The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant. Manny Farber bambicartoondisney Change image and share on social
'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime. Manny Farber bigcomplicatecrime Change image and share on social
The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste. Manny Farber artbeautifulboulevard share on social
'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties. Manny Farber affairamericanbeauty share on social
'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course. Manny Farber affairbeatcarat share on social
