Pauline Kael
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Airport (1970)"It's bland entertainment of the old school: every stereotyped action is followed by a stereotyped reaction"
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)"Like Ford's other large-scale, elegiac Westerns of this period, it's not a plain action movie but a pictorial film with slow spots and great set pieces."
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Tin Men (1987)"The salesmen's scams are entertaining, but their spritzing is too tame, and the action is prolonged with limp, wavering scenes."
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To Be or Not to Be (1983)"A mild farce - benign but not really very funny."
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The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)"The sumptuousness of Schlesinger's style is impressive. There's something lordly (and a little bored) in this director's command of the medium"
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Blaze (1989)"Shelton doesn't quite engage with the material; the picture is lame and rhythmless. Still, it's never boring, and it offers a ribald view of Southern politics"
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)"Richard Brooks, who adapted the novel by Judith Rossner and directed, has laid a windy jeremiad about our permissive society on top of fractured film syntax"
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The Pick-Up Artist (1987)"It's bright and blithe, like the sound of the 60s girl groups on the track; the flimsy plot hardly matters."
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Blood Simple (1984)"It’s so derivative that it isn’t a thriller—it’s a crude, ghoulish comedy on thriller themes"
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The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)"A macabre comedy classic."
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Frankenstein (1931)"Probably the most famous of all horror films, and one of the best."
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The Day of the Locust (1975)"A mosaic that never comes together."
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Airport '75 (1974)"Processed schlock. This could only have been designed as a TV movie and then blown up to cheapie-epic proportions."
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All of Me (1984)"Martin and Tomlin are both uninhibited physical comics. They tune in to each other's timing the way lovers do in life, only more so."
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The Flamingo Kid (1984)"Some of the film's junkiness is enjoyable, but there's also an unenjoyable cultural fundamentalism at work. Marshall is telling us that the complications of the last two decades are unimportant."
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The Little Drummer Girl (1984)"The tragedy of these two peoples, killing each other because each has just claims to the same plot of ground, is presented with efficient, impersonal evenhandedness, so that we care about neither of them."
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Outrageous Fortune (1987)"With Arthur hiller in charge, much of the dialogue turns into squawking, and the movie is flattened out and rackety, with Midler doing her damnedest to pump sass and energy into it."
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Inherit the Wind (1960)"The case itself had so many dramatic elements that the movie can't help holding our attention, but it's a very crude piece of work, totally lacking in subtlety"
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The Sundowners (1960)"Though the story builds slowly (and the first half may seem a little pokey), the characters are more red-blooded and vigorous and eccentric than in most other Zinnemann films."
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