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Bob Baker

Bob Baker's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Los Angeles Times film critic.

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Ladies Lake (1934) 100% EDIT “Colette's dialogue, some moody photography and Allégret's showcasing of his youthful cast are the main attractions.” – Time Out Jun 29, 2021 Full Review Quatorze Juillet (1932) 67% EDIT “It's lovely but, oh dear, you think, I bet there's going to be a story. In fact, there isn't much of one.” – Time Out Jul 8, 2020 Full Review The Texas Rangers (1936) 79% EDIT “Nothing else is amusing though.” – Time Out Apr 24, 2020 Full Review Bird of Paradise (1932) 50% EDIT “This is Vidor at his most erratic, combining bathetic plotting and uninflected stereotypes with some smouldering pre-Code sexuality and the exercise, intermittently, of a powerful cinematic imagination.” – Time Out Apr 21, 2020 Full Review Gabriela (1983) 33% EDIT “Number one item on the agenda, however, is the camera's on-going perusal of the Braga bod. Mastroianni as Gabriela's main man lends an air of consequence to the proceedings.” – Time Out Mar 13, 2015 Full Review Downhill (1927) 83% EDIT “It's directed by Hitchcock with imagination and, especially in the first half, much comedy.” – Time Out Mar 20, 2012 Full Review How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (2005) 79% 4/5 EDIT “Another victory for a first-time, full-length feature filmmaker with a curious, inventive eye and an unsparing point of view.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 18, 2008 Full Review I Accuse (1919) 67% EDIT “This WWI melodrama is bursting with ideas and energy but void of such concepts as consistency, subtlety, credibility.” – Time Out Oct 18, 2008 Full Review Tyler Perry's the Family That Preys (2008) 54% 3.5/5 EDIT “The film takes off when Woodard's and Bates' characters go on a Thelma & Louise-style road trip.” – Los Angeles Times Sep 15, 2008 Full Review Vice (2008) 29% 3/5 EDIT “You've see this movie before, but you haven't seen it filtered through Madsen.” – Los Angeles Times May 9, 2008 Full Review I Accuse (1938) EDIT “Pure Gance.” – Time Out Nov 15, 2007 Full Review The Man Who Laughs (1928) 100% EDIT “Baclanova is amusing as a decadent duchess, but it's Leni's pictorial genius -- aided here by what must have been an enormous budget -- that marks the film as one of the most exhilarating of late silent cinema.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Un Chien Andalou (1929) 100% EDIT “[It's] a documentary rendering of the dream state, of dream logic... and/or a contrivance by two ambitious young Spaniards to offer as much outrageousness as an artistic alibi can cover.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Return to Oz (1985) 59% EDIT “Despite the presence of Billina the talking hen, the emphasis on insecurity and peril harks back to the treat-'em-rough days of children's fiction, and the disturbing/comforting ratio tilts conclusively towards the former.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review The Blue Light (1932) 70% EDIT “Riefenstahl's affirmation of the occult has a certain morbid interest, but it's as a performer, posing leggily atop cloudswept crags, that she most compels attention.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Le Roman D'un Tricheur (1936) 90% EDIT “The peculiarity of the narrative is that it forgoes dialogue in favour of a non-stop commentary by the author... it's quite unique, with the hero's ruthlessness paralleled by Guitry's own in never letting anyone else get a look in.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) 50% EDIT “Nothing here to upset the kids, little to interest grown-ups except for Tony Hancock admirers.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Bolero (1984) 0% EDIT “Erotic, surely, only for the very easily pleased.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Mercury Rising (1998) 21% EDIT “Such is the not very high concept which the fitfully interesting Becker has to dumb himself down to the point of ignominy to put over.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review The Trout (1982) 64% EDIT “Losey's penultimate film is one of his most assured, depicting with unusual objectivity the impact of a type of personality met with in life from time to time, but not often in the movies.” – Time Out Feb 9, 2006 Full Review Night of the Lepus (1972) 0% EDIT “Impossible not to admire the total withholding of irony in Claxton's approach to this kamikaze project.” – Time Out Jan 26, 2006 Full Review Les Vampires (1915) 95% EDIT “There's a hero (a resolute reporter), but all the interest goes to Irma and Co -- their heists, their feuds with a rival gang and with the agents of law and order, all conducted by means of slaughter... on a scale and insouciance appropriate to the time.” – Time Out Jan 26, 2006 Full Review Fanny by Gaslight (1944) 50% EDIT “And 'ere we are again indeed, with this time the fastidious Asquith mediating the addictive pleasures of a Gainsborough period melodrama.” – Time Out Jan 26, 2006 Full Review The Westerner (1940) 100% EDIT “Toland's landscapes are superb.” – Time Out Jan 26, 2006 Full Review No Man of Her Own (1932) 91% EDIT “Lightly brushing at least three separate genres, this good-natured yarn (from a story by Edmund Goulding and Benjamin Glazer) eschews conflict at every turn.” – Time Out Jan 26, 2006 Full Review
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