Juarez (1939)
71%
“The cast is as long as your arm, seven of them starring players in their own right; but William Dieterle was unable to bring out their natural talent: they are all right but seem scattered effects as people, uneasy in their lines and make-up.” –
The New Republic
May 23, 2024
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
100%
“This is no “Beast of Berlin,” but a statement of sober inevitable facts, so brilliantly realized that no one can hide from it; it happens before his eyes.” –
The New Republic
May 23, 2024
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Kitty Foyle (1940)
75%
“It is done with such earnestness as to be slow and talky at times, but since the girl in love is Ginger Rogers, the picture has its truth and beauty too.” –
The New Republic
May 23, 2024
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Christmas in July (1940)
95%
“It is fairly light-weight but it is more fun than many of the year’s prouder efforts in comedy; and it is the work of a director who makes hard things seem like doing it the easy way, rather than vice versa. ” –
The New Republic
May 23, 2024
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Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
“The only surprising thing about it is that so many standard devices for squeezing a tear can be crowded into the same few hours.” –
The New Republic
May 23, 2024
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The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
90%
“Continually disappoints with a wasting of its substance, with a transmission of the feeling that whatever has been gained, too much has been lost, that what should be vital and arresting has been made hollow and dull.” –
The New Republic
May 23, 2024
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Ceiling Zero (1935)
100%
“In a sense this film is the kind of thing the movies do best; in another sense it is the sort of thing they seldom do at all. It has dash, vigor, the fascination of strange, deep and meaningful devices; but it carries a sting.” –
The New Republic
May 23, 2024
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Captains Courageous (1937)
95%
“Though dragged out and often weepy, it is a corking yarn.” –
The New Republic
May 23, 2024
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Captain Hates the Sea (1934)
80%
“Carried out with an ease of direction that is as simple and right as the principle of cantilever, so that everything matches with the dominant mood of good temper, gentle mockery, droll high spirits and edge.” –
The New Republic
May 23, 2024
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Camille (1936)
89%
“The surprise is to find a story that should by rights be old hat coming to such insistent life on the day’s screen.” –
The New Republic
May 23, 2024
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Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
90%
“Broadway Melody of 1936 is more in the tradition of the stage revue, and by far the funniest show around. It has, for example, made a place for such charming and individual drollery as that of Robert Wildhack.” –
The New Republic
May 23, 2024
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The Informer (1935)
89%
“Because it deals with the sort of thing that must be handled adequately if it is to go over, its persistent inadequacies make it more disappointing than many pictures with less to recommend them.” –
The New Republic
May 8, 2024
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Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
98%
“Advertised as a chiller, this film turns out to be something else, having a lot of jollification, nice fancy, elegant mounting -- there is, in short, beauty as well as the beast.” –
The New Republic
May 8, 2024
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Boys Town (1938)
86%
“For all [Spencer Tracy's] homely face and lack of surface charm, he is about the finest figure of a man you’ll meet, and I’m happy that he has finally got a part here to show it off.” –
The New Republic
May 8, 2024
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Boy Slaves (1939)
“Boy Slaves is not really a first-class picture, though it’s got more pull to it than you might find in some of the films belonging in that category. ” –
The New Republic
May 8, 2024
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
45%
“The whole idea is so (1) absurdly fake, or (2) inherently morbid, or (3) both, that laughter at antics becomes more uneasy, strained and flat as the thing runs on. In the end it is hard to remember laughing even when the comedy was most bright and clever.” –
The New Republic
May 8, 2024
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Blockade (1938)
“In the case of Walter Wanger’s production of William Dieterle’s direction of John Howard Lawson’s script, there is achieved a deadly numb level of shameless hokum out of which anything true or decent rises for a second only to confound itself. ” –
The New Republic
May 8, 2024
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Black Legion (1937)
100%
“Each incident as it comes up is gone through skillfully, with a dexterous economy of relation and point. It has excitement, reality; and its seeds of truth are assured of being sown nationally.” –
The New Republic
May 8, 2024
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Black Fury (1935)
83%
“I have not space for the various elements that actively contribute to the general effect of this picture -- Muni gets into his part a mixture of brawn and puzzlement and fury that is grand to see. And the whole line of direction is vivid.” –
The New Republic
May 8, 2024
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Lights Out in Europe (1940)
“This picture about war at the outbreak conveys most strongly the human reluctance to believe in disaster. In fact, the main thing wrong with its content is that it cannot quite believe in the disaster itself. ” –
The New Republic
May 8, 2024
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Gone With the Wind (1939)
90%
“Gone with the Wind stands around on its own foot purely out of size and story complexity... They threw in many good things, and everything else but a towel.” –
The New Republic
May 8, 2024
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The Biscuit Eater (1940)
“Some have found the story hackneyed but I didn’t notice, for the director, Stuart Heisler, has managed to keep it going with a lot of fresh stuff about dogs and people.” –
The New Republic
May 8, 2024
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Birth of the Blues (1941)
“The Birth of the Blues was a good idea for a picture story, but since it was to be about music it had to be treated as a musical, and apparently when you start a musical production you throw story values out the window in the first place. ” –
The New Republic
May 8, 2024
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The Gay Desperado (1936)
“While some of the show is fetching, the ideas mostly miss fire and the spell, as a whole and as upon audiences, is fitful and unsure. ” –
The New Republic
May 7, 2024
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The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)
60%
“The picture is really just a glorified vaudeville program, but while it has been done before it has never been done so well.” –
The New Republic
May 7, 2024
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