Jerry Renshaw
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Tim Robbins’ historical drama mixes true events and characters from Roosevelt’s New Deal pet, the Federal Theatre Project, and intersperses them with fictionalized elements with mixed results.
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John Ford’s Sergeant Rutledge, about the trial of a black Army officer accused of murder and rape, has a striking, formal sort of beauty.
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An intelligent script and tightly realized tension eventually fizzle with an anticlimactic ending; still, Cause for Alarm is an interesting little “B” noir.
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Rosalie Goes Shopping — starring German sex symbol Marianne Sägebrecht — has a smirking preciousness that gets in the way of its broad satire of American consumerism.
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Three childhood friends experience tragedy as adults when one of them runs away with the gangster boyfriend of another.
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On the surface, Gold Diggers is fluffy musical fare with Busby Berkeley’s delightfully surreal production numbers, but the Great Depression left its mark on the film.
