Film Reviews A – Z

 A

• Abandon Ship (1957, Richard Sale)
• Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, The (1984, W. D. Richter)
• Affair to Remember, An (1957, Leo McCarey)
• Alexander (2004, Oliver Stone)
• Alexander The Great (1956, Robert Rossen)
• All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
• All This, and Heaven Too (1940, Anatole Litvak)
• Always (1989, Steven Spielberg)
• Amazing Mr. X, The (1948, Bernard Vorhaus)
• American Gigolo (1980, Paul Schrader)
• American Graffiti (1973, George Lucas)
• American Werewolf in London, An (1981, John Landis)
• Amityville Horror, The (1979, Stuart Rosenberg)
• Amityville II: The Possession (1982, Damiano Damiani)
• Amityville 3-D (1983, Richard Fleischer)
• Andromeda Strain, The (1971, Robert Wise)
• Another Man’s Poison (1951, Irving Rapper)
• April Fools, The (1969, Stuart Rosenberg)
• April Fool’s Day (1986, Fred Walton)
• Asphyx, The (1973, Peter Newbrook)
• Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961, George Pal)

 B

• Baby Call (2012, Pål Sletaune)
• Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952, Vicente Minnelli)
• Bad Day at Black Rock (1955, John Sturges)
• Bad Sister, The (1931, Hobart Henley)
• Bat, The (1959, Crane Wilbur)
• Bat Whispers, The (1930, Roland West)
• Bedtime Story (1964, Ralph Levy)
• Bell Jar, The (1979, Larry Peerce)
• Best Seller (1987, John Flynn)
• Beyond the Forest (1949, King Vidor)
• Big Red (1962, Norman Tokar)
• Big Shakedown, The (1934, John Francis Dillon)
• Billy the Kid (1941, David Miller, Frank Borzage)
• Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, The (1976, John Badham)
• Blackmail (1929, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Black Sunday (1977, John Frankenheimer)
• Black Swan, The (1942, Henry King)
• Blithe Spirit (1945, David Lean)
• Blood Song (1984, Alan J. Levi)
• Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013, Abdellatif Kechiche)
• Blue Lagoon, The (1949, Frank Launder)
• Blue Lagoon, The (1980, Randal Kleiser)
• Bordertown (1935, Archie Mayo)
• Boston Strangler, The (1968, Richard Fleischer)
• Bourne Identity, The (TV) (1988, Roger Young)
• Breaking Away (1979, Peter Yates)
• Bride Came C.O.D., The (1941, William Keighley)
• Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957, David Lean)
• Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)
• Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks)
• Brother from Another Planet, The (1984, John Sayles)
• Bureau of Missing Persons (1933, Roy Del Ruth)
• Burke and Hare (2010, John Landis)
• Butterflies are Free (1972, Milton Katselas)

C

• Cabin in the Cotton, The (1932, Michael Curtiz)
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958, Richard Brooks)
• Cat People (1942, Jacques Tourneur)
• Cat People (1982, Paul Schrader)
• Catered Affair, The (1956, Richard Brooks)
• Champagne (1928, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Chaser, The (2008, Hong-jin Na)
• Children of the Corn (1984, Fritz Kiersch)
• Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)
• Cimarron (1931, Wesley Ruggles)
• Cimarron (1960, Anthony Mann)
• Cleopatra (1963, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
• Cloak & Dagger (1984, Richard Franklin)
• Cobra Verde (1987, Werner Herzog)
• Cohen and Tate (1988, Eric Red)
• Comeback, The (1978, Pete Walker)
• Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982, Robert Altman)
• Cool Hand Luke (1967, Stuart Rosenberg)
• The Corn is Green (1945, Irving Rapper)
• Crimson Pirate, The (1952, Robert Siodmark)
• Crooked Way, The (1949, Robert Florey)
• Curse of the Cat People, The (1944, Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch)

