Waterloo Bridge (1940): Yea or yea?

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Critics have generally praised the 1940 film Waterloo Bridge. George Orwell, writing for Time and Tide, called it a “romantic tear-jerker” that is “saved from degenerating into sheer idiocy by competent all-round acting” 1. Bosley Crowther of the New York Times wrote that Vivien Leigh’s performance was “as fine an actress as we have on the screen today. Maybe even the finest, and that’s a lot to say” 1Emanuel Levy of EmanuelLevy.Com gave the film a rating of 4/5, calling it a “well-acted, well-directed, and well-written melodrama” 1Carol Cling of the Las Vegas Review-Journal gave the film a rating of 3/5, calling it a “glossy MGM weeper” 1Bob Bloom of the Journal and Courier called it a “chick flick from the golden era” and gave it a rating of 2/5 1Ken Hanke of the Mountain Xpress gave the film a rating of 3/5, calling it a “glossy, sanitized remake of the brilliant 1931 James Whale film” 1. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 100% approval rating based on 3 reviews 1.

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