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Michael Billington

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Brannigan (1975) 48% “Wayne as usual occupies the screen with massive authority plus a bear-like tenderness and there is a good saloon-bar ruckus.” – Birmingham Post Apr 12, 2025 Full Review Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 92% “I am not sure that the attempt to construct a loose narrative framework actually suits the team's gifts... But, given the lacklustre witlessness of most British screen comedy, it is refreshing to find a film as madcap as this.” – Birmingham Post Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Rancho Deluxe (1975) 62% “It is an ironic, sparky modern Western set in Montana but it isn't directed with enough style or rhythmic variation to achieve proper lift-off.” – Birmingham Post Mar 27, 2025 Full Review Tommy (1975) 71% “The sheer relentlessness of Russell's approach leaves one deafened and exhausted.” – Birmingham Post Mar 18, 2025 Full Review The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) 48% “It shows Simon attempting to extend his own comic territory by tackling serious subjects. I find the result both funny and moving.” – Birmingham Post Mar 7, 2025 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% “In a medium still dependent on the touting of bankrupt formulas, Nashville comes as an energising tonic. And a signpost for the future. ” – Birmingham Post Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% “I would not have thought Kubrick could ever have made a somnambulistic film: But here he has.” – Birmingham Post Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% “Although it is a writer's movie, Ashby direct with a nice sense of farcical rhythm and gets better performances out of everyone than they have given in a long time.” – Birmingham Post Feb 10, 2025 Full Review The Conversation (1974) 94% “A fascinating movie that works on several levels: as a mystifying thriller, an indictment of surveillance techniques, a psychological study, and a Kafkaesque vision of the world of giant corporations.” – Birmingham Post Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Let It Be (1970) 81% “Beatles fans, saddened by the news of the group's apparent dissolution, should get a certain melancholy pleasure out of Let It Be.” – Birmingham Post May 9, 2024 Full Review Lady Sings the Blues (1972) 71% “A tame, turgid biopic about a lady apparently full of courage and humor. I just wish some of that had found its way on to the screen.” – Birmingham Post Apr 5, 2024 Full Review Caravan to Vaccares (1974) 0% “Even judged as an action-tale, the film still falls pretty flat.” – Birmingham Post Mar 8, 2024 Full Review Chinatown (1974) 98% “In these parched summer months, a film like Chinatown comes as a real cinematic pleasure: a testament to the virtues of plot, style and intelligence.” – Birmingham Post Mar 8, 2024 Full Review The Duellists (1977) 74% “It is really the record of an ungovernable physical obsession but what gives it its distinction is that it is directed with a real feeling for pictorial effect and for the play of light.” – Birmingham Post Nov 21, 2023 Full Review The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971) 20% “Generally the film is full of sound and fury signifying nothing and, looking at some of the mediocre camerawork, one reflects that it's not only the New York gang leaders who apparently can't shoot straight.” – Birmingham Post Oct 25, 2023 Full Review They Might Be Giants (1971) 61% “The film has been rather brutally cut by Universal so that some of it doesn't even make sense. But I can't believe it would ever have been anything more than a piece of precious whimsy.” – Birmingham Post Oct 25, 2023 Full Review The Last Picture Show (1971) 98% “It's a movie I like very much; it penetrates the memory for hours afterwards and it leads one to reflect serenely on the joys and miseries of one's own fading youth. Not to be missed. ” – Birmingham Post Oct 25, 2023 Full Review Payday (1973) 63% “It's the least sentimental account I've seen on film of a modern troubadou's existence: and it has a lot more individual style than the week's epic blockbusters. ” – Birmingham Post Sep 27, 2023 Full Review Blume in Love (1973) 70% “The jokes themselves come thick and fast. Underneath its surface wryness the film communicates a genuine sense of loss and of the agony of unrequited love. ” – Birmingham Post Sep 27, 2023 Full Review Papillon (1973) 73% “I must say it left me depressed. The reason is, I think, the film's masochistic delight in pain, degradation and humiliation. ” – Birmingham Post Sep 27, 2023 Full Review The Exorcist (1973) 78% “Although the film has every attention lavished on it, it is much less scarifying than something like Rosemary's Baby, where the grisly happenings did have a sickening plausibility. The Exorcist, however, is simply a superior spook-movie. ” – Birmingham Post Sep 27, 2023 Full Review The Boy Friend (1971) 88% “I am less surprised than some of my colleagues that Russell's film of The Boy Friend turns out to be so hugely enjoyable and so packed with cinematic verve. ” – Birmingham Post Jul 25, 2023 Full Review Macbeth (1971) 78% “What I particularly like about it is that it strips away some of the more dubious theatrical traditions and gives the impression that every aspect of the play has been scrupulously re-examined. ” – Birmingham Post Jul 21, 2023 Full Review Gumshoe (1972) 88% “I found Gumshoe, in fact, a totally captivating film. It affectionately parodies the clipped, hammerblow dialogue of the best 'Forties movies while at the same time sustaining one's interest in a typically convoluted piece of Chandleresque plotting.” – Birmingham Post May 16, 2023 Full Review Fiddler on the Roof (1971) 81% “[Norman Jewison's] trump card, of course, is Topol as the life-loving milkman with the hot line to God. I wouldn't say Topol actually suggests a henpecked Jewish trader very convincingly, but he still has a towering screen presence. ” – Birmingham Post May 16, 2023 Full Review
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