Funny Lady (1975)
51%
“The narrative songs purpose-built for the film are inept. ” –
Observer (UK)
Apr 24, 2025
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The Deep (1977)
40%
“The fact is that Peter Yates has knocked himself out doing masterly underwater action sequences and aquatic stunts in the service of a woefully crummy book.” –
Observer (UK)
Apr 23, 2025
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
94%
“I'd better leave the subject to the millions of children who will shortly be experts on it. This is a pre-sold success; but also, for my taste, a pre-digested one. ” –
Observer (UK)
Apr 23, 2025
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Brannigan (1975)
48%
“The liveliest sequence is a mock Western brawl in a London market pub. It would be distractingly silly in a better film, but in a comedy thriller-star vehicle there is no such thing as unity of tone.” –
Observer (UK)
Apr 11, 2025
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Capone (1975)
28%
“Ben Gazzara is too small and dapper for the title role.” –
Observer (UK)
Apr 8, 2025
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Rancho Deluxe (1975)
62%
“You are left with the feeling that the creative team has turned on its own product halfway through and sent it up hugely -- which is always an uncomfortable feeling, however hearty the stray laughs involved.” –
Observer (UK)
Mar 27, 2025
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Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
86%
“Eddie Albert, Ray Milland and Donald Pleasance play the adults with nicely varied degrees of crustiness.” –
Observer (UK)
Mar 19, 2025
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Tommy (1975)
71%
“It is best not to join in the comic-book soul-searching of 'Tommy," but to take pleasure in the film's sometimes astonishing surfaces.” –
Observer (UK)
Mar 19, 2025
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The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
61%
“Only the stunts really work; the emotions... come straight from the days of those old trapeze-dramas -- will he ever do the triple-somersault into the bucket of whitewash again?” –
Observer (UK)
Mar 3, 2025
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Sharon's Baby (1975)
“The uttermost gunk.” –
Observer (UK)
Feb 27, 2025
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The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975)
33%
“People love the idea of coming back, and The Reincarnation of Peter Proud exploits it just well enough to do good business. A moment's reflection, though, reveals it to be nonsense, and J. Lee Thompson's direction leaves plenty of reflecting time.” –
Observer (UK)
Feb 27, 2025
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Nashville (1975)
89%
“As it strums and yowls along, the film is excellent and thought-provoking entertainment, made up of some remarkable individual efforts.” –
Observer (UK)
Feb 27, 2025
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The Yakuza (1974)
47%
“Sydney Pollack, directing, uncharacteristically wastes a lot of time on ideological expositions which events make plain, and in general the two-hour tale could do with a good trim.” –
Observer (UK)
Feb 26, 2025
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Hard Times (1975)
89%
“[Charles Bronson] has the inestimable advantage of looking properly mean. But when he walks out of the film at the end, he leaves a blank-faced parable to it than Kubrick's mental tour of the galleries, [Barry Lyndon]. Is that all there is?” –
Observer (UK)
Feb 25, 2025
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A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
86%
“The film seems to me to go badly wrong... The optimistic ending, in the circumstances, is a joke.” –
Observer (UK)
Feb 25, 2025
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Barry Lyndon (1975)
78%
“The world Kubrick presents, for all its masterminded oneness, is spacious enough to allow one's imagination to roam free. But mine got lost. The knack of distinguishing an important scene from a 'merely' beautiful one gradually deserted me.” –
Observer (UK)
Feb 25, 2025
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Shampoo (1975)
75%
“The biggest danger inherent in an ambitious statement about superficial people is successfully avoided: though the entire cast of characters is steeped in an atmosphere of derision, audiences will find their interest sustained by laughter.” –
Observer (UK)
Feb 10, 2025
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Innocents From Hell (1973)
“Examining my conscience, I now find I would rather be incensed by Ken Russell than bored witless by Anne Heywood and a clutch of Mother Inferior in thrall to lusts so oft-implied and so feebly stated.” –
Observer (UK)
Sep 24, 2024
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The Conversation (1974)
93%
“I must say it is good to see the director of The Godfather putting the proceeds of that vastly overrated epic of mumble-and-bang to such good and articulate use.” –
Observer (UK)
Sep 24, 2024
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Lucky Lady (1975)
25%
“The picture simply won't commit itself to any register or mood. ” –
Observer (UK)
Jul 2, 2024
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Jaws (1975)
97%
“Go on, then, you might as well see it once -- of all the civilian-panic pictures so far made, it's quite the most economical.” –
Observer (UK)
Jul 2, 2024
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
90%
“At this rate, [Steven Spielberg] will end up an unsurpassed master of demagogic techniques, but he will have nothing to say, and no respect for the people's he's supposedly saying it to.” –
Observer (UK)
Apr 3, 2024
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Caravan to Vaccares (1974)
0%
“I like the Camargue region, I don't see how you can help liking Charlotte Rampling, and I hadn't anything against Alistair Maclean either, until now. But this flimsy nonsense... ruins one's every appetite.” –
Observer (UK)
Mar 8, 2024
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Chinatown (1974)
98%
“It all adds up to an excellent climax, topped off by a brave attempt on the screenwriter's part to sell us one of those Great Lines From the Movies... It may catch on.” –
Observer (UK)
Mar 8, 2024
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The Duellists (1977)
74%
“Scott's film is a success. It is also something of an oddity.” –
Daily Mail (UK)
Nov 21, 2023
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