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Manny Farber

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The Big Heat (1953) 94% “The characters seem to be wrapped thinly around steaming amounts of vengeance, avarice, or cruelty, but Marvin and Ford make it a well-acted movie that offers interesting impressions of how a practical-minded American male operates in crises” – The Nation Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Strangers on a Train (1951) 98% “Hitchcock’s latest film, Strangers on a Train , is fun to watch if you check your intelligence at the box office.” – The Nation Jun 20, 2023 Full Review In Which We Serve (1942) 90% “One is aware from the start of this movie that it is something new, not done before... The content of each shot was conceived in a film sense rather than any other, and no other picture this year has equaled it. Not even nearly.” – The New Republic Mar 25, 2022 Full Review Casablanca (1942) 99% “Casablanca is as ineffectual as a Collier’s short story, but with one thing and another -- like Bergman, Veidt and Humphrey Bogart -- it is a pleasure of sorts.” – The New Republic Feb 18, 2022 Full Review Mrs. Miniver (1942) 93% “The picture is entertaining enough, but its cloying goodness will make you yourself feel like a problem child.” – The New Republic Jan 3, 2022 Full Review Crossfire (1947) 88% “[Crossfire] has the neatness of a Chiclet, the tone of a nickel, and the speed of a hiccup.” – The New Leader Nov 17, 2021 Full Review The Macomber Affair (1947) 67% “This movie suffocates you with Hemingway's puerile notions about what makes men heroes and cowards, and it will probably sell only the five-year-old yeggs in the audience.” – The New Leader Nov 17, 2021 Full Review Sunset Boulevard (1950) 98% “An uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.” – The Nation Oct 11, 2021 Full Review The Thing (1951) 87% “The Thing (from Another World) is a slick item thriftily combining a heavy science story with a pure adventure yarn for better than ordinary entertainment.” – The Nation Sep 21, 2021 Full Review The Little Fugitive (1953) 93% “The film pleased me for about five minutes, even though the plot seemed manufactured to permit yet another documentarist to shoot his favorite run-down American environment; then it disintegrated into a compromise with the truth.” – The Nation Sep 16, 2021 Full Review Lonelyhearts (1958) 70% “Lonelyhearts turns a revered novel of pessimism into a semi-optimistic newspaper story, confused in casting. rigid in story-telling, but mildly gripping because of its 온라인카지노추천-style intimacy and drive.” – The New Leader Sep 15, 2021 Full Review The Sound and the Fury (1959) 60% “In many ways, "Sound" is a bad joke... However, everything outside the story is sharply etched and fairly gripping for an opulent movie.” – The New Leader Sep 15, 2021 Full Review Rio Bravo (1959) 96% “Rio Bravo is a soft, slack, not very rousing Western by a man (Howard Hawks) who knows better, having supervised a nearly endless chain of masterful journey films.” – The New Leader Sep 15, 2021 Full Review The Hustler (1961) 94% “The Hustler is cut down to almost nothing by tons of pompous elegance (Paul Newman and male associates), and then intermittently saved by Miss Laurie's grace on top of inferiority, slackness and a willed driving towards self-destruction.” – The New Leader Sep 15, 2021 Full Review Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) 87% “There is one mannerism, a somber, time-devouring stare which [Albert Finney] wedges into each seduction, that destroys the credible surface of his characterization. It gives the role an inexplicable theatricality.” – The New Leader Sep 15, 2021 Full Review Wild Strawberries (1957) 94% “An eerie, felicitous opportunism steered this film -- just enough Freudian bitters, modern marriage, supernatural overcast, and "smashingly beautiful" postcards to provide a full matinee of culture for the expanding middlebrow-highbrow audience.” – The New Leader Sep 15, 2021 Full Review The Sun's Burial (1960) 60% “With the resilience missing, the flip motions only accentuate the supineness of the actors who, while trying for the shrill terror of a Goya drawing, resemble a subway vendor's jiggling dolls.” – The New Leader Sep 15, 2021 Full Review Splendor in the Grass (1961) 74% “Having finally ditched the boxed-in theatrical form, Kazan hurls his shrieking restlessness directly at the audience in what seems a last ditch effort to summon up the memorializing grandeur of latter-day George Stevens direction.” – The New Leader Sep 15, 2021 Full Review The 400 Blows (1959) 99% “Truffaut has a knack for communicating the uneasiness of life about him, of the fussy and despoiled, though too often he achieves it by diddling his people and situations annoyingly like a piano player stoically hitting the same sour note.” – The New Leader Sep 15, 2021 Full Review Walk East on Beacon (1952) “The movie has been turned into a crushing bore by a producer who is so dryly factual and absorbed with mechanical wonders that his movies would ring like an anvil if you bounced them.” – The Nation Sep 15, 2021 Full Review Carrie (1952) 75% “One has the feeling that the director is working with material that is as heavy and dignified as a Steinway grand inlaid with precious stones.” – The Nation Sep 15, 2021 Full Review The Sniper (1952) 83% “A smooth, technically astute, 100 per cent dull melodrama.” – The Nation Sep 15, 2021 Full Review The Pride of St. Louis (1952) “[An] ultra-civic-minded work manages to kill the idea of baseball as the national pastime.” – The Nation Sep 15, 2021 Full Review High Noon (1952) 95% “A movie which does take you into every part of the town and features features Cooper's beautiful rolling gait, but which reveals that someone spent too much time over the drawing board conceiving dramatic camera shots to cover up the lack of story.” – The Nation Sep 15, 2021 Full Review Outcast of the Islands (1952) “Carol Reed has created an exceptional film that entangles the spectator in tropical textures and worries him with the shame and guilt of a hero who betrays only his friends.” – The Nation Sep 15, 2021 Full Review
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