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Otis Ferguson

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January 7, 2014
Zora Neale Hurston's Most Famous Novel Wasn't Bad, But It Could Have Been Better
August 26, 2011
TNR Film Classic: ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ (1939)
Mr. Capra goes someplace
June 23, 2011
On the Bum
May 14, 2011
TNR Film Classic: James Cagney (1937)
May 7, 2011
TNR Film Classic: At Your Own Risk (1940)
March 4, 2011
TNR Film Classic: 'The Grapes of Wrath' (1940)
February 11, 2011
TNR Film Classics: 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' (January 26, 1938)
February 1, 1942
TNR Film Classics: The Case of the Critic (February 2, 1942)
October 20, 1941
TNR Film Classics: ‘The Maltese Falcon’ (October 20, 1941)
June 2, 1941
Making Sense of Citizen Kane
A New Republic film critic wades through the instant classic, in two parts.
February 2, 1941
The Spirits: 100 Proof
January 8, 1940
Out to Lunch
Will the New Republic's film critic ever review "Gone with the Wind"?
November 22, 1939
TNR Film Classics: ‘Port of Shadows’
September 24, 1939
“The Wizard of Oz” and “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,” Reviewed
November 10, 1936
TNR Film Classic: ‘Les Miserables’ (1936)

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