Arthur Steele
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Mad Max (1979)
89%
“One of the most horrific experiences I have suffered even by current grisly standards... The kind of ghoulish satisfaction that crowds once got from watching murderers disembowelled in public.” –
Birmingham Mail
Apr 23, 2025
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
93%
“Is "Empire" as good as Star Wars? That is what everyone is asking. In some ways it is better. There is a slightly stronger adult feeling about it.” –
Birmingham Mail
Apr 23, 2025
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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968)
“A wittily conceived fantasy.” –
Birmingham Mail
Apr 9, 2025
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
90%
“2001: A Space Odyssey is not just a film. It is an experience; one that is successfully informative, fantastically and beautifully eye-holding, a bit of a bore and, finally, a disturbing enigma.” –
Birmingham Mail
Apr 9, 2025
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
91%
“As a piece of ribbing at the expense of all those armour-plated gallant knights-and-bold epics, it is a typically cruel yet rollicking piece.” –
Birmingham Mail
Apr 1, 2025
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Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
86%
“Hardly a grain of sugar: more a basinful of spookery and load of super-sensory fun.” –
Birmingham Mail
Mar 19, 2025
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The Song Remains the Same (1976)
39%
“Singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page come across very well, and the film is only slightly spoiled by meaningless fantasy sequences involving each of the four-man band.” –
Birmingham Mail
Feb 19, 2025
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Barbarella (1968)
65%
“What surprised me was the genuine sense of light-hearted innocence created by Miss Fonda when it might have been all too dirty for words. ” –
Birmingham Mail
Feb 12, 2025
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The Conversation (1974)
93%
“Hackman is quietly magnificent -- so real in emotions you feel that if you touched the screen you would feel the flesh of his face.” –
Birmingham Mail
Sep 24, 2024
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The Big Heat (1953)
94%
“It is because The Big Heat made me feel that it was happening today and not in a pre-war era vaguely associated in the mind with Chicago and such names as Al Capone and Dillinger that I found it almost frightening.” –
Birmingham Mail
Apr 10, 2024
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Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
96%
“A biting satire on life today where the criminal can get the crowd behind him.” –
Birmingham Mail
Apr 7, 2024
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
90%
“Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a unique spellbinder. At least for those willing to surrender to its particular brand of mystical wizardry. ” –
Birmingham Mail
Apr 3, 2024
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Sabrina (1954)
89%
“From first to last shot, you are either laughing out loud, quietly enjoying yourself or trying to control the lump that has crept into your throat. And he [Wilder] does it without ever being terribly serious. ” –
Birmingham Mail
Mar 28, 2024
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The Searchers (1956)
87%
“There were times in its two hours when I felt the film’s hold slacken, but again and again I found myself suddenly aware of this sensation of epic adventure and electric excitement -- so rare in the cinema today.” –
Birmingham Mail
Mar 22, 2024
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Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
96%
“Much of this film can be taken as intentional satire as well as the way most audiences will see it -- as a small budget, but often nail-bitingly effective spine-chiller. ” –
Birmingham Mail
Nov 21, 2023
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The Duellists (1977)
74%
“It would be nice to think that The Duellists could build its own "cult" audience.” –
Birmingham Mail
Nov 20, 2023
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Little Big Man (1970)
91%
“It is certainly a must-be-seen movie, but I must confess that for me the alchemy worked only sporadically -- mainly because Penn and his players fail to tread the knife-edge with the confidence that carried Bonnie and Clyde. ” –
Birmingham Mail
Nov 10, 2023
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Raging Bull (1980)
92%
“Robert De Niro's efforts to become the man he apes have been well-documented... This is certainly a tremendous performance, while newcomer Cathy Moriarty makes a stunning debut as his wife, Vickie. ” –
Birmingham Mail
Oct 10, 2023
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Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974)
“Although it's very much a case of "Make lover, not war," regrettably Soft Beds, Hard Battles fails to make its point. ” –
Birmingham Mail
Sep 27, 2023
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Up the Sandbox (1972)
67%
“It sounds wildly eccentric -- but it's clever and often very, very funny. ” –
Birmingham Mail
Sep 27, 2023
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The Exorcist (1973)
78%
“Take away the exorcism and I would have been considerably more impressed by The Exorcist. ” –
Birmingham Mail
Sep 27, 2023
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3 Women (1977)
83%
“A movie which, for all its difficulties, has exquisite qualities. ” –
Birmingham Mail
Apr 6, 2023
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
88%
“Left me with a slightly unpleasant flavour in my mouth. ” –
Birmingham Mail
Mar 7, 2023
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La Strada (1954)
98%
“There is a tenderness and pity in almost every scene which cannot be defined in words. That is the miracle of Federico Fellini's direction. ” –
Birmingham Mail
Sep 14, 2022
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A Man for All Seasons (1966)
89%
“Its translation from stage to screen not only adds a lot of visual beauty but does not mar the drama. And it adds a stronger sense of period.” –
Birmingham Mail
Sep 8, 2022
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