Bernard Drew
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Gannett News Service
Movies reviews only
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9 to 5 (1980) |
Nine to Five is only good from Nine to Nine Thirty. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Mar 02, 2023
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Andy Warhol's Trash (1970) |
It is the sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic, always powerful study of the garbage some of the beautiful flower children became in their search for truth, love and Darma amid the rubble of the East Village. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Sep 21, 2022
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A Man for All Seasons (1966) |
Scofield is every bit as magnificent as he was in the play -- it is the screen's most noble performance this year -- but there seems to be a coldness, a withdrawal, a do-not-touch-me-ness, which was less apparent in the play.
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| Posted Sep 06, 2022
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The Deer Hunter (1978) |
Despite its faults, The Deer Hunter is a formidable work which asks a great deal of its audience. The graphic brutality of the Vietnam scenes are devastatingly rendered, and it is a pulverizing experience. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Aug 30, 2022
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Annie Hall (1977) |
It is not only the best movie Woody has ever made, it towers over any romantic comedy I have seen in the last 10 years, and perhaps even longer. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Aug 25, 2022
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The Sting (1973) |
The String, which runs for more than two hours, has no more than three or four good jokes in it and settles, for the rest of the time, for shticks, gimmicks and twists which reach a point of diminishing returns before the movie is half over. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Aug 08, 2022
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Terms of Endearment (1983) |
James L. Brooks' Terms of Endearment, based on the Larry McMurtry novel, is a simply sensational movie that sweeps over 25 years from uproarious laughter to tears. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Jul 21, 2022
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48 HRS. (1982) |
The action never stops. Neither does the humor. Murphy is a riot throughout. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Jul 19, 2022
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Gandhi (1982) |
It is not easy to make goodness, in this case saintliness, interesting, but Attenborough and Kingsley have achieved it. There isn't a slow or dull moment in its three and a half hours running time. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Jul 19, 2022
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Chariots of Fire (1981) |
Hugh Hudson's Chariots of Fire is a masterpiece -- the finest film on sports ever made... The film celebrates the seemingly infinite limits of the human spirit when inflamed with a holy zeal. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Jul 18, 2022
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Ordinary People (1980) |
Alvin Sargent's screenplay is admirable and the performances by young Hutton, Sutherland (his best in years) and Moore are all remarkable. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Jul 15, 2022
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Thief (1981) |
Not a moment of true feeling is allowed to peep through this miasma of phony artiness and pretension. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Jul 07, 2022
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Up the Down Staircase (1967) |
Up the Down Staircase is not a bad picture. At moments it is a good one. but for a film adapted from the Kaufman hook and directed by Mulligan, it is not good enough. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Jul 01, 2022
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Tess (1979) |
A beautifully wrought, handsomely produced, flawlessly directed and acted film. It's as faithful to its source as any film version of a novel I've ever seen, and in addition, is possessed of an exquisite, incandescent performance by Nastassja Kinski. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Jun 17, 2022
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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) |
Nothing made in America, around now or ever, it seems to me, approaches the cool sophistication, the sly satire, and trenchant unmasking of the manners, morals and good natured, complacent hypocrisy of our lives as has Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Jun 16, 2022
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) |
There seems to be a killing every five minutes in "Pat Garrett," but who is killing whom and why, are rather fuzzy and of minor consideration. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Jun 14, 2022
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Buck and the Preacher (1972) |
Humorous, exciting, likable, and enormously entertaining. If all that were not enough, when the picture seeks to be more than an entertainment and make a few trenchant comments, it does so with irony and wit. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted May 26, 2022
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A New Leaf (1971) |
It is a very funny, witty gray comedy and it's a wonderful showcase for [May's] special talents and those of Matthau. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Feb 10, 2022
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Testament (1983) |
It is shattering, devastating and unforgettable. Jane Alexander deserves an Oscar for her performance as the mother of the family. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted May 10, 2021
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Cousin, Cousine (1975) |
Jean-Charles Tacchela's Cousin Cousine not only reminds us that French filmaking is as strong as ever, but this irresistible romantic comedy carries us back to the wonderful comedies of the 1930s. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 04, 2019
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Face to Face (1975) |
Face to Face, [Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann's] latest collaboration, is not only their most devastating but their most moving, their most profound, and their best. It is is a mind-blowing experience from beginning to end. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 04, 2019
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Voyage of the Damned (1976) |
