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Red Kann Motion Picture Daily Apr 23, 2024 The cast -- a long one -- is very competent. Boles does what strikes us as his best work. But nobody in the picture approximates Miss Sullavan's performance for understanding and emotional depth. Go to Full Review Only Yesterday (1933) 100% 71%

Gus McCarthy Motion Picture Daily Apr 22, 2024 The Mad Miss Manton combines the thrills of an exciting detective story and the laughs of a high speed comedy. Go to Full Review The Mad Miss Manton (1938) 84% 63%

Sherwin Kane Motion Picture Daily Feb 28, 2023 An engrossing and visually memorable production. Go to Full Review Sayonara (1957) 82% 79%

MPD Staff Motion Picture Daily Dec 20, 2022 In leaping the immense time chasm between his Silly Symphonies and upper bracket specials Walt Disney utilized every production device in his rich repertoire and some others the world has yet to learn about. Go to Full Review Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 97% 78%

Edward Grief Motion Picture Daily Nov 11, 2022 A first rate mystery yarn free from the usual clichés and packed with excitement. Go to Full Review The Maltese Falcon (1941) 99% 91%

Vance King Motion Picture Daily Oct 18, 2022 The picture is effective film entertainment. Go to Full Review Lady From Chungking (1942) 80% 33%

James M. Jerauld Motion Picture Daily Mar 24, 2022 Wholly delightful! Light, sophisticated, beautifully photographed in Paris, and with distinctive, music of Frederick Loewe, it leaves the spectator with a buoyant feeling and a desire to see it again. Go to Full Review Gigi (1958) 90% 74%

Al Steen Motion Picture Daily Mar 15, 2022 The picture is a smooth mixture of almost every ingredient which goes to make up box-office entertainment. It has romance, comedy, pathos, rowdiness, brutality, dramatic impact and... a thrilling climax. Go to Full Review From Here to Eternity (1953) 88% 84%

Sherwin Kane Motion Picture Daily Mar 8, 2022 Entertaining and often engrossing. Go to Full Review The Apartment (1960) 94% 94%

Sherwin Kane Motion Picture Daily Feb 1, 2022 The fine direction of Billy Wilder, the distinctive performances of an earnest cast and Charles Brackett's fitting production, as well as its subject matter, set The Lost Weekend apart from other pictures. Go to Full Review The Lost Weekend (1945) 97% 90%

Sherwin Kane Motion Picture Daily Jan 19, 2022 The production shines with memorable individual performances... Sidney Poitier as Porgy, Dorothy Dandridge as Bess, Brock Peters as Crown, Sammy Davis, Jr. as Sportin' Life and Pearl Bailey as Maria are outstanding. Go to Full Review Porgy and Bess (1959) 71% 78%

Charles L. Franke Motion Picture Daily Jan 10, 2022 Reginald Le Borg's direction points up slapstick of the straight comic-strip variety which should be accorded a good reception by the kiddies, especially, but which, in spots, may strain adult patience. Go to Full Review Little Iodine (1946) 80% - -

Red Kann Motion Picture Daily Dec 3, 2021 It has stretches of impact. It is able to boast of a generally strong performance by its star, aided principally by Miss Blondell and Miss Walker. Go to Full Review Nightmare Alley (1947) 87% 86%

MPD Staff Motion Picture Daily Dec 1, 2021 It is more than merely a lavishly mounted girl-song-dance spectacle. Stripped of all its embellishing grandeur, it is dramatic romance with a heart interest that will thrill the emotions of all who see it. Go to Full Review The Great Ziegfeld (1936) 71% 50%

Red Kann Motion Picture Daily Nov 24, 2021 All the King's Men has production scope in addition to pungency and force. It holds a shattering mirror to an unpleasant side of the American political scene, and, as such, is provocative, thought-inducing, serious entertainment of a high order. Go to Full Review All the King's Men (1949) 97% 78%

Richard Gertner Motion Picture Daily Nov 17, 2021 Theorists who assert that the motion picture is the most perfect medium yet devised by man by which to tell a story -- simply out of the pleasure of storytelling -- will find one of the strongest to date in Sam Spiegel's The Bridge on the River Kwai. Go to Full Review The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 96% 93%

Lester Dinoff Motion Picture Daily Oct 18, 2021 Absorbing throughout its entirety, Chayefsky's creation is heart-warming and sensitive. Go to Full Review Marty (1955) 96% 87%

Sherwin Kane Motion Picture Daily Oct 11, 2021 Let it be said now that Miss Swanson's performance is fascinating and persuasive, certain to intrigue and captivate the oldsters, and to bemuse the latter day audience. Go to Full Review Sunset Boulevard (1950) 98% 95%

Red Kann Motion Picture Daily Sep 29, 2021 Here is a beautifully made attraction with an engrossing story, fine performances and top-level production values from go to finish. Go to Full Review Leave Her to Heaven (1945) 85% 86%

MPD Staff Motion Picture Daily Sep 28, 2021 Suspense-filled from beginning to end. Go to Full Review Them! (1954) 93% 77%