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Review of I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 17 Feb 2016

If the fundamental framework had been sound this could have been a first-rate film; it is in any case a piece of first-rate entertainment…

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Review of The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 17 Feb 2016

The immense possibilities of the Frankenstein story have here been sacrificed by an ill-made script, poor direction and performance and, above…

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Review of I Know Where I'm Going (2009)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 17 Feb 2016

If the fundamental framework had been sound this could have been a first-rate film; it is in any case a piece of first-rate entertainment…

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Review of This Happy Breed (1944)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 17 Feb 2016

From the brilliant opening shot to the end, director Lean and photographer Ronald Neame have worked together, with originality and imagination,…

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Review of Went the Day Well? (1942)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 17 Feb 2016

Graham Greene has written a good story but the scripting is indifferent, banal at times, and the direction lacks cohesion…

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Review of The Dam Busters (1955)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 17 Feb 2016

The film is over-long (the flying sequences include some repetition) and the music score is, regrettably, very blatant; but despite these drawbacks,…

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Review of The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 16 Feb 2016

The film, a highly assured piece of technical craftsmanship, is made rather too literally for the double-edged character of its central drama…

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Review of Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 16 Feb 2016

If one says that the best things about Séance on a Wet Afternoon are the performances of Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough and Bryan Forbes…

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Review of The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 16 Feb 2016

In this most lavish production the carefully planned colour scheme and the skillful use of the camera make the film one of the most satisfactory…

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Review of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 16 Feb 2016

Each individual part is carefully built up and the film as a whole (if a trifle unsatisfying in retrospect) repays the evident care which has…

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Review of The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 16 Feb 2016

The playing, as usual in films of this type, is serviceable rather than distinguished, with Brian Donlevy as a brusque and peremptory Quatermass…

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Review of A Taste of Honey (1961)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 16 Feb 2016

A Taste of Honey, tart and lively around the edges and bitter at the core, is Richardson's best film to date…

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Review of Billy Liar (1963)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 16 Feb 2016

At all kinds of points, one has the feeling that Schlesinger's film is running away from him; but there's also the impression of a talent energetic…

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Review of The Spy in Black (1939)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 16 Feb 2016

The acting is outstandingly good. Conrad Veidt is brilliant in the lead…

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Review of Doctor Zhivago (1965)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 01 Dec 2015

The best one can say of Doctor Zhivago is that it is an honest failure…

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Review of Thunderball (1965)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Oct 2015

Terence Young's direction is nothing if not taut, whisking the narrative along with the speed and precision of a jet plane, defying one to…

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Review of You Only Live Twice (2007)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Oct 2015

Whatever else one can say about the Bond films, their mechanical gimmicks run rings round anything offered by most of the other spy and secret…

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Review of Goldfinger (1964)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Oct 2015

Goldfinger really is a dazzling object lesson in the principle that nothing succeeds like excess…

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Review of You Only Live Twice (1967)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Oct 2015

Whatever else one can say about the Bond films, their mechanical gimmicks run rings round anything offered by most of the other spy and secret…

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Review of Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 31 Jul 2015

This amusing story is necessarily extravagant, but it is not without coherence…

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