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William R. Weaver

William R. Weaver's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Mad Miss Manton (1938) 84% EDIT “The convolutions of the screen play by Philip G. Epstein, based on Wilson Collison's story, are too many, adroit and funny to be pursued by an unfunny synopsis.” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Apr 22, 2024 Full Review National Velvet (1944) 98% EDIT “Every sequence in the picture will be loved by all observers who are not at loggerheads with mankind.” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Mar 26, 2024 Full Review The Searchers (1956) 87% EDIT “The Searchers is one of the great ones -- one of the greatest of the great pictures of the American West.” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Mar 25, 2024 Full Review Back to Bataan (1945) 86% EDIT “Here is presented, in fiction so much like fact that the film partakes profitably of the flavor of a documentary without sacrificing drama or suspense, the story of the Filipino guerrillas.” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Feb 1, 2023 Full Review The Lady Eve (1941) 99% EDIT “In other hands the story of The Lady Eve might have emerged in any rut of routine from the risqué to the dull. In Sturges' hands it is made to sizzle, to sparkle, sometimes to amaze, always to amuse and entertain. ” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Dec 29, 2022 Full Review Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 97% EDIT “It is a fine artistic accomplishment and it is also a commanding demonstration of shrewd showmanship. It contains the best of all the established Disney devices for instrumenting charm, and establishes a number of new ones.” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Dec 20, 2022 Full Review Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 99% EDIT “As a thing of beauty for the eye, and as a thing of lively interest for the ear when the currently popular "Trolley Song" is being performed in sparkling fashion, the film compares more than favorably with the best in its category.” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Nov 10, 2022 Full Review Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 97% EDIT “This essentially plain, powerful presentation of an implicitly American story about a boy who got into Congress on a pass and stayed in to whip the gas house gang under their own rules is by any and all measures Mr. Capra's greatest picture.” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Nov 9, 2022 Full Review The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 99% EDIT “Stewart gives his usual smooth portrayal and Margaret Sullavan goes along with him step for step. Frank Morgan handles a fundamentally serious assignment competently and Joseph Schildkraut is adequately reprehensible as the not too villainous villain.” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Nov 7, 2022 Full Review Children of Loneliness (1934) EDIT “The story consists of two principal threads, tied together about as adeptly as in the B-minus product of the B-minus studios.” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) May 18, 2022 Full Review You Can't Take It With You (1938) 94% EDIT “Most of these [scenes] are funny and some are sad, but all are intensely interesting as executed by players who etch their characterizations and a director who knows what to do with a truck- load of superfire material.” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Feb 8, 2022 Full Review Leave Her to Heaven (1945) 85% EDIT “On points, it's about the most elaborately treated murder melodrama in convenient memory.” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Sep 29, 2021 Full Review The Women (1939) 94% EDIT “The dialogue that was hot in the play has been cooled off enough for picture purposes, but that part of its heat which derived from humor and viewpoint is still intact; only the vulgar was stricken.” – Motion Picture Daily May 24, 2021 Full Review Double Deal (1939) 100% EDIT “This metropolitan melodrama of life, love, crime and music is enacted realistically.” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Jan 15, 2021 Full Review Silver Queen (1942) EDIT “Under direction of Lloyd Bacon the picture opens deliberately and increases tempo steadily, while developing the story without a break or diversion, to its termination in a whirlwind of action.” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Dec 30, 2020 Full Review Cobra Woman (1944) 73% EDIT “Followers of the Maria Montez-Jon Hall-Sabu folio of fantasies in Technicolor may be promised that here again their favorites lead them along paths of adventure... It's the best of the series. ” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Nov 23, 2020 Full Review Song of the Open Road (1944) EDIT “[Jane Powell's] voice is exceptionally well-trained, her delivery excellent, and she has histrionic ability.” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Nov 23, 2020 Full Review Two Girls and a Sailor (1944) 100% EDIT “Production by Joseph Pasternak is superlative on all counts, and direction by Richard Thorpe as smooth as satin.” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Nov 23, 2020 Full Review Gilda (1946) 90% EDIT “A sumptuously sordid story about crime, major and minor, in Buenos Aires.” – Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald) Nov 19, 2020 Full Review
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