way lost to contemporary social-work movies, von Sternberg's unsentimental poetic realism ennobles his lower-class protagonists through beauty. Classic. March 16, 2010 | Full Review…
In a way lost to contemporary social-work movies, von Sternberg's unsentimental poetic realism ennobles his lower-class protagonists through beauty. Classic.
Nick Pinkerton
It fulfills their requirements, somewhat obscure to this reviewer, of rhythm, plasticity and unity. In simpler and more popular terms, it seems to be exceptionally good motion picture entertainment. October 16, 2007 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It fulfills their requirements, somewhat obscure to this reviewer, of rhythm, plasticity and unity. In simpler and more popular terms, it seems to be exceptionally good motion picture entertainment.
Glenn Collins
It's a corking program picture, thanks to George Bancroft, a good story and Julian Johnson's titles. October 16, 2007 | Full Review…
It's a corking program picture, thanks to George Bancroft, a good story and Julian Johnson's titles.
Variety Staff
An eerie, wistful hymn to the forgotten men and women of the working class looking for their own slice of happiness in grungy places. November 16, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
An eerie, wistful hymn to the forgotten men and women of the working class looking for their own slice of happiness in grungy places.
Matthew Lucas
Basically a stock melodrama elevated by gorgeous visuals and fine performances. October 13, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Basically a stock melodrama elevated by gorgeous visuals and fine performances.
Matt Brunson
Furthman specialized in unclassy tales of redemption in tawdry settings, featuring charming semi-brutal men and glamorous women who were a little ruined. November 27, 2018 | Full Review…
Furthman specialized in unclassy tales of redemption in tawdry settings, featuring charming semi-brutal men and glamorous women who were a little ruined.
A.S. Hamrah
The film's romantic fatalism is compelling, and von Sternberg creates some stunning imagery out of his lowlife settings. September 19, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The film's romantic fatalism is compelling, and von Sternberg creates some stunning imagery out of his lowlife settings.
Adrian Turner
Josef von Sternberg enjoys a challenge, so he pulls into Borzage's waterfront to suppress and heighten emotionalism with sang-froid deadpans. September 19, 2014 | Full Review…
Josef von Sternberg enjoys a challenge, so he pulls into Borzage's waterfront to suppress and heighten emotionalism with sang-froid deadpans.
Fernando F. Croce
... a turn-of-the-century bowery answer to Sunrise, with a romantic idealism fighting its way out of hard-scrabble lives and resigned characters of the waterfront culture. September 4, 2010 | Full Review…
... a turn-of-the-century bowery answer to Sunrise, with a romantic idealism fighting its way out of hard-scrabble lives and resigned characters of the waterfront culture.
Sean Axmaker
visually evocative and narratively intriguing, such that even its generally terrible ending can't quite undermine the overall sense that you have just seen something profoundly of its time and ahead of it August 28, 2010 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
visually evocative and narratively intriguing, such that even its generally terrible ending can't quite undermine the overall sense that you have just seen something profoundly of its time and ahead of it
James Kendrick
Von Sternberg is a director of situations, not of suspense -- it is his mastery of the subtle eye-line interplay of silent cinema, his command of mise-en-scene and mood, that makes the love between these characters credible. February 27, 2009 | Full Review…
Von Sternberg is a director of situations, not of suspense -- it is his mastery of the subtle eye-line interplay of silent cinema, his command of mise-en-scene and mood, that makes the love between these characters credible.
Leo Goldsmith
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