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Richard Schickel

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Withnail and I (1987) 83% “Even the most mild mannered of these new [British] movies, Withnail and I, is a shock to our expectations.” – TIME Magazine Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Rancho Deluxe (1975) 62% “It achieves some interesting images and some strong dramatic moments, but its good impulses are blunted by creative caution.” – TIME Magazine Mar 25, 2025 Full Review Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975) 47% “The film is technically competent enough and in its small way inoffensive. But it is all familiar surfaces. ” – TIME Magazine Mar 8, 2025 Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 91% 4/4 “A biliously ironic assault on the goopy fantasies with which movies have traditionally solaced those hard-pressed souls enduring either provincialism or adolescence or (worst-case scenario) both at the same time.” – Video Review Jan 22, 2025 Full Review Napoleon (1927) 87% “Napoleon is a triumph of pure cinematic style over conventional expectations. There is no "characterization" in the usual sense, though in the title role Albert Dieudonné gives a great silent performance of looks, gestures and poses. ” – TIME Magazine May 14, 2024 Full Review Planet of the Apes (1968) 86% “The best American movie I have seen so far this year. Considering the competition, that is, perhaps, faint praise, but the movie is at least alive. By this I mean that it is alive to -- and delighted with -- its own possibilities.” – LIFE May 2, 2024 Full Review Lady Sings the Blues (1972) 71% “It is Diana Ross in the title role, however, who carries the whole thing on her skinny shoulders, makes us believe, makes us care. ” – LIFE Apr 4, 2024 Full Review Grease (1978) 66% “A movie that has as its true subject a bygone style but is utterly devoid of that quality itself.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2024 Full Review The Last of the Mohicans (1992) 88% “Old-fashioned Hollywood history was exhilarating... It is the great virtue of this grandly scaled yet deliriously energetic movie that it reanimates that long-ago feeling without patronizing it.” – TIME Magazine Dec 14, 2023 Full Review Little Big Man (1970) 91% “Although the movie is not quite the first in which the Indians are allowed to win a battle, it is surely the first in which they get most of the good lines.” – LIFE Nov 10, 2023 Full Review Smoke Signals (1998) 90% “The result is a shrewd portrait, sly, casual yet palpably authentic... Smoke Signals could be more complex and compelling narratively, but there's a sweet freshness in its voice that's worth heeding.” – TIME Magazine Nov 8, 2023 Full Review Lone Star (1996) 91% “Sayles is a meditative storyteller, with a tendency to mute melodrama rather than letting it wail. But he is also one of the few filmmakers still ferreting out the strangeness and anxiety hidden beneath our poses of ordinariness.” – TIME Magazine Sep 6, 2023 Full Review When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) 69% “Well, this is the '90s, when weekends aren't allowed to be lost, only politely postponed.” – TIME Magazine Sep 1, 2023 Full Review Moscow on the Hudson (1984) 73% “Robin Williams, who seems to have absorbed something of the Russian soul while acquiring a persuasive Russian accent, is excellent.” – TIME Magazine Aug 22, 2023 Full Review Bringing Up Baby (1938) 97% 4/4 “The dialogue sparkles and the acting shines as the big cat escapes and mishap follows mishap in swift succession.” – Video Review Jul 25, 2023 Full Review Coming Apart (1969) 50% “The film's effect is powerful, not least because of Rip Torn's brilliant performance as he transforms himself from a man making a half-serious experiment in living to a creature ensnared in a trap of his own devising.” – LIFE Jul 18, 2023 Full Review Castle Keep (1969) 44% “Well worth seeing, not because perfection has been achieved, but because a good serious film response has been made to a good serious book.” – LIFE Jul 18, 2023 Full Review The Garden of Delights (1970) “A well-acted study in psychological violence that tears at our consciousness with clever, velvet claws.” – LIFE Jul 18, 2023 Full Review Bad Company (1972) 84% “It's a hard movie to summarize and a hard movie to forget -- soft-spoken, hard-headed, stylistically singular. Bad Company is good company, the best I have found at the movies in a long time.” – LIFE Jul 18, 2023 Full Review The Matrix (1999) 83% “Given a budget that encourages their kinesthetic skills, the filmmakers tend to go on a bit, but it's mostly a kind of quick, glancing hipness that's being indulged here. And that's a rare and welcome commodity in mass-market moviemaking these days.” – TIME Magazine Jul 12, 2023 Full Review Magnolia (1999) 82% “These characters are all well played, but we don't fully connect with them. Or, finally, with an endless movie that mostly mistakes inflation for importance.” – TIME Magazine Jun 29, 2023 Full Review Phantom of the Paradise (1974) 82% “A crazy, savage film -- iconoclastic and truly liberating. ” – TIME Magazine Jun 27, 2023 Full Review Patriot Games (1992) 72% “There is something abstract and distant about Patriot Games. But there are at least four exciting preliminary confrontations... Along with the expert binding of Ford's performance, these are the juicy raisins in an otherwise blandish pudding.” – TIME Magazine Jun 6, 2023 Full Review An American Tail (1986) 77% “The animation and the backgrounds occasionally fall below classic Disney standards, but the characterizations, both visual and vocal, are entirely endearing.” – TIME Magazine May 17, 2023 Full Review Fiddler on the Roof (1971) 81% “Topol is all shrugs and sweet ingratiation. He even gets along with Cossacks. As a result the movie is soft and sugary right at its center and, excepting Leonard Frey... all performances struck me as rather gingerly. ” – LIFE May 16, 2023 Full Review
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