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Robin Karney

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Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) 74% 3/5 EDIT “Michael Gordon directs in journeyman fashion, while William Prince and Mala Powers are adequate as the young lovers.” – Radio Times Sep 2, 2020 Full Review Clara's Heart (1988) 47% 3/5 EDIT “Goldberg is on top form, doing her Jamaican accent shtick.” – Radio Times Jul 16, 2020 Full Review True Confession (1937) 100% 3/5 EDIT “The movie spirals from mad to madder and is extremely funny.” – Radio Times May 5, 2020 Full Review The Plainsman (1936) 100% 4/5 EDIT “A highly enjoyable action epic in true DeMille style.” – Radio Times Apr 22, 2020 Full Review Bird of Paradise (1932) 50% 3/5 EDIT “The production values are first-rate, though, while the doom-laden tale, played with conviction by the subtle and beautiful Del Rio and the attractive McCrea, is undeniably atmospheric.” – Radio Times Apr 21, 2020 Full Review To Each His Own (1946) 81% 4/5 EDIT “[An] example of a "woman's picture" at its stylish best.” – Radio Times Apr 21, 2020 Full Review Nanook of the North (1922) 100% 3/5 EDIT “This remains a historic, ground-breaking work by the great pioneering documentarist Robert Flaherty.” – Radio Times Nov 12, 2019 Full Review Imitation of Life (1934) 88% 5/5 EDIT “This exemplary example of the kind of melodrama that became known as a "woman's picture" is masterfully directed by John M Stahl.” – Radio Times Oct 21, 2019 Full Review Rope (1948) 93% 3/5 EDIT “A disappointing addition to the great director's canon of work.” – Radio Times Feb 9, 2019 Full Review A Woman Under the Influence (1974) 87% 3/5 EDIT “It should be seen for its undeniably brilliant elements.” – Radio Times Feb 7, 2019 Full Review A Majority of One (1961) 67% 1/5 EDIT “Quite painful to behold.” – Radio Times Jan 8, 2018 Full Review The Naked City (1948) 86% 4/5 EDIT “The movie is hard-hitting, gripping and a hymn to the excitement of New York City where it was shot entirely on location.” – Radio Times Oct 23, 2015 Full Review Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) 83% 2/5 EDIT “Pioneering female director Dorothy Arzner, who took over at short notice after filming commenced, does her best with an inadequate script and a miscast O'Hara; she manages to bring the film to life from time to time -- usually when Ball is on screen.” – Radio Times Sep 28, 2015 Full Review We Were Strangers (1949) 73% 3/5 EDIT “Even though it dissipates its serious political theme with too much mechanical detail, the film is still tense and atmospheric.” – Radio Times Aug 18, 2015 Full Review Way Down East (1920) 96% 5/5 EDIT “Justly celebrated for the climactic sequence where Gish, drifting unconscious on a raft of ice in a storm, is rescued by Barthelmess, the film offers many less obvious moments that are just as memorable.” – Radio Times Aug 12, 2014 Full Review Orphans of the Storm (1922) 88% 4/5 EDIT “Heavily sentimental and marred by Griffith's taste for unsubtle and inappropriate comedy, this isn't quite a silent masterpiece, but it is, nonetheless, visually spectacular and largely absorbing.” – Radio Times Aug 12, 2014 Full Review To Catch a Thief (1955) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Grant and Kelly are on sparkling form, as is Jessie Royce Landis as the latter's formidable and smirky mother, and the French Riviera is beautifully captured by the Oscar-winning cinematography of Robert Burks.” – Radio Times Aug 8, 2014 Full Review Striptease (1996) 11% 2/5 EDIT “Andrew Bergman's direction makes it watchable, but his screenplay pulls its punches on the sleaze, and tear-jerking sentimentality and inadequate humour don't combine well with the drama.” – Radio Times Jun 18, 2014 Full Review Cluny Brown (1946) 94% 3/5 EDIT “This somewhat outmoded satirical souffl on British upper-class mores is nonetheless diverting.” – Radio Times Jun 5, 2014 Full Review When Harry Met Sally... (1989) 90% 5/5 EDIT “The fake-orgasm-in-a-deli set piece propelled Ryan into stratospheric stardom, but there are numerous other pleasures to be found in Nora Ephron's Oscar-nominated screenplay and Rob Reiner's astute direction.” – Radio Times Jul 30, 2013 Full Review The Blue Angel (1930) 96% 4/5 EDIT “It was the cruel and seductive Dietrich, in top hat and black stockings, perched on a bar stool and huskily singing Falling in Love Again, that became one of the cinema's great iconic images.” – Radio Times Sep 23, 2006 Full Review Piccadilly (1929) 80% 2/5 EDIT “This crime melodrama, atmospherically designed by Alfred Junge, was much admired in its day as a stylish piece of work. Now, though, its old-fashioned acting is more likely to cause giggles.” – Radio Times Dec 6, 2005 Full Review
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