Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| The Unholy Three (1925) | "
There is many a pleasing frisson to be had from the weird family circle formed by three carnival refugees." Posted Jun 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| All the King's Men (1949) | "
A fine adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer novel." Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Left-Handed Gun (1958) | "
Penn's first film, it is in many ways a key stage in the development of the Western." Posted Oct 21, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Great McGinty (1940) | "
A wonderfully dry satire." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Key Largo (1948) | "
Although the characters are basically stereotypes, they are lent the gift of life by a superlative cast." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| I Remember Mama (1948) | "
A charmer, nevertheless, directed and acted with real delicacy." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Somewhere in the Night (1946) | "
Out of this familiar premise, Mankiewicz has fashioned a classic film noir." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| La Collectionneuse (1971) | "
Wryly and delightfully witty." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| College (1927) | "
Minor Keaton but major almost any other comedian." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Sex and the Single Girl (1964) | "
Graceless stuff, criminally wasting Bacall and Fonda as a couple with marital problems (they're in love, but constantly quarrelling), and with Quine's moderate flair for comedy nowhere in evidence." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 59%
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) | "
Ken Adam's sets are inventive, but the special effects are shoddy, the songs instantly forgettable, and the leisurely length an exquisite torture." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) | "
Rambling [and] embarrassingly winsome..." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| The Molly Maguires (1970) | "
The trouble, as so often with Ritt films, is that the situation remains interesting rather than involving. But at least this detachment means that one has the leisure to savour the textures of Wong Howe's magnificent camerawork." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) | "
Vintage Hitchcock, with sheer wit and verve masking an implausible plot." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Gunga Din (1939) | "
This is a pretty spiffing adventure yarn, with some classically staged fights, terrific performances." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 69%
| Scrooge (1970) | "
A misbegotten musical adaptation of Dickens' much too perennial tale." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| A Place in the Sun (1951) | "
Typically slow and stately in the later Stevens manner." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 92%
| Champion (1949) | "
The Set-Up, made the same year, is infinitely superior." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 81%
| Ship of Fools (1965) | "
Don't look now, but as you might expect with message-mad Kramer at the helm of this adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's novel, there's a heavy allegory aboard." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| You're a Big Boy Now (1966) | "
Coppola's style had healthy roots in the screwball comedies of the '30s, and the glorious performances litter the film with moments to treasure." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Le Jour Se Leve (1939) | "
Possibly the best of the Carné-Prévert films, certainly their collaboration at its most classically pure." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 82%
| Six in Paris (1965) | "
Disappointingly lightweight." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) | "
It's absolutely riveting." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 92%
| In Which We Serve (1942) | "
Staged with what passed at the time for honest understatement, it now looks impossibly patronising, the epitome of stiff upper lip." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Cat People (1942) | "
First in the wondrous series of B movies in which Val Lewton elaborated his principle of horrors imagined rather than seen, with a superbly judged performance from Simon." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 78%
| Hud (1963) | "
One of Ritt's best films." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| The Birds (1963) | "
It's fierce and Freudian as well as great cinematic fun, with ample fodder for the amateur psychologist following up on Hitch's tortuous involvement with his leading ladies." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1946) | "
The film is studded with gems, many of them contributed verbally by the Sturges stock company." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| The Cardinal (1963) | "
Risible script based on a doorstop novel by Henry Morton Robinson, but handled by Preminger with tremendous panache; worth seeing just for the incredible skill and flair with which he stages the action and moves the camera." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Don't Look Now (1974) | "
A superbly chilling essay in the supernatural." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Blood Simple (1984) | "
A remarkably assured debut for Coen." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Panic in the Streets (1950) | "
A classy thriller, much less laden with significance than most Kazan movies." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Talk of the Town (1942) | "
An attractive serio-comic tale of civic corruption." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 80%
| 3 Godfathers (1948) | "
he last reel, with Wayne explicitly identified as the Prodigal Son and a general collapse into mawkishness, might almost have strayed in from another movie." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| The House That Dripped Blood (1971) | "
Three of the episodes are rough-and-ready but vigorous Grand Guignol fun." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Brute Force (1947) | "
This is one of Dassin's best films." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| The Car (1977) | "
Interminably drawn out, with some good special effects but its characters hauled straight out of the cracker-barrel, it has nowhere near the same minatory charge as Spielberg's Duel." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Lady Eve (1941) | "
A beguilingly ribald sex comedy, spattered with characteristic Sturges slapstick." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| The Rain People (1969) | "
Coppola's fourth feature, a fascinating early road movie made entirely on location with a minimal crew and a constantly evolving script." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| The Brides of Dracula (1960) | "
Patchy but striking, and directed with Fisher's usual flair." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| Looker (1981) | "
Tediously convoluted." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| The Brothers Karamazov (1958) | "
Very uncertain in period and atmosphere, and saddled with some terrible performances." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Jeremiah Johnson (1972) | "
A flawed but immensely appealing film." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) | "
One of the great musicals." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Ryan's Daughter (1970) | "
An awe-inspiringly tedious lump of soggy romanticism." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Le Trou (1960) | "
Classical in its intense simplicity, this is certainly Becker's most perfectly crafted film." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 92%
| The Nun's Story (1959) | "
It's still a long haul (made no lighter by Franz Waxman's abominably insistent score) for anyone not committed to theological problems of faith, conscience and obedience." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| Tout Va Bien (1972) | "
A little simplistic at times but acidly funny, with Godard's genius for the arresting image once more well to the fore." Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| Finian's Rainbow (1968) | "
An underrated musical." Posted Feb 11, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Two-Faced Woman (1941) | "
Garbo's last film, graced by some charming scenes and directed with Cukor's usual flair, but hardly sending her off in a blaze of glory." Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
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