Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows
Critics list

David Mermelstein

David Mermelstein's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Publications:

Reviews

Movies 온라인카지노추천 Shows
Manon of the Spring (1986) 78% ““Jean de Florette” and “Manon of the Spring” stay with us mostly because of their sobering object lessons -- and the sense that unseen fate hovers over all our lives.” – Wall Street Journal Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Jean de Florette (1986) 92% “What can be discussed freely are the extraordinary performances that Berri coaxed from a cast that could not be bettered. ” – Wall Street Journal Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Autumn Tale (1998) 95% ““A Tale of Autumn”, set amid the wine culture of the Rhône Valley, looks at love from a more mature perspective, or at least an older one. ” – Wall Street Journal Feb 17, 2024 Full Review A Summer's Tale (1996) 98% “But all four [Four Seasons] share Rohmer’s principal preoccupation: the continuing quest for romantic ideals, along with the mess people often make when pursuing them.” – Wall Street Journal Feb 17, 2024 Full Review A Winter's Tale (1992) 96% “Félicie's (Charlotte Véry) naïve pining gets annoying, but Rohmer’s deft handling of faith (he was a devout Catholic all his life) effectively transcends the probable for something much more satisfying.” – Wall Street Journal Feb 17, 2024 Full Review A Tale of Springtime (1989) 88% “Rohmer’s talky films are filled with all manner of assertions about the most basic of human relationships—to say nothing of frequent flights into more cerebral topics. But the abundant dialogue is also often pointedly funny...” – Wall Street Journal Feb 17, 2024 Full Review The Train (1965) 94% “The movie’s central moral question -- Can we justify the loss of human life to save inanimate objects? -- remains as potent as ever. And one of this film’s greatest attributes is that it leaves the answer to the viewer.” – Wall Street Journal Sep 29, 2023 Full Review Kalpana (1948) “So accomplished is the effort -- with tableaux inspired by Sergei Eisenstein and Fritz Lang -- that it’s hard to believe this was Shankar’s first movie. It was also, sadly for us, his last.” – Wall Street Journal Sep 29, 2022 Full Review Chess of the Wind (1976) 100% “Happenstance alone saved this movie from oblivion, and how lucky we are for it—a moody tale of ugly family and class dynamics, reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe, complete with an utterly unexpected, numbing final shot.” – Wall Street Journal Sep 29, 2022 Full Review Two Girls on the Street (1939) “This film’s strong proto-feminist stance... proves its biggest draw. Well, that and its documentary depiction of the sparkling Hungarian capital before wartime devastation.” – Wall Street Journal Sep 29, 2022 Full Review The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) 73% “What's astonishing is the way that Kobayashi juggles the complicated narrative, with its panoply of incidents and significant characters (friends, nemeses and everything in between), so that clarity is never compromised.” – Wall Street Journal Jun 10, 2021 Full Review The Ape (1940) 43% “Boris Karloff is the prime draw in The Ape, even if this 62-minute effort, co-written by horrormeister Curt Siodmak, is largely unworthy of its star.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 29, 2020 Full Review Curse of the Undead (1959) “With its eerie, electric-violin heavy score and noirish lighting, it casts a potent spell” – Wall Street Journal Oct 29, 2020 Full Review The Face at the Window (1939) “A romance lies at the heart of this 65-minute potboiler, set in Belle Époque Paris and directed by George King with fine distinction drawn between the high and low life depicted.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 29, 2020 Full Review Pixote (1980) 94% “A tour-de-force from Brazil that brought its director and co-writer, Héctor Babenco, international celebrity. Forty years on, the film packs no less a gut punch than on its initial release.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 1, 2020 Full Review Two Monks (1934) “It opens, and closes, in a Mexican monastery, a startling example of gothic Expressionism right out of the F.W. Murnau or Robert Wiene playbook. But in between lies a classic melodrama.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 1, 2020 Full Review Oh, Sun! (1970) “A combination of pure documentary and improvisation, the film lacks a conventional plot but offers instead many gripping scenes.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 1, 2020 Full Review Downpour (1972) “What appears to be just a charming comic romance is in fact a sober indictment of life in shah-era Tehran. And the film's conclusion is shattering.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 1, 2020 Full Review Lucia (1968) 89% “It's not just Cuba that's changing in this black-and-white epic (the first two episodes contain gripping battle scenes); it's also the role of women.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 1, 2020 Full Review Paths of Glory (1957) 96% “More than 20 years after Mr. Cobb's novel was first published, Mr. Kubrick reminded us that human folly is rarely checked for long. A half-century on, he is still right.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 26, 2013 Full Review The Cider House Rules (1999) 71% “Hallstrm has given us John Irving defanged, and what's the point in that?” – IFilm Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Ride With the Devil (1999) 64% “James Schamus' flat, arid screenplay only further undermines this intimate tale.” – IFilm Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Topsy-Turvy (1999) 90% “Just watching this film offers its own rewards.” – IFilm Jan 1, 2000 Full Review
No Reviews Yet
Load More