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1
Upstairs (1919)

Harriette Underhill

If you are as fond of Mabel Normand as we are, go to see Upstairs at the Strand this week. If not, stay away, for the picture is devoted almost entirely to the exploitation of her peculiar and, to us, most fetching sort of humor.
Posted Jun 2, 2021
2
Experience (1921)

Harriette Underhill

We are quite sure that in spite of the marvelously beautiful photography in some of the scenes and the lavishness of the production we should not care for Experience if we had not found our youth in Richard Barthelmess.
Posted May 19, 2021
3
Romeo and Juliet (1916)

Harriette Underhill

As a picture it was interesting, and would have furnished a splendid entertainment if one had never heard of Shakespeare.
Posted Mar 5, 2021
4
The Miracle (1912)

Trib Staff

It is a combination of grand opera and mediaeval miracle play shown in... motion pictures. If such a hybrid promises to reproduce the best qualities of both parents it may also be expected to display some of the faults to which the flesh of each is heir.
Posted Feb 26, 2021
5
The Edison Minstrels (1913)

Trib Staff

The possibilities of the invention are perhaps its most interesting feature.
Posted Jan 28, 2021
6
The Bar Sinister (1917)

Harriette Underhill

Nothing more entertaining and altogether artistic has been seen in a long time.
Posted Jan 25, 2021
7
The Fall of a Nation (1916)

Trib Staff

It is so trivial that seven dozen pictures like it would not send a single patriotic thrill down the spine nor accelerate one's pulse beats by so much ha a semi-quaver. A film, like a play, needs something more than an American flag to make it thrilling.
Posted Nov 19, 2020
8
The Splendid Sinner (1918)

Heywood Broun

Strangely enough, a silent Mary Garden is not nearly so effective as a singing one.
Posted Nov 12, 2020
9
Deliverance (1919)

Harriette Underhill

Of course, every one knows in a general way that, though lacking sight, the power to hear, or speak, Helen Keller became one of the best educated women in the world, but one cannot realize enormousness of that task until one has seen the journey.
Posted Nov 9, 2020
10
Treasure Island (1920)

Trib Staff

The cave scenes and all the battle scenes between the pirate crew and the Englishmen who headed the expedition in search of the buried gold were done with a realism which sent chills down the spine and gasps through the dark. ened theater.
Posted Nov 4, 2020
11
The Gray Horizon (1919)

Virginia Tracy

The picture has force, genuine emotional force, and a tonic, tense excitement.
Posted Oct 23, 2020
12
Wildcat of Paris (1919)

Harriette Underhill

The picture diverts even if it does not convince.
Posted Oct 21, 2020
13
Brewster's Millions (1921)

Harriette Underhill

This picture needs no criticism, for every one knows the story of Brewster's Millions, and every one knows Roscoe, once Fatty.
Posted Oct 20, 2020
14
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921)

Trib Staff

Just how A Connecticut Yankee could have been better produced, all things considered, is hard to imagine.
Posted Oct 20, 2020
15
Cabiria (1914)

Harriette Underhill

Although it was made so long ago, the photoplay seems to be as fine as anything we have now.
Posted Oct 16, 2020
16
Cabiria (1914)

Trib Staff

Cabiria is an epoch making production, superior in every way even to Quo Vadis?
Posted Oct 16, 2020
17
The Golem (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam) (1920)

Harriette Underhill

Paul Wegener directed the picture, and he also play the title role and it is a marvelous piece of work. The story is beautifully done.
Posted Oct 13, 2020
18
The Ghost of Slumber Mountain (1918)

Harriette Underhill

It is something different from anything we have see on the screen. Dawley goes to sleep and dreams that he is living in prehistoric times. And all kinds of animals appear. Mastodons and horned lizards and dinosaurs. We should like to know how it was done.
Posted Oct 8, 2020
19
The Battle Cry of Peace (1915)

Heywood Broun

There are thrills by the yard, horrors slowly Is drawn out inch by inch and not few feet of good comedy. The achievements of the camera are remarkable.
Posted Sep 28, 2020
20
The Breath of the Gods (1920)

Trib Staff

The scenic photographs throughout the production are unusually true, and the directing of the young Japanese men and women handling different parts shows rare skill.
Posted Sep 14, 2020
21
Remodeling Her Husband (1920)

Trib Staff

[Lillian Gish] remains invisible and leaves the spotlight to sister Dorothy, whose acting captivates the filmgoer. But absent though she is from the screen, Lillian's directing hand is seen throughout the picture.
Posted Sep 8, 2020
22
Ravished Armenia (1919)

Harriette Underhill

The photography is excellent and some of the scenes are beautiful and picturesque, but most of it is extremely harrowing, and it runs for more than an hour and a half.
Posted Sep 5, 2020
23
Hearts of the World (1918)

Harriette Underhill

Every character in the play is real. Either Mr. Griffith has a genius for selecting his casts or else he has the power to infuse in his actors something of his own genius.
Posted Aug 12, 2020
24
The Horitz Passion Play (1897)

Trib Staff

The moving pictures were commendably clear, presenting sometimes scenes of considerable duration.
Posted Aug 3, 2020
25
Carmen (1915)

Heywood Broun

In fact, the scenes throughout, considered solely as scenes, are handled with much skill, but there is a great deal to be desired in the presentation of the story. Much of the scenario is murky.
Posted Jul 24, 2020
26
Neptune's Daughter (1914)

