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1950 |
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DRAMA
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Length: |
138 |
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PRO Reviews
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| | | "The wittiest, the most devastating, the most adult and literate motion picture ever made that had anything to do with the New York stage." | | (Leo Mishkin) | | | "A withering satire—witty, mature and worldly-wise... Obviously, Mr Mankiewicz, who wrote and directed it, had been sharpening his wits and his talents a long, long time for just this go." | | (Bosley Crowther, New York Times) | | | "One of the finest and most mature pictures to emerge from Hollywood or anywhere else in years." | | (Otis L. Guernsey Jr, New York Herald Tribune) | | | "Long, but continuously, wonderfully entertaining in a way I had almost forgotten was possible for films." | | (Richard Mallett, Punch) | | | “An example of the perfect screenplay... Few movies have such witty dialogue and such bright characters doing such terrible things to each other. And with that Bette Davis performance, the film has the very helpful quality of abrasiveness." | | (William Goldman, NFT Bulletin, 1984) | | | | “The whole atmosphere is deliberately theatrical: the gestures a little too studied, the settings a little too opulent, the emotions not quite sincere: everyone is playing a part. Eve begins by turning the artificiality to her own ends, but finally succumbs to it herself. When the film was released, it was criticised in some quarters as being too wordy, stagey and superficial. What was not realised was that the film aimed at exposing a group of shallow, egocentric people.” | | (George Aachen) | | |
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, Anne Baxter 
