Moira Walsh

Moira Walsh America Magazine Apr 7, 2026 Though the picture is not much as the portrait of an era, its Technicolor, period songs and some of its comedy are pleasant and it probably belongs under the heading of genial, warm weather entertainment. Go to Full Review On Moonlight Bay (1951) 87% 80%

Moira Walsh America Magazine Jan 15, 2026 Unfortunately this laudable but cinematically static purpose rules out both the fact action and the light touch without which science fiction is a bore. Go to Full Review The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 92% 87%

Moira Walsh America Magazine Oct 13, 2025 There is plenty of latitude for quarreling with the film's undue emphasis on its heroine's moral lapses. Go to Full Review Born Yesterday (1950) 95% 85%

Moira Walsh America Magazine Apr 22, 2024 Though undeniably exciting, the net result is pretty pointless and very brutal. Go to Full Review White Heat (1949) 94% 93%

Moira Walsh America Magazine Apr 19, 2024 The film is a creditable adaptation of a stirring tale. The necessary pruning has been so done that the novel’s clash of events and characters retains its original balance. Go to Full Review The Caine Mutiny (1954) 95% 87%

Moira Walsh America Magazine Apr 18, 2024 T.E.B. Clarke's script is a tongue in cheek masterpiece of ingenious improbability. Go to Full Review The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) 100% 86%

Moira Walsh America Magazine Mar 28, 2024 The leading players are professionally competent as usual but seem miscast, with the exception of Miss Hepburn, whose role has been tailored to exploit her elfin charms and who succeeds in being a little too elfin to be quite bearable. Go to Full Review Sabrina (1954) 89% 89%

Moira Walsh America Magazine Mar 27, 2024 This aggregation of horrors succeeds in being so repellent, and also so unreal and ultimately ludicrous, that I would not have mentioned the picture except that, strange to say, it has been given quite favorable mention in other quarters. Go to Full Review The Big Heat (1953) 95% 90%

Moira Walsh America Magazine Mar 25, 2024 The film has a seemingly authentic feeling for the harshness and crudity of frontier life... and any number of striking photographic effects. It is curiously deficient however in the unity and cumulative power implicit in the material. Go to Full Review The Searchers (1956) 87% 88%

Moira Walsh America Magazine Feb 23, 2024 It seldom gets out of the standard, adult horse-opera class. Go to Full Review Westward the Women (1951) 69% 83%

Moira Walsh The Catholic World Nov 29, 2023 It is as fundamentally unsatisfactory a film as was ever made by people with talent and serious intent. Go to Full Review The Left Handed Gun (1958) 82% 54%

Moira Walsh The Catholic World Nov 29, 2023 The film does not unduly sensationalize the material and it is neither uninteresting nor unconvincing. It is however almost unrelievedly downbeat. Go to Full Review Too Much, Too Soon (1958) - - 41%

Moira Walsh The Catholic World Nov 28, 2023 South Pacific is too sophisticated to have the broad general suitability of The King and I. For its more limited audience, however, it is a practically perfect screen version of a contemporary musical comedy classic. Go to Full Review South Pacific (1958) 75% 69%

Moira Walsh The Catholic World Nov 28, 2023 The Sound and the Fury is another depressing but generally tasteful and responsible examination of the seamier side of life. Go to Full Review The Sound and the Fury (1959) 60% 44%

Moira Walsh The Catholic World Nov 28, 2023 It is an inadvertently compromising title to put on a film that actually is nothing but an imitation of life and a bad one at that. Go to Full Review Imitation of Life (1959) 81% 91%

Moira Walsh The Catholic World Nov 28, 2023 Some Like It Hot is the wildest and wooliest comedy since Preston Sturges left Hollywood and the Marx Brothers disbanded as a team... Director (and co-author) Billy Wilder is one of the best in the business and knew exactly what he was doing. Go to Full Review Some Like It Hot (1959) 95% 94%

Moira Walsh The Catholic World Nov 28, 2023 It is a real shaggy dog story in the sense of having neither explanation nor point. It is intelligently made however and surprisingly likeable especially for youngsters. Also its lunatic premise gives rise to some pricelessly funny bits. Go to Full Review The Shaggy Dog (1959) 71% 48%

Moira Walsh The Catholic World Nov 28, 2023 The movie is done with taste and skill and no little cinematic distinction. Go to Full Review The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) 83% 77%

Moira Walsh The Catholic World Nov 28, 2023 Most of the picture’s impact, however, is the contribution of Susan Hayward, giving the performance of her career as the doomed but indomitable Barbara. Go to Full Review I Want to Live! (1958) 94% 83%

Moira Walsh The Catholic World Nov 28, 2023 In the first place the hero’s adventures have an inspired slapstick quality such as screen comedy seldom achieves nowadays. Secondly... on occasion, [it is] quite moving as a study of the temperament of the artistic genius. Go to Full Review The Horse's Mouth (1958) 89% 76%