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Frank S. Nugent

Frank S. Nugent's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) 95% EDIT “As melodrama, the film isn't bad at all. Anatole Litvak has paced it well, and the performances of Mr. Robinson as the Federal man, Mr. Lederer as the weak link in the Nazi spy network and Mr. Lukas as the propaganda agent are thoroughly satisfactory. ” – New York Times Dec 18, 2025 Full Review The Mad Miss Manton (1938) 84% EDIT “The producers have done rather well on all counts.” – New York Times Apr 22, 2024 Full Review The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) 89% EDIT “Fact can be stranger than fiction, but occasionally fiction gets there first. [The Prisoner of Shark Island] may be accurate historically, but it still reads like a typical Hollywood scenario.” – New York Times Apr 16, 2024 Full Review Beloved Enemy (1936) 100% EDIT “A fine and mature and dignified drama of the Irish Rebellion of 1921, it has the stamp of quality on each of its departments -- story, direction, performance and production -- and it tempts us mightily to revise our tentative list of this year's best ten.” – New York Times Dec 27, 2023 Full Review Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 97% EDIT “The dwarfs and animals are flawless from the start. Chromatically, it is far and away the best technicolor to date, achieving effects possible only to the cartoon, obtaining -- through the multi-plane camera -- an effortless third dimension.” – New York Times Dec 21, 2022 Full Review Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 97% EDIT “Mr. Smith is one of the best shows of the year. More fun, even, than the Senate itself.” – New York Times Nov 9, 2022 Full Review The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 99% EDIT “A pretty kettle of bubbling brew it makes under Mr. Lubitsch's deft and tender management and with a genial company to play it gently, well this side of farce and well that side of utter seriousness.” – New York Times Nov 8, 2022 Full Review When Were You Born? (1938) 42% EDIT “It consists merely of using a routine murder mystery as a pretext for expounding the zodiacal rigmarole.” – New York Times Oct 21, 2022 Full Review Redes (1936) 78% EDIT “Descriptively it is good camera work, but it is inadequate to the picture's narrative phases.” – New York Times Aug 25, 2021 Full Review Babes in Arms (1939) 90% EDIT “We definitely don't like the screen play by Jack McGowan and Kay Van Riper. If we must have hokum, let us at least disguise it gracefully, even when it's with music.” – New York Times Feb 19, 2021 Full Review Tevye (1939) 92% EDIT “[Tevya], with the famous Maurice Schwartz in the title role, is a serious character with definitely comical overtones.” – New York Times Dec 11, 2020 Full Review The Girl From Mexico (1939) 75% EDIT “A shrill, spirited, senseless slapstick comedy, played at the catch-as-catch-can pace which Miss Velez prefers to set.” – New York Times Aug 27, 2020 Full Review Mexican Spitfire (1939) 90% EDIT “It is slapstick pure and edifyingly simple, well-paced and abundantly pastried, with Lupe Velez and Leon Errol tossing lines and custards with great abandon.” – New York Times Aug 26, 2020 Full Review True Confession (1937) 100% EDIT “Although True Confession had a pulpwood sound, it proved yesterday to be a highly polished, smoothly grained Yule log which deserves to crackle right merrily... from now until well after Christmas.” – New York Times May 5, 2020 Full Review The Plainsman (1936) 100% EDIT “The Plainsman is another of those action-crammed, spectacular and inaccurate canvases that Mr. De Mille delights to paint and audiences generally are delighted to see.” – New York Times Apr 22, 2020 Full Review Island of Lost Men (1939) 60% EDIT “[The jungle setting] suggests that if the camera were swung no more than a frame or so to either side it would reveal a filling station, or a roadside food dispensary in the shape of a hot dog.” – New York Times Apr 22, 2020 Full Review Anything Goes (1936) 83% EDIT “It gets by, but without distinction.” – New York Times Apr 22, 2020 Full Review Daughter of Shanghai (1937) 95% EDIT “A tense, melodramatic atmosphere -- something between Limehouse Nights and I Cover the Waterfront -- is successfully maintained in Daughter of Shanghai.” – New York Times Mar 17, 2019 Full Review King of Chinatown (1939) 20% EDIT “Paramount should have spared us and its cast (Akim Tamiroff, Anna May Wong, Sidney Toler and J. Carrol Naish principally) the necessity of being bothered with such folderol.” – New York Times Mar 17, 2019 Full Review The Walking Dead (1936) EDIT “Horror pictures are a staple commodity, and this one was taken from one of the better shelves.” – New York Times Oct 18, 2016 Full Review Heroes for Sale (1933) 75% EDIT “Many a mystery is less bewildering than Heroes for Sale, which was not intended as a puzzler at all.” – New York Times Jun 5, 2014 Full Review You Can't Take It With You (1938) 94% EDIT “It's a grand picture.” – New York Times Jan 13, 2014 Full Review Here Comes the Navy (1934) 83% 3.5/5 EDIT “A fast-moving comedy enriched by an authentic naval setting.” – New York Times Jan 31, 2012 Full Review Chu Chin Chow (1934) 78% EDIT “Britain's long-heralded invasion of the American film market has begun with the offerings at the Roxy of Chu Chin Chow, a tuneful, spectacular and robust adaptation of the Oscar Asche comic operetta.” – New York Times Sep 3, 2011 Full Review The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) 90% 4/5 EDIT “An excellent biography, just as it is a notable photoplay, dignified in subject, dramatic in treatment and brilliantly played by Paul Muni, Fritz Leiber, Josephine Hutchinson and many other members of the cast.” – New York Times Apr 4, 2011 Full Review
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