The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
84%
“This daft piece adds up to fair entertainment. Its mystery is as tangled as its characters; but every one has a lovely time -- except the two corpses.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Apr 22, 2024
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The Big Heat (1953)
94%
“[The Big Heat] has cast its sordid people skilfully -- including Jeannette Nolan's woman blackmailer. Glenn Ford settles for a mood of tough resignation all the way through.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Mar 28, 2024
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National Velvet (1944)
98%
“Except for prettying-up the vollage and the cottage, M.G.M's production is excellent -- and that goes particularly for the countryside exteriors.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Mar 26, 2024
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Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)
89%
“Mickey Rooney is flawless in his character as the battered little trainer, never forgetting the naturalist style of the film. ” –
The Sun-Herald (Australia)
Feb 7, 2023
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Back to Bataan (1945)
86%
“Result: A film that is coldly tingling in its fighting scenes, and highly embarrassing in its personal angles.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Feb 1, 2023
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
97%
“Like all fairy-tales, Snow White has its moments of grim terror and of high excitement. I have already been asked if it is "suitable for children." It is certainly suitable, magically, and somehow movingly suitable for adults.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Dec 21, 2022
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
99%
“It is a shockingly brilliant job of production, and, for its effect on the watcher, "gripping" is too wan a word.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Nov 16, 2022
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Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
99%
“[The] Smith home, with its plush parlor - where Margaret does the Cakewalk; its steamy kitchen - where the family fusses over the preserves; its vine-wreathed porch - where the elder daughters pose for their beaus, is as enchanting as your family album.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Nov 10, 2022
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
97%
“Jimmy's staunch honesty, his fumbling integrity -- and his lovable
naivete -- have salty contrasts. Jean Arthur Whips through the character of cynical secretary: she begins by wisecracking over Mr. Smith: ends by loving him.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Nov 9, 2022
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The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
99%
“Ernst Lubitsch has directed the thing delicately, deftly, managing its large amount of sweet humor with a careful eye for the critical palate.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Nov 8, 2022
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Cobra Woman (1944)
73%
“This has the most fantastic story, pictorial beauty, and extravagant costuming in the whole history of those Preposterous Isles, of which Maria Montez is Queen. ” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Sep 21, 2022
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The Wizard of Oz (1939)
98%
“Judy Garland takes the farm-kid Dorothy as a natural, and adds three hit songs. Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion has the gusty verve of a Bowery comedian. Dancer Ray Bolster invests the Scarecrow with a lunatic charm.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Oct 14, 2021
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Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
85%
“The film's strongest impression remains the rainbow variety of those glorious Technicolor interiors, those gorgeous clothes, and those spellbinding homes... The romantic will adore it, perhaps; but why handle a monster-melodrama like a musical?” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Sep 29, 2021
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Them! (1954)
93%
“The monsters are certainly a homely change -- 15-foot ants from earth, instead of Outer Space, invaders in tatty fancy-dress. James Whitmore's cop is lively, and Edmund Gwenn's scientist lectures with feeling.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Sep 28, 2021
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Seconds (1966)
79%
“On the surface, this chilling film is a most stylish piece of horror. Its underlying and saddening truth makes it into a moral nightmare.” –
Sydney Morning Herald
Sep 23, 2021
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Gun Crazy (1950)
91%
“[This] little melodrama, as lurid in sex and action as they come, contains the best chase-stuff of the year.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Sep 15, 2021
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The Boy With Green Hair (1948)
80%
“Young Dean Stockwell shows amazing thought and skill in playing The Boy With the Green Hair -- shown off admirably in the film's Technicolor.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Jul 21, 2021
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The Pearl (1947)
90%
“The film is full of vivid and heartrending scenes, in which Armendariz shows a flawless sense of character.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Jul 19, 2021
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The Philadelphia Story (1940)
100%
“I haven't enjoyed a film so much in years. It is light, sophisticated comedy -- and how sophisticated!” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Jun 10, 2021
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Citizen Kane (1941)
99%
“Welles is the most exciting thing that's happened since sound.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Jun 10, 2021
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Victory Through Air Power (1943)
“For the non-technically minded, its appeal is problematical. Regarded purely as a film production, it is a technical fascination.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
May 26, 2021
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Wings Over the Pacific (1943)
“Moronic.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
May 26, 2021
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Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
“George Cukor, losing his head completely, makes the cast go slapstick whenever there is nothing else happening -- and there generally isn't.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
May 26, 2021
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Saludos Amigos (1942)
82%
“Walt Disney's trip to South America for material has pro vided this ingenious piece -- more of a sketch-book than a film.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
May 26, 2021
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The Women (1939)
94%
“he rocking laughter is won by Rosalind Russell, as that malicious female, Sylvia. No trouble for Rosalind to filch the picture from the rest.” –
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
May 25, 2021
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