Bright Victory

I've been avoiding Bright Victory — a film about a soldier blinded in WWII — because I feared it would be a shallow story about brave, pure American boys and their noble sacrifices. It turns out, however, that I need not have worried: though the movie proudly celebrates the…

sakana1

Choosing to end your life is a final choice, there's no undo button for humans. Its easy to understand why someone would do it. Overwhelming feelings start to feel as if they define us or who we are going to be for the rest of our lives, as if there's no end to our…

Demetrios

ايش الكاست المجنون هذا! ذا الفلم ذكرني بشعور لما الواحد يروح لجمعة اقاربه بعد ما قاطعهم بمراهقته ويقابل الي كان يمون عليهم ماتوقعت اشوف روك هدسون بدور ابو اربعة دقايق ولا موراي هاميلتون وبيرني هاميلتون في شبابهم ولا ان جولي ادامز وجيمس إدواردز رح يطلعوا فجأة فرحتي بمشاهدهم…

buneul

While no one will mistake Mark Robson for his one-time colleague Jacques Tourneur, he could use a hand or two to pull him out from under the shadow of Val Lewton, perhaps the only “producer” to have a major box set devoted to him. After all, Robson did direct two of the…

Arsaib Gilbert

I really like Arthur Kennedy as an actor, and I think he brings a lot of weight and heart to this otherwise standard post-war melodrama about a soldier blinded. Well deserved Oscar nomination for him.

Eliza

really heartfelt, cute and emotional even, it was nice to see how much we got to know about larry in depth, the good and the bad him and judy are goals <33

lucija୨ৎ

Sometimes it's a helpful reminder to see where actors started before they trekked to Europe for quick paychecks in exploitation films in the 1970s. Case in point: Arthur Kennedy. I'll admit I know him primarily from films like LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE, THE ANTICHRIST, and…

Casey Scott

Arthur Kennedy is an injured soldier coping with blindness and also opening emojis eyes to his own racism. I was pretty shocked when his character dropped the n-word but it was a very powerful scene as you realize he didn’t know his new best friend was black. Later, he goes…

Jodee Jernigan

Earnest liberal humanist message movie about a blinded veteran adjusting to the home front tackles both racism and disability issues, and the result is only slightly patronizing, but it's nevertheless overly pat and tidy, especially in its implication that integration of…

Paul Anthony Johnson