D

• Daisy Miller (1974, Peter Bogdanovich)
• Dallas Buyers Club (2013, Jean-Marc Vallée)
• Dancers (1987, Herbert Ross)
• Dangerous (1935, Alfred E. Green)
• Dark Days (2000, Marc Singer)
• Dark Horse, The (1932, Alfred E. Green)
• Dark Victory (1939, Edmund Goulding)
• Day of the Animals (1977, William Girdler)
• Deadly Blessing (1981, Wes Craven)
• Death Race 2000 (1975, Paul Bartel)
• Deception (1946, Irving Rapper)
• Déjà Vu (1997, Henry Jaglom)
• Demon in My View, A (1991, Petra Haffter)
• Demon Seed (1977, Donald Cammell)
• Designing Woman (1957, Vicente Minnelli)
• Destination Moon (1950, Irving Pichel)
• Diaboliques, Les (1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
• Diamonds Are Forever (1971, Guy Hamilton)
• Diggstown (1992, Michael Ritchie)
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988, Frank Oz)
• Doc Savage – The Man of Bronze (1975, Michael Anderson)
• Doctor Zhivago (1965, David Lean)
• Dominique (1979, Michael Anderson)
• Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976, Bruno Barreto)
• Downhill (1927, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Dr. No (1962, Terence Young)
• Dracula (1931, Tod Browning)
• Drácula (1931, George Melford)
• Dreamscape (1984, Joseph Ruben)
• Driver’s Seat, The (1974, Giuseppe Patroni)
• Dumbo (1941, Ben Sharpsteen, Norman Ferguson, etc.)

E

• Easy Virtue (1928, Alfred Hitchcock)
• East of Eden (1955, Elia Kazan)
• End of the World (1916, August Blom)
• Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986, Moshé Mizrahi)
• Evil That Men do, The (1984, J. Lee Thompson)
• Excalibur (1981, John Boorman)
• Ex-Lady (1933, Robert Florey)
• Explorers (1985, Joe Dante)
• Eye for an Eye (1996, John Schlesinger)
• Eyes of Fire (1983, Avery Crounse)
• Eyes of Laura Mars (1978, Irvin Kershner)
• Eyewitness (1981, Peter Yates)

F

• Fan, The (1981, Ed Bianchi)
• Farmer’s Wife, The (1928, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Fashions (of 1934) (1934, William Dieterle)
• Finishing School, The (1969, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador)
• Fog Over Frisco (1934, William Dieterle)
• Footsteps in the Dark (1941, Lloyd Bacon)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943, Sam Wood)
• For Your Eyes Only (1981, John Glen)
• Forbidden Zone (1980, Richard Elfman)
• Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991, Rachel Talalay)
• Friday the 13th (1980, Sean S. Cunningham)
• Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981, Steve Miner)
• Frogs (1972, George McCowan)
• From Russia with Love (1963, Terence Young)
• Front Page Woman (1935, Michael Curtiz)

G

• Garden of Evil (1954, Henry Hathaway)
• Ghost Story (1981, John Irvin)
• Gigi (1949, Jacqueline Audry)
• Gigi (1958, Vincente Minnelli)
• Girl from 10th Avenue, The (1935, Alfred E. Green)
• Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, A (2014, Ana Lily Amirpour)
• Good Sam (1948, Leo McCarey)
• Guadalcanal Diary (1943, Lewis Seiler)
• Golden Arrow, The (1936, Alfred E. Green)
• GoldenEye (1995, Martin Campbell)
• Goldfinger (1964, Guy Hamilton)
• Good Guys Wear Black (1978, Ted Post)
• Good Sam (1948, Leo McCarey)
• Goodbye Girl, The (1977, Herbert Ross)
• Goonies, The (1985, Richard Donner)
• Gosford Park (2001, Robert Altman)
• Greatest Story Ever Told, The (1965, George Stevens, Jean Negulesco, David Lean)
• Great Expectations (1946, David Lean)
• Great Lie, The (1941, Edmund Goulding)
• Green Slime, The (1968, Kinji Fukasaku)
• Greyfriars Bobby (1961, Don Chaffey)
• Gumshoe (1971, Stephen Frears)
• Guy Named Joe, A (1943, Victor Fleming)

H

• Hang ‘Em High (1968, Ted Post)
• Haunting of Julia, The (1977, Richard Loncraine)
• Heavenly Creatures (1994, Peter Jackson)
• He Knows You’re Alone (1980, Armand Mastroianni)
• Hell’s House (1932, Howard Higgin)
• High Noon (1952, Fred Zinnemann)
• Highway Dragnet (1954, Nathan H. Juran)
• His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
• Hobson’s Choice (1954, David Lean)
• Hollywood Canteen (1944, Delmer Daves)
• Honeysuckle Rose (1980, Jerry Schatzberg)
• House (1986, Steve Miner)
• Housewife (1934, Alfred E. Green)
• Hunger, The (1983, Tony Scott)

