Bigger Than Life (1956) - Movie Reviews - Page 3 of 6

41-60 of 116 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By Jordan T (851) on 18 Sep 2010

Lessons learned from this film: 1) Cortisone makes you want to murder your wife and child…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By Timothy M (796) on 10 Sep 2010

Brilliant film. Cutting-edge, really…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By Eric M (1,401) on 05 Sep 2010

A great and slightly subversive commentary on society in the 1950s that still resonates to some degree today…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By Jeff D (723) on 10 Aug 2010

An interesting study of psychotic delusion via the subject of prescribed drug addiction, the visuals and performance reinforce the darkness…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By Erika B (190) on 06 Aug 2010

This film made me get n the edge of my seat…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By Alex B (1,607) on 22 Jul 2010

An angry and urgent assault on the medical world that asks a lot of important questions and does not cater to the easy, temporary answers…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By Daniel C (1,809) on 29 Jun 2010

Convincing portrayal of prescription drug-induced psychosis but there's not much else to this film and the whole thing comes off rather like…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By Matt B (1,998) on 24 Jun 2010

Not your typical view of American life in the 50's at all, which is refreshing…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By Matt K (1,446) on 14 Jun 2010

A great film. James Mason is one of the best actors every and he gives a great performance…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 31 May 2010

is a dark cautionary tale about suburban ennui that feels like an unacknowledged antecedent to the AMC TV series Breaking Bad…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By Edith N (976) on 29 May 2010

Adapted to film from Berton RouechÃ©'s 1955 article in The New Yorker, Ten Feet Tall, Bigger Than Life (1956) emerges as Nicholas Ray's dark…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By Evan H (764) on 16 May 2010

An awesome movie with fine performances from Barbara Rush and James Mason…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By Justin R (1,063) on 16 May 2010

Good stuff. The Jonathan Lethem interview on the DVD was actually surprisingly helpful in fleshing out certain subtle themes at work in the film…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 04 May 2010

The epitome of a social problem film, in which the crisis of conformism bursts open in every single tension-producing frame…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By John R (2,501) on 01 May 2010

What happens when a person tamps down all of their hopes and dreams in an effort to conform to the wishes of others and do the right thing…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By Bryan W (959) on 28 Apr 2010

A masterpiece of visual design and camp-tinged bleakness…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By Jacob S (752) on 18 Apr 2010

A film about trying to fit into the ambiguous view of the American middle-class suburban lifestyle of the 50s…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By Gabe Leibowitz (202) for Film and Felt (184) on 17 Apr 2010

It's all horrifying, and its eerie resemblance to the McCarthy-esque paranoia and fear that swept the nation makes Bigger Than Life extremely…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 13 Apr 2010

A surprisingly expressionistic horrorshow, a frightening and indelible portrait of the nuclear family turned into a hellish emotional torture chamber…

Read Review

Review of Bigger Than Life (1956)

By Jonathan M (1,410) on 08 Apr 2010

Dark stuff from Nicholas Ray, who follows Rebel Without a Cause with an equally anarchic study of American domesticity and it's troubling underbelly,…

Read Review

Page 3 of 6

More reviews of this movie:

Perhaps you were looking for:

Robert F. Simon - Top 5 movies:

James Mason - Top 5 movies:

Barbara Rush - Top 5 movies:

Movies you might like:

California Suite

1978

54%45 Reviews

Anand

1971

82%44 Reviews

The Naked Kiss

1964

76%103 Reviews

Everybody's Fine

2009

69%51 Reviews

Mad Love

2001

60%60 Reviews

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

2004

57%312 Reviews

Dragonwyck

1946

67%29 Reviews

Performance

1970

73%220 Reviews

Brooklyn's Finest

2010

55%555 Reviews

Nomads

1986

45%38 Reviews

Paa

2009

59%5 Reviews

The Anniversary Party

2001

59%152 Reviews