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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 The Young and the Damned (1950) 91% EDIT “[Luis Buñuel] meant to produce a savagely realistic film-document about juvenile delinquency in Mexico, and in that he certainly succeeded.” – Guardian Sep 19, 2022 Full Review High Noon (1952) 94% EDIT “Its one weakness is that a happy ending to the story is a little too easy to foresee; thus the suspense is weakened. Mr. Zinnemann, however, has been singularly successful with his character-sketches of the townsfolk.” – Guardian Sep 19, 2022 Full Review The Tall Men (1955) 78% EDIT “The Tall Men is a great big Cinemascopic Western, excellent in its way and helped by Clark Gable and Robert Ryan.” – Guardian Sep 14, 2022 Full Review Simon and Laura (1955) EDIT “The theme is old but it is very well dressed up in a new setting of television... Muriel Box, who directed it, makes it easy to forget that her film was adapted from a play; there is no staginess about it.” – Guardian Sep 14, 2022 Full Review La Strada (1954) 98% EDIT “This is an extraordinary film, a fierce tragedy but one which, for all its relentless realism, can be tender, pathetic, and, finally, touched with hope. It is a film which must not be missed.” – Guardian Sep 14, 2022 Full Review A Raisin in the Sun (1961) 90% EDIT “In short, the drama is essentially true, then it matters relatively little that the film looks and sounds too much like a play: it will still be of much more value than a film in which the technical efficiency is high and the human drama is slight.” – Guardian Aug 23, 2022 Full Review From Here to Eternity (1953) 88% EDIT “No doubt no army in a free country was at its best in pre-war years, but surely no unit of the American Army was quite so corrupt as this account would have us believe.” – Guardian Mar 15, 2022 Full Review The Apartment (1960) 93% EDIT “However funny Mr Lemmon may be this really is not a funny situation. ” – Guardian Mar 8, 2022 Full Review
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