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L'Obs (France)

L'Obs (France) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): André Bazin
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Queen Christina (1933)

André Bazin

Beyond the ridiculousness of certain situations, of their primitive and naïve character... the film does radiate lost nobility and elegance, a simplicity that can suddenly and naturally achieve greatness.
Posted Jan 26, 2022
2
On the Waterfront (1954)

André Bazin

On the Waterfront's value as a gangster film is in itself mediocre. The best of the picture lies elsewhere, in the character of Marlon Brando... I don't know of any young movie actor in the world who can compare with him.
Posted Jan 26, 2022
3
Broken Lance (1954)

André Bazin

What is also noteworthy is the laborious dutifulness with which CinemaScope is used in Broken Lance, which gives the mise-en-scène a rigidity that makes for a certain dryness. Such severity, as one might guess, is not for me.
Posted Jan 4, 2022
4
While the City Sleeps (1955)

André Bazin

Even when he is reduced to working with scant means or idiotic stories, Lang can create something of substance.
Posted Dec 9, 2021
5
Last Hunt (1956)

André Bazin

If The Last Hunt is an excellent western, it is nevertheless, as I have attempted to show, an impure western, the result of the transition to the form of a scenario that, in essence, has nothing to do with the genre.
Posted Dec 9, 2021
6
David and Bathsheba (1951)

André Bazin

The Technicolor in David and Bathsheba... may in fact be the best American Technicolor I've ever seen. That is because its function here is not decorative and illustrative but, again, psychological.
Posted Dec 8, 2021
7
Hallelujah (1929)

André Bazin

Great cinematographic events like Hallelujah are thus always the fruit of great sociological events. Indeed, this film is an eternal testament that transcends both its author-director and the history of cinema itself.
Posted Dec 8, 2021
8
Giant (1956)

André Bazin

Let me say it right away: this film is a disappointment, at least relative to what we had hoped for.
Posted Dec 8, 2021
9
Peyton Place (1957)

André Bazin

The greatness of American cinema resides not so much in its realism as in its aptitude for integrating that realism into the most varied styles or genres, setting them artistically free in the process. That is what's missing from Peyton Place.
Posted Dec 8, 2021
10
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

André Bazin

Johnny Guitar was the first movie of his to make me reconsider the tempering of my esteem and to make me think that the Nicholas Ray fanatics were right. After Rebel Without a Cause , there can no longer be any doubt about it.
Posted Dec 8, 2021
11
Monkey Business (1952)

André Bazin

In my view, the moral satire of Monkey Business remains at the stage of intention, and the writers ceased to develop their idea with any seriousness beyond the two-thirds point in the picture.
Posted Dec 8, 2021
12
Conquest of Space (1955)

André Bazin

It unfortunately confirms ten times over what I have written in the past about science-fiction movies: Hollywood's repeated failures in this field ironically derive from the most realizable and least expensive element, the screenplay.
Posted Dec 8, 2021
13
East of Eden (1955)

André Bazin

I was much more sensitive, on a second viewing, to Kazan's sincerity and the undeniable lyrical power of his mise-en-scene, which, though probably too willful or conscious, is elevated from within by its powerful grounding in art as well as life.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
14
Stalag 17 (1953)

André Bazin

[Stalag 17 is] remarkably realized within the framework of an adaptation whose chief weakness, its over-theatricalization, is inherited, and as sympathetic a work in its intent as in its spirit.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
15
14 Hours (1951)

André Bazin

It all unfolds with too calculated an ease to qualify as a valid treatment of the subject.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
16
Diplomatic Courier (1952)

André Bazin

Diplomatic Courier is skillfully made, rich in twists and turns, but totally lacking in significance. This little cinematic escapade never goes beyond what it literally portrays.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
17
Attack (1956)

André Bazin

Such relative reservations on my part cannot prevail against the intellectual and formal beauties of Robert Aldrich's admirable -- and therefore eminently defensible -- film.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
18
Bitter Victory (1957)

André Bazin

With all its faults, this disappointing film is still a beautiful piece of work, if only on account of its subject or thesis, and also because its director could not be anyone other than himself.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
19
The Last Command (1955)

André Bazin

The exceptional variety of this cast is underlined and deepened by much stronger directing of the actors than is common in a genre where character psychology remains mostly conventional, hence superficial.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
20
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

André Bazin

John Sturges's mise-en-scene is careful to expand to the dimensions of CinemaScope... Bad Day at Black Rock is not, however, a masterpiece; it is at best a sympathetic film, well done, that is sometimes engaging.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
21
Bigger Than Life (1956)

André Bazin

I must now confirm that I find almost nothing in this movie other than the talent of Ray -- at least what made me once love that talent. Hear me out! Bigger than Life is obviously not a negligible work, and I would advise my friends to see it anyway.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
22
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)

André Bazin

Although The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is noteworthy, then, for its intentions and the clarity of its exposition, even, to a certain extent, for the sincerity of its purpose, it is nevertheless a dishonorable undertaking.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
23
The Killing (1956)

André Bazin

The Killing may be a film that sometimes rings hollow. But technically, it stands apart from the rest. This is not the primary reason to be satisfied with it, yet, all things considered, its qualities are such that Kubrick's picture does not disappoint.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
24
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)

André Bazin

The Solid Gold Cadillac is a made-to-order film for Judy Holliday, an amazing actress who perfectly justifies the operation.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
25
The Racers (1955)

André Bazin

Do we remember the story of The Racers after the film For my part, fortunately, I remember just the admirable images and the repeated shots of the photogenic racecars.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
26
Kangaroo (1952)

André Bazin

Perhaps the reader who goes to see Kangaroo will judge that I have given disproportionate significance to this failed, fake western... But it is in films like these that one at least gets the glimpse of a better, hypothetical work of art.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
27
The Sheepman (1958)

André Bazin

Probably the best Western I've seen in months, if not years.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
28
Quo Vadis? (1951)

André Bazin

Conscientious work has been done with the means to do it, but one would look in vain here for the grain of amused madness one would find in a similar film by Cecil B. DeMille.
Posted Dec 7, 2021