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DAN CALLAHAN
Dan Callahan

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• Slant Magazine
• ToxicUniverse.com

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Total Reviews: 176

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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5 A Scandal in Paris
4/4 Stage Door
4.5/5 Angel Face
3.5/4 Donkey Skin
4/5 Pursued
3/4 Being Julia
3.5/5 Ten
2.5/4 East of Eden
3/5 Pepe Le Moko
2.5/5 Music Box
2/4 Mr. Skeffington
2/5 Anything Else
1.5/4 State of the Union
1.5/5 Sylvia
1/4 Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood
1/5 Merci Docteur Rey!
0/4 The Oh in Ohio
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 A Farewell to Arms
4/4 Seventh Heaven
4/4 History is Made at Night
4/4 Lifeboat
4/4 Story of a Love Affair
4/4 Top Hat
4/4 Swing Time
4/4 Rebel Without a Cause
5/5 The Pumpkin Eater
5/5 Tokyo Story
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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0/4 The Oh in Ohio
1/5 Merci Docteur Rey!
1/4 Mamma Mia!
1/4 The Sisters
1/4 Giant
1/4 Monster-in-Law
1/4 Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

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"This new Brideshead takes a step in the right direction, but it's time some radical writer or filmmaker dared to leave out the dim Julia charade and let Charles and Sebastian play out their Isherwood/Auden Oxford love match to its full." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 21, 2008
 
Brideshead Revisited (2008)70%
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1/4
 
"This film version of Mamma Mia! is such a full-scale disaster in every way that it's hard to know what has held theatergoers' attention for so long." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 13, 2008
 
Mamma Mia! (2008)53%
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"Only for Jacques Demy completists, and the stray Donovan devotee." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 7, 2008
 
The Pied Piper (1972)33%
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2/4
 
"Jacques Demy's version of The Pied Piper is as distanced and uncertain as his masterpiece The Young Girls of Rochefort is ecstatically sure of itself." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 7, 2008
 
The Pied Piper (1972)33%
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"A heartfelt but unsuccessful film that could have been much better with a more variegated point of view." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 5, 2008
 
The Fire Within (1963)90%
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2/4
 
"To be frank, Fire Within devastated me when I saw it in college, but the unrelieved ennui that struck me as scrupulously honest and brave then looks one-note and aimless to me now." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 5, 2008
 
The Fire Within (1963)90%
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"Jeanne Moreau at her "If it feels good, do it" best." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 5, 2008
 
The Lovers (1958)100%
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2.5/4
 
"This film is nowhere close to Ophuls's landmark, but it did inaugurate Moreau's extraordinary run of '60s art films in high style." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 5, 2008
 
The Lovers (1958)100%
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"Ultimately disappointing, but Davis gives Mary Poppins a run for her money." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 31, 2008
 
The Nanny (1965)89%
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2.5/4
 
"A rather quiet, cautious thriller that gives Davis more room for characterization than most of her later films." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 31, 2008
 
The Nanny (1965)89%
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"Standard costume fare enlivened by Bette Davis's fuming and growling." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 31, 2008
 
The Virgin Queen (1955)n/a
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2/4
 
"Henry Koster's direction is competent, for him, but Franz Waxman's music is no substitute for Erick Wolfgang Korngold's classic score for Elizabeth and Essex." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 31, 2008
 
The Virgin Queen (1955)n/a
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"A great Preminger movie and a solid DVD overall." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 11, 2008
 
Daisy Kenyon (1947)n/a
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3.5/4
 
"Fairly recently, Otto Preminger's Daisy Kenyon has been starting to get some of the acclaim and attention it deserves." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 11, 2008
 
Daisy Kenyon (1947)n/a
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"Iffy but interesting early Pacino that rewards another look." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 9, 2008
 
Bobby Deerfield (1977)22%
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2.5/4
 
"Pacino is at his best: precise, internal, magnetically cute, and expert at capturing the fear in this man's turtle-like existence and his longing for change." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 9, 2008
 
Bobby Deerfield (1977)22%
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"An essential set of big-ticket Joan Crawford films." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 14, 2008
 
Joan Crawford Collection Vol. 2 ()n/a
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"Not only the finest work by Albert Finney and Diane Keaton and a major, unwieldy film about breaking up, Shoot the Moon is also Tina Yothers's finest hour." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 25, 2007
 
Shoot the Moon (1981)100%
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3/4
 
"Parker and Goldman seem to want this battling couple to represent a sort of romantic '60s point of view, and they show up the younger lovers as shallow, '70s-style hedonists." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 25, 2007
 
Shoot the Moon (1981)100%
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"A prime object of study for Susan Hayward scholars." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 18, 2007
 
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)n/a
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2.5/4
 
"In the '40s, Hayward had a distinctive and rather bitchy sex appeal and clear hunger for stardom that gave way in the '50s to a weary but still authoritative command of frank self-pity and tough-broad defiance." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 18, 2007
 
