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Review of The L-Shaped Room (1962)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 08 Jan 2018

Leslie Caron has never been more appealing…

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Review of Mildred Pierce (1945)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 08 Jan 2018

Joan Crawford presents a consistent and sustained characterisation of the harassed Mrs. Pierce fighting against relentless spiritual degradation…

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Review of Saturday Night Fever (1977)

By Richard Combs (5) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 08 Jan 2018

Most details of character and setting, finally, are reduced to simplistic icons, mingling with such over-emphasised bric-a-brac as posters…

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Review of Jabberwocky (1977)

By Geoff Brown (9) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 08 Jan 2018

Nothing builds into full-blooded absurdity, and the enormous cast of British comic specialists is given little opportunity to help out (though…

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Review of Suspiria (1977)

By Tom Meek (408) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 08 Jan 2018

Unhappily, Argento never summons the courage to abandon narrative completely, so the script is continually acting as a brake while the visuals…

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Review of Hellraiser (1987)

By Kim Newman (791) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 16 Oct 2017

The film is for the most part a return to the cutting edge of horror cinema, and in its inventively gruesome moments a reminder of the Grand…

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Review of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

By Richard Combs (5) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 13 Sep 2017

What the film is 'about', in a way, is its own illusionism, the process by which it creates a world we are invited to share…

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Review of The Big Sleep (1946)

By John Pym (2) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Feb 2017

The plethora of killings now seems on the whole less horrific than it once did, while the film's tone of escalating absurdity in a genuinely…

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Review of The Lady Vanishes (1938)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Feb 2017

Alfred Hitchcock has directed The Lady Vanishes with all his individual expertness of touch and this is an out of the ordinary and exciting thriller…

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Review of Elephant Boy (1937)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Feb 2017

Those who know Flaherty's previous work will not be disappointed in his work in this film and the film must be seen for it in spite of the…

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Review of Purple Rain (1984)

By Cynthia Rose (1) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 22 Feb 2017

As a debut and a savvy statement of personal enterprise, Purple Rain is quite an accomplishment…

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Review of GoodFellas (1990)

By Tom Milne (86) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 27 Jan 2017

A fascinating, intelligent, and in some ways groundbreaking movie…

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Review of The Sorcerers (1967)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 18 Oct 2016

It is the overall effect that impresses rather than any individual scene or composition, but the psychedelic experience is particularly well…

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Review of Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)

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

Apart from one or two welcome innovations -- notably the sort of Instant Vampire recipe by which Dracula is resuscitated, and his final destruction…

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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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