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Jordan Cronk

Film Critic

United States

La notte (The Night) (1961)

Publish Date: September 8, 2016
"There’s nothing behind the images in the work of this filmmaker; rather, the frame itself is pregnant with meaning (…) Rating: **** (out of 4)"

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Limelight (1952)

Publish Date: June 3, 2015
"If Chaplin's formal fluidity and narrative economy facilitate a satisfying dramatic arc, it's through the acutely felt sense of reflexivity that the film approaches the sublime (…) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

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Man of the West (1958)

Publish Date: November 27, 2014
"The project marked a spiritual culmination of many interrelated cinematic careers and concerns (…) Rating: *** (out of 5)"

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Red River (1948)

Publish Date: June 5, 2014
"The psychology behind the rebellion is expertly built and realized by Hawks (...) [It] shifted the moral viability of the western genre all at once (…) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

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My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

Publish Date: May 30, 2013
"It’s this very confidence (...) that storytelling this pure and innocent, this honest and disarming, can provoke similarly lasting memories, that has solidified 'My Neighbor Totoro's status as a classic of the medium (…) Rating: ***½ (out of 5)"

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The Quiet Man (1952)

Publish Date: January 22, 2013
"'The Quiet Man' found Ford refining many of the thematic preoccupations that had interested him over the last decade-plus (…) Rating: ***½ (out of 5)"

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Quadrophenia (1979)

Publish Date: August 26, 2012
"One of the most honest and detailed documents of the mid-’60s mod subculture in existence (…) Rating: ****½ (out of 5)"

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The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

"[It] has retroactively come to represent a key moment in the evolution of contemporary art-house cinema."

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