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Jane Corby Brooklyn Daily Eagle Oct 13, 2026 Fear and Desire is an unpolished production, full of flaws. But its mistakes are the result of its bold effort to discard old formulas and make a different movie, and in this it has been successful. Go to Full Review Fear and Desire (1953) 69% 35%

Herbert Cohn Brooklyn Daily Eagle Aug 18, 2026 It is an honest and casual bit of drama acted with amazing simplicity by Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, and told by Mr. Coward with crisp originality. Go to Full Review Brief Encounter (1945) 95% 91%

Eagle Staff Brooklyn Daily Eagle Jul 14, 2026 In battle tactics and the psychology of power, the film leaves much to the imagination; but its settings, its scope and its narrative sweep combine to do justice to its subject. Go to Full Review Alexander the Great (1956) 8% 42%

Julian Fox Brooklyn Daily Eagle Jul 14, 2026 For all its pretension, Demetrius and the Gladiators is just another preposterous Hollywood drama about love and sin in ancient Rome. Go to Full Review Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) 77% 65%

Martin Dickstein Brooklyn Daily Eagle Jul 14, 2026 Truly, The Sign of the Cross is the biggest thing the screen has offered since the coming of the talkies. We would hesitate to report, however, that it is the talkies' greatest achievement. Go to Full Review The Sign of the Cross (1932) 80% 64%

Louis Sheaffer Brooklyn Daily Eagle Jul 8, 2026 Hollywood, finally doing justice to the master dramatist of them all, has captured all the pounding, impassioned eloquence of the original in a taut and thrilling movie that will, most likely, discourage stage productions of the same work for a long time. Go to Full Review Julius Caesar (1953) 97% 81%

Jane Corby Brooklyn Daily Eagle Jun 30, 2026 I find it a powerful, resplendent, awe-inspiring production, at times as human as the people in the subway, sometimes shocking in its glimpses in the cruelties of the era, rousing by turns every kind of emotion. Go to Full Review Quo Vadis? (1951) 83% 73%

Jane Corby Brooklyn Daily Eagle Jun 23, 2026 It's a magnificent spectacle, spiced with a large number of intimate scenes. Go to Full Review Cleopatra (1963) 61% 67%

Jane Corby Brooklyn Daily Eagle Apr 8, 2026 The first Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis picture in Technicolor, Money from Home, at the N.Y. Paramount, is very much like the preceding Martin-Lewis films in black and white, though duller than most of the others. Go to Full Review Money From Home (1953) 64% 50%

Martin Dickstein Brooklyn Daily Eagle Apr 6, 2026 For the most part, the production's assets easily outweigh its faults and The Mouthpiece must accordingly be counted among the more satisfying pictureplays the town affords. Go to Full Review The Mouthpiece (1932) 94% 67%

Martin Dickstein Brooklyn Daily Eagle Apr 6, 2026 "The Patsy" is something you ought to see. Go to Full Review The Patsy (1928) 100% 88%

Martin Dickstein Brooklyn Daily Eagle Feb 4, 2026 The dialogue is undistinguished and the pictorial values, usually a feature of Von Sternberg productions, are disappointingly ordinary. Go to Full Review Blonde Venus (1932) 73% 70%

Winston Burdett Brooklyn Daily Eagle Feb 3, 2026 Thanks to Miss Garbo's performance, movie audiences will now be able to understand why Camille has for so long held its place as one of the sturdiest of frankly sentimental dramas. Go to Full Review Camille (1936) 96% 84%

Leslie Hanscom Brooklyn Daily Eagle Feb 3, 2026 Just about the finest motion picture to arrive here since the same Mr. Wilder's Sunset Boulevard. If you care anything about the movies, other than as a mindless substitute for TV when the set happens to be on the fritz, you'd better go see it. Go to Full Review Ace in the Hole (1951) 88% 92%

Jane Corby Brooklyn Daily Eagle Jan 16, 2026 An impressive piece of picture making, which combines a highly realistic background with imaginative contraptions, trick photography and a stern moral. Go to Full Review The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 92% 87%

Helen Gould Brooklyn Daily Eagle Jan 14, 2026 "The Magnificent Seven"...is another apt illustration of the effective use of action with dialogue kept to a minimum. Go to Full Review The Magnificent Seven (1960) 93% 87%

Jane Corby Brooklyn Daily Eagle Jan 12, 2026 The emotional entanglements of the three young people prove tragic, but they are true emotions, and their poignancy has a compelling, deeply moving quality. This story of love and frustration goes straight to the heart. Go to Full Review A Place in the Sun (1951) 90% 84%

Jane Corby Brooklyn Daily Eagle Jan 8, 2026 It's a great, big hurly-burly of action, color, song and dance which Carroll himself would no doubt be astonished to discover he had inspired. Go to Full Review Alice in Wonderland (1951) 82% 78%

Martin Dickstein Brooklyn Daily Eagle Jun 24, 2025 While I find that The Gold Rush is no chrystallized mirror of unmatched genius, it is at the same time as far superior to the usual run of celluloid foolishment as to discard any immediate necessity for comparison. Go to Full Review The Gold Rush (1925) 98% 93%

Herbert Cohn Brooklyn Daily Eagle Jun 24, 2025 It is delightfully humorous. But equally important, it is delightfully human -- full of charm and grace and poignance, the work of an artist who has great wit and soul. Go to Full Review The Gold Rush (1925) 98% 93%