Emerson Batdorff
Emerson Batdorff's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Funny Lady (1975)
51%
“The picture has a good feel for time and place.” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Apr 24, 2025
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Brannigan (1975)
48%
“There is a feast for cliche spotters, both oral and visual, in "Brannigan."” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Apr 11, 2025
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Supervixens (1975)
49%
“Meyer adds a great deal of humor tot he raunchy goings on.” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Apr 11, 2025
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Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975)
36%
“The performances are good about half as far as they go, but they go too far. Furie can't restrain himself.” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Apr 9, 2025
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
90%
“The film is a work of splendid imagination always, but it is less often a work of delight, owing in part to its tediously slow pace when expedition would seem to be called for.” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Apr 9, 2025
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Sheba, Baby (1975)
29%
“The writing is stolid and stumbling, the performances are wooden and only the gunfire rings clear.” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Apr 9, 2025
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Capone (1975)
28%
“The picture would be even worse without Ben Gazzara, who makes Capone into evil incarnate mainly by glinting his eye.” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Apr 8, 2025
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
91%
“The picture is made up entirely of what are supposed to be hokes, which account for its falling off toward the end. Jokes up against another joke in endless procession, like buckets of cistern chain, are inclined to sag.” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Apr 1, 2025
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At Long Last Love (1975)
23%
“Cybill Shepherd can neither sing nor dance. Burt Reynolds cannot either... the affair is decidedly ho-hum.” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mar 25, 2025
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Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
86%
“Usually Disney tots have a tendency to be unpleasantly previous, but Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann as the children are unobjectionable; even likable on occasion.” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mar 19, 2025
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Report to the Commissioner (1975)
56%
“The first two-thirds "Report to the Commissioner" is so interesting that a man can almost forgive its clumsy and pretentious ending. Almost.” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mar 12, 2025
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Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975)
47%
“For some reason there are a great many movies these days celebrating the idea that life can be crummy. "Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins" is as crummy as any of them.” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mar 11, 2025
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Mr. Ricco (1975)
25%
“"Mr. Ricco" is a rambling picture that goes off in several directions.” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mar 7, 2025
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
47%
“The big difference between this and previous Neil Simon works is that the gags are not quite so funny, and no less obtrusive. ” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mar 7, 2025
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Nashville (1975)
89%
“Where it shines is in showing real people, while making social comment in the best possible way, namely by never insisting that you must get the message.” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Feb 26, 2025
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Barry Lyndon (1975)
78%
“A fine, sprawling romance, but it must be approached with caution... Usually a movie will try to make its characters live in a real world. Kubrick makes his characters live in a Victorian novel. They are not to be confused with flesh and blood.” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Feb 25, 2025
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Shampoo (1975)
75%
“"Shampoo" is a photographed conversation. Robert Towne, who shares credit for the screenplay with Beatty, has a great ear (his dialog rings totally true), but he has no eye.” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Feb 10, 2025
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The Conversation (1974)
93%
“People go to the movies to escape such frustrations, not to seek them. Not that The Conversation actually portrays reality. It doesn't. It's a melodrama but it has the external dullness of reality.” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Sep 24, 2024
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Jaws (1975)
97%
“There's a pretty fair novel called Jaws that someone should turn into a movie some day. The current movie of the same name bears little relationship to the book, and is just another horror-action picture in which personal revelation plays no part.” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Jul 2, 2024
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Thunderball (1965)
85%
“In addition to the physical machines there is a lot of deus ex-machina involved too, but only a critic would carp about that. Just go to watch the most remarkable things.” –
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dec 30, 2017
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