[A] prescient look at populism, media demagoguery, and politics in the 온라인카지노추천 era.

| Apr 26, 2025

Kazan gives us a two-hour whirlwind into one fictional microcosm that became big enough to influence our entire country.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2024

It serves as a self prophecy, showing a figure who takes his ballooned personality into areas out of his entertainment lane, notably the politics of it...

| Mar 3, 2023

A Face in the Crowd is one of the few genuinely political assaults the cinema has made. And it belongs to a different era. It savages. It explodes: it is the guided missile.

| Aug 9, 2022

The quiet, intimate scenes and background effects of Miss Neal, Matthau, and Franciosa maintain a level of distinction which cancels out much of the bombast and makes [the move], paradoxically enough, the most interesting film from Hollywood this year.

| Feb 3, 2021

It's the kind of cautionary tale (with an astounding, if improbably hopeful, finale) that never loses its relevance.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 18, 2020

Instead of implying their criticism of 온라인카지노추천 values through asserting their own, Kazan and Schulberg make a token gesture of protest, in which they have no faith.

| Mar 31, 2020

Consider this [film] an essential one for these equally essential times.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 9, 2020

Budd Schulberg has weakened his own short story by expanding it for the screen, and Elia Kazan's direction becomes far too hectic before the finish...

| Nov 11, 2019

A Face in the Crowd (1957) is director Elia Kazan's satirical and powerful socio-political drama that illustrated how a jailed, down-home country boy in the late 1950s could be transformed overnight into a media celebrity on the radio, and later

| Original Score: A+ | Nov 2, 2019

Not until Robert Redford's Quiz Show had a movie so clearly illustrated the power of the idiot box -- in this case, its ability to mold the minds of susceptible Americans who will swallow anything that passes before their eyes.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 4, 2019

a masterful, enthralling work of both disturbing prescience and in-the-moment acuity

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 17, 2019

Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd [is] a darker take on faux-populism that's somehow still not as dark as what's happening on our side of the screen.

| Mar 22, 2018

Griffith's hungry, lunging performance is a shock and a revelation to anyone who knows him primarily from "The Andy Griffith Show" or, God knows, "Matlock."

| Original Score: A | Aug 3, 2015

A fascinating early look at the unholy alliance between politics and entertainment, the corporations controlling it all. With Griffith's wild performance, even though the film has its flaws, it's worth viewing.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 10, 2012

Another fruitful collaboartion between Kazan and Budd Schulberg (On the Waterfront), a poignant film about celebrity, the mass media, and the political process.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 8, 2011

A Face in the Crowd has never ceased to be relevant.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2008

It's a biting 'rise and fall' satire, sending out a warning to watch out for legends created on the boob tube.

| Original Score: B | Nov 29, 2007

A raw, penetrating, and terrifying portrait of humanity.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 1, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 12, 2006