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Supervixens (1975) 49% “We get cheap jokes as an overlay for the most nauseating brutality.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975) 36% “What minimal value the novel may have had is forfeited by this appalling adaption of the story.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 9, 2025 Full Review One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 93% “Nicholson does a lot of things very well, and has much charm, but he just isn't elemental enough. As for Louise Fletcher, the Mattie of "Thieves Like Us," she is a fine, expressive actress, but wrong for Big Nurse.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% “One is unhappily reminded of Dwight Macdonald's wise warning against making films out of "lots of Big Moments, but no small ones." Indeed, watching the movie is like looking at illustrations for a work that has not been supplied.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 96% “There are scattered moments of wry humor, sudden pathos, and correct observation throughout.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 7, 2024 Full Review Taxi Driver (1976) 89% “All these things might be reconciled and resolved, if only the film probed deeper instead of trying merely to astonish and dazzle. Obviously, it is the offspring of an unholy union.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 6, 2023 Full Review Annie Hall (1977) 97% “Allen is easily our most literate comic, and may just be our most comic littérateur, as readers of his humorous sketches know. But his new film is painful in three separate ways: as unfunny comedy, poor moviemaking, and embarrassing self-revelation. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Aug 26, 2022 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% “In Nashville, the sum of the parts is, unfortunately, greater than the whole, but, bit by bit, they are mostly well worth attending to.” – Esquire Magazine Aug 4, 2020 Full Review Tommy (1975) 71% “The most stupid, arrogant, and tasteless movie since Russell's Mahler. To debate such a film seems impossible: anyone who can find merit in this deluge of noise and nausea has nothing to say to me, nor I to him.” – Esquire Magazine Aug 4, 2020 Full Review The Passenger (1975) 88% “If vacuity had any weight, you could kill an ox by dropping on it Michelangelo Antonioni's latest film, The Passenger. Emptiness is everywhere: in landscapes and townscapes, churches and hotel rooms, and most of all in the script.” – Esquire Magazine Aug 4, 2020 Full Review Les violons du bal (1974) “It is very much what a clever -- but not so very clever -- kid fresh out of film school and stuffed to the gills with Godard, Resnais, Robbe-Grillet, etc. might make to prove his cleverness and originality.” – Esquire Magazine Jul 30, 2020 Full Review Black Thursday (1973) “An honest and harrowing film. It makes horror not a glamorous adventure, merely horrible and, worse yet, banal.” – Esquire Magazine Jul 30, 2020 Full Review Young Frankenstein (1974) 95% “Miracles still happen: Mel Brooks has made a funny movie.” – Esquire Magazine Jul 30, 2020 Full Review A Woman Under the Influence (1974) 86% “The film's incidents... look and sound like improvisations in which a dreary little situation is stretched, worried, reiterated until any spectator with a sense of the value of his time must turn as blue in the face as the hero's collar.” – Esquire Magazine Jul 30, 2020 Full Review Mahler (1974) 75% “Collectors of supreme cinematic monstrosities had better keep a sharp lookout for Ken Russell's latest, Mahler, which may yet set a quick disappearance record even for a Russell film.” – Esquire Magazine Jul 30, 2020 Full Review Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975) 47% “The film is an odd mixture of the affecting and the hokey.” – Esquire Magazine Jul 30, 2020 Full Review Murder on the Orient Express (1974) 89% “Murder on the Orient Express is that unusual thing; an inflated trifle that actually works.” – Esquire Magazine Jul 28, 2020 Full Review Lenny (1974) 87% “A mess -- precisely because it is neither fact nor imaginative fiction. Fosse and Barry never figured out for themselves how this nothingy little comic grew into a heroic figure and, rightly or wrongly, a legend” – Esquire Magazine Jul 28, 2020 Full Review The Phantom of Liberty (1974) 85% “Much that has been hailed as Buñuel's profundity is merely self-purgation: catharsis for himself rather than for his audience. Though this may be the commonest motive for artistic creation, it is, by itself, insufficient.” – Esquire Magazine Jul 28, 2020 Full Review Scenes From a Marriage (1973) 88% “Alongside the great literary tracts on love by writers like Stendhal, Kierkegaard, Ortega y Gasset, we must now place this cinematic treatise on married love -- indeed, on basic man-woman relations -- by the giant of Swedish and world film making.” – Esquire Magazine Jul 28, 2020 Full Review Amarcord (1973) 88% “Its people look neither funny nor touching, neither monstrous nor human; they are mere lay figures tugged about aimlessly to fill out the space of the screen, the prescribed time for a major movie, and the leaky balloon of Fellini's ego.” – Esquire Magazine Jul 28, 2020 Full Review Lacombe, Lucien (1974) 100% “Lacombe, Lucien is remarkable, first, because it brings to film perhaps better than ever before (including even Bergman's powerful Shame) the sense of the banality of evil.” – Esquire Magazine Jul 28, 2020 Full Review Promised Lands (1974) 67% “Not only does the film have a fine eye for visual detail, it also breaks new ground by allowing two main speakers to carry on an antiphonal debate that weaves its way through the entire fabric.” – Esquire Magazine Jul 28, 2020 Full Review The Seduction of Mimi (1972) 86% “At this stage of her development, the director is good at unsentimental tragedy and uncomplaisant comedy, and has an admirable visual sense.” – Esquire Magazine Jul 28, 2020 Full Review The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) 93% “The film has going for it a well-observed milieu, a rich gallery of colorful locals, and a wealth of incident that sometimes gets out of hand.” – Esquire Magazine Jul 28, 2020 Full Review
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