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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%

John Anderson America Magazine Mar 24, 2026 “Project Hail Mary” certainly qualifies as an uplifting experience at the cinema, being a mix of selflessness, sacrifice, camaraderie and even a certain amount of melancholy. Go to Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% - -

John Anderson America Magazine Feb 10, 2026 What’s predictable enough is how effortlessly Chalamet generates sympathy for Marty Mauser, who in the cold light of the final credits deserves very little of it. But such is what movie stars do. Go to Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% - -

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%

John Anderson America Magazine May 7, 2025 Your spiritual results may vary. Go to Full Review The King of Kings (2025) 60% - -

John Anderson America Magazine Dec 7, 2024 The results aren’t disrespectful, just a hodge-podge, a sort of overly reverent sword-and-sandals epic rich in awe-struck characters, Luciferian mischief and historical opportunism. Go to Full Review Mary (2024) 29% - -

John Anderson America Magazine Nov 22, 2024 No, only when “Bonhoeffer” becomes an adventure does the film gain traction and become not just a celebration of conscience and courage but a thriller. Go to Full Review Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. (2024) 66% - -

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%

John Anderson America Magazine Mar 8, 2024 Cabrini, while certainly a hagiography, is dramatically and cinematically sound and even, now and then, visually breathtaking. Go to Full Review Cabrini (2024) 91% - -

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%

John Anderson America Magazine Dec 8, 2023 [It's] teeming with visual ideas, jolts to the adrenal gland, and a performance by Emma Stone so singular it may end up residing in the history of cinema alongside those of Louise Brooks (Pandora’s Box) and Maria Falconetti (The Passion of Joan of Arc). Go to Full Review Poor Things (2023) 92% - -

Moira Walsh America Magazine Nov 9, 2023 The picture proceeds exactly according to formula. It has enough elementary action to have provided a bonanza for stunt men but its appeal would appear to be limited strictly to small boys of all ages. Go to Full Review The Lone Ranger (1956) 90% 84%

John Anderson America Magazine Oct 20, 2023 [Scorsese] continues as an octogenarian to explore and expand the possibilities of the medium and scour his own soul. He has created, with the sweep of grand opera, a film unlike anything he has ever done. Go to Full Review Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 93% 84%

John Anderson America Magazine Jul 19, 2023 What is transformative in The Miracle Club is the complete shift in tone, and arrival of dramatic gravity, at the moment Linney enters the movie. Go to Full Review The Miracle Club (2023) 68% 83%