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Review of Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

By Wendy Ide (1,500) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 13 Aug 2018

It may not be as significant to the Marvel canon as, say, Black Panther but the skittish wit and playfulness wins us over…

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Review of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)

By Simran Hans (401) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 13 Aug 2018

The relatively scant highlights include the film’s sunset pastels, shoals of fish in penguin waiter uniforms, a homage to Atlantis (the Las…

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Review of Treasure Island (1950)

By Phillip French (4) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 10 Mar 2018

It also offers the fun of watching an eye-rolling, lip-twitching Robert Newton as he wallows outrageously through the role of Long John Silver,…

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Review of Rabid (1977)

By Philip French (1,151) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 30 Jul 2017

Although Rabid is full of interesting ideas, they are not particularly well developed or presented by Cronenberg's unfocused script…

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Review of The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

By Paul Howlett (21) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 19 Mar 2016

The film is vulgar, naive and highly amusing, and it is played with gusto by Mr. Price, Hazel Court and Jane Asher. As for Mr…

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Review of The Blob (1958)

By Philip French (1,151) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 20 Sep 2015

It is truly providential that a new horror melodrama called The Blob is so woodenly presented on the whole, for a little astute showmanship…

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Review of The Big Country (1958)

By Philip French (1,151) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 13 Jul 2015

William Wyler’s sprawling Western about iron-willed ranchers squabbling over desirable land, The Big Country, is one of the prime wide-screen…

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Review of Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)

By Lizzie Franke (1) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 15 Apr 2015

The result is a ’70s vampire flick that has distinctly gothic imagery—the immortal temptress leering out from a century-old portrait, creeping…

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Review of The Night of the Hunter (1955)

By Mark Kermode (1,002) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 31 May 2014

Unforgettably haunting images (a car submerged in a watery grave; a spider's web view of the children fleeing in a riverboat to the strains…

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Review of Ali G Indahouse (2002)

By Philip French (1,151) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 23 May 2014

The film is superbly paced, imaginatively designed, consistently suspenseful and never attracts an unintentional laugh. [2003 re-release]…

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Review of Trespass (1992)

By Philip French (1,151) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 30 Oct 2013

There is something powerful and elemental in the appeal of gold, especially somebody else's buried treasure, and it plugs holes in the plot…

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Review of The Grass Is Greener (1960)

By Philip French (1,151) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 18 Oct 2013

Everyone in this movie - adapted from a flummery stage comedy by Hugh and Margaret Williams - stands around like mannequins in Bond Street stores…

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Review of Black Narcissus (1947)

By Philip French (1,151) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 08 Apr 2013

Powell and Press-burger may have a picture that will disturb and antagonize some, they also have in Black Narcissus an artistic accomplishment…

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Review of Young Frankenstein (1974)

By Philip French (1,151) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 30 Oct 2012

It is good-natured, lowbrow, backlot, hit-or-miss humor, but with no cumulative effect beyond its succession of hard-worked jokes…

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Review of On Dangerous Ground (1951)

By Philip French (1,151) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 28 Aug 2012

On Dangerous Ground is tautly directed by that master of stark dramas, Nicholas Ray…

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Review of Forbidden Planet (1956)

By Philip French (1,151) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 04 Nov 2011

While it may not dig incredibly deep, Forbidden Planet was a cut above the schlocky fare that dominated the theatrical sci-fi circuit of the…

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Review of Fireworks (1998)

By James Mccarthy (1) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 06 Mar 2011

The new Japanese film Fireworks is like a Charles Bronson Death Wish movie so drained of story, cliche, convention and plot that nothing is…

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Review of The Hot Rock (1972)

By Phillip French (4) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 06 Jun 2010

It's only the movie's tendency to repeat itself and to stop for unnecessary scenes of character development that keep it from being a classically…

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Review of The Naked City (1948)

By Philip French (1,151) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 08 May 2008

Both a landmark and some sort of masterpiece…

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Review of Breakout (1975)

By Philip French (1,151) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 12 Jan 2008

Bronson is a first-rate action star with a catlike grace and a nice air of menace…

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