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)n/a
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3.5/4
 
"We Own the Night confirms James Gray's position as a major American film director." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 11, 2007
 
We Own The Night (2007)54%
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3.5/4
 
"A fevered yet clinical study of jealousy, Leave Her to Heaven is probably John M. Stahl's best-known film." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 18, 2007
 
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)100%
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"A fine disc of a strange film." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 18, 2007
 
The Pirate (1948)73%
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3/4
 
"The Pirate takes place in some Caribbean of the mind, with lots of shadows and lace and high mantillas, and it's all about the promise of sex; the film keeps tapping into a nervous, adolescent sort of fear and desire." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 18, 2007
 
The Pirate (1948)73%
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"A solid disc that does justice to this Cocteau/Melville puzzler." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 18, 2007
 
Les Enfants Terribles (1950)75%
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3/4
 
"Les Enfants Terribles is very much a fantasy, an accumulation of suggestive, slightly obscure visual details, offset somewhat by Cocteau's too-literary, over-explicit narration." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 18, 2007
 
Les Enfants Terribles (1950)75%
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"It's worth watching once for Fonda and Bridges." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 17, 2007
 
The Morning After (1986)73%
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2/4
 
"Sidney Lumet directs wearily; as a thriller, it's full of holes." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 17, 2007
 
The Morning After (1986)73%
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3.5/4
 
"Edith Piaf's tidal emotional vulgarity and brutish commitment to the most sentimental chansons is captured accurately and even irresistibly in La Vie En Rose." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 3, 2007
 
La Vie En Rose (2007)75%
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"An unexpected and very valuable DVD." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 11, 2007
 
China Doll (1958)n/a
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3.5/4
 
"China Doll is a delicate, spare, old man's movie, with quiet attention to character detail." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 11, 2007
 
China Doll (1958)n/a
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"A handsome film, and a real keeper for fans of Vivien Leigh's unstable beauty." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 1, 2007
 
Anna Karenina (1948)n/a
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3/4
 
"This version of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, made A.G. (After Garbo), was not a success when it was first released, and it's still a failure now, but it's an often exquisitely sumptuous misfire, all the same." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 1, 2007
 
Anna Karenina (1948)n/a
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"Kicky but muddled, it's still a valuable reminder of Ross and Williams in their too-brief moment in the sun. Why doesn't someone re-team them now?" -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 1, 2007
 
Mahogany (1975)23%
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2/4
 
"Even a charming last-minute happy ending can't quite redeem all the mess and unidentified dread." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 1, 2007
 
Mahogany (1975)23%
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1.5/4
 
"One more dip into the tin-eared neo-noir well." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 2, 2007
 
Lonely Hearts (2007)50%
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"A respectable second set, though Never Give a Sucker An Even Break is the only one you really need to own." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2007
 
W.C. Fields Comedy Collection: Volume Two (Various)n/a
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2.5/4
 
"A cleverly written but somewhat muffled paean to sensual appetite." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 1, 2006
 
Venus (2006)89%
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"A delight for Lubitsch fans, and for anyone who thinks films from the late '10s and early '20s are mainly static "turn the camera on" chores." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 29, 2006
 
The Oyster Princess/I Don't Want to Be a Man (1919-1920)n/a
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3/4
 
"Manic, appealing comedies that presage Lubitsch's sophisticated Hollywood period." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 29, 2006
 
The Oyster Princess/I Don't Want to Be a Man (1919-1920)n/a
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"An interesting set for Grant completists." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 20, 2006
 
Cary Grant: Screen Legend Collection (Various)n/a
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2.5/4
 
"In what seems like a sequel to Birth, we are treated to endless silent close-ups of Kidman's hard, porcelain face struggling to signal girlish repression and longing for release." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 18, 2006
 
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)30%
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"An acceptable disc for one of Disney's best and most unheralded animated features." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 13, 2006
 
The Fox and the Hound (1981)73%
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3/4
 
"A wounded and unresolved movie free of the expected Disney cutesiness and complacency." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 13, 2006
 
The Fox and the Hound (1981)73%
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"A handsome, unsatisfying DVD of a handsome, unsatisfying epic." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 10, 2006
 
Reds (1981)94%
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3.5/4
 
"Infamous is a film about flashy facades and what lies beneath them." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 6, 2006
 
Infamous (2006)70%
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3/4
 
"Reds is finally just an appealingly conventional epic movie-star romance with radical trimmings, but it contains several sharper elements that suggest the colorful period it seeks to recreate." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 12, 2006
 
Reds (1981)94%
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"This Capra film is typical in its muddleheadedness and atypical in its poor execution." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 23, 2006
 
State of the Union (1948)n/a
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1.5/4
 
"The shock of State of the Union, Capra's last movie in a political vein, is its technical sloppiness." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 23, 2006
 
State of the Union (1948)n/a

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