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(1945) |
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"There are plenty of chances for Steele to hop into the saddle, and draw-down on the bad guys, while the simple story of rustlers and a misunderstood horse goes down easy with the converted."
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(1954) |
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"These aren't lost masterpieces, or subversive genre exercises worthy of term papers - they truly are just "darn good Westerns." Solid, unpretentious, with quick stories and clean, no-nonsense direction."
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"Knots Landing gets its own horny evildoer (just like parent show Dallas) in the guise of sultry sex kitten Donna Mills. Let the humping begin!"
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(2009) |
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"Just another "doomsday" science documentary masquerading as some kind of religious prophecy doc (and getting both elements wrong)."
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(1956) |
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"Cleanly produced, and intriguing, to boot. The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp - The Complete Season One neatly combines mythmaking and complex characterization (of Earp) to achieve a memorable first "adult" TV western."
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(1970) |
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"For most of its running time, A Day at the Beach is a downbeat, admirably unromantic look at a sour, failed alcoholic intellectual, made harrowing by his mistreatment of his young daughter on their day trip to the beach. Thoroughly unpleasant, but"
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(2003) |
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"Harrowing and surprisingly emotional, Mayday - Air Disasters not only ratchets up the suspense with its well-done action scenes, it validates them by showing us the human side of these horrific air disasters."
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"Beautifully shot and quite entertaining, The Templar Code is a fairly typical History doc in form and content, offering a good introduction to the subject...for those new to it."
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"Historians may not find anything new here, but those just starting out on this subject will find them interesting."
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(1959) |
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"Still dishy, delightful fun."
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"The music substitutions continue, but they've been significantly cut back, with most of Pete Rugolo's underscores kept intact. As for the episodes, they're as good, or even better, than Season One."
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(1931) |
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"The movie is terrific, but Warner Bros. online, "on-demand" Archive Collection edition is subpar."
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"The heavy dramatics sometimes feel heavy-handed, and you'll wonder if the finale is all wrong with its central accident/murder/revenge plot, but there's no denying that writer David Renwick, stars Richard Wilson and Annette Crosbie, and the rest of the ca"
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(1964-1965) |
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"Brilliant. Simply brilliant. The critics hated this series not because it was crude or rural or hokey or homespun, but because they couldn't stand how clever it was...and frequently at the expense of types just like those snobby, high-brow critics."
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(1983) |
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"This U.N.C.L.E. is U.N.exciting, U.N.original, and U.N.imaginably mediocre in almost all aspects of scripting, production and direction."
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(1958) |
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"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof delivers big, showy, dramatic moments by the superlative cast that satisfy our need for supposedly hard-hitting but ultimately comfortable truths."
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(1955) |
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"A beautifully designed, glossier-than-expected teen delinquent film with "serious" issues on its mind - issues that aren't always successfully articulated or explored."
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(1955) |
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"The severe telescoping of the storyline, especially at the expense of the Kate character, renders Kazan's East of Eden a visually sumptuous but dramatically undernourished widescreen '50s epic, with, thankfully, some interesting performances to com"
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(1951) |
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"An emotionally overwhelming experience even fifty-eight years after it debut shocked audiences and critics, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is that rare watershed film that continues to outpace most contemporary dramas that come out be"
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(1955) |
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"Action-packed, square-as-the-day-is-long, with a simplicity borne out of primitive storytelling."
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"Brilliantly funny and surreal, as well as touching and thoughtful at times, too."
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(1978) |
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"There are some very odd pairings this go-around on The Love Boat (Janet Leigh with Conrad Bains wins hands-down), but the formula, with the exception of the wildly inconsistent season opener, is left intact."
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(1961) |
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"Certainly the weakest of director Delmer Daves' high-gloss 1960s romances."
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(1983) |
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"Utterly predictable, conventional and at times, unintentionally funny."
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(2007) |
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"A particularly funny trio of episodes keeps things interesting here (the fourth episode, although well done, doesn't seem very much like a Midsomer)."
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(1998) |
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"You Know My Name has so many interesting elements going into the film that it's a shame they don't coalesce better, with a choppy structure that doesn't do justice to the fascinating story and the excellent production."
