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"Was Julien Duvivier an auteur (like his countryman Jean Renoir), a skilled craftsman (like Michael Curtiz) or a pure hack (like, say, Ray Enright)?"
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3.5/4 |
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(1950) |
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"Each vignette conforms to a tight, outgrowing pattern, so that they each have equal weight, even if Danielle Darrieux's first segment is the one that lingers in the mind."
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(1950) |
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"A somewhat disappointing package of a truly lovely film."
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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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(2004) |
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"The Coen Brothers remake of The Ladykillers is a half-baked mess."
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(1931) |
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"The Last Flight is a bracing tale of the Lost Generation, and one of cinema's least known masterpieces."
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4/5 |
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(1930) |
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"Laughter is a famous, though largely unseen film, that inaugurates the screwball comedies of the thirties."
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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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(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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3.5/5 |
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(1929) |
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"Jeanne Eagels' performance in The Letter secures her legendary reputation."
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1.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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Click here to see the review!
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4/4 |
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(1944) |
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"Hitchcock's shifting sympathies guarantee our guilty involvement with the characters until he builds to a climax of intellectual and spiritual excitation."
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(1944) |
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"A very underrated Hitchcock film that deserves serious reexamination."
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(1953) |
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"This MGM movie is studio-system filmmaking at its most protective, and it's designed entirely to showcase Leslie Caron"
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3/4 |
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(1934) |
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"Maybe it's hindsight, or maybe it's Borzage's talent, but Little Man does manage to suggest what was happening within this embattled, darkening country."
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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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(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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3/4 |
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(1929) |
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"Recently recovered and restored, this third panel in the Borzage-Janet Gaynor-Charles Farrell triptych is an unblushing tribute to the miracles that love can bring."
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