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The Defiant Ones (1958) 90% “No one, clearly, was able to foresee what Poitier would do with his role -- nor was anyone, thereafter, able to undo it -- and his performance, which lends the film its only real distinction, also, paradoxically, smashes it to pieces.” – The Devil Finds Work May 1, 2024 Full Review The Exorcist (1973) 78% “The mindless and hysterical banality of the evil presented in The Exorcist is the most terrifying thing about the film. The Americans should cer­tainly know more about evil than that; if they pre­tend otherwise, they are lying.” – The Devil Finds Work May 1, 2024 Full Review I Spit on Your Grave (1959) “An utterly cynical use of the name of Boris Vian, the young Frenchman who wrote the novel on which the film is emphatically not based.” – The Devil Finds Work May 1, 2024 Full Review Fury (1936) 94% “It is meant to be a study of mob violence, on which level it is indignant, sincere, and inept.” – The Devil Finds Work May 1, 2024 Full Review Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 93% “It may be said that the weary melancholy underlying Lawrence of Arabia stems from the stupefying apprehension that, whereas England may have been doomed to civilize the world, no power under heaven can civilize England.” – The Devil Finds Work May 1, 2024 Full Review My Son John (1952) 40% “Nothing can possibly redeem so grisly a species of sentimental dishonesty, but Robert Walker's gleefully vicious parody of the wayward American son does a great deal to demystify it.” – The Devil Finds Work May 1, 2024 Full Review Lady Sings the Blues (1972) 71% “It has absolutely nothing to do with Billie, or with jazz, or any other kind of music, or the risks of an artist, or American life, or black life, or narcotics, or the narcotics laws, or clubs, or managers, or policemen, or despair, or love.” – The Devil Finds Work May 1, 2024 Full Review Dead End (1937) 83% “The severity of the social situation which Dead End so romanticizes (somewhat like its direct descendant, West Side Story) utterly precludes the innocence of its heroine.” – The Devil Finds Work Jan 17, 2024 Full Review You Only Live Once (1937) 100% “Lang's concern, or obsession, was with the fact and the effect of human loneliness, and the ways in which we are all responsible for the creation, and the fate, of the isolated monster: whom we isolate because we recognize him as living within us.” – The Devil Finds Work Jan 17, 2024 Full Review Carmen Jones (1954) 75% “The tone of Carmen Jones is Stifling: a wedding of the blank, lofty solemnity with which Hollywood so often approaches "works of art" and the really quite helpless condescension with which Hollywood has always handled [Black life].” – Commentary Magazine Sep 30, 2019 Full Review Porgy and Bess (1959) 71% “In short, the saddest and most infuriating thing about the Hollywood production of Porgy and Bess is that Mr. Otto Preminger has a great many gifted people in front of his camera and not the remotest notion of what to do with any of them.” – Commentary Magazine Sep 30, 2019 Full Review
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