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T.C. Kemp

T.C. Kemp's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Ace in the Hole (1951) 88% EDIT “It is a cold-blooded diagnosis with no hint at remedy. In fact, it is a mere titillation of the symptoms of social disease. Realism can be as false as romance when it is stripped of common humanity.” – Birmingham Post Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Gaslight (1944) 94% EDIT “It is gratifying to see Charles Boyer cast as the man with an overload of mischief. That dark deliberation of his fits this picture's mysterious business as aptly as Ingrid Bergman's cryptic beauty suits its melancholy romance. ” – Birmingham Post Jan 13, 2026 Full Review A Place in the Sun (1951) 90% EDIT “George Steven's direction is discreet but powerful.” – Birmingham Post Jan 12, 2026 Full Review Alice in Wonderland (1951) 83% EDIT “The most to be hoped for is that too much violence shall not be done to the spirit of a book. When we consider what Disney might have done to "Alice," we are impressed by his restraint. ” – Birmingham Post Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) 93% EDIT “Warner Brothers are to be complimented upon their courage in presenting realities.” – Birmingham Post Jan 6, 2026 Full Review White Heat (1949) 94% EDIT “During his recess from crime in milder themes, Cagney seems to have girded himself for this riotous session of mail-coach and pay-roll robbery.” – Birmingham Post Apr 22, 2024 Full Review The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) 100% EDIT “It is the cryptic, quiet figure of Alec Guinness that sits supreme at the center of the film.” – Birmingham Post Apr 17, 2024 Full Review The Big Heat (1953) 95% EDIT “Directed by Fritz Lang, it drives unflinchingly at its subject, timing its surprises and its shocks with startling effect.” – Birmingham Post Apr 10, 2024 Full Review Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) 88% EDIT “From time to time melody breaks in and the ladies lift heir voices in attempt at song. ” – Birmingham Post Mar 8, 2023 Full Review High Noon (1952) 94% EDIT “High Noon is a good example of its kind. Directed by Fred Zinnemann, it generates a high degree of tension, and Gary Cooper invests the Marshal with a nervous anxiety which is probably more true to life.” – Birmingham Post Sep 19, 2022 Full Review Rebecca (1940) 98% EDIT “Alfred Hitchcock has made a first-class job of the production. He decorates the manor of Mandeley with his customary touch of mystery and imagination.” – Birmingham Post Mar 24, 2022 Full Review China (1943) EDIT “The picture has some dramatic moments but, as a whole, it falls undecidedly between romance and realism.” – Birmingham Post Feb 19, 2022 Full Review Hangmen Also Die (1943) 87% EDIT “The picture is brilliantly produced and acted. Theatricalism is notably absent. It is sufficient in a film of this sort to allow the facts to speak -- and here, action is eloquent beyond words.” – Birmingham Post Feb 19, 2022 Full Review Casablanca (1942) 99% EDIT “The plot is complicated in detail but clear in its issue; and it is in the presentation of the tortuous means by which the desperately-desired end is gained that the picture succeeds admirably.” – Birmingham Post Feb 18, 2022 Full Review In Which We Serve (1942) 90% EDIT “Because Mr. Coward has held himself in with admirable restraint, the effect of In Which We Serve is a taut emotion.” – Birmingham Post Feb 17, 2022 Full Review Mrs. Miniver (1942) 93% EDIT “The choice acting of Greer Garson as Mrs. Miniver is marked by delicate stresses, intelligently placed. Bright and brave as Mrs. Miniver is, there are moments when anxiety and heartache are evident in the serene and steady eyes.” – Birmingham Post Feb 17, 2022 Full Review Squadron Leader X (1943) 88% EDIT “The acting is unusually good. Ann Dvorak, as a Nursing Sister in a hospital, plays with a beautiful restraint; and for once we are shown Scotland Yard in action in a manner that probably approximates to the real thing.” – Birmingham Post Feb 17, 2022 Full Review Double Indemnity (1944) 97% EDIT “It does not engage the emotions, mercifully. Rather it invites the laying of odds as to whether the guilty parties will “get away with it.”” – Birmingham Post Feb 17, 2022 Full Review Citizen Kane (1941) 99% EDIT “Orson Welles, who plays Kane, produces and directs, has driven to the heart of his subject with a fierce, thrusting energy that is rare and refreshing.” – Birmingham Post Feb 17, 2022 Full Review The Wizard of Oz (1939) 98% EDIT “The film is well worth a visit both for its disclosure of the secret and for its spectacular display.” – Birmingham Post Feb 17, 2022 Full Review
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