I

• I Walked with a Zombie (1943, Jacques Tourneur)
• Ice Station Zebra (1968, John Sturges)
• I Died a Thousand Times (1955, Stuart Heisler)
• Incubus, The (1982, John Hough)
• Innerspace (1987, Joe Dante)
• Innocents, The (1961, Jack Clayton)
• Innocents, The (2016, Anne Fontaine)
• In This Our Life (1942, John Huston)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978, Philip Kaufman)
• In Which We Serve (1942, David Lean)
• Iron Petticoat, The (1956, Ralph Thomas)
• It’s Love I’m After (1937, Archie Mayo)

J

• Jesse James (1939, Henry King)
• Jezebel (1938, William Wyler)
• Jimmy the Gent (1934, Michael Curtiz)
• Juárez (1939, William Dieterle)
• Julie Darling (1983, Paul Nicholas)
• June Bride (1948, Bretaigne Windust)
• Juno and the Paycock (1929, Alfred Hitchcock)

K

• Kid Galahad (1937, Michael Curtiz)
• Kiss Me Goodbye (1982, Robert Mulligan)
• Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988, Stephen Chiodo)

L

• Ladies in Retirement (1941, Charles Vidor)
• Last Unicorn, The (1982, Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin)
• Last Wave, The (1977, Peter Weir)
• Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh, The (2012, Rodrigo Gudiño)
• Late Show, The (1977, Robert Benton)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
• Legend of Lizzie Borden, The (TV) (1975, Paul Wendkos)
• Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural (1973, Richard Blackburn)
• Let It Ride (1989, Joe Pytka)
• Letter, The (1929, Jean de Limur)
• Letter, The (1940, William Wyler)
• Licence to Kill (1989, John Glen)
• Life at the Top (1965, Ted Kotcheff)
• Li’l Abner (1959, Melvin Frank)
• Little Foxes, The (1941, William Wyler)
• Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936, John Cromwell)
• Little Romance, A (1979, George Roy Hill)
• Live and Let Die (1973, Guy Hamilton)
• Living Daylights, The (1987, John Glen)
• Lloyd’s of London (1936, Henry King)
• Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, The (1927, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Long Weekend (1978, Colin Eggleston)
• Lords of Salem, The (2012, Rob Zombie)
• Love Affair (1939, Leo McCarey)
• Love Among the Ruins (TV) (1975, George Cukor)
• Love Machine, The (1971, Jack Haley Jr.)
• Love with the Proper Stranger (1963, Robert Mulligan)

M

• Madeleine (1950, David Lean)
• Mad Room, The (1969, Bernard Girard)
• Mamma Roma (1962, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
• Manhattan Melodrama (1934, W.S. Van Dyke)
• Maniac (2012, Franck Khalfoun)
• Man of Steel (2013, Zack Snyder)
• Man Who Came to Dinner, The (1942, William Keighley)
• Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Man Who Played God, The (1932, John G. Adolfi)
• Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974, Guy Hamilton)
• Marie Antoinette (2006, Sofia Coppola)
• Marked Woman (1937, Lloyd Bacon)
• Miracle Worker, The (1962, Arthur Penn)
• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008, Bharat Nalluri)
• Missing (1982, Costa-Gavras)
• Moonraker (1979, Lewis Gilbert)
• More American Graffiti (1979, Bill L. Norton)
• Mr. Skeffington (1944, Vincent Sherman)
• Mrs. Winterbourne (1996, Richard Benjamin)
• Murder! (1930, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932, Robert Florey)
• My Soul to Take (2010, Wes Craven)

N

• Naked Prey, The (1965, Cornel Wilde)
• New World (2013, Hoon-jung Park)
• Nickel Ride, The (1974, Robert Mulligan)
• Night Digger, The (1971, Alastair Reid)
• Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948, John Farrow)
• Night Watch (1973, Brian G. Hutton)
• Nightmare Alley (1947, Edmund Goulding)
• Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984, Wes Craven)
• Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge, A (1985, Jack Sholder)
• Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A (1987, Chuck Russell)
• Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, A (1988, Renny Harlin)
• Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, A (1989, Stephen Hopkins)
• Non-Stop (2014, Jaume Collet-Serra)
• Nothing Sacred (1937, William A. Wellman)
• Now, Voyager (1942, Irving Rapper)
• Number Seventeen (1932, Alfred Hitchcock)

