Reevaluating a disparaged ‘Stranger’

Reevaluating a disparaged ‘Stranger’
Great film, that “Citizen Kane.” But the audience in 1941 stayed clear. “The Magnificent Ambersons” (1942) did even worse at the box office, and “The Lady From Shanghai” (1948), “Macbeth” (1950), “Othello” (1955), and “Touch of Evil” (1958) all tanked. Orson Welles might be a cinema genius, but the films he conceived were regarded as too artsy, too experimental, too …
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Crime thriller turns out to be an inspired tale of love and redemption
THE last time I wrote movie reviews, I was writing for another paper. I have written just one movie review for BusinessMirror (specifically, for Personal Fortune, our paper’s magazine) in the last four years I’ve worked here—a piece on Sly Stallone’s comeback movie Rocky Balboa, just because the 1976 Oscar best picture Rocky was one of my favorites.
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