“Minor spy war thriller, Raft hero for nothing, Greenstreet perverse as always, Lorre maniac, Brenda Marshall ok and some lightning and decors more than ok” read more
“Too moderate, I expected more sex play with the idea of a man tourned women after apparent death. At least, there are crooked characters as Matthau and Charlie/Debbie her/himself” read more
“A pastoral symphony, the duality of doctor and parson is very well done, both are dignified. The ku klux klan with feelings, deciding no to hung Juano Hernandez, is moving. Tourneur is excellent.” read more
“The lesser Walsh, in spite of always elegant and zanny Benny, but there are a bit unsufferable the routines between Benny and Dolores Moran.” read more
“Perfect timing, intetwinning of stories, prevalence of some of them, cast, heart, dialogues. And something special; this is really a sexy film for 1955 standards, and thanks to the romance between Tab and Dorothy Malone.” read more
“Raoul amuses with rara avis Lily (cute touch her singing in the jungle), a tamed lion, and EE Horton who is always fine” read more
“The thriller imposes over the melodramatic, bloody, familiar, incestuous, passionate, undertones. But there are those tones...” read more
“Always bee intrigued and fascinates by the self ending of the Zweigs in Petropolis. Here I just see them, death in the bed, reflecting in a mirror (nice moving touch) but anyhow, in dialogues and Stefan staring the landscape, maybe thinking in Europe's hell and the impossibility of cope with it in t” read more
“Rumany found a place in 'world cinema', as Iran had. But the long, realistic, sequence shot real time look on its social decomposition after the wall broke; is too heavey to share, ah...” read more
“How Malick begun loosing interest; repeating himself inside the same film, as an outdated Antonioni? Here you can look for a response in Austin, Texas, with musical background (Iggy and Patti), and a trip to Yucatan.” read more
“Too long and eloquente a lifetime, so Riley catches just some themes; but misses to develop more the one he choses to articulate the biopic: teh tragedy about his children. Anyway, good audio, phtos and clips and everything.” read more
“The heroe and his famil, everybody knows the story is greater than them, but they act as if they are living any other story. I like this becuase in a way is a modest docummentary.” read more
“Un apacible Tin Tán/Martínez Solares, se toma su tiempo para construir su impostación, y armar su harem de mujeres de distintas nacionalidades incluyendo la española revejida. La conga de Amalia, con todos bailando, marca la felicidad del conjunto.” read more
“Poduction values, yes, so what? Bidimensional heroes and heroines, a schematic theory stuttered at the beginning and trying to match with americans and amazons in WW 1, an even more schemaic love story beginning with cracks between heroes, bah.” read more
“Constructing Presley rebel without a cause persona and a bonus: a coreographic tableau vivant that seems inserted in the film, woth teh outstanding song title anf Elvis doing all he cando to dance genuinely clumsy.” read more
“Siegel is just ok, westerns are not for him. Washed up as an elegy of indian mystique against normal whites; but now and then has some good violent encounters. Presley ok in a non singing role.” read more
“Very amusind beginning of war thriller. Fred and Joan are a kind of Powell Myrna Loy Thin man couple in nazi Germany. Conrad Veidt is charming.” read more
“BB justified too many simple little films, this Boisrond doesn't decide to be a romantic comedy with dancing lessons background or an amusing thriller.” read more
“3 stars just because Aldrich amuses in some rare moments and Ursula is a astonishing as Anita is aleady a relaxed beauty. Aldrich tries to find an amusing tone and misses the point most of the time.” read more
“Reconciliated with Kubrick. Terror movies has evolved in such way that Shining looks ok for me. Isolation and fatalism, psycho and evil; the two forces combine well, here. Nicholson presneted at least half of his tics.” read more
“More than I expected. There's elegance, sense of decadence being constraint, romanticism build up with some subtlety in expense of the political background, perverse undertones (incestuous guilt between Ava and Sharif), and some fantasy in the ballet as seen by Deneuve and Sharif.” read more
“Corny to say the least. Chastain acts as shw wants to, adding a whimsical sexy/froid look that makes me laugh sometimes. A washed up great war drama with too shy animals.” read more
