The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) - Movie Reviews - Page 3 of 13

41-60 of 248 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By Alexander C (2,448) on 04 Nov 2012

The realism and style of the direction ensure this film is, like Citizen Kane, way ahead of its time…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By Nguyen Thuy H (133) on 02 Nov 2012

The wonderful thing about this, as well as Citizen Kane, is that every frame, every detail seems to tell you something…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By Christine R (413) on 07 Oct 2012

Although a bit boring I could not look away. Also could not stop comparing the horseless carriage to today's symbol of progress the iphone…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By Jonathan S (1,990) on 22 Sep 2012

One of Orson Welles's finest moments IMHO…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By Kevin Thomas (1,201) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 29 Aug 2012

An elegiac saga of the decline and fall of a rich small-town American family, based on a Booth Tarkington novel…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By Manny Farber (19) for The New Republic (897) on 29 Aug 2012

While telling this story, haltingly and clumsily, the movie runs from burdensome through heavy and dull to bad…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By David B (3,254) on 23 May 2012

It doesn't matter that the only version we're ever going to have is the studios, what is left is pure, unadulterated GENIUS…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By Patryk C (413) on 23 May 2012

It doesn't matter that the only version we're ever going to have is the studios, what is left is pure, unadulterated GENIUS…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By Edith N (976) on 23 May 2012

It doesn't matter that the only version we're ever going to have is the studios, what is left is pure, unadulterated GENIUS…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By Melanie R (104) on 11 May 2012

I love this film... and the best end credits ever. I love Orson Welles…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By Alessandro B (131) on 05 May 2012

In Celebration of Orson's Birthday #3 (but not of the assholes producers who almost destroyed it)…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By Andre D (1,970) on 30 Mar 2012

I'd love to Welles' actual version of this, becuase this pretty boring…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By Greg W (4,011) on 16 Mar 2012

Even though its hacked up still a welles' masterpiece…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By Laimis Z (274) on 07 Mar 2012

Best of orson welles. and this time its short! great story very well told…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By G. Brandon H (245) on 29 Feb 2012

End-of-an-era portrait of seemingly untouchable family unravelling is an engaging, unexpectedly touching melodrama…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By Art S (1,002) on 28 Jan 2012

A Masterpiece, beautiful cinematography and great acting…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By Chris B (2,902) on 13 Oct 2011

I have not seen it complete (so, I reserve my right to change my mind), but it didn´t seem to me as incredible as people spoke about it…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By Kenneth R (185) on 26 Sep 2011

The cut which has survived has a plethora of problems (the least of which comes from the editing--most notable in the ending and how dragged…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By Edgar C (1,352) on 25 Aug 2011

When I go to heaven, I'll ask God to lend me His complete version of The Magnificent Ambersons before it was brutally amputated by a lawnmower…

Read Review

Review of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

By Sean C (2,276) on 14 Aug 2011

I liked the movie. Everything is so melodramatic and Tim Holt is such an annoying little shit…

Read Review

Page 3 of 13

More reviews of this movie:

Perhaps you were looking for:

Ray Collins - Top 5 movies:

Joseph Cotten - Top 5 movies:

Tim Holt - Top 5 movies:

Movies you might like:

Letter from an Unknown Woman

1948

80%98 Reviews

Sunset Boulevard

1950

88%824 Reviews

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

1927

83%475 Reviews

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

2005

65%726 Reviews

Lolita

1962

78%569 Reviews

In the Mood for Love

2000

84%748 Reviews

Sleepless in Seattle

1993

70%599 Reviews

Stagecoach

1939

81%458 Reviews

Lost Highway

1997

73%714 Reviews

The Terminal

2004

71%821 Reviews

2046

2004

76%566 Reviews

Life Is Beautiful

1997

80%721 Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Barbie

2023

68%382 Reviews

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

2014

79%1,167 Reviews

Godzilla vs. Kong

2021

66%184 Reviews

Split

2017

71%1,218 Reviews

Logan

2017

82%1,785 Reviews

Oppenheimer

2023

85%310 Reviews

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

2017

69%660 Reviews

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

2023

79%186 Reviews

The Equalizer

2014

69%994 Reviews

Dark Waters

2019

76%68 Reviews