Screwball comedy, screwed down more tightly than most, about a divorced couple who take the long way around to realizing how good they had it. By the beautifully crafted finale, the only things standing between them are an unsecurely closed door and a napping cat. And as long as you …
The early attention to the attitudes, postures, coiffures, and so forth, of the "hostesses" at a mob-run nightspot shows Depression-era Warner Brothers at its strongest. The later attempt to extend the aforementioned elements into a gangbuster melodrama, and not incidentally into a Bette Davis vehicle, shows Depression-era Warners at its …
Slow, atmospheric French crime drama, with a curious history: its U.S. release was blocked until three years after the Hollywood remake, Algiers. That, no doubt, had the effect of stunting its reputation over here, although Pauline Kael, with customary authority, nonetheless declared it "the greatest French romantic-gangster movie until Breathless." …
Walt Disney's first feature-length cartoon has the wonderful sense of a pool of talents working at the top of their bent, holding nothing back. There is some canny borrowing of what works well in live-action movies, particularly the stuff on the Bloody Mary queen -- her shadowy Gothic castle (in …
One of the less frequently mentioned (or seen) of Hitchcock's early British thrillers -- maybe just because the title contains less of a tingle. The rest of it contains as many tingles as any. The basic circumstance of a manhunt for an innocent man, himself hunting for the guilty man, …