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May 4, 1968
Stanley Kauffmann
Lost in the Stars
A review of "2001: A Space Odyssey"
September 24, 1966
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Pauline Kael
Movie Brutalists
On the French New Wave
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October 9, 1961
Stanley Kauffmann
The Talent of Paul Newman
A Review of "The Hustler" and "Paris Blues"
September 18, 1961
Stanley Kauffmann
Breakfast at Macy’s
August 29, 1960
Stanley Kauffmann
Several Sons, Several Lovers
Film reviews of "Psycho" and "Sons and Lovers"
March 7, 1960
MagazineStanley Kauffmann
The Fact of Mortality
"Ikiru" is a film rooted in the most universal of truths, the one that cuts across all cultural barriers, all concepts of love, success, God: the fact of mortality.
June 7, 1943
Manny Farber
The Trouble with Movies: II
Part two of an anti-cinema screed from 1943
April 19, 1943
Manny Farber
The Trouble with the Movies
An anti-cinema screed from 1943
June 29, 1942
Manny Farber
Saccharine Symphony
The New Republic's 1942 review of "Bambi"
June 2, 1941
Otis Ferguson
Making Sense of Citizen Kane
A New Republic film critic wades through the instant classic, in two parts.
August 4, 1926
Virginia Woolf
The Movies and Reality

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