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Edward Arnold has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1920s through the 1940s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
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Wonderfully Beautiful
2022
Drama · Comedy

Beautiful Girls
1996
Comedy · Drama

Playing by Heart
1998
Comedy · Drama

The Best Years
2020
Romance · Drama

New York, I Love You
2008
Comedy · Drama

She Came to Me
2023
Romance · Comedy

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
2025
Drama · Romance

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
2006
Drama · Romance

After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.
Dir. Frank Capra · With James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart

After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.
Dir. Victor Sjöström · With Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
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