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  • Bigger Than Life (1956)
    Review preview for Bigger Than Life

    The performances are delicately balanced. Mason insinuates madness without loosening his bow tie and Rush internalises desperation without breaking the crockery.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Addiction to a wonder drug has mind-altering side-effects.
  • Johnny Guitar (1954)
    Review preview for Johnny Guitar

    It's really a vehicle for Joan Crawford as Vienna, a woman holding her own in a brutal world through sheer force of personality.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A saloon owner falls foul of a jealous woman on the Arizona frontier.
  • Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
    Review preview for Rebel Without A Cause

    Unlike many examples of cinema from an earlier generation, Rebel Without A Cause is dynamic edge-of-the-seat viewing many years on.

    Chris · 4.5 out of 5
    The film which invented the teenager and introduced the world to James Dean.
  • We Can't Go Home Again (1976)
    Review preview for We Can't Go Home Again

    Truth be told, it is annoying as hell and becomes very tired, very quickly.

    Robert Munro · 1.5 out of 5
    A companion piece to Don't Expect Too Much, We Can't Go Home Again is an experimental vision of disillusioned American youth in the Seventies.

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