Fernando F. Croce
Tomatometer-approved critic
Starman (1984)
84%
“An insipid New Age Gospel dried up by Carpenter's crispness, generosity and weirdness. ” –
CinePassion
May 12, 2025
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At Long Last Love (1975)
23%
“The celluloid Thirties as an incantation of affecting clumsiness, fabricated facsimiles and authentic melancholy for a lost genre. ” –
CinePassion
Mar 15, 2025
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The Yakuza (1974)
47%
“Mitchum and Takakura Ken forge a moving sense of mutual admiration for each other’s honor codes and life-worn experience.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 25, 2025
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Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966)
100%
“The recurring vision of the staring blonde child comes from Flemish painting, the early image of sundry crucifixes like mushrooms on a mossy boulder comes from Mario Bava.” –
CinePassion
Sep 27, 2024
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Home (2008)
93%
3/4
“Home is finally hopeful in its view of familial bonds holding together as the characters are forced to face the far from idealized world they are inescapably a part of.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 29, 2024
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The Last Picture Show (1971)
98%
“The Fifties vu par the Seventies, the Texas backwater shot like a vintage backlot. ” –
CinePassion
Oct 24, 2023
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
86%
“Capra [is] not out of his element but rather in a sustained state of discovery.” –
CinePassion
Apr 24, 2023
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Diabolique (1955)
95%
“Clouzot's clammy virtuosity builds to a scabrous coup de théâtre with a rattling typewriter ahead of The Shining, unmistakably emulated in Young's Wait Until Dark. ” –
CinePassion
Jan 26, 2023
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Frankenstein (1931)
94%
“"The great ray that first brought life into the world" lends a divine elation quickly faded, what's left is the wrathful bewilderment of the shunned offspring, a magnificent pantomime by Karloff. ” –
CinePassion
Jan 12, 2023
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The Lady Eve (1941)
99%
“A comedy of famous perfections, of the pratfall that seasons the shimmering repartee, of the magical character actors who crowd the frame as if in a Phiz illustration.” –
CinePassion
Dec 28, 2022
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The Seventh Continent (1989)
2/4
“Michael Haneke could be cinema’s Debbie Downer, if only he had any sense of humor.” –
Slant Magazine
Dec 16, 2022
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King Kong (1933)
97%
“An inexhaustible fountain of pulp poetry, erected by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack on the divide between documentarian and fantasist. ” –
CinePassion
Nov 8, 2022
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Stalag 17 (1953)
91%
“The road ahead leads to The Bridge on the River Kwai on one side, MASH on the other.” –
CinePassion
Nov 4, 2022
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Cobra Woman (1944)
73%
“Smack in the middle of this gaudy artifice, a cinéma-vérité portrait of the inept diva blissfully playacting, a queen in her own mind.” –
CinePassion
Sep 20, 2022
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“With Rio Grande and Wagon Master, the last third of John Ford's unofficial musical trilogy of 1950” –
CinePassion
Apr 8, 2021
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Moon Over Harlem (1939)
33%
“A ragged wonder.” –
CinePassion
Jan 26, 2021
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The Man With the Golden Arm (1955)
81%
“A midpoint for [Preminger] between noir impressionism and hot-button topicality.” –
CinePassion
Dec 22, 2020
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The Champ (1931)
96%
“Not a "weepie" but an emotive examination of tangled milieus.” –
CinePassion
Dec 8, 2020
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Haxan (1922)
93%
“[Häxan alternates] between grave compassion and zesty exploitation.” –
CinePassion
Oct 8, 2020
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The Mummy (1932)
89%
“The most meditative of classic frights is an unanswerable drift of obsession, laid out by Karl Freund as a fugue of stillness and movement, indelibly embodied by Karloff as a decrepit vessel pulled onward by a wandering spirit's erotic torment.” –
CinePassion
Oct 8, 2020
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Joan the Maid: The Battles (1994)
86%
“A sublime corporeality informs Bonnaire's portrayal.” –
CinePassion
Jul 15, 2020
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Joan the Maid: The Prisons (1994)
88%
“A sublime corporeality informs Bonnaire's portrayal.” –
CinePassion
Jul 15, 2020
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Flesh & Blood (1985)
82%
“Religion and marriage and the very idea of heroism are hurled into Verhoeven's bestial pyre, his direction has the gift of overabundance -- the Spanish locations and castles teem with putrid lushness.” –
CinePassion
Mar 20, 2020
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The Cheat (1915)
90%
“[Cecil B. DeMille] understands the cinematic zones where the dueling impulses of prudery and titillation meet.” –
CinePassion
Nov 12, 2019
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La Caza (1966)
86%
“Shotguns and pistols, scopes and binoculars, rock 'n' roll and martial drums.” –
CinePassion
Sep 10, 2019
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