Charles Champlin
Charles Champlin's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Los Angeles Times
Movies reviews only
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One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977) |
While One Sings, the Other Doesn't is obviously a strong personal statement about women now, it is so beautifully particularized by the storyteller and her principals that it is a demonstration and never a lecture. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Mar 08, 2023
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Blazing Saddles (1974) |
For the adult and not easily offended audience for whom Brooks had done this mad frontier frolic, Blazing Saddles offers an extraordinary quantity of unrestrained laughter. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jan 30, 2023
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Bedazzled (1967) |
Cook and Moore perform wittily and engagingly but you do wish that Donen or someone had, at a point, saved them from themselves. It gives deviltry a bad name. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Sep 15, 2022
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The Deer Hunter (1978) |
A film to be debated and argued over seriously because it is an earnest, serious and impressive work, despite the reservations it is necessary to have about it. In a thin and evasive year, The Deer Hunter joins a thin company that aspire to greatness. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Aug 30, 2022
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Annie Hall (1977) |
Annie Hall is not only Allen's newest film, it is also his best. It seems the most directly and obviously autobiographical. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Aug 26, 2022
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Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) |
Perfection comes in all sizes, skyscrapers to microcircuits. At its size and weight, Kramer vs. Kramer is as nearly perfect a film as can be. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Aug 05, 2022
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Ordinary People (1980) |
It is a fine and touching piece of work for any season; in 1980, it is rain after drought. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jul 13, 2022
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Up the Down Staircase (1967) |
It is at once warm and chilling, tough and sentimental, greatly moving, notably honest, improvisationally fresh, wryly and ribaldly funny, disturbing yet infused with a quantity of optimism no larger than the human heart. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jul 06, 2022
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Dont Look Back (1967) |
[Dylan's] milieu and its hangers-on are by no means uniformly attractive. But after this skillful and exhaustive piece of film reportage, no one need ask what it and they arid he are really like. The camera has become an X-ray. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted May 09, 2022
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The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) |
At its best and most moving, Scorsese's film leaps across two millennia and creates an extraordinary sense of what Christ's time was like. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted May 06, 2022
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Barefoot in the Park (1967) |
A certain kind of comedy, like a fine soufflé, defies logic , and gravity and rides fragilely on a cushion of airy inconsequence. Accept Neil Simon's recipe for a soufflé comedy... and [Barefoot in the Park] works out very nicely indeed. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted May 02, 2022
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Midnight Cowboy (1969) |
Voight is in fact a major addition to the family of important American actors and his portrayal of a good-hearted lunk whom life has kicked around pretty good and who tries to create one myth so to pursue another, is damned near perfect. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Mar 11, 2022
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) |
The acting honors are shared by Nicholson with a large and almost totally unfamiliar but meticulously well-chosen supporting cast. He and they constitute an ensemble whose quality is such that they always seem characters colliding and never acting. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Mar 07, 2022
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Oliver! (1968) |
On stage, Oliver! was an appealing but less than surpassing entertainment... The transition to film has been not a transfer but a transformation, and it serves as an object lesson in the uses of the film medium. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Mar 02, 2022
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The Heartbreak Kid (1972) |
[The film,] directed by. Elaine v May, contains some devastatingly funny sequences, set-pieces in the Nicholas and May tradition. Miss Berlin, Miss May's daughter, in fact has a remarkable vocal resemblance to her mother. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Feb 22, 2022
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A New Leaf (1971) |
New Leaf achieves the nutty and improbable grandeur of the best movie comedies of the past. Indeed Elaine May carries us off into this crazy world of her own invention in a way that I'd come to think simply wasn't possible any more. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Feb 10, 2022
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In the Heat of the Night (1967) |
Poitier is simply one of the finest actors anywhere, and reconfirms it here. And it's hard to recall a role in which Steiger has seemed more engaging, and less the studied actor. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Feb 02, 2022
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Hair (1979) |
Hair is the best film musical since Cabaret and, like Cabaret, it is a fine and innovative use of the medium and an entertainment that is also an illumination of history. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Nov 05, 2021
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Bad Company (1972) |
Despite some interesting ideas and some random achievements, "Bad Company" never really gets itself assembled. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Sep 22, 2021
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French Connection II (1975) |
It is a free-standing picture, a striking and strongly entertaining work on its own terms, different in setting. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Sep 05, 2021
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The Big Fix (1978) |
As a piece of movie making "The Big Fix" is sleek, atmospheric, sharply well spoken and very watchable, primarily because of the vigorous, disciplined and sympathetic portrayal by Richard Dreyfuss... - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Sep 01, 2021
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Plaza Suite (1971) |
A bright, diverting comedy... enriched by not one but four stop-the-presses performances. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Aug 29, 2021
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Blue Collar (1978) |
After a season of warmly bland, if stylish and entertaining movies, Paul Schrader's "Blue Collar" arrives like a welcome jolt, a breath of fresh arrogance at the end of a polite, slightly dull party. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Aug 21, 2021
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Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975) |
The results are a harmless entertainment for those who are weary of sterner realities and who can accept (or even enjoy) the fairly evident sitcom contrivances and manipulations. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Aug 17, 2021
