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Donald McLean

Donald McLean's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Funny Lady (1975) 55% EDIT “Miss Streisand is miraculous as Fanny Brice.” – Bay Area Reporter Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% EDIT “[A] sluggish comedy.” – Bay Area Reporter Aug 19, 2025 Full Review The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) 60% EDIT “The Great Waldo Pepper is not great but certainly good.” – Bay Area Reporter Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Jaws (1975) 97% EDIT “Four minutes into the credits, Jaws grabs you bolt upright out of your seat and keeps you there for two hours. ” – Bay Area Reporter Jul 2, 2024 Full Review Taxi Driver (1976) 89% EDIT “It's harsh, it's ugly, but worse, it's a portrait of a psychotic vigilante elevated to hero status. It holds much the same appeal as last year's Death Wish but without justification; the final scene absolutely morally repellent on every level.” – Bay Area Reporter Oct 6, 2023 Full Review Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) 10% EDIT “The dialogue invites hoots of derision and audience catcalls, and director John Boorman strives to be intellectually scary and only succeeds in turning a former shocker into a current piece of shlock.” – Bay Area Reporter Oct 27, 2021 Full Review Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) 71% EDIT “It makes its point about Fascism, and Pasolini's artistic sense is obvious in every frame, but the film becomes an endurance contest to see if you can make it to the bitter end without vomiting.” – Bay Area Reporter May 29, 2020 Full Review The Turning Point (1977) 63% EDIT “The role of Deedee gives Shirley MacLaine her best role in many a year and she is superb. Anne Bancroft as Emma is stunning, and when the two women team up for a 7-minute confrontation scene, the screen almost shoots sparks.” – Bay Area Reporter May 29, 2020 Full Review Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977) 100% EDIT “It should be required viewing for everyone who seeks a better understanding. It is a film long overdue whose time has come.” – Bay Area Reporter May 29, 2020 Full Review The Hindenburg (1975) 31% EDIT “The Hindenburg gives us the most realistic and dramatic of any disaster film yet.” – Bay Area Reporter May 22, 2020 Full Review The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975) 60% EDIT “The good far outweighs the bad.” – Bay Area Reporter May 22, 2020 Full Review Winterhawk (1976) EDIT “Michael Dante gets the break of his career with the role of Winterhawk, a proud, fair man faced with great responsibility.” – Bay Area Reporter May 22, 2020 Full Review The Front (1976) 68% EDIT “Funny as only Allen can be, the script by Walter Bernstein and the direction by Martin Ritt delve far deeper and give us a penetrating look via black comedy at a time of mass hysteria.” – Bay Area Reporter May 21, 2020 Full Review Bugsy Malone (1976) 79% EDIT “This film is the brainchild of writer/director Alan Parker, and it's amazing that he's pulled it off successfully.” – Bay Area Reporter May 21, 2020 Full Review A Matter of Time (1976) 50% EDIT “An embarrassment for all concerned.” – Bay Area Reporter May 21, 2020 Full Review The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) 81% EDIT “For the most part it moves spiritedly along and the whole thing is a giant giggle. It's all so blatantly outrageous it can only be taken in the spirit of campy fun; this is one time a stage production has been enhanced by the film version.” – Bay Area Reporter May 21, 2020 Full Review W.C. Fields and Me (1976) 67% EDIT “Those problems aside [W.C. Fields and Me] offers a hilarious script by Bob Merrill filled with Field's biting, caustic humor, including all those memorable incidents he is noted for.” – Bay Area Reporter May 13, 2020 Full Review All the President's Men (1976) 94% EDIT “As grippingly suspenseful as any James Bond thriller, and it's all true.” – Bay Area Reporter May 13, 2020 Full Review Family Plot (1976) 90% EDIT “If Family Plot is not the perfectly structured film, it remains a gem from the master of wry suspense.” – Bay Area Reporter May 12, 2020 Full Review Murder on the Orient Express (1974) 89% EDIT “The secret of this film is style.” – Bay Area Reporter May 12, 2020 Full Review The Gauntlet (1977) 75% EDIT “The Eastwood formula is predictable but fun; thin plot, lots of action and heroic stoicism above all.” – Bay Area Reporter May 6, 2020 Full Review Saturday Night Fever (1977) 82% EDIT “John Travolta is far better than any previous exposure would indicate; his Tony Manero is suitably tough and punkish, but there is also a warmth and vulnerability that make him very appealing.” – Bay Area Reporter May 6, 2020 Full Review Telefon (1977) 44% EDIT “In Telefon, Bronson has forsaken his Death Wish image of gratuitous violence and offers one of his most interesting and deftly thought out performances to date under Don Siegel's crisply honed direction.” – Bay Area Reporter May 6, 2020 Full Review The World's Greatest Lover (1977) 17% EDIT “This soggy excuse for a comedy looks like an old Sid Caesar Show of Shows sketch elongated interminably; there's about ten minutes of funny material to work with, then it falls right on its mugging, leering face.” – Bay Area Reporter May 6, 2020 Full Review Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 91% EDIT “Despite these flaws, it's a gripping film that touches a nerve because who's to say it couldn't all actually happen tomorrow.” – Bay Area Reporter May 6, 2020 Full Review
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