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  • All About Eve (1950)
    Review preview for All About Eve

    There is so much to admire in All About Eve, even for those too young to be drenched in nostalgia for the spectacle of Bette Davis unleashing her sharp tongue.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    An aging star is challenged by a ruthless younger actress.
  • The Misfits (1961)
    Review preview for The Misfits

    Monroe inhabits the role, becomes the role – and with everything we now know about Monroe's final years, it becomes uncomfortably hard to say where the boundaries of fact and fiction lie.

    James Benefield · 3.5 out of 5
    An unhappy woman takes a road trip with two strangers, looking to round up wild horses.
  • Pillow Talk (1959)
    Review preview for Pillow Talk

    There may be no chemistry between Rock and Doris and the jokes may be tired, tedious and misplaced, but hindsight will always provide a warped perspective.

    Martin Drury · 3 out of 5
    The first of the Doris Day/Rock Hudson sex lite rom-coms.
  • Pickup On South Street (1953)
    Review preview for Pickup On South Street

    Fuller directs as though McCoy was painting a work of art, so slowly, and lovingly, his camera captures the action.

    Scott Macdonald · 3.5 out of 5
    A young woman carrying secret microfilm for her boyfriend has her purse snatched on an underground train.
  • Rear Window (1954)
    Review preview for Rear Window

    Hitchcock brilliantly builds suspense scene after scene.

    Yusuf Javed · 5 out of 5
    Hitchcock's thriller masterpiece, in which a voyeuristic cameraman suspects murder in the apartment block opposite.

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