Brannigan (1975)
48%
“When not making tiresome, overstated work of his sight-seeing, Douglas Hickox directs in a busy but characterless style.” –
Monthly Film Bulletin
Apr 12, 2025
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Capone (1975)
28%
“Capone settles for hanging everything on one star performance.” –
Financial Times
Apr 8, 2025
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At Long Last Love (1975)
23%
“It may have been Bogdanovich's intention to produce something with the lightness and whimsicality of Minnelli, but the end results looks peculiarly as if a very Altman-esque conceit had been buried within a William Wyler epic.” –
Monthly Film Bulletin
Mar 25, 2025
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Shampoo (1975)
75%
“The principal sophistication of Shampoo -- indeed the major play round which its casual jigsaw of social comedy is built -- is never to allow its general and personal themes too intertwine to obviously.” –
Monthly Film Bulletin
Mar 3, 2025
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Barry Lyndon (1975)
78%
“Barry Lyndon emerges as perhaps Kubrick's most intensely human spectacle, comparable to Paths of Glory in its tragic confrontations that seem to throw whole worlds into the balance with individual lives.” –
Monthly Film Bulletin
Feb 25, 2025
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Raging Bull (1980)
92%
“What is most remarkable about the new rigour of Raging Bull is that it tells La Motta's story with both complete realism and total subjectivity. In a way that leaves them difficult to disentangle... each is even made to seem a function of the other.” –
Sight & Sound
Oct 10, 2023
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Taxi Driver (1976)
89%
“Its method is to construct a series of steel traps for its hero, all of which have firmly shut before the film is half over, though Scorsese's grandstanding and Schrader's Bressonian pretensions continue to push for moments of religious transcendence.” –
Monthly Film Bulletin
Oct 5, 2023
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The Color Purple (1985)
73%
“Overall, what Spielberg has done to The Color Purple combines the spare drive of The Searchers and the gloomy lushness of Doctor Zhivago. ” –
Sight & Sound
May 25, 2023
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Salvador (1986)
90%
“Of Stone's two recent films, Salvador is the most remarkable, if only for its drive and sense of attack, its willingness to deal in current politics as directly as it does. ” –
Sight & Sound
Aug 22, 2022
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Platoon (1986)
89%
“Platoon evokes Vietnam more intensely than any previous film, and at the same time drowns it in all the particularities, infused by boredom, exhaustion, terror, of what it meant to fight there. ” –
Sight & Sound
Aug 22, 2022
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Cockfighter (1974)
100%
“Cockfighter looks as sleek an item - and almost as exploitable - as any of the company's recent work in the girl gang prison revolt cycle, and far less bizarre than the two Westerns which [Roger] Corman allowed [director Monte] Heilman to make.” –
Sight & Sound
Apr 2, 2020
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The Last Waltz (1978)
98%
“At its best the style of The Last Waltz, at once kaleidoscopic and concentrated, discursive and fixated, distils more about its subject and its times (and about its maker and his obsessions) than the impressionism of cinema verite.” –
Sight & Sound
Mar 31, 2020
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The Last Wave (1977)
82%
“Unfortunately, Weir's deftness with 'atmosphere' seems to have been developing at the expense of any narrative or thematic sense.” –
Sight & Sound
Mar 31, 2020
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The Morning After (1986)
61%
“The Morning After is, for a romantic thriller, perhaps over-burdened with possible patterns.” –
Sight & Sound
Mar 27, 2020
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The Exorcist (1973)
78%
“The film continually struggles to suggest through atmosphere what it promises but fails to provide in substance.” –
Sight & Sound
Mar 27, 2020
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The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
44%
“A glibly sour and sentimental thriller.” –
Sight & Sound
Mar 27, 2020
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Winter Kills (1979)
92%
“Richert gives the film a hard, bright surface -- this is not a seductive fantasy, it's more of the sarcastic, take-it-or-leave-it kind.” –
Sight & Sound
Mar 24, 2020
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Demon Seed (1977)
57%
“Very uncomfortably directed: the performances are stilted and metallic (whatever is supposed to be assumed about robots taking over), and the perfunctory visuals leave the ramshackle plotdangerously over-exposed.” –
Sight & Sound
Mar 19, 2020
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Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (1972)
“In the comic context of A Gorgeous Bird Like Me, a good deal of the savour is lost simply because this femme comes over as much less fatale than may have been intended.” –
Sight & Sound
Mar 18, 2020
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Woyzeck (1979)
86%
“What Herzog does is to make his own contrary film inside the original, elevating Jonathan Harker from functionary to dual protagonist.” –
Sight & Sound
Mar 17, 2020
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Slither (1973)
57%
“Zieff's talent goes further than a skill for packaging sound scripts and performances.” –
Sight & Sound
Mar 17, 2020
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Hearts of the West (1975)
90%
“For all that Zieff assembles these solid ingredients with a minimum of fuss, he does have a way of turning the simplest device to quietly expressive use.” –
Sight & Sound
Mar 17, 2020
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All the President's Men (1976)
94%
“A story that has been marshalled with dazzling skill and precision, but lacks the imaginative hooks that might have taken it even further in mood and meaning.” –
Sight & Sound
Mar 17, 2020
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Hammett (1982)
75%
“The classic element, to give it its due, works in an admirably terse, crisp, humorous vein.” –
Sight & Sound
Mar 16, 2020
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Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
69%
“The saddest failure though is Schaffner's inability to find a real centre for the film, and so achieve the kind of precarious constellation of forces that has formed round his protagonists in the past.” –
Sight & Sound
Feb 12, 2020
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