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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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Review of Things to Come (1936)

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

In all, this is a film which because of its conception and technical achievements demands to he seen and deserves careful and discriminating…

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Review of The Third Man (1949)

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

By the very nature of its settings and story, there are occasional reminiscences of Lang and Hitchcock, but there is nothing borrowed or imitated…

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Review of A Kind of Loving (1962)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 14 Jun 2015

The acting is firm, exact and sympathetic…

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Review of This Sporting Life (1963)

By Mfb Critics (133) for Monthly Film Bulletin (149) on 14 Jun 2015

Anderson's visual sense is remarkably strong for a film that relies for much of its length on a highly complex and intriguing flashback narrative…

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Review of Young and Innocent (1937)

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

Innumerable small touches show Hitchcock's keen and penetrating observation and his knowledge of human nature…

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Review of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

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

The film is a high-water mark of British production. It is first-class cinema, and all its main virtues are essentially cinematic virtues…

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