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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.
May 25, 1959
The New Republic
Lady Chatterly At Last
March 30, 1959
Stanley Kauffmann
TNR Film Classics: ‘Some Like It Hot’ (March 30, 1959)
February 17, 1958
Philip Roth
Another Shy at Hemingway
A review of Charles Vidor's "A Farewell to Arms"
January 26, 1958
Philip Roth
The Playing Fields of Thailand
A review of David Lean's "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
November 28, 1955
Delmore Schwartz
TNR Film Classics: ‘To Catch a Thief’
January 17, 1955
Delmore Schwartz
TNR Film Classics: ‘Animal Farm’ (January 17, 1955)
July 5, 1954
Martin S. Dworkin
Films
November 6, 1950
Robert Hatch
TNR Film Classics: ‘All About Eve’
January 30, 1949
Ernest Pascal
Art, Business, and the Liberals
July 26, 1948
Robert Hatch
Movies: Troubled Times
July 8, 1946
Manny Farber
TNR Film Classics: ‘Henry V’ (July 8, 1946)
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"
February 1, 1942
Otis Ferguson
TNR Film Classics: The Case of the Critic (February 2, 1942)
October 20, 1941
Otis Ferguson
TNR Film Classics: ‘The Maltese Falcon’ (October 20, 1941)
June 2, 1941
Otis Ferguson
Making Sense of Citizen Kane
A New Republic film critic wades through the instant classic, in two parts.
February 24, 1941
Michael Sage
Hearst Over Hollywood
January 8, 1940
Otis Ferguson
Out to Lunch
Will the New Republic's film critic ever review "Gone with the Wind"?