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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"?
November 22, 1939
Otis Ferguson
TNR Film Classics: ‘Port of Shadows’
September 24, 1939
Otis Ferguson
“The Wizard of Oz” and “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,” Reviewed
November 10, 1936
Otis Ferguson
TNR Film Classic: ‘Les Miserables’ (1936)
August 4, 1926
Virginia Woolf
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