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Pare Lorentz

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Crisis: A Film of the Nazi Way (1939) “Even though it was good man, Herbert Kline, and although it deals with a tortured people... Crisis remains an ill-contrived picture.” – McCall's Dec 27, 2023 Full Review The 400 Million (1939) “The narration does not give us a clear idea of what is going on in the picture. Well-written, it wanders from newsreel interpretation, to symbolism, to first person narration, and is confusing.” – McCall's Dec 27, 2023 Full Review Love Affair (1939) 92% “The neatest and most expert movie of the spring is a light comedy, Love Affair, and as it was produced as well as directed by Leo McCarey, and as it shows a skill away and above anything we have had in a long time.” – McCall's Dec 27, 2023 Full Review Virginia (1941) “Instead of a drama, the picture turns out to be a garrulous battlefield guide lecture, in which the assembled actors give out with some of the most maudlin and annoying professional Southernisms I ever have heard.” – McCall's Dec 27, 2023 Full Review Buck Privates (1941) “Shoddy stuff.” – McCall's Dec 27, 2023 Full Review So Ends Our Night (1941) 67% “There are many repetitious and pedestrian sequences, but the picture is so well-played, and produced in such sobriety and good taste, it is on the whole a noteworthy production.” – McCall's Dec 27, 2023 Full Review Beloved Enemy (1936) 100% “It is too long and too delicate to be a legend of Michael Collins; it is too well-produced and played not to be seen.” – McCall's Dec 27, 2023 Full Review Great Guy (1936) “From a production standpoint, The Great Guy is one of the worst movies I ever have seen. The lighting is bad and so are the sets. [But Cagney] never has appeared to better advantage -- a bit subdued, a little more polished, and a great deal more sincere.” – McCall's Dec 27, 2023 Full Review After the Thin Man (1936) 96% “I am happy to report that, while it will not be as fresh to you as the original Dashiell Hammett production, After The Thin Man is a very successful sequel.” – McCall's Dec 27, 2023 Full Review On Borrowed Time (1939) “If you do not go to movies very often, you may enjoy Mr. Barrymore’s performance. If you see many movies, you've probably seen him play so many lovable old men you probably can't think of him but as Lionel Barrymore.” – McCall's Dec 27, 2023 Full Review The Wizard of Oz (1939) 98% “It is a film you should see as an example of the extraordinary mechanical possibilities of the motion picture. But the three ill-at-ease musical comedy men... will make you feel that the wrong cast had wandered onto the set.” – McCall's Dec 27, 2023 Full Review College (1927) 92% “There are so many good things about Buster Keaton’s romantic comedy, College, that the only thing I can say is: see it. Not only is Keaton uproariously funny in this new picture, but you will find the picture is intelligently made.” – Judge Dec 27, 2023 Full Review The Patent Leather Kid (1927) “The hospital scene in The Patent Leather Kid is the most sickening exhibition of bad taste I have ever witnessed. However, it’s all a part of the process of stimulating the public.” – Judge Dec 27, 2023 Full Review The Man Who Laughs (1928) 100% “I have never seen a better representation of the spirit of a novel in that the picture not only interprets the lusty romantic feeling of Hugo’s story, but it is sufficient unto itself and has no awkward turns or incongruous passages.” – Judge Dec 27, 2023 Full Review Golden Boy (1939) 83% “Odets’ incredible gift of characterization still comes through the inept direction, and bad acting, and William Holden, as the youngster, does a fair job.” – McCall's Dec 27, 2023 Full Review The Real Glory (1939) 80% “Pleasant people, in a simple, well-made, tight melodrama, but it failed to stir me simply because I could not divorce this story of a minor island war of ours from the recollection of the newsreel I had seen just before The Real Glory began.” – McCall's Dec 27, 2023 Full Review The Rains Came (1939) 67% “Unfortunately there wasn't much time for either plot because of a storm, a flood, and a plague which came along in the middle of the story and which of all the floods, hurricanes and disasters I’ve ever seen on film, was without doubt the worst.” – McCall's Dec 27, 2023 Full Review State Fair (1933) 100% “As it uses also genuine Americana seldom dramatized in any form, State Fair becomes one of the few important productions of the year. And in case this academic discussion of it has wearied you, I might add that it is good-humored and even funny.” – Judge Nov 10, 2023 Full Review You Can't Take It With You (1938) 94% “Capra deserves all the praise he has been given recently for breaking down the script into a fast, entertaining, and always interesting picture.” – McCall's Oct 30, 2023 Full Review The Life of Emile Zola (1937) 92% “It’s a grave story told with great dignity and superbly played and produced.” – McCall's Oct 30, 2023 Full Review Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 97% “If I were asked to list the most important movie activity of 1937 ten years from now, I should have only one item to report: Walter Disney made a full length picture. And this one event may save the industry as it is now organized.” – McCall's Oct 30, 2023 Full Review Hearts in Dixie (1929) “[Hearts in Dixie] has some singing and dancing that puts to shame any Broadway show.” – Judge Oct 30, 2023 Full Review Alibi (1929) 56% “Alibi is the best directed talking movie to date, and excellent entertainment.” – Judge Oct 30, 2023 Full Review All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 98% “If two writers and a director of the caliber responsible for [the film] had been allowed money and opportunity an original work the result would have to produce been far more exciting. What they have done has power, but it is spread all over the place.” – Judge Oct 30, 2023 Full Review The Broadway Melody (1929) 42% “[It's] filled with those stupendous sets which the movies produce from time to time just to show Ziegfeld that he is still in the amateur class but the dialogue, story, and music all sound very, very familiar. Broadway Melody is off-key most of the time.” – Judge Oct 30, 2023 Full Review
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