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Bite the Bullet (1975) 69% EDIT “The scenery is nice — mostly New Mexico and Nevada — but Brooks’ notion of staging a scene is to plant the actors in the middle of the frame and have them talk. The dialogue is not worth such attention. ” – TIME Magazine Jan 15, 2026 Full Review A Place in the Sun (1951) 90% EDIT “Producer-Director George Stevens' modern version of the late Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy is at once a faithful adaption of the novel, an artful job of moviemaking, and an engrossing piece of popular entertainment. ” – TIME Magazine Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Let It Be (1970) 81% EDIT “There are no more charismatic performers or immaculate musicians on the rock scene today than the Beatles, and to watch them running through more than a dozen good tunes is a pleasure. Let It Be may not be much of a movie, but it's a fine concert.” – TIME Magazine May 9, 2024 Full Review Only Yesterday (1933) 100% EDIT “Only Yesterday may tax the credulity of supercilious cinemaddicts. It should please those who last year admired director John Stahl's Back Street.” – TIME Magazine Apr 23, 2024 Full Review The Searchers (1956) 87% EDIT “The lapses in logic and the general air of incoherence are only minor imperfections in a film as carefully contrived as a matchstick castle.” – TIME Magazine Mar 22, 2024 Full Review Captain January (1924) 79% EDIT “Stock villainy and fairy godmotherhood (both well cast) complete the plot. Take the children.” – TIME Magazine Dec 21, 2023 Full Review The Devil Dancer (1927) 71% EDIT “Whenever, in the course of the plot, she is called upon for a momentary snatch of acting, she is competent. [Gilda Gray's] shoulders support a weak story and expensively featureless directing.” – TIME Magazine Dec 5, 2023 Full Review State Fair (1933) 100% EDIT “Will Rogers refrains from philosophizing and Janet Gaynor, with her wistfulness under control, gives a charming performance. ” – TIME Magazine Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Weddings and Babies (1958) 92% EDIT “Weddings and Babies, as a technical exercise in cinema is one of the most exciting feature films the U.S. has produced in a decade.” – TIME Magazine Jul 25, 2023 Full Review The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) 86% EDIT “Barbara Stanwyck is satisfactory as Megan Davis but the most noteworthy female member of the cast is Toshia Mori.” – TIME Magazine Apr 24, 2023 Full Review The Black Pirate (1926) 100% EDIT “The Black Pirate proved to be the most beautiful thing Mr. Fairbanks has ever done. Perhaps it was just a trifle less loaded with excitement than some of his great pictures.” – TIME Magazine Mar 22, 2023 Full Review The Dark Angel (1935) 94% EDIT “It is notable for the fine acting of its three attractive principals, a superior screen script and a climax which deserves a place on that roll of honor... ” – TIME Magazine Mar 9, 2023 Full Review Sayonara (1957) 82% EDIT “Brando has to pretend to take the situation seriously, and it plainly bores him.” – TIME Magazine Mar 2, 2023 Full Review Safety Last (1923) 97% EDIT “Harold Lloyd is one of the very few who can be laughed at in the same breath as the mighty Chaplin. So it is annoying to have him spoil it all in his first seven-reel picture by falling back on a succession of cheap spectacularisms for much of his effect.” – TIME Magazine Feb 22, 2023 Full Review Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) 89% EDIT “Quinn, though his dese and his dose and his freeform nose get tiresome after awhile, nevertheless gives a heartfelt interpretation of a decent human being taken up by an inhuman racket as casually as if he were a cigarette...” – TIME Magazine Feb 7, 2023 Full Review Back to Bataan (1945) 86% EDIT “Convincing as the story is, the picture is at its best in the faked but grimly realistic battle scenes.” – TIME Magazine Feb 1, 2023 Full Review Spirit of Youth (1937) 43% EDIT “Spirit of Youth will certainly not be duplicated for many a moon.” – TIME Magazine Jan 31, 2023 Full Review Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 97% EDIT “This new Capra fable is as whimsical, the Capra directing as slick, the script as fast and funny as in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The acting of the brilliant cast is sometimes superb. But Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is bigger than any of these things.” – TIME Magazine Nov 8, 2022 Full Review Peter Pan (1924) 98% EDIT “The direction of Herbert Brenon gave heart once more to those who still argue that there is imaginative intelligence in the picture industry.” – TIME Magazine Oct 20, 2022 Full Review Cobra Woman (1944) 73% EDIT “Cobra Woman is quite a funny picture to have been made in all seriousness.” – TIME Magazine Sep 20, 2022 Full Review Up the Down Staircase (1967) 78% EDIT “In the end, however, it is the kids themselves who provide the ring of truth.” – TIME Magazine Jul 1, 2022 Full Review Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) 82% EDIT “What Mazursky and Tucker obviously had in mind was a sophisticated, controversial comedy, but their work suggests that sex is too important to be left to Hollywood.” – TIME Magazine Jun 15, 2022 Full Review Cleo From 5 to 7 (1961) 93% EDIT “The film intends to show more than this. It intends to show a crise de I'ãme, "a profound transformation of the being." It doesn't.” – TIME Magazine Feb 16, 2022 Full Review Porgy and Bess (1959) 71% EDIT “Porgy and Bess is only a moderate and intermittent success as a musical show; as an attempt to produce a great work of cinematic art, it is a sometimes ponderous failure.” – TIME Magazine Jan 19, 2022 Full Review The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927) 81% EDIT “Far from beautiful, seldom even witty, The Private Life of Helen of Troy manages to enrapture most of the people who watch it by its simple and consistent formula.” – TIME Magazine Jan 11, 2022 Full Review
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