Trib Staff

Neptune's Daughter demonstrates a fact which has been too much overlooked by motion picture producers, namely, that one of the greatest appeals of the films is found in their power to show effects utterly impossible on the stage.
Posted Jul 23, 2020
27
Trifling Women (1922)

Harriette Underhill

Ramon Navarro seems to us to make every man who ever wore the hero's laurels look to his wreath. He is sincere, extremely handsome, and his acting is facile and intelligent.
Posted Jul 22, 2020
28
The Life of General Villa (1914)

Trib Staff

True, there are no close-up views of a man ramming a bayonet down another man's throat, such as one sees in the fiction war pictures, but there are scenes showing real fighting as It la done now. The films are an important achievement.
Posted Jul 18, 2020
29
One Glorious Day (1922)

Harriette Underhill

Mr. Rogers's performance as Ezra is absolutely inspired. As you watch him in the different moods you feel that he is nearly as good an actor as Charlie Chaplin.
Posted Jul 17, 2020
30
Hamlet (1921)

Harriette Underhill

[Hamlet] is the most fascinating picture I ever have seen. That I can state without reservations.
Posted Jul 6, 2020
31
Carmen (1915)

Heywood Broun

Undoubtedly Miss Farrar has never acted so well as she does in the screen version of Carmen.
Posted Jul 2, 2020
32
Daughter of the Gods (1916)

Heywood Broun

One general rule has been observed throughout the picture, and it is an excellent one. When in doubt, the director told himself, threw Miss Kellerman into the water.
Posted Jun 26, 2020
33
Strictly Business (1917)

Harriette Underhill

Strictly Business is a delightful little play from the O. Henry story of the same name.
Posted Jun 24, 2020
34
The Sawdust Ring (Cirkusblod) (1917)

Harriette Underhill

Bessie Love ought never to make another picture, because she can never hope to equal The Sawdust Ring.
Posted Jun 24, 2020
35
Forbidden Paths (1917)

Harriette Underhill

With the talents of Sessue Hayakawa and the beauty of Vivian Martin it would seem that Forbidden Paths... should be a whole lot better than it is.
Posted Apr 14, 2020
36
Madame Jealousy (1918)

Harriette Underhill

Madame Jealousy could be much better than it is, but at that it is much better than it might be, because those allegorical pictures are difficult things to handle.
Posted Apr 9, 2020
37
Men Who Have Made Love to Me (1918)

Harriette Underhill

Mary MacLane has personality. Also, we believe that she is the sort of woman whom other women are mad about or hate intensely. We believe, too, that many more men may have made love to Mary than those which are depicted on the screen.
Posted Apr 7, 2020
38
The Passion Play of Oberammergau (1898)

Trib Staff

[The film doesn't] even approach a close imitation of the Oberammergau play... [but] these pictures have their own excellencies, and they are quite capable of standing on their own bottom, and should be allowed to do so.
Posted Jan 28, 2020
39
The Woman Thou Gavest Me (1919)

Virginia Tracy

You cannot eat your cake and keep it; you cannot make your heroine a sympathy catcher through the miseries of indissoluble marriage and yet hand her her divorce on, so to speak, her wedding night.
Posted Jan 15, 2020
40
The Wild Goose (1921)

Harriette Underhill

The story is incredibly foolish, the acting is incredibly inane and the titles are incredibly bad.
Posted Dec 30, 2019
41
Mother Eternal (1921)

Harriette Underhill

Mr. Abramson wrote and directed the picture himself and he has done well.
Posted Dec 30, 2019
42
Sacred and Profane Love (1921)

Harriette Underhill

It is probable that with some one else [besides Elsie Ferguson] in the leading role we should not have cared for this picture, but as it is presented it held us spellbound.
Posted Dec 30, 2019
43
O'Malley of the Mounted (1921)

Harriette Underhill

It is an excellent picture, perfect in every detail, but there are no surprises in it.
Posted Dec 30, 2019
44
The Easy Road (1921)

Harriette Underhill

You wouldn't believe that a picture with Thomas Meighan in it could be as bad as The Easy Road... for, even with that most engaging actor, the picture manages to achieve an unbelievable amount of banality.
Posted Dec 30, 2019
45
Paying the Piper (1921)

Harriette Underhill

Miss Dickson is not starred, but if any one has a right to be certainly she has, for she dominates the production to such an extent that you don't think much about any one else while she is on the screen.
Posted Dec 30, 2019
46
The Willow Tree (1920)

Ishbel M. Ross

Viola Dana takes the part of O-Riu, the Image Maker's daughter. One is forced to the conclusion that some one more suitable might have been found for the role.
Posted Dec 30, 2019
47
The Lonely Trail (1922)

Harriette Underhill

Henceforth Mr. Beauvais will be known as the man who took the sin out of cinema.
Posted Dec 30, 2019
48
The Blooming Angel (1920)

Ishbel M. Ross

It is far-fetched to the point of absurdity, but it is also thoroughly amusing.
Posted Dec 27, 2019
49
The Road to Love (1916)

Harriette Underhill

Despite this lack of realism, however, there were some wonderfully effective scenes in the desert and a sand storm that looked real.
Posted Dec 27, 2019
50
Quo Vadis? (1913)

Trib Staff

On the whole, the narrative is too full of incident. At times it is bewildering in its rapidity, not only in the twinkling movements of the actors, but also in the kaleidoscope succession and evanescence of the scenes.
Posted Dec 26, 2019