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The Stepford Wives (1975) 55% “William Goldman's screenplay is a major disappointment. ” – Boston Phoenix May 2, 2025 Full Review Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 92% “There is seldom any wit to their carryings-on, but often considerable silliness. Not having seen the group's previous film and television efforts, I don't know whether there's any truth to the rumors that they can be funny when they try.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Rancho Deluxe (1975) 62% “Though the third half hour is extremely funny, in a wholly unhinged sort of way, nothing leading up to it is likely to keep an audience seated or satisfied.” – Boston Phoenix Mar 25, 2025 Full Review Tommy (1975) 71% “I can't think of another director inventive enough to hold his audience's rapt attention for two hours with only Tommy's sketchy plotline for subject matter.” – Boston Phoenix Mar 18, 2025 Full Review At Long Last Love (1975) 23% “The witty moments aren't witty, and the fun isn't fun.” – Boston Phoenix Mar 15, 2025 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% “Beatty and co-scenarist Robert Towne like George, but we never find out enough about him, and hie disappoints us too often.” – Boston Phoenix Mar 10, 2025 Full Review The Four Musketeers (1975) 73% “The Four Musketeers, though mildly amusing, is altogether unsatisfying.” – Boston Phoenix Mar 8, 2025 Full Review The Yakuza (1974) 47% “It moves slowly, with dignity, stressing ritual at the expense of dynamics.” – Boston Phoenix Mar 8, 2025 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% “Altman's directorial career can now be seen as a series of experiments with this the eventual goal... There’s no end Nashville’s mystery -- which is its most original, exhilarating and lifelike quality of all.” – Boston Phoenix Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% “If Barry Lyndon isn't the most beautiful film ever made, I don't know what is; every frame exudes muted, self-conscious perfection. Considered purely visually, the thing is fascinating.” – Boston Phoenix Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Jaws (1975) 97% “Whether or not Spielberg, who describes himself as "not an auteur," would prefer to make more esoteric films than Jaws is not yet clear. But he would certainly be hard pressed to concoct a more skillful, shrewd, and nerve-wracking nightmare than this one.” – Boston Phoenix Jul 2, 2024 Full Review Spaceballs (1987) 52% “If it isn't likely to generate what Mr. Brooks himself refers to as 'Spaceballs II: The Search for More Money, neither is it anything less than gentle, harmless satire that occasionally has real bite.” – New York Times Apr 12, 2024 Full Review The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976) 87% “This is nothing if not a crowd-pleaser, thanks to a witty if scrambled screenplay.” – Newsweek Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 96% “A film this unusual and captivating can wheedle almost anything out of its audience.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 6, 2024 Full Review Pulp Fiction (1994) 92% “A triumphant, cleverly disorienting journey through a demimonde that springs entirely from Mr. Tarantino's ripe imagination, a landscape of danger, shock, hilarity and vibrant local color.” – New York Times Feb 29, 2024 Full Review The Legend of Billie Jean (1985) 39% “The Legend of Billie Jean is competently made, sometimes attractively acted (particularly by Peter Coyote, as the stern but evidently inept policeman who somehow can't catch these high-profile renegades), and bankrupt beyond belief.” – New York Times Nov 17, 2023 Full Review Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) 92% “It works even though it shouldn't, because of Scorsese's innate vitality and the breakneck momentum he can generate. "Alice" doesn't match the fury of Mean Streets, but its very superficiality allows it to be lively and likable. ” – Boston Phoenix Oct 12, 2023 Full Review Taxi Driver (1976) 89% “Experiencing the film on an insulated, intellectual level is a virtual impossibility, thanks to a central performance so individualized and affecting that Travis is never in danger of becoming a statistic or a symbol. ” – Boston Phoenix Oct 6, 2023 Full Review The Exorcist (1973) 78% “The Exorcist is far and away the best and most provocative of this season's new releases, tremendously affecting, as visceral as a nightmare. Its flaws are really only flaws of omission. ” – Boston Phoenix Sep 27, 2023 Full Review Bound (1996) 87% “The Wachowskis make a better debut than their screenplay for ''Assassins'' or their credit on ''Hellraiser'' comics might promise.” – New York Times Jul 21, 2023 Full Review Mapantsula (1988) 100% “Mr. Mogotlane makes Panic much more than a symbol, treating him as a raffish, amusingly overconfident figure at first and a visibly shaken man as the film progresses, until at last he utters the single syllable that encapsulates the film's final point.” – New York Times Jun 30, 2023 Full Review Patriot Games (1992) 72% “Patriot Games delivers the best possible version of a tale that boils down to nothing but gamesmanship, as its title implies.” – New York Times Jun 6, 2023 Full Review The Color Purple (1985) 73% “Although the combination of his sensibilities and Miss Walker's amounts to a colossal mismatch, Mr. Spielberg's Color Purple manages to have momentum, warmth and staying power all the same.” – New York Times May 31, 2023 Full Review Crossing Delancey (1988) 82% “Miss Irving, who's in virtually every scene, gives Izzy a refreshing worldliness, a hint of disappointment and a hard-won wisdom that banish any trace of ingenuousness from the role.” – New York Times May 16, 2023 Full Review Yentl (1983) 69% “It may resemble a vanity production from afar (or at close range, too, for that matter), but even at its kitschiest it seems to be heartfelt. That goes a long way, though not far enough, toward saving the film from its own built-in difficulties.” – New York Times May 12, 2023 Full Review
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