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Jay Cocks

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Time Magazine film critic.

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Funny Lady (1975) 51% “There is no getting around it; Funny Lady is kind of a kick.” – TIME Magazine Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975) 36% “Berlin goes through awkward, putatively comic body movements, as if trying to cry on her own shoulder.” – TIME Magazine Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% “Much of Shampoo is good enough to make one regret its ultimate filature.” – TIME Magazine Mar 21, 2025 Full Review The Yakuza (1974) 47% “Serpentine strands... cause a great deal of confusion and hobble the movie just when it should be moving briskly along.” – TIME Magazine Mar 21, 2025 Full Review Le Samouraï (1967) 92% “Melville means to pay sober homage to all the Hollywood films that did all this but better. It is a pity that for all its virtues, [Le Samouraï]'s patina of high seriousness renders every scene forced and self-conscious.” – TIME Magazine Mar 18, 2025 Full Review Report to the Commissioner (1975) 56% “There is a good, nasty performance by Hector Elizondo as an ambitious police captain, a characterization richer than this movie knows how to use. ” – TIME Magazine Mar 12, 2025 Full Review The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) 47% “The movie is blank, unimaginative —think of every joke you have heard about New York over the past decade and here it is—and Bancroft cannot make much of the bits and scraps she is given.” – TIME Magazine Mar 6, 2025 Full Review The Conversation (1974) 93% “For Hackman, Caul presents a substantial challenge. It is a largely interiorized role in contrast to the action parts on which he has recently built his career. He responds with the most sustained screen performance he has done.” – TIME Magazine Sep 24, 2024 Full Review The Day After (1983) 86% “Under all the furor, spontaneous or manufactured, and the high urgency, real or prefabricated just for the premiere, is the film, a frail vessel indeed to bear the fate of mankind. ” – TIME Magazine Nov 22, 2023 Full Review Play It as It Lays (1972) 60% “For Didion the beach, the desert, the freeways and the plastic extravagances of architecture were metaphors. For Director Perry they are just locations.” – TIME Magazine Sep 28, 2023 Full Review Macbeth (1971) 78% “The language is flattened into conversation, and some of the best lines are simply tossed away. This may make Macbeth a bit more contemporary, but it also makes it ordinary. ” – TIME Magazine Jul 21, 2023 Full Review Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) 59% “Even in the maimed state in which it has been released, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is the richest, most exciting American film so far this year. There are moments and whole sequences here that stand among the best Peckinpah has ever achieved. ” – TIME Magazine Jun 14, 2022 Full Review Buck and the Preacher (1972) 84% “Directed by and co-starring Sidney Poitier, it is at least competently made and has a few, fleeting moments of genuine fun. ” – TIME Magazine May 27, 2022 Full Review Bronco Bullfrog (1970) 100% “Crude and defiant, the film is full of such angry energy that its shortcomings can be, if not dismissed, at least indulged.” – TIME Magazine Apr 8, 2022 Full Review The Heartbreak Kid (1972) 92% “This is an eccentrically funny movie, often cutting and poignant at the same time.” – TIME Magazine Feb 22, 2022 Full Review Wattstax (1973) 90% “Stuart uses the music as an expression of common feeling, and he intercuts concert footage with interview material... The result is necessarily superficial, but it does give the people a voice, and the tone is insistent and important.” – TIME Magazine Dec 18, 2020 Full Review Emmanuelle (1974) 38% “There is a great deal of hectic coupling in this film, all of it staged with chintzy tastefulness, as if the participants were being arranged for a department-store window display.” – TIME Magazine Mar 31, 2020 Full Review The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe (1972) 67% “Just about as witty and well-turned as its title.” – TIME Magazine Mar 18, 2020 Full Review The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun (1970) 20% “The movie is one of those carefully jumbled jigsaw puzzles and comes complete with a rushed, not totally satisfactory explanation at the end.” – TIME Magazine Mar 18, 2020 Full Review A Star Is Born (1976) 37% “The trouble with rock 'n' roll in A Star Is Born is that there isn't any. The soundtrack is filled with homogenized harmonics passing for rock, but not a single song is good enough even to be counterfeit.” – TIME Magazine Mar 6, 2019 Full Review Diary of Forbidden Dreams (1973) 15% “Polanski inexplicably uses all the absurdist conventions that he mocked so deftly in Cul de Sac.” – TIME Magazine Feb 4, 2019 Full Review Year of the Woman (1973) “Hochman may be a poet, but her writing here ("In this secret room of mirrors, are we spying on who we are?") offers heavy evidence to the contrary.” – TIME Magazine Feb 4, 2019 Full Review The Optimists of Nine Elms (1973) 86% “The movie has the vacant sentimentality and just the sort of grinding winsomeness that can make family movies such a chore.” – TIME Magazine Feb 4, 2019 Full Review The Devils (1971) 70% “It is like a lunatic opera, an attempt to make a furious poem out of frenzy. Russell's flamboyant theatricality and his interest in the perverse have been too much imposed on his other films; but here, style and subject are perfectly matched.” – TIME Magazine Nov 8, 2018 Full Review T.R. Baskin (1971) 0% “Peter Boyle, as the salesman, and James Caan, as the swine, do the best they can, which is extremely well indeed, but the movie's clumsy feints at sophistication and its grotesque sentimentality prevail.” – TIME Magazine Oct 13, 2018 Full Review
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