[The actors] all do their best but the cliche ridden, on the nose, boom, boom, boom screenplay defeats nearly all of them. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 04, 2019
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Fun With Dick and Jane (1977) |
Embarrassing. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 04, 2019
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The Big Bus (1976) |
You should never feel the creators desperately trying to force laughs where they don't naturally exist. That is the main problem of James Frawley's The Big Bus. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 04, 2019
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Slap Shot (1977) |
Director George Roy Hill has contrived to keep the cameras and players in almost constant motion in the funny and energetic film. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 04, 2019
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A Bridge Too Far (1977) |
Running just under three hours, it's far too long but it's not bad. Sometimes it's quite good. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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The Deep (1977) |
In the end, like too many other recent thrillers, it is a triumph of matter over mind, but at least it holds your interest while you are watching it. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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New York, New York (1977) |
If lesser talents were involved, we might consider New York, New York quite passable entertainment, a pleasant collage of old musical movies. But with Scorsese, De Niro and Minnelli on the marquee, we expect more. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) |
Ridiculous, hopelessly confused, and incomprehensible. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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Nasty Habits (1976) |
Nasty Habits could easily have been a constant joy instead of being merely an intermittent one. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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The White Buffalo (1977) |
The film, from the creators of King Kong, fails to live up to its billing. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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The One and Only (1978) |
Winkler is excellent In the lead, Darby properly subdued and adoring as the wife, William Daniels and Polly Holiday exactly right as the Ohio parents, and Villechaize, Harold Gould and Charles Frank good in lesser roles. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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Valentino (1977) |
[A] purported film biography. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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The Goodbye Girl (1977) |
The Goodbye Girl remains a bit too mechanically predictable to be a complete success. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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The Fury (1978) |
It is convoluted, confused and confusing. It has a serviceable enough idea for a genre melodrama of this sort but it has not been properly worked out. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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Julia (1977) |
A movie that is a rare treat, one that captures the mind and heart, while simultaneously raising the blood pressure. Bravo! - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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Casey's Shadow (1978) |
Matthau and the young actors playing his sons are wonderful and Alexis Smith manages to imbue her role of Sarah Blue with elegance, intelligence and warmth. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) |
The person or persons responsible for the landing of the craft -- it is considerably more than a flying saucer -- on the Earth, the slow descent upon us of a city of gold, has made one of the most stunning shots in the history of movies. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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House Calls (1978) |
House Calls is never really terrible, it simply isn't ever good enough. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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Gray Lady Down (1978) |
An action movie should have action, right? - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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The Choirboys (1977) |
I don't know how Aldrich, a usually good director who can go off from time to time, can be responsible for this. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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Crossed Swords (1978) |
A great yarn that has passed the test of time, a good cast, photography by Jack Cardiff and music by Maurice Jarre never hurt any movie and Crossed Swords is good holiday family entertainment. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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American Hot Wax (1978) |
Perhaps a reel is missing. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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Straight Time (1978) |
There is hardly a minute that convinces, a scene that really works. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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Pretty Baby (1978) |
Weak on every level. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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Damien: Omen II (1978) |
It is a handsome looking movie. Holden, with his craggily intelligent face, has reached the point in his career where he virtually can do no wrong. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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The Big Sleep (1978) |
The folly lies in the fact that Marlowe is a definitive 1940's character who does not transplant well into other eras and climes. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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The Boys in Company C (1978) |
The movie isn't really terrible, it just seems to be inspired by other movies about other wars. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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Convoy (1978) |
There is the ghost of something here and if the film had had the courage of its convictions, it might have been something else, but as it stands now, it is simply an action movie but a pretty fair one. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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Heaven Can Wait (1978) |
It's charming, witty, touching, and despite its previous incarnation, still fresh and original. - Gannett News Service
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| Posted Nov 01, 2019
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