The Searchers (1956)
87%
“John Ford symbolizes an age of Hollywood, the one when good health prevailed over intelligence, craftiness over sincerity. This age has gone; Elia Kazan's and Nicholas Ray's movies make more money than John Ford's, poetry triumphs over entertainment.” –
Arts (France)
Mar 25, 2024
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Savage Wilderness (1955)
“More clever than John Ford, Anthony Mann makes westerns less literary and less theatrical but more subtle. The characters seem more real and the relationships between them more true.” –
Arts (France)
Feb 14, 2024
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Moby Dick (1956)
81%
“Too often, John Huston offers us, instead of creatures made of flesh and blood, only colorless beings who come onto the screen to deliver one or two aphorisms before going out of focus.” –
Arts (France)
Feb 14, 2024
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Pardners (1956)
“Ferociously misogynous... The trick is thus to pretend the gagman are making fun of Jerry Lewis, but, by means of his eccentricities, women and children first are held up to ridicule. ” –
Arts (France)
May 26, 2022
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Sailor Beware (1952)
“The film may give back some confidence to American -- and other -- spectators who are deprived of physical attractiveness by nature. Therein lies the objective of this new comic strategy. ” –
Cahiers du Cinéma
May 26, 2022
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Lifeboat (1944)
90%
“Lifeboat is like roast beef without gravy, and whoever does not get enthusiastic about the movie will be bored to death.” –
Arts (France)
May 26, 2022
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Never Let Me Go (1953)
“In spite of the scoffers, I don't see anything extravagant here, nor anything you don't already know if you've already watched a few Russian films. ” –
Cahiers du Cinéma
May 26, 2022
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The Caine Mutiny (1954)
95%
“The Caine Mutiny can be watched without regrets.” –
Arts (France)
May 10, 2022
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The Narrow Margin (1952)
100%
“The Narrow Margin... is charged with very moral nitroglycerine but confers a grace that any sweaty driver of a heavy, slow-moving vehicle might envy.” –
Cahiers du Cinéma
May 10, 2022
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Sudden Fear (1952)
92%
“Outside of two very short but fairly unpleasing sequences, there is not a shot in this film that isn’t necessary to its dramatic progression. Not a shot, either, that isn’t fascinating and doesn’t make us think it is a masterpiece of filmmaking.” –
Cahiers du Cinéma
May 10, 2022
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Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
60%
“Jack Webb is a filmmaker who is more skillful than gifted, more sincere than brilliant, more likeable than prestigious. Which is to say that his film is nice to see.” –
Arts (France)
May 10, 2022
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Rhapsody (1954)
“The dullness of Rhapsody leads one to think that Charles Vidor only gave his signature to the pleasant movie Gilda, with cameraman Rudy Mate probably being the real auteur.” –
Arts (France)
May 10, 2022
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Rebecca (1940)
98%
“Rebecca has to be seen. Above all, it has to be seen a second time.” –
Arts (France)
May 9, 2022
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Queen Bee (1955)
“The acting is not absolutely bad, but weak, very weak, including Joan Crawford’s... Not only is the mise- en-scene clumsy but also, because of its solemn awkwardness, it curbs the timid impulses of the script [and] dulls the rare clever details.” –
Arts (France)
May 9, 2022
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The Long Wait (1954)
“Abysmal, of course, but, let’s admit it, not boring for a second.” –
Arts (France)
May 6, 2022
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Remains to Be Seen (1953)
“[A] charming film.” –
Cahiers du Cinéma
May 6, 2022
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Man in the Dark (1953)
“It is amusing to note that the only effective scene from the point of view of subjectivity is the scenic railway, shot with an ordinary camera with the help of a transparency.” –
Cahiers du Cinéma
May 6, 2022
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The Las Vegas Story (1952)
“Everyone in Paris has already been talking about this car-helicopter chase. Is it necessary to make a special trip for this last quarter-hour, and for that quarter-hour, endure four more of equal dullness? I don’t think so.” –
Cahiers du Cinéma
May 6, 2022
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The Price of Fear (1956)
“The Price of Fear isn’t worth the price you have to pay for your seat, and if it makes you laugh, it’s without meaning to.” –
Arts (France)
May 6, 2022
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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948)
“I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes is one of those films you go see while expecting the worst; it’s the strength of American cinema to hold out a couple of nice surprises of this sort fairly regularly.” –
Arts (France)
May 6, 2022
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King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
“A bad American film goes over better than a bad French film. King Richard and the Crusaders confirms this. A childish scenario, simplistic dialogues. Who cares, since the rhythm does not falter, since the color is gay and the scenario correct?” –
Arts (France)
May 6, 2022
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Marguerite of the Night (1955)
“It’s not worthwhile to elaborate on this aberrant enterprise, which conjures up the word “dismaying” and related words.” –
La Parisienne
May 6, 2022
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Lola Montes (1955)
82%
“The most exciting film of the year. The CinemaScope, the color, the construction of the script, the dialogue here undergoes such a revolutionary treatment that Lola Montes's influence will be visible in many films during the years to come.” –
La Parisienne
May 6, 2022
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The Swindle (1955)
100%
“Federico Fellini’s new film may be his best; the fact remains that one can unveil in this film every quality of I Vitelloni and La Strada without the lopsided aspect of the first one or the sentimentality of the second.” –
La Parisienne
May 6, 2022
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Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
93%
“Nicholas Ray is the best current American director. Nobody can doubt it after seeing Rebel without a Cause, a heart-rending film in which James Dean repeats, while expanding upon it, his surprising achievement in East of Eden.” –
La Parisienne
May 6, 2022
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