O

• Object of My Affection, The (1998, Nicholas Hytner)
• Octopussy (1983, John Glen)
• Of Human Bondage (1934, John Cromwell)
• Old Acquaintance (1943, Vincent Sherman)
• Old Maid, The (1939, Edmund Goulding)
• Oliver Twist (1948, David Lean)
• On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969, Peter R. Hunt)
• One Is a Lonely Number (1972, Mel Stuart)
• Outland (1981, Peter Hyams)

P

• Package, The (1989, Andrew Davis)
• Parachute Jumper (1933, Alfred E. Green)
• Passage to India, A (1984, David Lean)
• Passionate Friends, The (1949, David Lean)
• Patch of Blue, A (1965, Guy Green)
• Payment on Demand (1951, Curtis Bernhardt)
• Peter Pan (2003, P.J. Hogan)
• Petrified Forest, The (1936, Archie Mayo)
• Phone Call from a Stranger (1952, Jean Negulesco)
• Pinocchio (1940, Bill Roberts, Jack Kinney, etc.)
• Pirate, The (1948, Vincente Minnelli)
• Pirate Movie, The (1982, Ken Annakin)
• Pleasure Garden, The (1925, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Poor Pretty Eddie (1975, David Worth, Richard Robinson)
• Power, The (1968, Byron Haskin)
• Pretty Persuasion (2005, Marcos Siega)
• Pride of the Yankees, The (1942, Sam Wood)
• Priest of Love (1981, Christopher Miles)
• Prince and the Showgirl, The (1957, Laurence Olivier)
• Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The (1939, Michael Curtiz)
• Psychic, The (1977, Lucio Fulci)
• Pursuit of Happiness, The (1971, Robert Mulligan)
• Pushover (1954, Richard Quine)

Q

• Quintet (1979, Robert Altman)

R

• Rachel and the Stranger (1948, Norman Foster)
• Rancho Notorious (1952, Fritz Lang)
• Rawhide (1952, Henry Hathaway)
• Rebel without a Cause (1955, Nicholas Ray)
• Rich and Famous (1981, George Cukor)
• Rich and Strange (1931, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Rich Are Always with Us, The (1932, Alfred E. Green)
• Ring, The (1927, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Ritz, The (1976, Richard Lester)
• Robert Louis Stevenson’s St. Ives (1998, Harry Hook)
• Robin Hood (1922, Allan Dawn)
• Room at the Top (1959, Jack Clayton)
• Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming, The (1966, Norman Jewison)
• Ryan’s Daughter (1970, David Lean)

 S

• Satan Met A Lady (1936, William Dieterle)
• Saturday Night Fever (1977, John Badham)
• Saturn 3 (1980, Stanley Donen)
• Schizo (1976, Pete Walker)
• Schlock (1973, John Landis)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010, Edgar Wright)
• Secret Agent (1936, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Secret Heart, The (1946, Robert Z. Leornard)
• Sense and Sensibility (1996, Ang Lee)
• Sex and the Single Girl (1964, Richard Quine)
• Shane (1953, George Stevens)
• Shoot Out (1971, Henry Hathaway)
• Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972, Theodore Gershuny)
• Silent Rage (1982, Michael Miller)
• Sinbad the Sailor (1947, Richard Wallace)
• Sisters, The (1938, Anatole Litvak )
• Skin Game, The (1931, Alfred Hitchcock)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, William Cottrell, David Hand, etc.)
• So Big! (1932, William A. Wellman)
• Soldier Blue (1970, Ralph Nelson)
• Soldier’s Story, A (1984, Norman Jewison)
• Something Evil (TV) (1972, Steven Spielberg)
• Sorority Row (2009, Stewart Hendler)
• Sound Barrier, The (1952, David Lean)
• Special Agent (1935, William Keighley)
• Spiral Staircase, The (1945, Robert Siodmak)
• Splendor in the Grass (1961, Elia Kazan)
• Spy Who Loved Me, The (1977, Lewis Gilbert)
• Stand by Me (1986, Rob Reiner)
• Star, The (1952, Stuart Heisler)
• Staying Alive (1983, Sylvester Stallone)
• Stealing Beauty (1996, Bernardo Bertolucci)
• Stealing Home (1988, Steven Kampmann, William Porter)
• Stolen Life, A (1946, Curtis Bernhardt)
• Stone Killer, The (1973, Michael Winner)
• Storm Center (1956, Daniel Taradash)
• Strange Invaders (1983, Michael Laughlin)
• Street Scene (1931, King Vidor)
• Streetcar Named Desire, A (Director’s Cut) (1951, Elia Kazan)
• Strictly Ballroom (1992, Baz Luhrmann)
• Summer of ’42 (1971, Robert Mulligan)
• Summertime (1955, David Lean)
• Sunset (1988, Blake Edwards)
• Sweet Sixteen (1983, Jim Sotos)
• Symptoms (1974, José Ramón Larraz)

