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Reviewing Ebert's 'Greatest Films': Ace in the Hole (1951)

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Ace in the Hole Jaime April 2012
Years ago, ScreenCrave contributor Jaime Lopez privately began tackling Roger Ebert’s “Greatest Films” list, an ever-expanding monolith of celluloid currently comprised of 354 films.   With 254 under his belt and less than 100 films left to go, Lopez has set himself to put these remaining films’ “Greatness” to the test–reviewing both the movies themselves and Ebert’s...

A Movie to Rent: Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

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This delicious comedy, coming at the tail-end of the screwball era, opens with one of the best ‘meeting-cute' scenes ever. Gary Cooper - commanding, to the point, and somewhat impatient - wants to buy a pajama jacket without the pants, but the old-world French Riviera department store is thrown into confusion by such a radical suggestion; charming little Claudette Colbert chimes in that she...