In its day, The Manchurian Candidate was a shockingly timely film, but it was actually yanked from circulation for almost 25 years for being too prescient. When it was released in 1962, it was a scathing critique of McCarthyism and the idea that there...read the complete Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) review at Exclaim!
"Candidate", a remake of John Frankenheimer's classic paranoid thriller from good ol' 62, isn't a bad movie, don't get me wrong, but if your forced to switch your brain onto overdrive for a couple of hours you want it to be worthwhile....read the complete Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) review at Moviehole (--)