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Elliott Stein

Elliott Stein's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Night of the Living Dead (1968) 95% EDIT “Romero was offered a budget for colour; he preferred shooting in black and white; the result is a flat murky ambience which is perfect for the ramshackle American Gothic landscape where the events occur.” – Sight & Sound Sep 8, 2021 Full Review Welcome Mr. Marshall (1953) EDIT “Welcome, Mr. Marshall! was one of the rare Spanish films to treat political events of the day-foremost the exclusion of the country, as a pariah nation, from Marshall Plan funds.” – Village Voice Sep 10, 2019 Full Review Small Change (1976) 90% 1/4 EDIT “Corny, cutesy, dull. The subtitles written by Helen Scott for Truffaut seemed awkward and illiterate.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review The Marquise of O... (1976) 80% 1/4 EDIT “This picture, all gussied up into stage tableaux, looks like a Goethe House Gala performed in Bloomingdale's Show Rooms.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) 100% 2/4 EDIT “Few documentaries rivet you to your seat; this one does. The guts it took to make are up there on the screen, in the footage shot by director Barbara Kopple and cameraman Hart Perry during the violent encounters.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review Duelle: Une Quarantaine (Twilight: A Quarantine) (1976) 1/4 EDIT “Duelle is the sort of bad bad movie which gives good bad movies a bad name. Wild horses mounted by Jonathan Rosenbaum could not get me back to see it again.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review The Masses' Music (1976) 88% 1/4 EDIT “The burden falls on Pradip Mukherjee, a drab performer whose loss of innocence is uninvolving.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review The Memory of Justice (1976) 60% 2/4 EDIT “As hour succeeded hour and interview was intercut with interview, a numbing Chinese box effect took over.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review Obsession (1943) 100% 3/4 EDIT “The raw warm poetry of Ossessione has nothing to do with neo-realism; the film is unencumbered by ideology and political commitment.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1975) 85% 3/4 EDIT “Their alienation is channeled into nervous verbal energy, winning, bright, free from cant.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review Dersu Uzala (1975) 73% 4/4 EDIT “The film's finest passage occurs when the hunter and the captain are stranded on a frozen lake-a harrowing, spooky-gorgeous spectacle of supernatural realism.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review A Touch of Zen (1971) 97% 3/4 EDIT “With the first shots of Zen we are plunged into a nature marked by eerie majesty.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review The Tyrant's Heart (A zsarnok szĂ­ve, avagy Boccaccio Magyarországon) (1981) 3/4 EDIT “Jancs is a master magician. Tyrant is not his most illuminating trick, but the magic is still operative.” – Film Comment Magazine Jan 17, 2018 Full Review Violette (1978) 80% 1/4 EDIT “Violette sits there on the screen, a stylish lump.” – Film Comment Magazine Dec 12, 2017 Full Review Skip Tracer (1977) 2/4 EDIT “It would be unbearable without the steely attractive-repulsive central performance of David Petersen.” – Film Comment Magazine Dec 12, 2017 Full Review Gates of Heaven (1978) 90% 2/4 EDIT “Here is a quirky talented filmmaker at work who will one day turn up with something more satisfying than this movie.” – Film Comment Magazine Dec 12, 2017 Full Review A Wedding (1978) 69% 2/4 EDIT “An unhinged merry-go-round that is far from merry and does not go round.” – Film Comment Magazine Dec 12, 2017 Full Review Bloodbrothers (1978) 1/4 EDIT “This fantasy saga of a rant-and-roll working-class Bronx Italian family, although shot in New York, is riddled with Hollywood conventions.” – Film Comment Magazine Dec 12, 2017 Full Review Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978) 83% 3/4 EDIT “[Blier's] entertaining movie starts uneasily, builds carefully, and ends beautifully.” – Film Comment Magazine Dec 12, 2017 Full Review The Shout (1978) 86% 1/4 EDIT “My thoughts were elsewhere.” – Film Comment Magazine Dec 12, 2017 Full Review American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince (1978) 70% 1/4 EDIT “[Prince] seems to be one unexceptional rapaciously beady-eyed hanger-on.” – Film Comment Magazine Dec 12, 2017 Full Review Perceval (1978) 89% 1/4 EDIT “A conservative director's entry into new territory is a priori fascinating; observing him gradually painting himself into a corner of that territory is less so.” – Film Comment Magazine Dec 12, 2017 Full Review Despair (1979) 65% 1/4 EDIT “Despair does absolutely nothing worth doing, but it does succeed in one area where several hack directors before him failed: bagging a bad performance from Dirk Bogarde.” – Film Comment Magazine Dec 12, 2017 Full Review The Green Room (1978) 40% EDIT “If Truffaut is going into [Henry] James scholarship, he should cite his sources, not his own fantasies.” – Film Comment Magazine Dec 12, 2017 Full Review Newsfront (1978) 80% 3/4 EDIT “It is fascinating material, reasonably exotic.” – Film Comment Magazine Dec 12, 2017 Full Review
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