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James Powers

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A New Kind of Love (1963) 13% EDIT “A New Kind of Love is actually the good old reliable kind of love, but served up in a chic, uninhibited farce that makes the eternal theme as sprightly as spring.” – The Hollywood Reporter Nov 1, 2019 Full Review Paris When It Sizzles (1964) 60% EDIT “The trouble is that Paris When It Sizzles seems constantly on the verge of hilarity but it never gets entirely into it.” – The Hollywood Reporter Apr 9, 2019 Full Review The Pink Panther (1963) 89% EDIT “Alexander Fisher's sound is good. Fernando Carrere's art direction and set decoration by Reginald Allen, Jack Stevens and Arrigo Breschi provide visual elegance to enhance the gags.” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 21, 2019 Full Review The Trial (1962) 84% EDIT “Perkins gives one of the best performances of his career in The Trial, aided by an outstanding array of stellar players.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 20, 2019 Full Review Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 98% EDIT “Kubrick has shown before that he is a director of rare gifts. Dr. Strangelove brings them into full realization.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jan 31, 2019 Full Review Lilies of the Field (1963) 92% EDIT “Lilies of the Field is a funny, sentimental, charming and uplifting film, in which intelligence, imagination and energy are proved again to be beyond the price of any super-budget.” – The Hollywood Reporter Dec 28, 2018 Full Review The Prize (1963) 45% EDIT “Mark Robson's direction gives The Prize tension and humor, and a good deal of interesting characterization. The Prize should be a much discussed and popular attraction.” – The Hollywood Reporter Dec 26, 2018 Full Review Mary Poppins (1964) 97% EDIT “Mary Poppins is a picture that is, more than most, a triumph of many individual contributions. And its special triumph is that it seems to be the work of a single, cohesive intelligence.” – The Hollywood Reporter Dec 17, 2018 Full Review The Haunting (1963) 87% EDIT “When The Haunting digs into the internals of its story, summons its spirits and lets them play havoc with cold reason, it has a power and fervor unmatched by any film ghost stories.” – The Hollywood Reporter Nov 2, 2018 Full Review My Fair Lady (1964) 94% EDIT “One of those rare, rare occasions when everything goes right, when it keeps going right and it moves and takes the spectator along, enchanted and enthralled.” – The Hollywood Reporter Oct 22, 2018 Full Review The Fortune Cookie (1966) 96% EDIT “Matthau, with the role of a lifetime at his hands, seizes it and makes it wonderful. As the incompetent shyster, Matthau snarls, cajoles, is breezy and sniveling by turns.” – The Hollywood Reporter Oct 22, 2018 Full Review Giant (1956) 86% EDIT “Including a fine performance from Elizabeth Taylor, great acting from Rock Hudson and a piercing portrayal from James Dean. Giant stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the great ones.” – The Hollywood Reporter Oct 10, 2018 Full Review The Hustler (1961) 94% EDIT “Newman gives a restrained, modulated performance, an unusual one in that character development is sought and achieved with utilization only of voice, gesture, intensity.” – The Hollywood Reporter Sep 25, 2018 Full Review The V.I.P.s (1963) 0% EDIT “Uneven, trite and uninspired in the dialogue and situations involving the various lovers, brilliantly funny and touching in Miss Rutherford's sequences. The result of this is that Miss Rutherford, doughty, indomitable, makes the picture her own.” – The Hollywood Reporter Sep 20, 2018 Full Review The Magnificent Seven (1960) 93% EDIT “About two-thirds of the film is good, tough, unromantic period western. About one-third is sentimental nonsense and it bushwhacks the remainder... In adding so-called commercial values, a good picture has been sabotaged.” – The Hollywood Reporter Sep 11, 2018 Full Review 8 1/2 (1963) 97% EDIT “Fellini keeps a grasp on his difficult form, creating some penetrating, witty, tragic moments.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jun 26, 2018 Full Review King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) 52% EDIT “It's a peculiar kind of humor, but it does play.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jun 26, 2018 Full Review Le Mans (1971) 71% EDIT “Le Mans is a class film in every way, attitude, realization, taste. It has visceral emotion but not heart.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jun 24, 2018 Full Review The Apartment (1960) 93% EDIT “All this is quite a load for a comedy, but where else has social comment ever been so effective? Wilder hones his points to a piercing edge...” – The Hollywood Reporter Jun 19, 2018 Full Review What a Way to Go! (1964) 25% EDIT “Hard to define but easy to recommend; the 20th-Fox presentation is a funny musical comedy, or comedy with music, with all the glamour that Hollywood can throw into one film, and a high-powered cast to light the marquee.” – The Hollywood Reporter May 15, 2018 Full Review The Sound of Music (1965) 83% EDIT “It is compounded of taste, excitement, heart and mind, and more than any other individual, the one who put it there and kept it there was Robert Wise.” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 2, 2018 Full Review The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 97% EDIT “The direction and acting are good, so interest is maintained. Frankeheimer's handling of the early sequences, in which he attempts and succeeds in creating on film the corruption of the mind, is imaginative filmmaking.” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 1, 2018 Full Review Alfie (1966) 97% EDIT “An amusing, moving and meaningful picture. Although for much of the way it tinkles along with the innocent merriment of a carousel, it dips into reality for its climax, and makes a valid and indelible impression.” – The Hollywood Reporter Aug 24, 2017 Full Review The Birds (1963) 95% EDIT “Hitchcock prolongs his prelude to horror for more than half the film, playing with audience suspense with comedy and romance while he sets his stage. The horror when it comes is a hair-raiser ...” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 28, 2017 Full Review What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) 91% EDIT “A lurid melodrama of hate, revenge and murder, a high-class horror film, in the Hitchcock vein, with virtuoso performances from Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and moments both searing and poignant.” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 5, 2017 Full Review
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