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Movie Reviews by John Beifuss - Page 52 of 98

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Review of The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Feb 2011

Jekyll's tragedy in this unique Stevenson revamp is that he doesn't understand that much of humanity already lives a Jekyll-and-Hyde existence…

Review of The Return of Dracula (1958)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Feb 2011

A Cold War horror movie in which vampirism functions as a metaphor for Communism and the forces of anti-Christianity, with Dracula a shadow…

Review of The Walking Dead (1936)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Feb 2011

In film after film, Karloff functioned as a wanderer in the shadow land between life and death…

Review of Heroes for Sale (1933)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Feb 2011

An astonishment: a no-punches-pulled social history of America from World War I to 1933 that covers trench warfare, drug addiction, Communism,…

Review of Midnight Mary (1933)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 17 Feb 2011

Demonstrates that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer could be as down and dirty as Warner Bros. when necessary…

Review of The Food of the Gods (1976)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 16 Feb 2011

Back in her glory days at Warner Bros., Ida Lupino never could have imagined that a movie role would require her to wring her hands, bug her…

Review of The Holy Mountain (1973)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 16 Feb 2011

So loaded with symbols and religious references that the frames of the films flash by as if Jodorowsky were shuffling a deck of his beloved…

Review of El Topo (1970)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 16 Feb 2011

Alejandro Jodorowsky may be full of it, but I'm thankful that he spread it -- whatever it is -- across the screen in 'El Topo…

Review of Santa Sangre (1989)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 16 Feb 2011

A surreal circus of invention, pretension and astonishment that, like many carnivals, touts the talents of its performers but knows most customers…

Review of The Stepfather (1987)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 11 Feb 2011

The Stepfather works for American Eagle Realty, and the company logo pegs him as both a patriot and a predator…

Review of The Roommate (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 11 Feb 2011

So scare-free it's likely to find its destiny as a My First Horror Movie for tween-girl slumber parties…

Review of The Illusionist (1901)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 11 Feb 2011

When the shadow of fluttering book pages on a wall seems to become a bird in flight, the prosaic becomes transcendent, in contradiction of…

Review of Sanctum (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 11 Feb 2011

A brawny adventure-disaster film notable for its reliance on dangerous practical effects and stuntwork rather than CGI…

Review of The Illusionist (2010)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 11 Feb 2011

When the shadow of fluttering book pages on a wall seems to become a bird in flight, the prosaic becomes transcendent, in contradiction of…

Review of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 11 Feb 2011

Her towering torso wrapped in a makeshift sarong apparently manufactured from bed sheets, Hayes is a nightmare caricature of the rolling pin-wielding…

Review of Made in Dagenham (2010)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 11 Feb 2011

Sally Hawkins isn't built like Rosie the Riveter, but the skinny acting Atlas is more than capable of carrying this formulaic but entertaining…

Review of The Roommate (2008)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 11 Feb 2011

So scare-free it's likely to find its destiny as a My First Horror Movie for tween-girl slumber parties…

Review of The Illusionist (2009)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 11 Feb 2011

When the shadow of fluttering book pages on a wall seems to become a bird in flight, the prosaic becomes transcendent, in contradiction of…

Review of Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 11 Feb 2011

No doubt producers/partners Elton John and David Furnish responded to the story's notion that love and 'matrignomy' are matters of the heart…

Review of The Roommate (2008)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 11 Feb 2011

So scare-free it's likely to find its destiny as a My First Horror Movie for tween-girl slumber parties…

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