2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
90%
“Notwithstanding the rather tiresome middle sections, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a sight for the eyes and a bolt to the cerebellum. The opening and the closing see to that.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Apr 9, 2025
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Only Yesterday (1933)
100%
“Only Yesterday is strictly Miss Sullavan's triumph. What it might have been without her cannot be truthfully estimated. With her, however, it is a vivid, arresting romantic tragedy, and it sparkles with the brilliance of a brilliant new star.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Apr 23, 2024
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White Heat (1949)
94%
“Although Mr. Raoul Walsh has directed the movie at an explosive gait, White Heat strangely enough has a number of dead spots, and frequently becomes just a little monotonous.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Apr 23, 2024
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The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
84%
“What with a couple of killings to solve, a romance to consummate and a flock of laughs to produce, The Mad Miss Manton gets along very well, thank you.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Apr 22, 2024
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The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
100%
“This much is certain, the ways of the ancient Keystone Kops have been carefully studied and diligently absorbed here. ” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Apr 17, 2024
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Law and Order (1932)
89%
“Law and Order, of course, belongs to the old Western school of ten, twent' and thirt' melodramas, but there is still something altogether fascinating about its robust heartiness, the manner in which it goes about its business of blood and thunder.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Apr 16, 2024
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National Velvet (1944)
98%
“Mr. Clarence Brown has directed it in such a refreshing burst of good will and with such a staunch belief in the faith of adolescents that the strains of the imagination dissolve into nothingness. ” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Mar 26, 2024
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State Fair (1933)
100%
“Director King captures a vivid atmosphere at the outset and he is constantly manufacturing a picture that is already indelibly etched in the minds of all who have ever attended one of these rural revels.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Nov 10, 2023
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
86%
“While The Bitter Tea of General Yen is a distinguished photoplay in many respects, its chief virtue is in the acting of Mr. Nils Asther, one of the cinema's forgotten men.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Apr 25, 2023
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The Dark Angel (1935)
94%
“A touching, sentimental fable that quietly and placidly makes a weeping willow of eve n the least susceptible. ” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Mar 10, 2023
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Sayonara (1957)
82%
“An entertainment with a big heart.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Mar 2, 2023
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Back to Bataan (1945)
86%
“Back to Bataan is a bang-up show and a bitter . memory, its hair-raising thrills tempered by its aching terrors.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Feb 1, 2023
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Diabolique (1955)
95%
“If somebody insists, against all warnings, on telling you how Diabolique comes out, kill him in cold blood. There isn't a jury in the land that would convict you. ” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Jan 31, 2023
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Frankenstein (1931)
94%
“It is all hooey, to be sure, hooey of the simplest sort, but it has been so expertly assembled and so smartly dressed that it becomes a fine example of the school of the cinema that seeks to shiver and not convince. ” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Jan 18, 2023
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The Lady Eve (1941)
99%
“It's fast, funny and comically naughty, and Preston Sturges, who's growing up to be a genius, has turned Barbara Stanwyck into a senior member of the Lana Turner set and Henry Fonda into -- surprise! surprise! -- a grand slapstick comedian.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Dec 29, 2022
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
97%
“Never has the cinema witnessed anything quite like this unbelievably bewitching fantasy, this captivating, lovely classic touched with agelessness.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Dec 21, 2022
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Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
82%
“The shoulder Gentleman's Agreement talks directly from has no chip on it, but it wears an epaulet of courage and straightens up in an eloquent plea for the common decency all mankind is heir to.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Nov 16, 2022
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
99%
“John Huston has not only whipped up a crackling screenplay but he has also turned right around and directed it like an Alfred Hitchcock. You can't just say Mr. Walter Huston's son is going places: he's already there. ” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Nov 11, 2022
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Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
99%
“Meet Me in St. Louis is probably the pleasantest family album Hollywood has ever thumbed through. Its pages are encrusted in charm and old rose leaves.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Nov 10, 2022
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King Kong (1933)
97%
“Mr. Cooper and Mr. Schoedsack may take a deserving bow for their latest work. It is a wild-eyed study in delirium tremens and at the same time an expert example of inspired foolishness.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Nov 10, 2022
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
97%
“We never knew Mr. Stewart had It in him. His Mr. Smith is by all odds the top performance of the year so far and, once again, the Academy can close its polls right now.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Nov 9, 2022
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The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
99%
“It has nothing except a series of moods, but they're priceless moods, spun into piquant fabrics by Miss Margaret Sullavan and Mr. James Stewart and Mr. Frank Morgan and Mr. Felix Bressart, and embroidered by the unmistakable fancy-work of Mr. Lubitsch.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Nov 8, 2022
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Stalag 17 (1953)
91%
“In Stalag 17 a crackling good movie has been fashioned from a crackling good play.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Nov 5, 2022
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Shanghai Express (1932)
96%
“You can feel the whole thing surging forward like a mighty steam-roller, vivid and exciting, beating headlong into a stirring crescendo that tinkles notes of accented harmony.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Oct 21, 2022
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Cobra Woman (1944)
73%
“Silly, however, isn't quite the word for Cobra Woman, it's downright half-witted. The whole thing has been pasted together with paper and spit.” –
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Sep 20, 2022
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