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The Good German
We just got finished praising a picture by the ace filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, but have little choice but to be honest with…
Articles by Glenn Erickson
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Film Noir the Dark Side of Cinema XXV
Volume 25 in Kino's long-running noir series could be called 'The John H. Auer Collection' -- its trio of thrillers include the…
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Sands of Iwo Jima
Once upon a time the reigning WW2 battle action movie was this rough & tumble Republic offering, that cemented John Wayne's glowing…
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The Informant!
This Steve Soderbergh true-life 'comedy' drove us nuts: the audience I saw it with wanted to leap up and kill Matt Damon's…
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Crack in the World
Another fine Sci-fi overachiever bounces back in a new encoding, much improved. Andrew Marton's daring adventure / disaster / eco-apocalypse sees scientists…
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Girl with a Suitcase
Claudia Cardinale's first major starring role was a big success in Europe, even if our New York critics seemed primed for more…
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The Savage Eye
What does one call a film this original? It’s a poetic documentary-investigation of Los Angeles culture circa 1958; it’s also a powerful…
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Behold a Pale Horse
Fred Zinnemann's superb thriller has suspense, fine characterizations and a potent anti-fascist theme. Gregory Peck is excellent as an embittered lost-cause warrior…
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The Time Traveler’s Wife
What can you expect when the hero of a story is a Special Collections librarian? Audrey Niffenegger's scrambled-time romantic fantasy shouldn't work,…
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Lady of Vengeance
A wronged beauty commits suicide, and Dennis O'Keefe's hero solicits a killing-for-hire to avenge her. Director Burt Balaban's murder tale has a…
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The Cruel Sea
It's a top-rank war movie, the best of its kind. The Ealing Studios, writer Eric Ambler and director Charles Frend transpose Nicholas…
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Blue Sunshine
Having an LSD flashback? Can you really remember every controlled substance you regularly imbibed in your wild days? Freaky homicides figure in…
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Donovan’s Reef
John Ford and John Wayne's best 'old man's movie' is deceptive -- on the outside it's as square as can be, an…
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Sadie McKee
Glamorous Joan's screen image is now fully defined, and her improved acting carries her pictures with grace and assurance. Director Clarence Brown…
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The New Adventures of Tarzan
Known to Tarzan fans and almost nobody else is this four-hour serial filmed parallel with MGM's series, and officially produced by Tarzan…
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Night Moves
It's the best detective movie of the 1970s, now on 4K. Arthur Penn and Alan Sharp give us a 'Southern California Sordid'…
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Topkapi
A heist caper classic just got a new lease on life -- after languishing in so-so encodings for 50 years, Jules Dassin…
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Cannibal Girls
From the Canadian branch of exploitation filmmaking comes this quirky stab (and chop, and bite) appetizer, an early production by Ivan Reitman.…
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The Wages of Fear
Henri-Georges Clouzot's suspense ordeal is back, with additional minutes of footage and remastered in flawless 4K. Few films express such a poisonous…
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The 10th Victim
This is the movie with the spiky bra that doubles as a gun. Pop Art meets progressive social Sci-fi in a wicked…
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Godzilla vs. Biollante
It's Chlorophyll in Motion, writ large: in Godzilla's most interestingly stylized franchise entry, the mean-tempered monster faces off with a colossal surrealist…
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Outpost in Malaya
The territorial imperative gets a curious workout: English planters in Malaya defend their homesteads against 'bandits' with undefined aims. Ken Annakin contributes…
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Monster from the Ocean Floor
How can such a tiny production be so noteworthy? Roger Corman's cleverly-assembled monster romp has simplicity and sincerity going for it, not…
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The Mansion of Madness
Juan López Moctezuma's bizarre Edgar Allan Poe adaptation gets new life in a new 4K transfer with a correct widescreen aspect ratio.…
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The Killer Is Loose
Late-cycle noir introduces us to Leon 'Foggy' Poole, a new kind of polite psychotic menace who kills because, 'sigh,' people just don't…
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The Spectacular Sci-Fi Visions of East German Director Gottfried Kolditz
We love the handful of fantastic Soviet-bloc space pictures from the Yuri Gagarin era; this exacting disc release gives us two East…