Not only is your cinematic education woefully incomplete, but your life has missed the boat on several hours of pure pleasure...

| Jul 31, 2023

Sturges delights in forcing upon his characters... the entire weight of weight of the domestic prejudices, social conventions, and moral imperatives that could exist in a small American town during wartime.

| Oct 13, 2022

I don't know at all what Preston Sturges was thinking when making 'The Miracle of Morgan Creek', but I find his screwball comedy artificial, mediocre, and very dull when it tells his moral tale about marriage and war veterans. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 4, 2020

It's handled with a spectacular hilarity and cleverness; when the hole is dug this deep, the only way out is through further outrageousness.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 13, 2020

[Writer-director] Preston Sturges has surpassed himself. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 16, 2019

Sturges' no-holds-barred comic cristicism of American Forces abroad is still challenging and funny.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2014

Writer/director Preston Sturges was one of Hollywood's greatest satirists and this blistering comedy is one of his best films.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 10, 2014

I suspect that Sturges feels that conscience and comedy are incompatible. It would be hard for a man of talent to make a more self-destructive mistake.

| Aug 30, 2012

Hilarious WWII comedy flirts with taboos.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 15, 2010

The controversy surrounding it has long since faded away, but the humor is timeless.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 17, 2010

Six decades before Diablo Cody and Juno, Preston Sturges carried unplanned comedy to term.

| Sep 1, 2009

Done in the satirical Sturges vein, and directed with that same touch, the story makes much of characterization and somewhat wacky comedy, plus some slapstick, with excellent photography figuring throughout.

| Nov 13, 2007

Caustic and chaotic in the arch Sturges manner, it's probably his funniest and most smilingly malicious film.

| Nov 13, 2007

One of Sturges' master works, this comedy turns upside down Hollywood's conventions of small-town life with original vision and crackling dialogue.

| Original Score: A | Nov 19, 2006

Great verbal gags and non-sequiturs, fast-paced action, and a thorough irreverence for all things deemed respectable -- politicians, policemen and magistrates included -- make it a lasting delight.

| Jun 24, 2006

One of Preston Sturges' zanier films, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek begs the question: how did he get away with this?

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 17, 2005

...an extremely dated and thoroughly mediocre piece of work.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 6, 2005

Stands out for its sheer audacity of subject matter and its sustained emotional-roller-coaster effect: it's quite possibly the most high-strung movie ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 5, 2005

The real miracle might be in how the amoral sexual content got by the Hays Office.

| Original Score: A | Feb 15, 2005

Way ahead of its time Sturges comedy, great dialogue, plot

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 23, 2004