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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
The Mad Miss Manton (1938) Boxoffice Staff Occasional veins of genuine humor and potentially fine cast are completely bogged down in a maze of overdrawn, overlong and trite situations.
Posted Apr 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Queen of the Mob (1940) Boxoffice Staff [Adheres] to routine as a gangster melodrama in every respect.
Posted Apr 16, 2024  Edit critic review
Phantom of Chinatown (1940) Boxoffice Staff The story is definitely above average -- a murder mystery, of course -- and brimming over with action and suspense.
Posted Apr 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) Boxoffice Staff [A] deeply moving, tense and absorbing package...
Posted Feb 07, 2023  Edit critic review
Back to Bataan (1945) Boxoffice Staff Because emphasis is placed on incidents and episodes, the story is woefully lacking in narrative qualities and many of the other normal factors.
Posted Jan 31, 2023  Edit critic review
The Lady Eve (1941) Boxoffice Staff Both as scenarist and megaphonist, Sturges again distinguishes himself by displaying a comprehensive understanding of the elements that go into the making of a potential hit.
Posted Dec 29, 2022  Edit critic review
A Raisin in the Sun (1961) Boxoffice Staff The cast... is virtually flawless with star Sidney Poitier sharing top acting honors with Claudia McNeil.
Posted Aug 23, 2022  Edit critic review
Cleo From 5 to 7 (1961) Boxoffice Staff Mile. Varda was responsible for direction, screenplay, adaptation and dialog, no small feat for anyone, and, in the main, she's admirably succeeded, indicating indeed that she's a talent to be watched with no little anticipation.
Posted Feb 17, 2022  Edit critic review
His Girl Friday (1940) Boxoffice Staff Grant and Miss Russell are swell. Ditto the script and the direction of Howard Hawks.
Posted Oct 14, 2021  Edit critic review
The Women (1939) Boxoffice Staff Superlatives are in order when describing the opulent production, brilliant dialogue, sterling acting and atmosphere of crisp sophistication.
Posted May 24, 2021  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Rembrandt's J'Accuse (2008) John P. McCarthy What starts out as an audaciously polemical, radically inventive film project ultimately feels more like the most elaborate and earnest art history lecture ever delivered.
Posted Apr 20, 2021  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Face (2002) Charles Martin It is an emotional and rewarding film for anyone who's ever struggled to find their place in their family and the world.
Posted Mar 13, 2021  Edit critic review
Babes in Arms (1939) Boxoffice Staff From infants to octogenarians and every age and class in between, theatregoers should applaud this diverting musical comedy, so loaded with top-grade light entertainment that is almost certain to launch a new cycle of extravaganzas.
Posted Feb 12, 2021  Edit critic review
Sepia Cinderella (1947) Boxoffice Staff The story is a hackneyed nightclub romance about an un-and-coming male singer, his devoted girl friend and his scheming patroness.
Posted Jan 27, 2021  Edit critic review
Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1940) Boxoffice Staff Every tried and true gag situation since the days of Mack Sennett was incorporated into the script of this hilarious hodge-podge.
Posted Jan 27, 2021  Edit critic review
Miracle in Harlem (1948) Boxoffice Staff Modest but frequently effective.
Posted Jan 26, 2021  Edit critic review
Tevye (1939) Boxoffice Staff A moving canvas of Jewish life in the Russia of days gone by.
Posted Dec 11, 2020  Edit critic review
Son of Ingagi (1940) Boxoffice Staff There is entirely too much reliance on borrowed, familiar material.
Posted Dec 02, 2020  Edit critic review
Mystery in Swing (1940) Boxoffice Staff The cast, largely comprising night-club entertainers, delivers competently and there are a few welcome and well-done musical interludes.
Posted Dec 02, 2020  Edit critic review
Isn't It Romantic? (1948) Boxoffice Staff Action is lively, oldtime songs are well sung and the costumes and settings are above average.
Posted Oct 29, 2020  Edit critic review
The Invisible Man Returns (1940) Boxoffice Staff Plenty of excitement for the thriller fans.
Posted Oct 14, 2020  Edit critic review
Stark Fear (1962) Boxoffice Staff An impressive study of contemporary psychological behavior.
Posted Mar 11, 2020  Edit critic review
Cry of Battle (1963) Boxoffice Staff This is a skillfully handled story of the overnight transition of a sensitive, sheltered boy to manhood.
Posted Mar 11, 2020  Edit critic review
Johnny Cool (1963) Boxoffice Staff Henry Silva... makes a strong bid for stardom on his own with this rousing crime melodrama reminiscent of the gangster films which flourished in the 1930-40 period.
