Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows
Critics list

Dilys Powell

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

(Photo Credit: Picture Post / Stringer/ Picture Post/ Getty Images)

Publications:

Reviews

Movies 온라인카지노추천 Shows
Brannigan (1975) 48% “Always a pleasure to see John Wayne, even out of the saddle. Not that Brannigan... gives old reliable much scope... honour if not plausibility, is decently satisfied.” – Times (UK) Apr 12, 2025 Full Review 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 90% “With space-travel it takes an exceptional film to stop me yawning. But then 2001: A Space Odyssey is an exceptional film.” – Sunday Times (UK) Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% “It is finely played, the three beautiful women in particular ranging convincingly from the frivolous to the febrile.” – Times (UK) Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Apocalypse Now (1979) 90% “It really is an extraordinary film. Finely played, yes; but somehow the normal terms of reviewing seem out of place. It is as a huge shadow of the merciless and the horrible that it asks to be judged; it has the size for that.” – Punch Sep 23, 2024 Full Review Jaws (1975) 97% “It is well played and exciting; it has the look of triumph. And it is by a young man, a director as yet scarcely tried.” – Sunday Times (UK) Jul 2, 2024 Full Review White Heat (1949) 94% “[Cagney] gives his usual easy, beautifully shaded performance; the director has seen to it that the audience never has time to lose interest in the record of murder, and the screenwriters have seen to it that death and savagery dominate the tale.” – Sunday Times (UK) Apr 22, 2024 Full Review Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 96% “A triumph for Sidney Lumet.” – Sunday Times (UK) Apr 7, 2024 Full Review The Big Heat (1953) 94% “Fritz Lang's gangster film The Big Heat is well worth looking at for those with the stomach for violence; exciting, made with cold, savage skill, played for all it is worth by Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame.” – Sunday Times (UK) Mar 28, 2024 Full Review The Searchers (1956) 87% “The Searchers is full of landscapes so framed as to make one start with pleasure. But John Ford goes further. He establishes a relationship between man and landscape which is emotional as well as spatial.” – Sunday Times (UK) Mar 25, 2024 Full Review Chinatown (1974) 98% “Not good-looking, not seductive, merely nosey; Nicholson breaks all the rules. But he is alive, he is real; one may not recognise but one remembers him. The film takes life from him. ” – Sunday Times (UK) Mar 8, 2024 Full Review Alien (1979) 93% “Alien is far from the customary exercise in disgust; it is a thriller which makes its points through passages of horror -- by my reckoning three passages; and the tension is enjoyable because so much is left to the imagination. ” – Punch Nov 16, 2023 Full Review The Last Picture Show (1971) 98% “I do not propose to put the film, as I believe some American critics have put it, on the level of achievement of a Citizen Kane. But The Last Picture Show is certainly worth anybody's money.” – Sunday Times (UK) Oct 25, 2023 Full Review Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) 92% “Finally Kris Kristofferson turns up and a good hug -- come to that a pretty good film -- is enjoyed by all.” – Sunday Times (UK) Oct 11, 2023 Full Review The Blue Lamp (1950) 83% “The Blue Lamp, in short, has both the dramatic tension and the robust ironic humour which have made the reputation of the realistic British cinema.” – Sunday Times (UK) Oct 3, 2023 Full Review L'Amore (1948) “The Miracle castigates the want of compassion: and itself offers us only bitterness.” – Sunday Times (UK) Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Beyond the Door (1974) 60% “A repulsive experience.” – Sunday Times (UK) Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Treasure Island (1950) 100% “As Long John Silver Robert Newton infects the audience with his own pleasure in the old villain’s silly sophistries.” – Sunday Times (UK) Oct 3, 2023 Full Review The Small Back Room (1949) 92% “It is a pleasure to find once more in the new Powell-Pressburger film, The Small Back Room, the old qualities: the irony of character, the tension of situation. A pleasure also to find Powell and Pressburger dealing with material worthy of them.” – Sunday Times (UK) Oct 3, 2023 Full Review The Search (1948) 100% “Mr Clift’s portrayal of the nonchalant American, bewildered by the little boy’s terror, at his wits’ end to persuade him to speak... is something not to miss.” – Sunday Times (UK) Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Pinky (1949) 67% “Pinky is an extremely moving piece of work; moving in its acting, its direction and its writing... It speaks to us with understanding, pity and indignation of the suffering, the courageous human figure.” – Sunday Times (UK) Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Sunset Boulevard (1950) 98% “Sunset Boulevard is the most intelligent film to come out of Hollywood for years : lest the idea of intelligence in the cinema should lack allure, let me say that it is also one of the most exciting.” – Sunday Times (UK) Oct 3, 2023 Full Review The Gunfighter (1950) 94% “I won’t say the film is uninteresting. But the tension of waiting for a foreseen climax is not what it should be -- partly because Gregory Peck arouses no very profound sympathy for the central character.” – Sunday Times (UK) Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) 96% “I find Who Framed Roger Rabbit a deplorable development in the possibilities of animation -- and a melancholy waste of the gifts of one of our most gifted actors.” – Punch Oct 2, 2023 Full Review Fanny and Alexander (1982) 100% “For over two hours one watched, spellbound, a story of two children enclosed in the memories and the experiences of their elders. But really it is the birth of the Ingmar Bergman cinema which one is watching.” – Punch Oct 2, 2023 Full Review Plenty (1985) 59% “Plenty is a film alive with ideas.” – Punch Oct 2, 2023 Full Review
No Reviews Yet
Load More