Geoff Brown

"Few cinema artists have delved into their own lives and emotions with such ruthlessness and with such moving result."  

"There are plenty of great moments, and the occasional comic use of sound (...) is beautifully judged."  

"Chaplin's opulent Victorian sentimentality is made palatable both by the amazing grace of his pantomimic skills and the balancing presence of harsh reality"  

"The script's generally great (...) Dumont's completely great, and the Brothers get to perform some of their most irresistible routines"  

"Wyler's version of Henry James' 'Washington Square' (based on a play adaptation) is typically plush, painstaking and cold (...) It's all highly professional and heartless."  

"It's dusty but ferocious, with rampant overacting and little sense of comic timing. Cary Grant (...) gives a particularly horrible performance (...) It's all weird, but not wonderful."  

"The dominating creative contribution comes from Minnelli and Cecil Beaton (...) The combination of these two visual elitists is really too much (...) The cast tries (with unfortunate success) to be more French than the French."  

"[It] shows Disney's virtues and vices more clearly than any other cartoon."  

"Awesomely embarrassing; but some great sequences for all that, and certainly not to be missed."  

"The animation has only the bare necessities, too, and the storyline is weak, but it doesn't seem to matter much."  

"Lou Castel's performance (...) seethes with a hateful energy rarely seen on the screen (...) A stunning film, literally."  

"It is painful to watch the documentary maverick of 'Roger and Me' make such a botch of his actors in 'Canadian Bacon'."

"Watching 'The Baby' is like being locked for eternity in a hideous religious painting."  

"The story's nuts and bolts need drastic tightening"