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Only Yesterday (1933) 100% EDIT “Margaret Sullavan is an actress new to Auckland picture-goers, but such an introduction as she achieves in Only Yesterday should rank her as a firm favourite.” – New Zealand Herald Apr 23, 2024 Full Review The Mad Miss Manton (1938) 84% EDIT “[A] hilarious mystery comedy.” – New Zealand Herald Apr 22, 2024 Full Review The Devil Dancer (1927) 71% EDIT “Far and away above the ordinary.” – New Zealand Herald Dec 5, 2023 Full Review Bringing Up Baby (1938) 97% EDIT “The story is clever, with witty dialogue and a wealth of hilarious sequences that provide for the best of entertainment.” – New Zealand Herald Jul 26, 2023 Full Review Grand Hotel (1932) 85% EDIT “Undoubtedly one of the greatest achievements in film history.” – New Zealand Herald Jun 6, 2023 Full Review The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) 86% EDIT “Every aspect of the present Chinese situation is exploited in a timely manner, but while the story derives power from its topical interest, it possesses great dramatic possibilities in itself.” – New Zealand Herald Apr 24, 2023 Full Review The Black Pirate (1926) 100% EDIT “The Black Pirate is essentially a spectacle, and as a spectacle the story, consisting of wild romance and impossible situations, has been allowed to run riot.” – New Zealand Herald Mar 22, 2023 Full Review Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) 96% EDIT “The picture has many exciting scenes and the incidents of the flood on the river, although plentifully intermixed with comedy, contain much to keep the audience keenly interested.” – New Zealand Herald Mar 21, 2023 Full Review The Dark Angel (1935) 94% EDIT “An intensely moving and sincere picture, sensitively directed and splendidly acted. ” – New Zealand Herald Mar 9, 2023 Full Review Frankenstein (1931) 94% EDIT “It is one of the most eerily fascinating photoplay yet to have reached the audible screen. Colin Clive gives a firm portrait of the over-zealous scientist Frankenstein and Boris Karloff also acts splendidly as the monster. ” – New Zealand Herald Jan 13, 2023 Full Review The Lady Eve (1941) 99% EDIT “Brilliant acting and smart comedy combine to make [The Lady Eve] one of the most enjoyable films seen in Auckland for some time. ” – New Zealand Herald Dec 28, 2022 Full Review Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 99% EDIT “The picture has been made with real charm and feeling by Vincente Minnelli, a director with a shrewd eye for local colour and an affectionate regard for the manners and costumes of a previous generation.” – New Zealand Herald Nov 10, 2022 Full Review King Kong (1933) 97% EDIT “One will not have many other opportunities of witnessing a film of this description. Imagination scarcely encompasses the way in which the subject has been presented. ” – New Zealand Herald Nov 8, 2022 Full Review Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 97% EDIT “James Stewart has been entrusted with the leading role, which he makes the greatest of his career.” – New Zealand Herald Nov 8, 2022 Full Review The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 99% EDIT “[A] delightful comedy romance.” – New Zealand Herald Nov 7, 2022 Full Review The Thief of Bagdad (1924) 97% EDIT “It has been reserved for Douglas Fairbanks to achieve the seemingly impossible and make the fairy tales of childhood truly live. The Thief of Bagdad is motion photography in the highest state of perfection yet reached.” – New Zealand Herald Oct 21, 2022 Full Review Shanghai Express (1932) 96% EDIT “As in Dishonoured, the director, Joseph von Sternberg, shows that he knows how to make use of every art of photography and symbolism to offset Miss Dietrich's glamour.” – New Zealand Herald Oct 20, 2022 Full Review Peter Pan (1924) 98% EDIT “[Brenon's direction has] proved him to be an artist of the highest rank. Roy Pomeroy, who assisted him, has shown once more in the super-natural scenes the almost infinite possibilities of the screen as the servant of man's imagination.” – New Zealand Herald Oct 20, 2022 Full Review The Life of Emile Zola (1937) 92% EDIT “One of the best biographical pictures yet to be made, The Life of Emile Zola... is remarkable for the fine performance of Paul Muni in the title role. ” – New Zealand Herald Aug 2, 2022 Full Review Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) 96% EDIT “It is a grim, thrilling and impressively authentic sea drama, and the excellence of the acting, direction, photography and gripping story, provide entertainment that can be recommended without hesitation. ” – New Zealand Herald Jul 26, 2022 Full Review The Big Parade (1925) 100% EDIT “A war picture so powerful, so well-balanced, so true to reality, or so lacking in exaggeration as The Big Parade... has not previously been shown in Auckland.” – New Zealand Herald Jun 29, 2022 Full Review The Rogue Song (1930) 79% EDIT “Tibbett's performance is full of vigour and his forceful personality is felt throughout the course of the picture.” – New Zealand Herald Jun 28, 2022 Full Review The White Shadow (1924) 67% EDIT “It is a picture which must impress all who see it, not only by the dramatic quality of the plot development, but by the careful attention that is given to every detail which tends to make the portrayal more realistic.” – New Zealand Herald Jun 27, 2022 Full Review Ten Modern Commandments (1927) 90% EDIT “Without possessing novelty of plot, [Commandments] made an instant appeal, owing to the bright presentation of the story of a girl and a boy, Kitten O'Dea and Tod Gilbert, who, meeting first in a theatrical boarding house, win fame in New York revue.” – New Zealand Herald Jun 24, 2022 Full Review Neptune's Daughter (1914) 95% EDIT “There is a fine nature study, the feeding of the fish by Annette showing the water simply alive with the finny tribe. A fall from a cliff and a death struggle under water are very realistic pieces of photography.” – New Zealand Herald Jun 24, 2022 Full Review
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