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A Face in the Crowd (1957) 95% EDIT “Technically parts of it are as exciting as anything Kazan had done, and if the satire is sometimes too loud and angry to be coherent, at least it makes a stimulating change.” – Guardian Feb 5, 2026 Full Review The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 93% EDIT “It is pleasant to find that for once Hollywood should allow a Martian to be not an inevitable enemy, but a potential friend and no doubt it is salutary to be reminded that should such a friend arrive on earth almost everyone would treat him as an enemy. ” – Guardian Jan 16, 2026 Full Review A Place in the Sun (1951) 90% EDIT “George Stevens' film contains no perceptible social message and only a superficial concern with Dreiser's problem of guilt and innocence.” – Guardian Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Out of the Past (1947) 87% EDIT “"Build My Gallows High" is not a bad film as American films go in these days.” – Guardian Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Hell Is Sold Out (1951) EDIT “It is a pity that Hell is Sold Out... has such an improbable plot, since it contains some competent performances.” – Guardian Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Alice in Wonderland (1951) 83% EDIT “This is very good Disney, but Carroll remains unadaptable to his Technicolored whimsies. Nonsense is unsentimental, and so are Alice's strict practicalities, but Disney is ruthless and sends Alice out singing in a moonlit glade with starry-eyed animals.” – Guardian Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) 93% EDIT “It is admirably acted and some attempt is made to show the various impulses that drive men to the ill-paid dangers of espionage.” – Guardian Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 75% EDIT “140 minutes of all this left me feeling that my brain must have suffered a surfeit of oxygen.” – Guardian Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Born Yesterday (1950) 95% EDIT “A brilliantly accomplished comedy actress: the lines which [Holliday] has to deliver in her vacant, brittle little voice are wickedly barbed. ” – Guardian Oct 13, 2025 Full Review Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1995) 48% EDIT “TV movie veteran Bradford May gamely tries to match Raimi's breath-taking visuals.” – Guardian Sep 16, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% EDIT “The gaping holes in the ensuing plot are only made more evident by yards of "medical" mumbo-jumbo and non-stop accompaniment of deafening noise and music. ” – Guardian Aug 27, 2025 Full Review White Heat (1949) 94% EDIT “Rarely was a crime film so full of ingenious devices for catching the criminal.” – Guardian Apr 22, 2024 Full Review The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) 100% EDIT “The director and his script-writer have, in fact, proved once Gin that fanciful film craft is much less important than a good story and that the secret of the success of Ealing Studios is that they persist in daring to be insular. ” – Guardian Apr 17, 2024 Full Review Sabrina (1954) 89% EDIT “Mr. Wilder, as a rule, specializes in the most caustic screen commentaries on our life and times: here he shows that he can excel, too, in that lush, whimsical, fairy-tale kind of comedy.” – Guardian Mar 28, 2024 Full Review State Fair (1933) 100% EDIT “This is such a sensible, sympathetic film, so delicately told.” – Guardian Nov 10, 2023 Full Review Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) 88% EDIT “The film... has some good lines and songs and, in its brash, overblown way, is not bad fun. ” – Guardian Mar 7, 2023 Full Review Sayonara (1957) 82% EDIT “It is no bad film.” – Guardian Mar 2, 2023 Full Review Flower Drum Song (1961) 79% EDIT “This film is not especially distinguished but would make a pleasant evening. ” – Guardian Feb 27, 2023 Full Review Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) 89% EDIT “... Even in an idiom in which American players can be expected to do well, the cast do still better than might be expected, and the script itself maintains more than ordinary sense and sensibility. ” – Guardian Feb 8, 2023 Full Review Diabolique (1955) 95% EDIT “Les Diaboliques might in fact be best regarded as a deliberate essay in the manner of a Hitchcock thriller -- except that, by comparison, even the toughest of Hitchcock's films seems gentle and kind.” – Guardian Jan 26, 2023 Full Review Frankenstein (1931) 94% EDIT “Remarkably mild and unfrightening... What was a daring feat in Mary Shelley's day has become almost a commonplace in the achievements of the screen. ” – Guardian Jan 13, 2023 Full Review Gentleman's Agreement (1947) 82% EDIT “It makes the question far too simple. You do not explain anti-Semitism, much less help to reduce it, simply by saying that it is silly, objectionable, cowardly. Anti-Semitism is all of these things, but its roots are not to be pulled up so easily.” – Guardian Nov 16, 2022 Full Review Stalag 17 (1953) 91% EDIT “[Wilder] seems to be unaware that realism without pity is not only ugly but also, in the long run, deadly dull.” – Guardian Nov 5, 2022 Full Review Java Head (1934) 71% EDIT “John Loder as the sailor husband and Elizabeth Allen as the English girl complete a cast that is both pleasant to hear and see.” – Guardian Oct 21, 2022 Full Review Village of the Damned (1960) 93% EDIT “The story is most ingenious and is told by Wolf Rilla with just the right laconic touch. ” – Guardian Sep 28, 2022 Full Review
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