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Chris Petit

Chris Petit's reviews do not count toward the Tomatometer®. This is not a Tomatometer-approved critic, and this critic's reviews are not published on a Tomatometer-approved publication.

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Malizia (1973) 43% EDIT “Really no more than an extended joke revolving round the attitudes of Italian men towards La Mama and women in general.” – Time Out Mar 18, 2020 Full Review Bed Sitting Room (1969) 64% EDIT “Its non-plot frequently makes the 91 minutes seem interminable.” – Time Out Feb 9, 2019 Full Review The Optimists of Nine Elms (1973) 86% EDIT “At least you feel that Simmons has continually avoided the easy way out, and that should be enough to counteract any feelings of unease.” – Time Out Feb 4, 2019 Full Review Tracks (1976) 50% EDIT “The deeper it delves into symbolism, the more incoherent and hallucinatory it becomes.” – Time Out Feb 15, 2017 Full Review Two Minute Warning (1976) 29% EDIT “Efficient enough as formula suspense, but it fails to confront the implications of its subject, preferring instead evasiveness and fast cynicism to pull it through.” – Time Out Sep 27, 2015 Full Review Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) 75% EDIT “An often too-clever, sometimes moving piece.” – Time Out Aug 25, 2014 Full Review Diary of Forbidden Dreams (1973) 15% EDIT “All suitably throwaway, it's held together by our own curiosity and Polanski's obvious delight in observing such strange goings-on in rich summer villas.” – Time Out Mar 27, 2013 Full Review The Illumination (1972) 67% EDIT “The rapid editing and self-conscious technique is sometimes irritating, but more often proves sufficiently provocative to hold attention.” – Time Out Jul 6, 2010 Full Review Peeper (1975) 29% EDIT “Wood makes a distinctly un-fatale contribution, and Caine looks totally miscast as a Cockney private eye in California; even Segal and Audran, so disappointing in The Black Bird, outclass them.” – Time Out Oct 14, 2006 Full Review Heroes (1977) 27% EDIT “Well-meaning references to a lost generation are quickly dropped in favour of routine odyssey...” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) 79% EDIT “Roeg, often using a dazzling technical skill, jettisons narrative in favour of thematic juxtapositions, working best when exploring the clichés of social and cultural ritual.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Hester Street (1975) 81% EDIT “An unimaginative camera and misty monochromes do little beyond conveying some self-conscious period recreation.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Conan the Barbarian (1982) 67% EDIT “Match verdict: no goals, slow build-up, but much absorbing action off the ball.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Triumph of the Will (1935) 84% EDIT “Technically brilliant, and still one of the most disturbing pieces of propaganda around.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Yol (1982) 77% EDIT “The film's poetry, its combination of sound and image especially, has an unconscious innocence no longer available to most European and American narratives.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review La Caza (1966) 86% EDIT “La Caza manages, with very little reading between the lines, a remarkably overt condemnation of Spain's presiding spirit.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Sugar Cane Alley (1983) 100% EDIT “Shot in ochre hues, with a remarkable polish, the movie never allows itself the easy route of angry misery, but actively engages its themes with optimism and its characters with love.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 92% EDIT “Python's delightful and, on the whole, consistent reductio ad absurdum of the Grail legend.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review The Late Show (1977) 95% EDIT “Benton's script hits a note of defensive humour that's just right in relation to the theme of urban loneliness.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review The Laughing Policeman (1973) 59% EDIT “By the end, complete with car chase and split-second shooting, the film has become indistinguishable from all those movies it's trying so hard to disown.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Murder on the Orient Express (1974) 89% EDIT “The formula can't fail: a first class journey on the '30s Orient Express, meticulous detail, a murder with all suspects aboard. In fact, the most suspect thing is the comfortable complacency of it all.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review The Sting (1973) 93% EDIT “The film ends up relying on different chapter headings to explain what's going on, but it's all very professional, with fine attention to period detail.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review The Graduate (1967) 87% EDIT “The film itself is very broken-backed, partly because Anne Bancroft's performance as the mother carries so much more weight than Katharine Ross' as the daughter, partly because Nichols couldn't decide whether he was making a social satire or a farce.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Papillon (1973) 73% EDIT “With Schaffner unable to find the necessary perspective to prevent the film from becoming unevenly episodic, it ends up looking as if it were tacked together by at least three different directors.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 93% EDIT “Set in an insane asylum, the film involves the oppression of the individual, a struggle spearheaded by an ebullient Nicholson, turning in a star performance if ever there was one.” – Time Out Feb 11, 2006 Full Review
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