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Frank Rich

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Time Magazine film critic.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 93% “While Milos Forman has made a frightfully mindless film, he's made it damn well -- cloaking Kesey's irresponsible pap in trappings of immediacy and legitimacy that aren't easily stripped away.” – New York Post Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% “Barry Lyndon is pure cinema, and, if you only let it, its aching beauty will wipe you out. ” – New York Post Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Apocalypse Now (1979) 90% “Apocalypse Now is emotionally obtuse and intellectually empty. It is not so much an epic account of a grueling war as an incongruous, extravagant monument to artistic self-defeat.” – TIME Magazine Sep 23, 2024 Full Review The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976) 87% “A perfectly inoffensive little farce, in which modest pleasures and dull stretches co-exist in equal abundance and that seems, under the circumstances, a terrible waste.” – New York Post Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 96% “A point of view is needed and so is a dramatic strategy and neither the screenwriter nor the director has bothered to devise them.” – New York Post Apr 7, 2024 Full Review Taxi Driver (1976) 89% “Like any genuine nightmare, Taxi Driver induces terror because its hideousness grows out of pure, if awful, human truth.” – New York Post Oct 6, 2023 Full Review Girlfriends (1978) 93% “Everyone in Girlfriends is so self-effacing that the movie never works up any convincing dramatic tension or provocative ideas. If that was Weill's original plan, she has gone to a lot of unnecessary trouble. ” – TIME Magazine May 17, 2023 Full Review One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977) 65% “A surprisingly lazy and self-indulgent work. Rather than trust her characters to convey the film's content, the director smothers the movie with a voice-over narration that lectures the audience on the Meaning of It All.” – TIME Magazine Mar 7, 2023 Full Review Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) 84% “Like Loretta Lynn's music, the characters of Coal Miner's Daughter stay in the mind long after the drama that contains them runs out. ” – TIME Magazine Apr 7, 2022 Full Review Hair (1979) 83% “Hair succeeds at all levels -- as lowdown fun, as affecting drama, as exhilarating spectacle and as provocative social observation.” – TIME Magazine Nov 5, 2021 Full Review A Little Romance (1979) 72% “The film's portrait of young love may be touching, but its most moving moments celebrate love of a different kind: the passion that movie professionals, both young and old, have for their craft.” – TIME Magazine Sep 22, 2015 Full Review Wise Blood (1979) 88% “This time, Huston has found material that was all but guaranteed to fuel the battiest recesses of his imagination.” – TIME Magazine Sep 19, 2014 Full Review Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 90% “[Spielberg's] new movie is richer and more ambitious than Jaws, and it reaches the viewer at a far more profound level than Star Wars.” – TIME Magazine Aug 22, 2014 Full Review Being There (1979) 95% “Here is a comedy that valiantly defies both gravity and the latest Hollywood fashion.” – TIME Magazine Jul 8, 2014 Full Review Cruising (1980) 50% “This detective melodrama has something to offend almost everyone.” – TIME Magazine Jun 9, 2014 Full Review Heaven Can Wait (1978) 86% “[The film] has everything going for it: big laughs, populist politics, billowy sequences set in heaven, a murder plot, a climactic Super Bowl game, a supporting cast of choice comic actors, and best of all, a touching (but PG) romance.” – TIME Magazine Jan 24, 2014 Full Review I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) 90% “I Wanna Hold Your Hand re-creates precisely the excitement the Beatles let loose 14 years ago; it transports the audience back to the eye of a phenomenal social hurricane.” – TIME Magazine Jun 1, 2011 Full Review Alien (1979) 93% “It is depressing to watch an expensive, crafty movie that never soars beyond its cold desire to score the big bucks. Unlike Jaws, Alien does not use stylistic cunning to excite the audience; it just shovels on the mayhem.” – TIME Magazine Oct 22, 2010 Full Review Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) 90% “Benton gives his film its depth and complexity by challenging the audience's preconceptions and snap opinions at every turn.” – TIME Magazine Feb 24, 2010 Full Review The Deer Hunter (1978) 86% “This excruciatingly violent, three-hour Viet Nam saga demolishes the moral and ideological cliches of an era: it shoves the audience into hell and leaves it stranded without a map.” – TIME Magazine Feb 20, 2009 Full Review Moonraker (1979) 59% “Broccoli just keeps piling on the goodies: lush Ken Adam sets, gadgetry and gams galore, super stunts and effects.” – TIME Magazine Oct 13, 2008 Full Review Meatballs (1979) 73% “Through it all, Murray smiles and forges ahead, but his big riffs have been edited down to frantic bursts of mugging.” – TIME Magazine Oct 5, 2008 Full Review All That Jazz (1979) 88% “Though Scheider is a wry, sensitive actor, he soon gets lost in the vulgar theatrics.” – TIME Magazine Aug 12, 2008 Full Review Saint Jack (1979) 72% “If Saint Jack is not another complete embarrassment for Bogdanovich, it nonetheless reveals his deficiencies as a film maker.” – TIME Magazine Jul 18, 2008 Full Review The Black Stallion (1979) 91% “Ballard's sumptuous images exist only to distract from his rather conventional failings of craftsmanship.” – TIME Magazine Dec 11, 2007 Full Review
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