Otis Ferguson
The New Republic
May 8, 2024
Gone with the Wind stands around on its own foot purely out of size and story complexity... They threw in many good things, and everything else but a towel.
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Mark Johnson
Awards Daily
Jun 8, 2023
The performances, set designs, costumes, Technicolor photography, and Max Steiner’s exhilarating score keep this film as bewildering and extravagant a film today as it ever was.
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Brian Eggert
Deep Focus Review
Mar 18, 2022
4/4
It remains the most seen film in cinema history, not only because Selznick produced a monumental motion picture of immaculate quality, but because he knew how to sell it as an event.
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W. Ward Marsh
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Feb 5, 2022
The entire cast is about as flawless as I have ever seen in one picture.
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Alex Maidy
JoBlo's Movie Network
May 4, 2021
It is a film so misguided and ignorant that odds are that if you have seen it, you likely only remember one or two iconic scenes and have nary a recollection of the rest. Gone With The Wind is quite literally not worth giving a damn.
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Tom Meek
Cambridge Day
Aug 7, 2020
3/4
One of the first technicolor films made by Hollywood, the panning shot of injured and dead soldiers littering a street remains unforgettable...
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Joanne Laurier
World Socialist Web Site
Aug 7, 2020
3/4
One of the first technicolor films made by Hollywood, the panning shot of injured and dead soldiers littering a street remains unforgettable...
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Mike Massie
Gone With The Twins
Jul 27, 2020
10/10
No other movie has had quite the impact, the influence, or the epic feel (perhaps as only a nearly four-hour-long production could create) of this unmistakable masterpiece.
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Otis Stuart
OutWeek
May 20, 2020
True to the book, the film of Gone With The Wind is held together by its heroine.
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Matt Neal
ABC Radio (Australia)
May 12, 2020
5/5
"Hey kids, wanna watch a four-hour-long romantic melodrama, told from the sympathetic perspective of the racist slave owners who lost the Civil War?"
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Aurelio Pego
Cine-Mundial
Apr 3, 2020
Victor Fleming's direction has abundant artistic successes. [Full review in Spanish]
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Jay Carmody
Washington Star
Feb 6, 2020
In casting Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara, Clark Gable as RhettButler, Olivia De Havilland as Melanie and Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes, [David O. Selznick] brought the major characters to life just as they existed in the book.
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Nelson Burns (Te Pana)
Courier Mail (Australia)
Feb 5, 2020
Miss Mitchell used 475,000 words to tell her story. Three hours 45 minutes is not a second too long in which to recount it in the film transcription.
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SMH Staff
Sydney Morning Herald
Feb 5, 2020
Clark Gable sends a refreshing blast of cynicism through a narrative which otherwise would have been over-sweet.
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Eugene H. Huffman
California Eagle
Sep 30, 2019
This danger-fraught material should be left to inspired writers... Mediocre reactionary writers shouldn't play around with so much dynamite for the mere sake of giving the sensation-loving masses a thrill.
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Meyer Levin (Patterson Murphy)
Esquire Magazine
Sep 20, 2019
The only help we can give [a future researcher] is to explain that the burning question of our day was not a question of the value of this work as a piece of historic documentation: our public was concerned chiefly with the techniques of histrionic art.
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Dwight MacDonald
Esquire Magazine
Jul 30, 2019
It's corny and blowsy and phony, the slide trombone in the cinematic orchestra, and yet it is not boring.
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Rachel Wagner
rachelsreviews.net
Apr 4, 2019
B
I enjoy watching it but I acknowledge all those flaws.
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Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
Jan 29, 2019
4/4
"Gone With the Wind" offers the kind of big, rich, opulent experience the movies are in a unique position to offer but seldom do.
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Isabel Quigly
The Spectator
Jan 29, 2019
For anyone older who wants a reminiscent trip into the early war years, and how it felt to look at someone else's high-coloured war when you had no idea what your own was bringing, again this is it.
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