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By Erika B (190) on 06 Aug 2010

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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By Evan H (764) on 16 May 2010

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

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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…

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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…

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By Bryan W (959) on 28 Apr 2010

A masterpiece of visual design and camp-tinged bleakness…

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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…

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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,…

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By Marita L (14) on 05 Apr 2010

Enjoyable psychological drama with Mason's increasing madness a highlight for the actor, however the direction never gets beyond the boudaries…

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By Kevin U (25) on 04 Apr 2010

Just gets better with age. God was wrong, indeed…

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By Sam P (447) on 04 Apr 2010

Just gets better with age. God was wrong, indeed…

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By Ken T (997) on 03 Apr 2010

One of the best films of the 50s. Nicholas Ray is perhaps THE Hollywood director of the 1950s…

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By Marc M (216) on 25 Mar 2010

Bigger than Life recently benefitted from the criterion treatment on Blu Ray and the results are amazing…

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By Paul J (1,190) on 23 Jan 2010

Nicholas Ray's films are familiar yet strangely unusual at the same time…

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By Sean N (499) on 11 Jan 2010

Ahead of it's time semi melodrama in great looking technicolor…

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By Eric R (1,431) on 11 Jul 2009

A well-shot, subversive and entertaining film…

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