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Movie Reviews by Fernando F. Croce - Page 39 of 42

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Review of The Children of Huang Shi (2008)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 May 2008

Like an eager frequent flyer, Western paternalism changes destinations but not its baggage…

Review of White Mane (1953)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Apr 2008

Beauty in Albert Lamorisse's brand of cinematic poetry stems from a childlike view of the world that sees bliss and sorrow as inseparably bound…

Review of Fog City Mavericks (2007)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Apr 2008

When maverick is thrown around this cheaply, it's just a step for somebody to mount an auteurist case for Chris Columbus…

Review of The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for CinePassion (694) on 03 Mar 2008

If Siodmak was less a determinist than Lang, he was also less icy -- he views the fall-guy ordeal of piggy, pathetically lecherous officer…

Review of Man of Aran (1934)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for CinePassion (694) on 26 Feb 2008

The film is a canny blend of observation and creation…

Review of Santa Sangre (1989)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for CinePassion (694) on 26 Feb 2008

Unforgettable, whether you like it or not…

Review of Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for CinePassion (694) on 30 Jan 2008

Lindberg executes the vengeance audiences came to cheer, and spiritually dissolves…

Review of El Cid (1961)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Jan 2008

There’s no denying El Cid‘s lucid grandeur as it reaches its famous climax, a simultaneously triumphant and tragic portrait of the warrior…

Review of The Naked Prey (1965)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Jan 2008

Offers a vision of survival at its starkest, boiled down to physical endurance, reflexes, and the desperate need to keep ahead of the foe snapping…

Review of The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for CinePassion (694) on 11 Jan 2008

As the clothes evaporate, Meyer wisely sits back and appreciates the show…

Review of Juno (2007)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Dec 2007

Just when one is about to write off Diablo Cody's much-praised screenplay as less than the sum of its ornate quips, a scene will be flipped…

Review of Drunken Angel (1948)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Nov 2007

Kurosawa's early stylistic experimentations turn a nightclub stopover into a monstrous parody of an American jitterbug dance-off, and when…

Review of Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Nov 2007

Pain and degradation follow, inevitably before the eyes of a derisive crowd…

Review of It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Nov 2007

Without overlooking It’s a Wonderful Life‘s lapses into populist bathos, it’s necessary to rescue the Frank Capra film from its status…

Review of Rio das Mortes (1971)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for CinePassion (694) on 13 Nov 2007

This mostly forgotten entry of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's early futzing-around period feels unaccountably close to an American road-trip comedy…

Review of O Amor Natural (1996)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Oct 2007

O Amor Natural remains hopeful about the unifying potential of Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry of desire…

Review of Sleuth (2007)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Oct 2007

It's tempting to call the new Sleuth a soulless remake, but that would imply that the original had a soul…

Review of Sleuth (1972)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Oct 2007

It's tempting to call the new Sleuth a soulless remake, but that would imply that the original had a soul…

Review of My Kid Could Paint That (2007)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Sep 2007

Its insistent search for the truth--about art, success, family--is what keeps the film from turning into a twee human-interest column blown…

Review of Up in Smoke (1978)

By Fernando F. Croce (840) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Sep 2007

As far as comedic ingredients go, weed is not so much a surefire laugh-getter as it is a free-floating lubricant capable of setting off wicked…

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