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The Hot Rock (1972) |
An inoffensive and untroubling picture which somehow had makings of a much more whlzbang effort. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jun 23, 2021
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Simon (1980) |
While "Simon" is much better in parts than as a whole, it is nevertheless a debut at a very high level, sleek, zany and assured. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jun 23, 2021
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The Late Show (1977) |
[A] nice, expert, satisfying, unpretentious little picture, the kind that they used to make and that now make the late nights pleasanter. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jun 14, 2021
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Harry and Tonto (1974) |
Optimism and the deep pleasure of Carney's company make "Harry and Tonto" a cheering arrival. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jun 11, 2021
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Save the Tiger (1973) |
Save the Tiger is a small and intensely personal work, carrying the concerns of Shagan (who fought for two years to get it financed), Lemmon (who did it for no salary) and Avildsen (whose sympathetic response to the material is evident in every frame). - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jun 11, 2021
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Heroes (1977) |
There is some sense of a much smaller, calmer movie interleaved with larger moments, although there is an iron spine of consistency and an accumulating power which is even more evident on a second viewing. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jun 10, 2021
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Hopscotch (1980) |
A mirror-smooth international romantic comedy, glamorous and untroubling, of a kind and quality that helped make Hollywood's reputation but that has not been abundant since television invaded both the living room and the bedroom. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jun 02, 2021
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Scarecrow (1973) |
Intelligent, raucously funny, startling, continuously interesting, and quite affecting. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted May 25, 2021
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California Split (1974) |
What you get... is a sacrifice of feeling and a lack of coherence. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted May 19, 2021
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Rancho Deluxe (1975) |
The surprising thing about Frank Perry's "Rancho Deluxe" is that it has the courage of its concoctions, and gets away with them. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted May 06, 2021
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Freebie and the Bean (1974) |
The most schizoid film recipe of current memory. It is as if several different cooks had tried to poison the broth. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted May 05, 2021
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The French Connection (1971) |
The French Connection has the gritty authenticity of a first-rate documentary. When it looks cold outside, baby, you know it was. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Apr 15, 2021
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The Godfather, Part II (1974) |
Godfather II is quieter, less propulsive, less furiously violent than Godfather I and it demonstrably lacks the hypnotic patriarchal figure of Brando as Don Corleone... The new film settles for its own strengths, and they are considerable. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Apr 05, 2021
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The Godfather (1972) |
The Godfather becomes an instant classic among the superflicks. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Mar 29, 2021
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A Clockwork Orange (1971) |
I'm afraid I found A Clockwork Orange brilliant but disappointing, its moments of power offset by an overwrought stridency and its message overbalanced by the medium. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Dec 21, 2020
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The Blues Brothers (1980) |
Despite the temporary lift that the old pros give the picture, it is difficult for the non-cultist to feel anything but dismay, again, that so much has been squandered to produce so little that is truly artful or genuinely entertaining. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Dec 21, 2020
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is the picture which science-fiction enthusiasts of every age and in every corner of the world have prayed (sometimes forlornly) that the industry might one day give them. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jun 28, 2019
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Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) |
The musical biography by now has a pattern as fixed as a traditional 12-bar blues. It is just that some blues are better than others, and so are some musical biographies. Coal Miner's Daughter... is on of the best of its kinds. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Jun 28, 2019
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Cruising (1980) |
The principal complaint, artistically, about Cruising is that it is not very clear at the rudimentary level of exposition of character and event. The problem... is in a script that never seems sure enough what it wants to say or prove. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Apr 29, 2019
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The Tin Drum (1979) |
The Tin Drum is, in fact, almost everything anybody could ask a film to be. It is strikingly original and continuously surprising. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Apr 22, 2019
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Chinatown (1974) |
In its total recapturing of a past, in its plot, its vivid characterizations, its carefully calculated and accelerating pace, its whole demonstration of a medium mastered, Chinatown reminds you again that motion pictures are larger, not smaller than life. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Apr 22, 2019
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A Star Is Born (1976) |
A Star is Born rarely stops seeming manufactured; it can't disguise its manipulations or the process of the storytelling. You see the tangled strings, not the puppets. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Mar 06, 2019
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Belle de Jour (1967) |
"Belle de Jour" is more interesting and provocative than the great run of pictures one ever sees. Buuel's handling of color is gorgeous. And the acting is impeccable. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Apr 13, 2018
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King of Hearts (1966) |
A surrealistic jewel of a comedy which you realize, when you can catch your breath between laughs, has made the case for the sanity of the lunatics and the madness of the war-waging sane. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Mar 08, 2018
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) |
"Close Encounters" proves to be a magic act with dramatic interludes. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Aug 31, 2017
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) |
What you see is what you respond to, and what you see is a unique cultural phenomenon, and a film that for all its visual splendors falls well short of its aspirations. - Los Angeles Times
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| Posted Sep 07, 2016
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