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	30 Reviews by Don Druker 30 Reviews by Don Druker of Chicago Reader Movie: Stepford Wives, The Release date: 12/31/1975 11:01:44 PM Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) Overlong and underdeveloped, this flimsy Bryan Forbes horror story (1975) would probably have mad... 9 other reviews of this movie Movie: Young Frankenstein Release date: 12/31/1974 11:01:50 PM Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) More about the myth of Karloff than the monster, this Mel Brooks pastiche is probably his best ea... 13 other reviews of this movie Movie: Godfather, Part II, The Release date: 12/12/1974 Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (8/0) Francis Ford Coppola pulls it off in grand style. 21 other reviews of this movie Movie: Junior Bonner Release date: 12/31/1972 11:01:35 PM Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) A film filled to overflowing with small, subtle beauties. 6 other reviews of this movie Movie: Duck, You Sucker, A Release date: 12/31/1972 11:01:29 PM Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) A marvelous sense of detail and spectacular effects -- good fun all the way. 7 other reviews of this movie Movie: Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Release date: 1/1/1970 Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) Affectionately conceived, chock-full of marvelous subtleties, this meticulously constructed adven... 11 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fortune Cookie, The Release date: 1/1/1966 Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) Wildly funny in spots... 6 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kiss Me, Stupid Release date: 1/1/1964 Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) In any event, this has to rank as Wilder's most corrosive and despairing portrait of America. 8 other reviews of this movie Movie: Knife in the Water Release date: 12/31/1963 11:01:36 PM Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) The sexual tensions build slowly and subtly, and when they explode into violence, it seems to be ... 9 other reviews of this movie Movie: One, Two, Three Release date: 1/1/1961 Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) The pace is blistering, and Wilder's deep-seated hatred of Germans has never been put to more com... 7 other reviews of this movie Movie: Virgin Spring, The Release date: 12/31/1960 11:01:47 PM Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) The period details are magnificently worked into the narrative, and the pace and economy of the t... 8 other reviews of this movie Movie: Girl Can't Help It, The Release date: 12/31/1956 11:01:32 PM Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) Tashlin's savage lampoon of American notions of success and fulfillment is hilarious and genuinel... 6 other reviews of this movie Movie: To Catch a Thief Release date: 12/31/1955 11:01:45 PM Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) Alfred Hitchcock's fluffy 1955 exercise in light comedy, minimal mystery, and good-natured erotic... 8 other reviews of this movie Movie: Gate of Hell Release date: 1/1/1953 Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) The film's delicately choreographed battles, its use of texture and color, and its grace of movem... 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stalag 17 Release date: 1/1/1953 Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) The resulting letdown is terrific, but along the way there is some of the funniest men-at-loose-e... 10 other reviews of this movie Movie: White Sheik, The Release date: 12/31/1952 11:01:48 PM Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) A funny, sardonic, and clever satire on popular heroes and ordinary people's illusions. 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: African Queen, The Release date: 12/21/1952 11:01:26 PM Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) The direction is often questionable, but the screenplay (by James Agee, John Collier, Huston, and... 8 other reviews of this movie Movie: I Was a Male War Bride Release date: 12/31/1949 11:01:34 PM Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) Howard Hawks's darkest comedy (1949) -- a loosely constructed, episodic film that traces the prog... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Force of Evil Release date: 12/25/1948 Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) A poetic, terse, beautifully exact, and highly personal re-creation of the American underworld, w... 3 other reviews of this movie Movie: Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Release date: 1/1/1948 Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) John Huston has rarely been in better form than in this 1948 study of gold fever and worse obsess... 16 other reviews of this movie Movie: I Walked With a Zombie Release date: 12/31/1943 11:01:34 PM Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) It transcends the conventions of the horror genre and remains one of Lewton-Tourneur's most compe... 8 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bride of Frankenstein, The Release date: 1/1/1935 Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) Whale added an element of playful sexuality to this version, casting the proceedings in a bizarre... 16 other reviews of this movie Movie: Faust Release date: 1/1/1926 Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) As atmospheric and menacing a work as the expressionist movement ever produced. 8 other reviews of this movie Movie: Leaves From Satan's Book Release date: 12/31/1919 11:01:37 PM Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (7/0) The film is overdirected and, paradoxically, underdeveloped, but it does feature some marvelous, ... 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: Battle of Algiers-Reissue, The Release date: 1/9/2004 Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (4/4) No reference Pontecorvo has nearly accomplished the impossible: to make an epic film that convinces the viewer... 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: Auch Zwerge Haben Klein Angefangen Release date: 12/31/1970 11:01:26 PM Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (3/4) No reference Not a vicious denial of the legitimacy of revolt (as too many critics have charged) but a bitter ... 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Yojimbo Release date: 12/31/1961 11:01:50 PM Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (3/4) No reference Action-packed, highly comic 1961 translation of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest. 16 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lady Vanishes, The Release date: 1/1/1938 Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (3/4) No reference This is vintage Hitchcock, with the pacing and superb editing that marked not only his 30s style ... 5 other reviews of this movie Movie: Battleship Potemkin Release date: 12/31/1925 11:01:27 PM Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (3/4) No reference Its appearance in 1925 shook the film world, and many filmmakers still haven't recovered. 8 other reviews of this movie Movie: Traffic in Souls Release date: 12/31/1913 11:01:45 PM Review by Don Druker of Chicago Reader: (3/4) No reference all 2 other reviews of this movie Served turbo style