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(1997) |
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"A smashing epic that shows director John Milius back in spectacular form."
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(1994) |
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"The Desperate Trail offers enough pleasures to make it an agreeable time passer when you're in the mood for a quirky oater."
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(2008) |
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"The Sam Elliott Western Collection features three intriguing cable westerns that fans of the genre will most certainly want to at least rent."
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(1940) |
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"Straightforward melodrama not condescended to, with equal parts romance and tragedy combined for a heavy swoon effect."
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(1960) |
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"Quite simply: the first season of My Three Sons is one of the most unusual and innovative comedies in sitcom history. Period."
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(1992-1993) |
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"Angela Lansbury is, as always, economical and deft, and a delight as Jessica Fletcher. Another can't-lose season of this long-running hit."
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(2007) |
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"It's an interesting story in and of itself, but Hell on Wheels could have had more impact had it looked beyond the obvious dramatic appeal of the owner/skaters' power plays."
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"An excellent action-oriented western - with healthy doses of keen psychological observations underpinning the characters' motivations, and the odd sociological comment thrown in to boot."
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(1963) |
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"Palm Springs Weekend is a big come-down from the hefty, expensive Delmer Daves epics Donahue was fronting prior to this A.I.P.-inspired knock-off."
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(1962) |
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"Lush, gorgeous, and impossibly romantic, Rome Adventure doesn't have to make any logical sense because clearly, director Daves has only one thing on his mind here: sensory overload."
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(1961) |
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"If you like big, sprawling, picturesque, glossy dramas from this time period, you really have to admire Parrish, even it frequently gyrates all over the place in terms of its confused plotline and its myriad romantic tensions."
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"Attention all dreamy romantics: Warner Bros. Romance Classics Collection is right up your alley, featuring three high-gloss sudsers (and one romantic comedy) featuring the boyish, clean-cut good looks of Troy Donahue."
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"The tone of Trial & Retribution - Set 2 is all over the place in these four continuing episodes of the long-running U.K. police procedural, created by Prime Suspect's Lynda La Plante. They're still a cut-above the standard TV crime mellers,"
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"A brilliant restructuring of the TV cooking show format. Gordon Ramsay passionately cares about achieving excellence in preparing and serving food, and he's ready to call anybody out who doesn't share his same high standards - which leads to a whole slew"
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(1967) |
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"This is basically a "sampler" box set - an extensive one, granted - but still, ultimately, unfinished. One of the series here (The Champions) is quite good; another (The Protectors) is amazingly superficial but satisfactory on that level; wh"
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(1961) |
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"Many of the scripts are still excellent, but something starts to fade away towards the end of the season, some perhaps indefinable "spirit" the series had when it was first fresh and new: the concept becomes the product."
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(1980) |
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"When Time Ran Out... is a truly terrible, joyless film - not bad enough in an ironic fashion to be funny or laughable, just...mind-numbingly awful."
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(1957) |
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"Bombers B-52 can't figure out what it is, moving from comedy to drama to actioner without any context."
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(1994) |
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"When it sticks to telling the early love story, and ultimate bitter disintegration, of the Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz marriage, it's quite effective, with early color home movie footage offering a poignant counterpoint to our ingrained, black-and-white view"
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(1973-1974) |
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"'Ricky.' You don't need to say much more than that to sum up this final go-around for The Partridge Family."
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(2009) |
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"The new Durweed fades into the background, while Montgomery and Asher ratchet up the political throw-aways. Surprisingly, though, the episodes also ramp up the comedy this go-around, producing some solid laugh-getters."
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(2008) |
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"A once-great series clearly in artistic decline."
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(2008) |
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"Unfortunately, Dallas: The Complete Tenth Season is full of half-hearted attempts to revive the old Dallas magic which unfortunately go nowhere fast. Good moments are scattered about, but overall, the series is clearly in decline."
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(1959) |
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"If you think television was safe and bland and stodgy back in the fifties, you need to watch What Makes Sammy Run? pronto. Larry Blyden seemingly comes out of nowhere to deliver one of the best interpretations of a Hollywood creep you'll ever see."
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