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‘How to Succeed’ – Take 2
Not so fast Savant — with the help of correspondent input, CineSavant presents more information on David Swift’s adaptation of How to…
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Invisible Ghost
Bela Lugosi fan alert! This Monogram horror opus is yet another narrative-challenged fumble of unmotivated, incomprehensible characters... but Bela's great in it,…
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Julieta
Pedro Almodóvar bounces back with an absorbing saga of a mother and daughter told in an interesting style. A woman feels isolated,…
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Peyton Place
The book was raw & dirty, and did you read what that girl did with that guy on page 167? Racking up…
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ELLE / BLOW UP
Michèle Leblanc, glamorous entrepreneur of a successful video game company, is the calm at the center of many storms. Her son’s girlfriend…
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Broadway's delightful -- but wickedly accurate -- satire of big business was brought to movie screens almost intact, with the story, the…
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 3-D
J. K. Rowling is back with a wizard world tale over which she has complete control -- a diverting period adventure starring…
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23 Paces to Baker Street
No, not a blind Sherlock Holmes, but a blind Van Johnson who directs his butler, his girlfriend Vera Miles and the London…
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Tower
A fateful day is re-examined by its survivors, whose stories are told via a brilliant narrative arrangement, and the use of animated…
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Fences
Verdict? The film of August Wilson's play is absorbing, intense. If we rate by quality of writing, acting skill, and the craft…
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Phaedra
Or, "Never on Sunday with Your Stepson." Director Jules Dassin's monument to his beloved Melina Mercouri transposes a Greek tragedy to…
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MULTIPLE MANIACS
Andy Warhol was nothing if not a multi-media maven. Along with his ubiquitous silkscreens and sculpture, he embraced movie-making beginning as early as…
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Our Man in Havana
It's Obi-Wan versus Fidel! Well, not really. The pre-Bond espionage genre lights up with cool intrigues and comic absurdities, as a Brit…
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Film / Notfilm
An experimental film by an Irish playwright, shot in New York with a silent comedian at the twilight of his career? Samuel…
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Summer Storm
Here's a real gem -- a 'classic' Chekhov story turned into a compelling tale of lust and murder. George Sanders and Linda…
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World Without End
"Thru the Time Barrier, 552 years Ahead... Roaring To the Far Reaches of Titanic Terror, Crash-Landing Into the Nightmare Future!" ... and…
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September Storm — 3-D
3-D in CinemaScope? That seems like a strange combination, but this obscure treasure hunt adventure with Joanne Dru and Mark Stevens is…
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Cinema Paradiso
Giuseppe Tornatore's ode to the Italian love of movies was a major hit here in 1990, despite being severely cut by Miramax.…
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Compulsion
This classy Fox production was considered the epitome of sick film subject matter in the pre- Psycho year of 1959, the true…
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RoboCop 2
It's ugly, it's violent, and it's graphic novelist Frank Miller's nasty vision through and through. Scream Factory's Collector's Edition brings out the…
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We Are The Flesh / The Lovers on the Bridge
Teetering on that thin edge between the ludicrous and the even more ludicrous, Emiliano Rocha Minter’s We Are The Flesh is a…
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45 Years
Andrew Haigh's quiet, two-person relationship tale won a lot of friends last year. A revelation from the past changes everything in the…
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The Valley of Gwangi
Gwangi! Ready your rifles and lariats because this is one of the best. Harryhausen's happiest dinos- à go-go epic comes thundering back…
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The Man Who Could Cheat Death
A thyroid operation every ten years, plus regular libations of an eerie green liquid, has allowed Anton Diffring to live over a…
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Finian’s Rainbow
As a musical it's excellent -- fine tunes and lyrics, great singing and dancing by the ever-youthful Fred Astaire, the glorious songbird…
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Chilly Scenes of Winter
Joan Micklin Silver applies sensitive direction to Ann Beattie's novel about a lonely guy trying to win back his girlfriend, and going…