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(1963) |
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"A heartfelt but unsuccessful film that could have been much better with a more variegated point of view."
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2/4 |
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(1963) |
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"To be frank, Fire Within devastated me when I saw it in college, but the unrelieved ennui that struck me as scrupulously honest and brave then looks one-note and aimless to me now."
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(1958) |
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"Jeanne Moreau at her "If it feels good, do it" best."
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2.5/4 |
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(1958) |
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"This film is nowhere close to Ophuls's landmark, but it did inaugurate Moreau's extraordinary run of '60s art films in high style."
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(1965) |
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"Ultimately disappointing, but Davis gives Mary Poppins a run for her money."
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2.5/4 |
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(1965) |
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"A rather quiet, cautious thriller that gives Davis more room for characterization than most of her later films."
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(1955) |
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"Standard costume fare enlivened by Bette Davis's fuming and growling."
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2/4 |
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(1955) |
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"Henry Koster's direction is competent, for him, but Franz Waxman's music is no substitute for Erick Wolfgang Korngold's classic score for Elizabeth and Essex."
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(1947) |
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"A great Preminger movie and a solid DVD overall."
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3.5/4 |
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(1947) |
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"Fairly recently, Otto Preminger's Daisy Kenyon has been starting to get some of the acclaim and attention it deserves."
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(1977) |
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"Iffy but interesting early Pacino that rewards another look."
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2.5/4 |
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(1977) |
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"Pacino is at his best: precise, internal, magnetically cute, and expert at capturing the fear in this man's turtle-like existence and his longing for change."
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"An essential set of big-ticket Joan Crawford films."
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(1981) |
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"Not only the finest work by Albert Finney and Diane Keaton and a major, unwieldy film about breaking up, Shoot the Moon is also Tina Yothers's finest hour."
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3/4 |
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(1981) |
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"Parker and Goldman seem to want this battling couple to represent a sort of romantic '60s point of view, and they show up the younger lovers as shallow, '70s-style hedonists."
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(1955) |
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"A prime object of study for Susan Hayward scholars."
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2.5/4 |
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(1955) |
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"In the '40s, Hayward had a distinctive and rather bitchy sex appeal and clear hunger for stardom that gave way in the '50s to a weary but still authoritative command of frank self-pity and tough-broad defiance."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"We Own the Night confirms James Gray's position as a major American film director."
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3.5/4 |
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(1945) |
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"A fevered yet clinical study of jealousy, Leave Her to Heaven is probably John M. Stahl's best-known film."
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(1948) |
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"A fine disc of a strange film."
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3/4 |
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(1948) |
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"The Pirate takes place in some Caribbean of the mind, with lots of shadows and lace and high mantillas, and it's all about the promise of sex; the film keeps tapping into a nervous, adolescent sort of fear and desire."
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(1950) |
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"A solid disc that does justice to this Cocteau/Melville puzzler."
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3/4 |
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(1950) |
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"Les Enfants Terribles is very much a fantasy, an accumulation of suggestive, slightly obscure visual details, offset somewhat by Cocteau's too-literary, over-explicit narration."
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(1986) |
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"It's worth watching once for Fonda and Bridges."
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2/4 |
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(1986) |
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"Sidney Lumet directs wearily; as a thriller, it's full of holes."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Edith Piaf's tidal emotional vulgarity and brutish commitment to the most sentimental chansons is captured accurately and even irresistibly in La Vie En Rose."
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(1958) |
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"An unexpected and very valuable DVD."
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3.5/4 |
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(1958) |
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"China Doll is a delicate, spare, old man's movie, with quiet attention to character detail."
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(1948) |
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"A handsome film, and a real keeper for fans of Vivien Leigh's unstable beauty."
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3/4 |
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(1948) |
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"This version of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, made A.G. (After Garbo), was not a success when it was first released, and it's still a failure now, but it's an often exquisitely sumptuous misfire, all the same."
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(1975) |
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"Kicky but muddled, it's still a valuable reminder of Ross and Williams in their too-brief moment in the sun. Why doesn't someone re-team them now?"
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2/4 |
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(1975) |
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"Even a charming last-minute happy ending can't quite redeem all the mess and unidentified dread."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"One more dip into the tin-eared neo-noir well."
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(Various) |
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"A respectable second set, though Never Give a Sucker An Even Break is the only one you really need to own."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A cleverly written but somewhat muffled paean to sensual appetite."
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(1919-1920) |
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"A delight for Lubitsch fans, and for anyone who thinks films from the late '10s and early '20s are mainly static "turn the camera on" chores."
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3/4 |
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(1919-1920) |
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"Manic, appealing comedies that presage Lubitsch's sophisticated Hollywood period."
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(Various) |
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"An interesting set for Grant completists."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"In what seems like a sequel to Birth, we are treated to endless silent close-ups of Kidman's hard, porcelain face struggling to signal girlish repression and longing for release."
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(1981) |
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"An acceptable disc for one of Disney's best and most unheralded animated features."
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3/4 |
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(1981) |
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"A wounded and unresolved movie free of the expected Disney cutesiness and complacency."
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(1981) |
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"A handsome, unsatisfying DVD of a handsome, unsatisfying epic."
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Infamous is a film about flashy facades and what lies beneath them."
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3/4 |
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(1981) |
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"Reds is finally just an appealingly conventional epic movie-star romance with radical trimmings, but it contains several sharper elements that suggest the colorful period it seeks to recreate."
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(1948) |
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"This Capra film is typical in its muddleheadedness and atypical in its poor execution."
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1.5/4 |
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(1948) |
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"The shock of State of the Union, Capra's last movie in a political vein, is its technical sloppiness."
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(1944) |
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"A disappointing disc for a shallow but well-loved film."
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3/4 |
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(1944) |
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"An accepted classic and archetypal film noir, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity is visually drab and flabby around the edges."
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2.5/4 |
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(1946) |
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"The film is redeemed, finally, through the sheer, crazy belief in romance that Frank Borzage imbues in the film as it goes on."
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2.5/4 |
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(1940) |
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"MGM megastars Clark Gable and Joan Crawford headline Strange Cargo, a humid prison break movie that turns into a bald-faced religious allegory."
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