Posted Mar 11, 2020  Edit critic review
Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963) Boxoffice Staff A gay and amusing light comedy.
Posted Mar 11, 2020  Edit critic review
The Conjugal Bed (1963) Boxoffice Staff Miss Vlady is enchanting but scarcely outstanding.
Posted Mar 11, 2020  Edit critic review
Flower Drum Song (1961) Ivan Spear A motion picture with the exquisiteness of a delicate cameo and without jeopardizing its commercial potentialities.
Posted Mar 07, 2020  Edit critic review
Little Mother (1938) Boxoffice Staff A personal triumph for Molly Picon.
Posted Mar 05, 2020  Edit critic review
(undefined) Boxoffice Staff When the yarn sticks close to home, it reflects and irresistible charm. But when it takes a flight into melodrama, the plot goes awry.
Posted Mar 05, 2020  Edit critic review
The Bronze Buckaroo (1938) Boxoffice Staff On par in every way with the usual run of Western fare.
Posted Mar 05, 2020  Edit critic review
Charade (1963) Boxoffice Staff It integrates comedy with a deep, dark mystery and winds up with a wild chase through the Paris subway. Admittedly, there are some incongruities and illogical situations, but the chances are that the viewers will be having too good a time to notice them.
Posted Mar 03, 2020  Edit critic review
The Invisible Woman (1941) Boxoffice Staff There isn't a shudder in its entire length. But, laughs? That's what it has nothing else but.
Posted Feb 25, 2020  Edit critic review
3.5/5
(undefined) Charles Martin It is an emotional and rewarding film for anyone who's ever struggled to find their place in their family and the world.
Posted Oct 20, 2018  Edit critic review
3/5
Applause (2009) Sara Maria Vizcarrondo Applause has moments of flourish and moments that reach towards something as pared down as Thea's play, but it ultimately can't match the candor Steen brings to the screen. Really, little can.
Posted Apr 07, 2016  Edit critic review
4/5
Dust (2007) Cathleen Roundtree An engagingly philosophic approach to a mundane topic.
Posted Apr 06, 2016  Edit critic review
5/5
The Comedy (2012) David Ehrlich An essential portrait of a generation of people laughing so hard that they've forgotten the joke is on them.
Posted Apr 01, 2013  Edit critic review
1/5
The Tall Man (2011) Nick Schager
Posted Jan 22, 2013  Edit critic review
3/5
The Impossible (2012) Mark Keizer The key selling point is Bayona's ten-minute reenactment of the tidal wave and its carnage, which is brutal, visceral and without peer.
Posted Dec 13, 2012  Edit critic review
2.5/5
On the Road (2012) David Ehrlich On the Road just can't keep the beat
Posted Dec 13, 2012  Edit critic review
5/5
Django Unchained (2012) James Rocchi Django isn't just a movie only America could make -- it's also a movie only America needs to
Posted Dec 12, 2012  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Les Misérables (2012) Mark Keizer For fans, this is exactly how the story of Jean Valjean's transformation from thief to saint should be delivered: smothered in bombast
Posted Dec 06, 2012  Edit critic review
2/5
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) James Rocchi Tolkien could invent names and languages, but he couldn't create a plot at gunpoint.
Posted Dec 03, 2012  Edit critic review
1.5/5
This Is 40 (2012) Amy Nicholson Apatow gives us a couple who know less about each other than I do about my middle school friends on Facebook
Posted Dec 03, 2012  Edit critic review
3/5
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) Pete Hammond Bill Murray winningly portrays Roosevelt with sly understatement and assured authority
Posted Dec 03, 2012  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) David Ehrlich A throwback to a time when gratuitous nudity was the only kind of nudity, and when being a man meant dismembering another man
Posted Nov 26, 2012  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Zero Dark Thirty (2012) James Rocchi A masterwork from a master filmmaker
Posted Nov 26, 2012  Edit critic review
.5/5
Red Dawn (2012) David Ehrlich Heaven's Gate for the Hunger Games generation
Posted Nov 21, 2012  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Rust and Bone (2012) James Rocchi A must-see drama that will reward moviegoers who are both smart enough to seek it out and grown-up enough to take it
Posted Nov 21, 2012  Edit critic review
4/5
Rise of the Guardians (2012) James Rocchi Rise of the Guardians isn't the year's best animated film -- that honor is still held by Wreck-It Ralph -- but it is, more impressively, the year's best animated film for kids
Posted Nov 20, 2012  Edit critic review
4/5
Hitchcock (2012) Pete Hammond The sensational Helen Mirren sounds the war cry for all those unappreciated "plus ones"
Posted Nov 16, 2012  Edit critic review
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