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Ronald Bergan

Ronald Bergan's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Living Dead (1934) 4/5 EDIT “Set in a shadowy England, it was based on two Edgar Allan Poe stories and one from Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club.” – Radio Times Oct 15, 2025 Full Review The Man With a Movie Camera (1929) 98% 5/5 EDIT “Indeed, it's the camera that is the hero of this influential documentary. ” – Radio Times Aug 17, 2024 Full Review The Jazz Singer (1927) 77% 3/5 EDIT “It is Jolson's dynamic singing... recorded by the Vitaphone process on disc and synchronised to the action, that breathes life into a movie whose pioneering aspect is its main interest.” – Radio Times Feb 24, 2021 Full Review Haxan (1922) 93% 4/5 EDIT “[An] illuminating, frightening and amusing film.” – Radio Times Oct 8, 2020 Full Review Hamlet (1964) 100% 4/5 EDIT “It may lack the depth of other film versions, but the images, enriched by the dramatic Shostokovich music, are bold and powerful...” – Radio Times Nov 20, 2019 Full Review Blind Husbands (1919) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Cynical, witty and erotic.” – Radio Times Nov 12, 2019 Full Review O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) 78% 4/5 EDIT “The movie also contrives to encapsulate every con-on-the-run picture one has ever seen, as well as southern period crime dramas. Yet again, the Coens' cinematic alchemy has worked a treat.” – Radio Times Jun 7, 2018 Full Review Spirits of the Dead (1968) 86% 4/5 EDIT “Out of the three episodes based on the macabre tales by Edgar Allan Poe, the third -- the only modern-day one, directed by Federico Fellini -- is far and away the best.” – Radio Times Oct 18, 2016 Full Review The Man Who Laughs (1928) 100% EDIT “The superb German actor Conrad Veidt plays the pathetic protagonist, while Mary Philbin, whose most celebrated screen role was opposite another physically damaged hero in The Phantom of the Opera, is extremely touching as his beloved.” – Radio Times Oct 17, 2016 Full Review The Marquise of O... (1976) 80% 4/5 EDIT “Without actual imitation, Rohmer and his cinematographer Nestor Almendros were inspired by German Romantic painters and bathe the neo-classical interiors in an unearthly light.” – Radio Times May 3, 2016 Full Review Master of the House (1925) 100% 5/5 EDIT “This domestic tragicomedy with a feminist slant was [Dreyer's] seventh feature and anticipates his greatest films.” – Radio Times Apr 10, 2016 Full Review The Struggle (1931) 29% 2/5 EDIT “Griffith turned it into a rather maudlin and naive morality tale -- though it didn't merit the hostile reviews that it initially received.” – Radio Times Apr 8, 2016 Full Review The Clowns (1970) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Italy's great ringmaster of the cinema returns to the source of his inspiration -- the circus -- and skilfully absorbs it into his own personal vision.” – Radio Times Mar 11, 2015 Full Review Playtime (1967) 98% 5/5 EDIT “It took Jacques Tati close to ten years to realise his greatest achievement, but it left him virtually broke. No wonder.” – Radio Times Nov 7, 2014 Full Review The Cat and the Canary (1927) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Moodily shot, this classic "old dark house" picture is played mostly for laughs.” – Radio Times Oct 20, 2014 Full Review Cabiria (1914) 93% 4/5 EDIT “The international success of this Italian spectacle, the longest and most expensive motion picture made up to that date, allowed DW Griffith to gain support for his large-scale projects.” – Radio Times Aug 12, 2014 Full Review Voyage to Italy (1953) 96% 3/5 EDIT “If one accepts the narrative simplicity and that the journey is both physical and spiritual, the film offers many rewards.” – Radio Times May 16, 2013 Full Review The Flowers of War (2011) 41% EDIT “A waste of money and 140 minutes of one's time.” – House Next Door Feb 14, 2012 Full Review Captured (2012) EDIT “English is the lingua franca of Brillante Mendoza's The Captive, which seems to have been directed by his younger brother, Mediocre Mendoza.” – House Next Door Feb 14, 2012 Full Review
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