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Andrew Sarris

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Bite the Bullet (1975) 69% EDIT “The human competitors turn out to be so nice that one begins looking more intently at the horses for some trace of perversity.” – Village Voice Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “Hard Times turns out to be Charles Bronson's most effective vehicle since Sergio Leon's Once Upon a Time in the West.” – Village Voice Sep 27, 2025 Full Review Superman II (1980) 88% EDIT “In Superman II, [Gene Hackman] supplies much needed comic relief with his sly asides in the presence of the overweeningly good and evil emissaries from the planet Krypton.” – Village Voice Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Return to Oz (1985) 59% EDIT “Walter Murch's Return to Oz can stand on its own as a creative children's entertainment, much closer, in fact, to the spirit of the Baum books than the wildly overrated Wizard.” – Village Voice Jun 20, 2025 Full Review Night Moves (1975) 78% EDIT “Night Moves bids fair to become one of the most underrated movies of the year.” – Village Voice May 29, 2025 Full Review Supervixens (1975) 49% EDIT “Supervixens represents another talent lost to pop attitudinizing. ” – Village Voice Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Withnail and I (1987) 84% EDIT “I am not sure that I like this unkempt evocation of druggy London town near the of the swinging '60s... But like many current movies I don't particularly like, Withnail and I manages to make me believe in it implicitly.” – Village Voice Apr 4, 2025 Full Review At Long Last Love (1975) 22% EDIT “What most disturbs me about At Long Last Love is not so much the clumsiness of its leading lady as the superciliousness the director displays towards the genre.” – Village Voice Mar 25, 2025 Full Review Tommy (1975) 71% EDIT “Tommy is a profoundly unifying rock experience without malice or smugness.” – Village Voice Mar 19, 2025 Full Review The Yakuza (1974) 49% EDIT “The Yakuza is slowed down considerably by Pollack's solemnly eclectic direction and the endlessly expository dialogue which tends to make the whole exercise, bloody as it is, more explanatory than exclamatory.” – Village Voice Mar 3, 2025 Full Review The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) 60% EDIT “Hill has tried to jam too much into one picture.” – Village Voice Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% EDIT “Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon is clearly the most expensive meditation on melancholy ever financed by a Hollywood studio. From the opening strains of Georg Friedrich Handel's Sarabande... every frame in the film is a fresco of sadness.” – Village Voice Feb 25, 2025 Full Review The Conversation (1974) 94% EDIT “Coppola never lets us in on any of the tactical details. Obviously, he opts for surprise over suspense, but even his surprises are muffled by his solemn gaze.” – Village Voice Sep 24, 2024 Full Review The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976) 87% EDIT “The acting in Bingo Long attains the highest level of charm and subtlety. Billy Dee Williams is particularly skillful as Bingo Long, a part that could have easily fizzled in flamboyance.” – Village Voice Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 96% EDIT “On the whole, "Dog Day Afternoon" is not a bad job of moviemaking. It should be seen, but not swallowed whole.” – Village Voice Apr 6, 2024 Full Review Lady Sings the Blues (1972) 73% EDIT “Apart from the extraordinarily camera-wise charisma of Diana Ross, Lady Sings the Blues is graced by a mumbly-magical performances by Ricahrd Pryor as Piano Man... and by the ultra leading man stability of Billy Dee Williams.” – Village Voice Apr 4, 2024 Full Review Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 91% EDIT “Simply a thoughtless exercise in instant self-gratification. Actually, I felt sorry for this muddled movie with its childlike vulnerability.” – Village Voice Apr 3, 2024 Full Review Chinatown (1974) 98% EDIT “There was a time in the middle of the movie when I felt that it was lagging behind my expectations. But the ending is as stunning as any I have seen since Day of Wrath.” – Village Voice Mar 8, 2024 Full Review Raging Bull (1980) 92% EDIT “Between them, De Niro and Scorsese and their associates end up with a breathtakingly new dimension of memory and regret. If only I could feel the slightest moral resonance as well -- but I can't, and that makes all the difference.” – Village Voice Oct 11, 2023 Full Review Taxi Driver (1976) 89% EDIT “I didn't mind the sordidness, the violence, or the mock-ironic ending. What I did mind about the film was its life-denying spirit, its complete lack of curiosity about the possibilities of people. ” – Village Voice Oct 6, 2023 Full Review The Exorcist (1973) 78% EDIT “The Exorcist succeeds on one level as an effectively excruciating entertainment, but on another, deeper level it is a thoroughly evil film. ” – Village Voice Sep 27, 2023 Full Review Night Games (1966) 33% EDIT “Miss Zetterling's second feature film is even more ponderous and pretentious than her first.” – Village Voice Sep 20, 2023 Full Review Phantom of the Paradise (1974) 82% EDIT “De Palma has mixed too many of his styles in Phantom of the Paradise, but this is still a movie to be seen and heard. ” – Village Voice Jun 27, 2023 Full Review The Color Purple (1985) 73% 3/4 EDIT “The Color Purple is the most lavishly produced and lovingly lyrical, virtually all-black entertainment ever produced by an American moviemaker.” – Video Review May 31, 2023 Full Review The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) 77% 3/4 EDIT “This very frothy farce is more pointedly political -- refreshingly so -- than almost any "serious" movie in recent memory. ” – Video Review Mar 2, 2023 Full Review
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