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Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Tempest (1928) EDIT “There is something false about the whole thing perhaps, because the story is false from beginning to end.” – The New Republic Sep 11, 2023 Full Review The Patriot (1928) 100% EDIT “The sets and the photography of The Patriot are rather ugly, but the acting and the direction are wonderful, and seem to prove -- what has sometimes been denied -- that the movies are able to compete with the serious spoken drama in its own field.” – The New Republic Sep 11, 2023 Full Review The Unholy Three (1925) 88% EDIT “The Unholy Three is admirably acted by Miss Mae Busch and Mr. Lon Chaney. The latter is a moving-picture actor of a unique and singular reputation.” – The New Republic Jul 14, 2021 Full Review The Merry Widow (1925) 100% EDIT “The Merry Widow, especially, is, in some ways, the best American film that the present writer has ever seen.” – The New Republic Jul 14, 2021 Full Review Siegfried (1924) 93% EDIT “The producers seem to have been mistaken in going in for straight drama rather than for romance and magic.” – The New Republic Jul 14, 2021 Full Review La Bohème (1926) EDIT “La Bohéme, in the film version of King Vidor, is not a production of any importance, but an agreeable enough movie romance. Lillian Gish is at her best as Mimi.” – The New Republic Jul 14, 2021 Full Review Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) 100% EDIT “[Lubitsch's] ingenuity, his great knack of presenting commonplace incidents from inobvious and illuminating angles, though less amusing than in Kiss Me Again, is as effective as ever.” – The New Republic Jul 14, 2021 Full Review The Great Gatsby (1926) 52% EDIT “It has the usual theatrical deficiencies of stories not originally conceived for the stage; but Owen Davis has adapted it very adroitly, keeping as much of the original dialogue as possible and filling in the gaps with intelligence and a happy invention.” – The New Republic Jul 14, 2021 Full Review The Way of All Flesh (1927) 88% EDIT “The producers have been so much afraid of launching the European Jannings without sufficient ballast of American hokum... that they have wasted much first-rate ability on what is essentially a maudlin film.” – The New Republic Jul 14, 2021 Full Review Stella Dallas (1925) EDIT “Though it includes some respectable elements, it is essentially a trashy moving picture based on a trashy story.” – The New Republic Jan 23, 2013 Full Review Anna Boleyn (1920) EDIT “[A] curious and rather interesting production.” – The New Republic Jan 23, 2013 Full Review Go West (1925) 100% EDIT “Buster Keaton is an able pantomimist; his morose and sensitive face commands a certain sympathy. We are, therefore, not absolutely unresponsive to his new comedy, Go West.” – The New Republic Jan 23, 2013 Full Review The Freshman (1925) 95% EDIT “Lloyd has never been a very good actor; he has been a dummy for comic devices. And we are not much moved by the scene in The Freshman in which he learns at last that he has been the butt of his fellow students, instead of, as he has believed, their hero.” – The New Republic Jan 23, 2013 Full Review The Gold Rush (1925) 98% EDIT “I prophesied that Chaplin, with his finer comedy and his less spectacular farce, would not be able to hold his popularity against it. What has happened is precisely the reverse of what I predicted.” – The New Republic Jan 23, 2013 Full Review
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