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Wendy Michener

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In the Heat of the Night (1967) 95% “Odd as it may seem, this movie with its surefire entertainment values and affectionate, almost farcical, humor will probably do more to weaken prejudice and soften hatred than any number of outraged documentaries.” – Maclean's Magazine Feb 2, 2022 Full Review The Dirty Dozen (1967) 82% “One of the three or four best American films of the year.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 18, 2020 Full Review The Servant (1963) 90% “The Servant summons up all one's irrational fears and its baroquely sinister atmosphere invests the most ordinary event with middle-of-the-night creepiness.” – Maclean's Magazine Apr 8, 2020 Full Review A Man for All Seasons (1966) 89% “Bolt's somewhat abstract arguments of honor are brought to life by Paul Scofield's warm voice and presence.” – Maclean's Magazine Jan 28, 2020 Full Review The Sand Pebbles (1966) 85% “McQueen's character certainly represents anti-war sentiment, but in the end he is forced to accept his public role -- or possibly his duty -- the matter is ambiguous --and so dies for who knows what.” – Maclean's Magazine Jan 28, 2020 Full Review The Group (1966) 75% “This all-female society emerges simply as sinister; Lumet never shows why the expectations of these women are so tragically unfulfilled. Either he just doesn't understand or else The Group is one big put-down of women's colleges.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review The Leather Boys (1963) 79% “Furie, a former Toronto film-maker, conjures up some marvelously evocative scenes...” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review Die! Die! My Darling! (1965) 50% “If you like this sort of picture, it's worth seeing for Tallulah alone. She's terrific.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review Masquerade (1965) 40% “Masquerade is also pretty frank about its origins...none of it is as convincing, as inevitable as the plots bottled in Bond.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) “... the whole picture lacks the feeling for period and social differences that distinguished Tom Jones.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review McGuire, Go Home! (1965) “There is lots of shooting and fighting in The High, Bright Sun, but when you can't spot the bad guys, you don't really care who does what to whom. And that's the end of suspense.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review Major Dundee (1965) 97% “Charlton Heston has never been better or more vigorous.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) 86% “The latest and best of the Price/Corman/Allan Poe chiller-dillers relies less on Gothic gimmicks and more on odd quirks of the human personality, all set in the ravishingly English setting of an abandoned abbey.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review Cheyenne Autumn (1964) 60% “Cheyenne Autumn is a blockbuster of a Western-but unfortunately also a bust.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review Othello (1965) 82% “There are, of course, many ways to film a staged play, and some are so crude as to be of little value even for the record. Fortunately Othello has been made both wisely and well.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965) “Funny? Now and then. If you happen to catch the trailer you will have seen all the best bits.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review The Taming of the Shrew (1967) 82% “The Bard has not been badly served. The Taming has a justness and balance to it that puts it up into the ranks of the best of Shakespearean films.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review A Countess From Hong Kong (1967) 43% “Charlie Chaplin's A Countess From Hong Kong is a failure because of the spoken word. The storyline is as basic and clear as the situations in Chaplin's two-reclers.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review My Fair Lady (1964) 94% “There are other good things to be said about the picture, but it fails in the one really crucial area. A musical that doesn't communicate physical joy is as pointless, it seems to me, as a tragedy that fails to communicate sadness.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review Mary Poppins (1964) 97% “The animation sequences suffer from Disney's animals-are-just-like people coyness, and the plot is too goody-good for words. But even the worst parts are saved by an air of innocent enjoyment.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review The Ipcress File (1965) 97% “It does smack a little of Bond-style technical gimmickry. But the spectacular violence and playboy-style sex of the Bond series has been avoided without any loss of entertainment value.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review Help! (1965) 86% “Fresher than anything else around. Help! the second Beatle flick, is not so much a movie as a way of life.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review Zorba the Greek (1964) 79% “As a whole the picture doesn't come off, partly because Quinn completely overshadows Alan Bates. Partly, too, because so much is unexplained.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review Darling (1965) 72% “...it's a quality Darling catches perfectly. "The research period was enormously entertaining," he says, and so is the movie.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review Once a Thief (1965) “A movie that could easily have been written by a computer and was photographed by a cameraman with the new-wave shakes. The dialogue is as familiar as family arguments.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 16, 2019 Full Review
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