T

• Tap (1989, Nick Castle)
• 10 Rillington Place (1971, Richard Fleischer)
• Term of Trial (1962, Peter Glenville)
• Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943, David Butler)
• That Certain Woman (1937, Edmund Goulding)
• These Wilder Years (1956, Roy Rowland)
• Thief of Hearts (1984, Douglas Day Stewart)
• Thing, The (1982, John Carpenter)
• Thing From Another World, The (1951, Christian Nyby)
• Thirst (1979, Rod Hardy)
• 13 Ghosts (1960, William Castle)
• 39 Steps, The (1935, Alfred Hitchcock)
• This Happy Breed (1944, David Lean)
• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965, Ken Annakin)
• Three Days of the Condor (1975, Sidney Pollack)
• Three on a Match (1932, Mervyn LeRoy)
• Thunderball (1965, Terence Young)
• Time Machine, The (1960, George Pal)
• Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982, William Dear)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Robert Mulligan)
• Tomorrow Never Dies (1995, Roger Spottiswoode)
• Tom Thumb (1958, George Pal)
• Tormented (2009, Jon Wright)
• Town That Dreaded Sundown, The (1976, Charles B. Pierce)
• Track, The (1975, Serge Leroy)
• Train to Busan (2016, Sang-ho Yeon)
• Tulsa (1949, Stuart Heisler)
• Turkey Shoot (1982, Brian Trenchard-Smit)
• Twentieth Century (1934, Howard Hawks)
• Two Mrs. Grenvilles, The (TV) (1987, John Erman)
• 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932, Michael Curtiz)

U

• UFO Incident, The (TV) (1975, Richard A. Colla)
• Ulzana’s Raid (1972, Robert Aldrich)
• Umberto D. (1952, Vittorio De Sica)

V

• V.I.P.s, The (1963, Anthony Asquith)
• Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970, Jaromil Jires)
• View to a Kill, A (1985, John Glen)
• Viking, The (1928, Roy William Neill)
• Virgin Queen, The (1955, Henry Koster)
• Virginian, The (1929, Victor Fleming)
• Von Ryan’s Express (1965, Mark Robson)

W

• Waltzes From Vienna (1934, Alfred Hitchcock)
• War of the Worlds, The (1953, Byron Haskin)
• War of the Worlds (2005, Steven Spielberg)
• Watch on the Rhine (1943, Herman Shumlin)
• Waterloo Bridge (1931, James Whale)
• Way Back Home (1931, William A. Seiter)
• We Are the Night (2010, Dennis Gansel)
• We Are What We Are (2010, Jorge Michel Grau)
• Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994, Wes Craven)
• When a Stranger Calls (1979, Fred Walton)
• When a Stranger Calls Back (TV) (1993, Fred Walton)
• When Worlds Collide (1951, Rudolph Maté)
• White of the Eye (1987, Donald Cammell)
• White River (1999, Arne Glimcher)
• White Zombie (1932, Victor Halperin)
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, Mike Nichols)
• Wild Strawberries (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
• Window, The (1949, Ted Tetzlaff)
• Windows (1980, Gordon Willis)
• Winter Kills (1979, William Richert)
• Winter Meeting (1948, Bretaigne Windust)
• Woman’s Face, A (1938, Gustaf Molander)
• Woman’s Face, A (1941, George Cukor)
• Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, the (1962, George Pal, Henry Levin)
• Working Man, The (1933, John G. Adolfi)
• World Is Not Enough, The (1999, Michael Apted)

Y

• You Light Up My Life (1977, Joseph Brooks)
• You Only Live Twice (1967, Lewis Gilbert)
• Young Adult (2011, Jason Reitman)
• Young Lions, The (1958, Edward Dmytryk)
• Young Toscanini (1988, Franco Zeffirelli)

Z

• Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005, Jon Fraveu)

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