Anyone could be forgiven for doubting that another Golden Age Old Master's name needs to be canonized, but look at this film's fairgrounds scene, a staple of any film staged in Small Town, USA. Not only do you get Moonrise's best sliver of detail work . . . but Borzage's bravura staging of Danny's opening up to Gilly on a ferris wheel, to the toot of "Oh, Susanna," is incontestably fine, fluid work, ramping in emotional pitch into a vertiginous freak-out.
Nick Pinkerton
July 15, 2006