Brannigan (1975)
48%
“It's a modestly holding slice of cops and robbers.” –
The Age (Australia)
Apr 12, 2025
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Supervixens (1975)
49%
“Evidently Russ now has pretentions to caricature, if not satire -- on dirty cops and aggressively liberated women. He strives for a super-comic. All he manages is a kind of vicious facetiousness.” –
The Age (Australia)
Apr 11, 2025
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
90%
“The film gives a graphic impression, as no predecessor has done, of the relative magnitude of the craft and the limitless universe itself.” –
The Age (Australia)
Apr 9, 2025
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Capone (1975)
28%
“This is skin-deep stuff... no new light is shed on the underworld king, or the 1920s” –
The Age (Australia)
Apr 8, 2025
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
91%
“There are uninspired lapses... and there are rich and hilarious moments of the absurd. A review cannot help turning into a catalogue of the hits rather than the misses.” –
The Age (Australia)
Apr 1, 2025
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At Long Last Love (1975)
23%
“With one toneless exception this cast cannot even enunciate, although the wit of the Porter lyrics demands to be heard distinctly.” –
The Age (Australia)
Mar 25, 2025
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Tommy (1975)
71%
“I only wish the astonishing Mr. Russell would not lay on the symbols quite so thick... so that any soul-searching message had a chance to emerge through the non-stop clamor.” –
The Age (Australia)
Mar 18, 2025
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
47%
“If you give a genuinely bitter role to Jack Lemmon, he will make it too disturbingly real for comfort.” –
The Age (Australia)
Mar 7, 2025
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Nashville (1975)
89%
“Mostly an exhilarating experience -- funny, deadly satire, rich in pieces of character the feeling of immediacy. I have seldom gone all the way with the off-beat Robert Altman. But I accept this juggled jigsaw as a splendidly original statement.” –
The Age (Australia)
Feb 27, 2025
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The Yakuza (1974)
47%
“Director Sydney Pollack makes the most of... periodic eruptions and bloody gun and swordplay.” –
The Age (Australia)
Feb 26, 2025
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Aloha, Bobby and Rose (1975)
“The film never reaches any heights as comedy, has limited appeal as pop lore and an ending far too arbitrary for any pretensions to tragedy.” –
The Age (Australia)
Feb 25, 2025
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Barry Lyndon (1975)
78%
“The film is little more than a static illustration of a work of literature, drama so swamped in harmonious decoration that it only just holds our attention for three hours.” –
The Age (Australia)
Feb 25, 2025
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Barbarella (1968)
65%
“Everyone except sciene-fiction and Vadim fanatics will find it a load of absolute rubbish. ” –
The Age (Australia)
Feb 12, 2025
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Shampoo (1975)
75%
“Shampoo reminds me of all those films against violence which cashed in on all the violence they could muster. This one is exploiting the very trendiness it condemns.” –
The Age (Australia)
Feb 10, 2025
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Wedding in Blood (1973)
88%
“Claude Chabrol makes the same film several times a year. The film is as confident and precise as ever but, as the French say, deja vu. ” –
The Age (Australia)
Sep 24, 2024
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Themroc (1973)
“In this happily subversive affair, the words are gibberish, the gestures Tatiesque and the fantasising entertainingly topsy-turvy. ” –
The Age (Australia)
Sep 24, 2024
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Mean Streets (1973)
92%
“Despite vivid playing by Robert De Niro as the wildest and most self-destructive of them, relationships are not developed very far. Violence finally swamps them -- a brutal slaying which tries to elevate banal characters to some kind of heroic status.” –
The Age (Australia)
Sep 24, 2024
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The Conversation (1974)
93%
“One expects a mystery at least on the scale of Watergate, if not a global conspiracy, and finds instead merely a clever whodunit solution. However, the self-effacing Hackman is very good.” –
The Age (Australia)
Sep 24, 2024
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Jaws (1975)
97%
“I would not give my right arm to see it again; in fact wild sea-horses could not drag me back. Which means, I suppose, that it has succeeded in its purpose -- to arouse the primal fear in the spectator and scare the hell out of him on dry land.” –
The Age (Australia)
Jul 2, 2024
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Planet of the Apes (1968)
86%
“Although Planet of the Apes is not a major work, Franklin Schaffner can still be counted among the most promising of Hollywood's younger generation of artists.” –
The Age (Australia)
May 1, 2024
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Jailhouse Rock (1957)
67%
“Even when trying to smoulder at the camera like a new Valentino, [Presley] suggests no real emotion, other than peevish petulance.” –
The Age (Australia)
Apr 12, 2024
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Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
96%
“In the portrayal of Sonny’s farcical-sad situation there lies more evidence of humanity then in nearly all the melodramatic cops-and-robbers epic of the screen.” –
The Age (Australia)
Apr 7, 2024
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Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
71%
“This film really makes a lurid melodrama of a life. Metaphorically speaking, the prevailing colors are reds and blacks, not blues. ” –
The Age (Australia)
Apr 4, 2024
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
90%
“Overwhelming effects apart, I must say I found Close Encounters of a Loud Kind a disappointment. Unfairly perhaps, one expected something almost mind-blowing from Steven Spielberg's encounter with ufology, and all one gets is an eye and an ear-blowing.” –
The Age (Australia)
Apr 3, 2024
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Grease (1978)
66%
“For me this endless, harmless juvenile activity is not enough in itself for entertainment, unless it be entertainment of the fitful, throwaway variety to be found at the kind of back seat drive-in features in the film itself. ” –
The Age (Australia)
Feb 7, 2024
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