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Still Mine received mostly positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 94% score rating, sampled from 62 critics' reviews.Its consensus reads: "James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold are outstanding in this tender, affecting, insightful drama about the bonds and sacrifices of marriage."
Cromwell is a 1970 British historical drama film written and directed by Ken Hughes.It is based on the life of Oliver Cromwell, who rose to lead the Parliamentary forces during the later years of the English Civil War and, as Lord Protector, ruled Great Britain and Ireland in the 1650s.
Molly Haskell (New York Magazine) J. Hoberman (The Village Voice) Stephen Holden (The New York Times) Ann Hornaday (The Washington Post) Stephen Hunter (The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post) Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) Sudhish Kamath ; Stanley Kauffmann (The New Republic) Dave Kehr (The Chicago Reader, The Chicago Tribune, The New York ...
In the original stage production of Maxwell Anderson's Anne of the Thousand Days at the Shubert Theatre, New York, in December 1948, which deals with the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Cromwell was portrayed by Wendell K. Phillips. [3] He is depicted here as totally ruthless and unscrupulous.
New York Times critic Bosley Crowther panned the film. He wrote, "In this consummation, however, the conflict of cop and crook is conspicuously unoriginal, considering the number of times that it has been contemplated on the screen since The Racket was first produced, and the staging of it, under the direction of John Cromwell, is dismally ...
Despite receiving some negative reviews [3] and mixed reviews from The New York Times [4] and Pauline Kael, [5] the film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won the award for best costumes. Geneviève Bujold's portrayal of Anne, her first in an English language film, was very highly praised, even by Time magazine, which otherwise skewered ...
In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Frank S. Nugent called the film "a grand picture and a memorable biography of the greatest American of them all" and praised Massey's performance: "His Lincoln has acquired, with constant usage of the role, a mellowness, an evenness, an assurance that make the character seem less put on ...
Wesley Morris (born 1975) [2] is an American film critic and podcast host. He is currently critic-at-large for The New York Times, [3] as well as co-host, with J Wortham, of the New York Times podcast Still Processing.