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88 out of 100

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8.8 out of 10

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  • Starring: Karl Malden, Marlon Brando
  • Summary: Marlon Brando gives one of the screen's most electrifying performances as Best Actor in this 1954 Academy Award winning Best Film as Ex-fighter Terry Malloy, who could have been a contender but now toils for boss Johnny Friendly (Cobb) on the gang-ridden waterfront. (Sony)

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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    100
    As unspoiled in its key elements as the day it was made, "On the Waterfront" is indisputably one of the great American films, its power undiminished. Even more today than half a century ago, it demands to be seen.
  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    100
    The chance to watch a four-star classic the way it was meant to be seen -- fresh print, big screen -- is so rare as to be worth the trip.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    100
    The acting and the best dialogue passages have an impact that has not dimmed; it is still possible to feel the power of the film and of Brando and Kazan, who changed American movie acting forever.

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
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  1. InstaFlicka
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  2. MartB.
    9
    They don't make 'em like this anymore.
    • 1 of 1 users said yes

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