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George Bourke

George Bourke's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Magnificent Seven (1960) 93% EDIT “John Sturges has directed with fine understanding and has obtained stellar performances from his entire cast.” – Miami Herald Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Born Yesterday (1950) 95% EDIT “A spicy bit of enjoyable comedy fare. ” – Miami Herald Oct 13, 2025 Full Review Barbarella (1968) 65% EDIT “Strictly for sophisticated adults, please. ” – Miami Herald Feb 12, 2025 Full Review Planet of the Apes (1968) 86% EDIT “Planet of the Apes is superior science-fiction with a "delayed" message that is divulged in fragmentary clues and never allowed to get in the way of the main purpose of the exceptional film -- to entertain suspensefully.” – Miami Herald May 1, 2024 Full Review White Heat (1949) 94% EDIT “This is taut, high-powered drama, with trigger-quick action following an adroitly drawn, if melodramatic, suspense pattern.” – Miami Herald Apr 23, 2024 Full Review The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) 100% EDIT “The result is delightfully clever motion picture fare, made memorable by excellent performances by Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway as a pair of amateur thieves.” – Miami Herald Apr 17, 2024 Full Review Jailhouse Rock (1957) 67% EDIT “It is the most convincing characterisation Elvis Presley has had in his short but sputnik-paced career.” – Miami Herald Apr 12, 2024 Full Review The Big Heat (1953) 95% EDIT “Much of this credit for a story well-told goes to Glenn Ford as the honest cop who pays a great price for his refusal to knuckleunder, and to Gloria Grahame, who scores an acting triumph again in a role of the gangster moll -- who also pays a great price.” – Miami Herald Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Westward the Women (1951) 69% EDIT “Westward the Women is an outstanding motion picture -- one of the season's top 10. ” – Miami Herald Feb 28, 2024 Full Review Sayonara (1957) 82% EDIT “Joshua Logan has given his production tenderness when that is necessary — and angry words and harshness when bitter tea is called for.” – Miami Herald Mar 2, 2023 Full Review Flower Drum Song (1961) 79% EDIT “A bright package of escapist entertainment. ” – Miami Herald Feb 27, 2023 Full Review Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) 89% EDIT “... a grim debunking of the glory of the gory business of leather-pushing which bedazzles with the excellence of its performances and production values. ” – Miami Herald Feb 10, 2023 Full Review Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 99% EDIT “Nothing much happens that doesn't, or might not happen in any decent American family; but it is all so absorbing and so full of mirth, wholesome merriment and compelling sentiment as to give the picture genuine emotional values.” – Miami Herald Nov 10, 2022 Full Review La Strada (1954) 98% EDIT “It's in no gigantically proportioned pictorial technique and it is in black and white instead of a gaudy and glorious color, but it reflects a scope and a color of life that these recent refinements in movie-making could never reproduce. ” – Miami Herald Sep 14, 2022 Full Review Barefoot in the Park (1967) 81% EDIT “Rather a glim premise -- and an overworked one -- but playwright Neil Simon has festooned the thin line with a veritable daisy chain of rollicking situations and gag lines that make a frolicsome matter of it.” – Miami Herald May 2, 2022 Full Review Gigi (1958) 90% EDIT “Its bigger than life figures, its eye-pleasing colors which don't run one into the other, its warm-as-spring music that stimulates the ears and the mind, and its uninterrupted story flow should be a quadruple-barreled bit of bait.” – Miami Herald Mar 23, 2022 Full Review The Apartment (1960) 93% EDIT “The dialogue is brilliant with smart alec sparkle and the situations are as adult as one can get by with on the screen, and the performances by all concerned... are gems of alternating humor and pathos.” – Miami Herald Mar 16, 2022 Full Review From Here to Eternity (1953) 88% EDIT “It would he unfair to single out a “best" performance in this vehicle which is a best performance right down to the smallest role. Director Fred Zinneman makes every screen second count.” – Miami Herald Mar 16, 2022 Full Review Oliver! (1968) 90% EDIT “In spite of the musical format and the lively, but always in character, choreography of Onna White, Oliver! reflects a definite flavor of the stench and "civil" disobedience of those times.” – Miami Herald Mar 2, 2022 Full Review My Fair Lady (1964) 94% EDIT “Good as are Holloway, Bikel, Jeremy Brett as a suitor; Gladys Cooper as Rex's mother; Hyde-White and others, the film is a joint personal triumph for Harrison and Audrey Hepburn.” – Miami Herald Feb 9, 2022 Full Review The Lost Weekend (1945) 97% EDIT “Be sure to see Lost Week End. It is a film that will be discussed for years. It is a technical masterpiece and Ray Milland's performance WILL win him an Academy Award.” – Miami Herald Feb 1, 2022 Full Review Porgy and Bess (1959) 71% EDIT “[A] near perfect bit of cinematic art.” – Miami Herald Jan 20, 2022 Full Review Nightmare Alley (1947) 87% EDIT “Although Nightmare Alley may have been slightly unsexed to fit it for the screen, there is still enough raw, red meat on its eight reels of ragged bone to satisfy all save those who wallowed deliriously in the book's more turbulent episodes.” – Miami Herald Dec 3, 2021 Full Review West Side Story (1961) 92% EDIT “In spine-tingling tempo, with eye-dazzling color and ear-teasing music it recites no corny backstage drama but cuts instead a meaty parallel to the Romeo and Juliet tragic romance.” – Miami Herald Dec 2, 2021 Full Review The Sandpiper (1965) 21% EDIT “The story as a whole never gets far afield of "the thing" between the Burtons.” – Miami Herald Nov 24, 2021 Full Review
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