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Smith Hempstone Washington Star Oct 17, 2026 It cannot be denied that Kubrick has talent. Some of the scenes crackle with brilliance and some are genuinely funny. But Kubrick's genius is a diabolical one and, given the temper of our times, and irresponsible one. Go to Full Review A Clockwork Orange (1971) 83% 93%

Jay Carmody Washington Star Oct 16, 2026 The brilliant performance of the filmed Lolita is that of Sellers who captures the true spirit Nabokov. Go to Full Review Lolita (1962) 82% 84%

Jay Carmody Washington Star Oct 14, 2026 If there are moments in which some of the superb performers in the cast feel they are involved in stretches of historic nonsense, they are concealed with supreme artfulness. Go to Full Review Spartacus (1960) 89% 87%

Jay Carmody Washington Star Oct 13, 2026 Stanley Kubrick has directed Paths of Glory with a chilling incisiveness. To this end he has assembled a remarkably competent and obviously dedicated cast. Go to Full Review Paths of Glory (1957) 96% 95%

Jay Carmody Washington Star Aug 17, 2026 "Brief Encounter" is the simplest of love stories, and just about the most touching in years. Go to Full Review Brief Encounter (1945) 95% 91%

Jay Carmody Washington Star Jul 13, 2026 It is not merely visually that The Robe is a revolutionary assault upon the moviegoers' senses. Combined with stereophonic sound, the words and music of the film have a matching impact upon the bedazzled customer. Go to Full Review The Robe (1953) 74% 69%

Jay Carmody Washington Star Jul 8, 2026 This is a production that represents the Bard at his best, a work of sweep and stature worthy of the greatest of dramatists. Go to Full Review Julius Caesar (1953) 97% 81%

Jay Carmody Washington Star Jun 30, 2026 Whatever the film of virtue and vice, and it has plenty of both, they are produced on a scale never before approached on the screen. Go to Full Review Quo Vadis? (1951) 83% 73%

Harry MacArthur Washington Star Jun 24, 2026 It's an authentic shambles by strictest definition. Go to Full Review Ulysses (1955) 52% 61%

Jay Carmody Washington Star Jun 17, 2026 After decades of failure, the movies finally scale the lofty peak of the word "Colossal" with Ben-Hur. Go to Full Review Ben-Hur (1959) 87% 89%

Jay Carmody Washington Star Jun 16, 2026 Landscape, flesh and spirit each contribute their shining threads to the huge tapestry and none is slighted. As a showman, DeMille is an admirer of all three equally. Go to Full Review The Ten Commandments (1956) 82% 87%

Jay Carmody Washington Star Apr 8, 2026 Like their other directors, George Marshall's notion of handling Lewis and Martin is to turn them loose and see what comes of it. What comes of it is a repeat of what came of it there, a cavalcade of slapstick which is sometimes funny, more often not. Go to Full Review Money From Home (1953) 64% 50%

Jay Carmody Washington Star Apr 7, 2026 As they are played under the direction of Roy Del Ruth, however, that are all a little too nice. Go to Full Review On Moonlight Bay (1951) 87% 80%

E. de S. Melcher Washington Star Apr 6, 2026 Warren William, a smooth actor with a John Barrymore profile, plays the role (and plays it extremely well) of a once upright lawyer. Go to Full Review The Mouthpiece (1932) 94% 67%

Jay Carmody Washington Star Mar 6, 2026 The film...does more than bring Miss Bergman back to the American screen. It proves also that she has lost none of the beauty or the talent that made her an actress before she became merely controversial. Go to Full Review Anastasia (1956) 92% 78%

Jay Carmody Washington Star Mar 6, 2026 Apart from its relative humorlessness, Phantom Lady is enough like a Hitchcock picture to justify your seeing it if you think you would like to see human misconduct exacting its inevitable and logical price. Go to Full Review Phantom Lady (1944) 94% 70%

Robert B. Phillips, Jr. Washington Star Feb 4, 2026 the particular virtue of the MGM Camille rests in the presence of the great Greta Garbo, whose histrionics are perhaps the finest. Go to Full Review Camille (1936) 96% 84%

Jay Carmody Washington Star Jan 16, 2026 The picture carries a special [place] for Washington in that it all happens right here, with local backgrounds, and with a strong suggestion that we might behave like idiots in a panicky situation. Go to Full Review The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 92% 87%

Jay Carmody Washington Star Jan 13, 2026 A taut, exciting tale worthy of a cast which also includes Dame May Whitty. Go to Full Review Gaslight (1944) 95% 90%

Jay Carmody Washington Star Jan 13, 2026 This is a grown-up screen at work and Stevens is a man whose taste is more than adequate to the handling of delicate material without evasion. Go to Full Review A Place in the Sun (1951) 90% 84%