Here is the umpteenth British film that attacks and satirizes the British upper classes. So what else is new? What is new is the depths of irrationality and absurdity to which the film sinks. Here is the...
The Old Culture returns in a warm, affectionate story about the American Girls' Professional Baseball League that was established by some baseball owners during World WarII and lasted until the early 1950s....
A picture about fly-fishing in Montana? For an urban New York type like myself who wouldn't know a fly-fisherman from a surfer, who thinks that fish should be caught in giant nets, and who believes that...
The Front, dir. by Martin Ritt, with Woody Allen and Zero Mostel.
I went perfectly prepared to like The Front: Woody Allen has always been funny, and the HUAC persecution of Hollywood Communists...
Recently I saw two movies that presented a remarkable contrast. They are not at all similar in theme; but in structure and meaning they embody two diametrically opposed concepts of film-making, indeed...
The Eagle Had Landed, dir. by John Sturges. With Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, and Jenny Agutter. At last! A rip-roaring, exciting adventure-spy yarn, replete with suspense and excitement. John Sturges...
Good Movies! In the past weeks, we have seen several excellent films—a remarkable statement from our ordinarily jaundiced perspective. Three of them have been comedies, and unusually fine ones. One of...
Bogdanovich’s Nickelodeon, dir. by Peter Bogdanovich, with Ryan and Tatum O’Neal and Burt Reynolds. Movie critics tend to run in packs, and critical approval or hostility in cycles. His personal arrogance,...
The Oscars. About the TV show, the less said the better. It was dull, grim, boring, ugly, the least cinematic of the Oscar award programs. One longed for good old Bob Hope and his repetitious oneliners....
Defense of Dirty Harry. Andrew Sarris, in a review of The Enforcer in the Village Voice (Jan. 24), presents a fine, insightful defense of Clint Eastwood and his Dirty Harry persona. Sarris asks how it...
Star Wars, dir. by George Lucas. With Alec Guinness and Carrie Fisher.
First came the hype. That Star Wars is going to be the biggest popular film success since Jaws means very little. So every season...
Annie Hall, dir. by Woody Allen. With Allen and Diane Keaton.
This is Woody Allen’s best film to date. I went to this movie on my guard because of my fellow critics’ “assurances” that Annie...
High Anxiety. Dir. by Mel Brooks, with Mel Brooks and the gang. There is no such thing as a bad or a dull Mel Brooks movie. His films are either blockbusters in their consistent hilarity (The Producers,...
An Unmarried Woman. Dir. and written by Paul Mazursky. With Jill Clayburgh and Alan Bates. Speaking of tedium, ideology, and narcissism with a female focus, if Julia qualifies as one of the worst big movies...
To the thousands of letters and telegrams that have been pouring in asking for me (Wanna bet?), I reply that I have not disappeared; it’s just that the movie situation has been getting increasingly intolerable....
Rich and Famous, dir. by George Cukor, with Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen.
This is one of the most odious and repellent movies I have seen in many a moon. It’s not that there are not even...
True Confessions, directed by Ulu Grosbard, written by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, with Robert Duvall and Robert DeNiro.
I approached this picture with apprehension, set on edge by critical...
Absence of Malice. Dir. by Sydney Pollack, with Paul Newman and Sally Field.
This tough, well-crafted movie has raised a storm in liberal circles. The liberal media have come down hard on this movie,...
Chariots of Fire, dir. by Hugh Hudson, with Ian Charleson and Ben Cross.
Chariots of Fire won the Academy Award last year — and it richly deserves it despite chauvinist grumbling about a British...
My Favorite Year, dir. by Richard Benjamin. With Peter O’Toole and Joseph Bologna.
For half a century, the major comic talents in American culture have been Jews, mainly from New York: the Marx...
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