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Emerson Batdorff

Emerson Batdorff's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Bite the Bullet (1975) 69% EDIT “"Bite the Bullet" is usually good fun.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Farewell, My Lovely (1975) 76% EDIT “It's a fine evening for Chandler buffs, Mitchum enthusiasts and probably people in general.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975) EDIT “A grabbing movie.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 26, 2025 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “"Hard Times" is so predictable that a man can get lulled to sleep and when he awakes, refreshed by his 40 winks, pick up the story without a gap.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 26, 2025 Full Review Cooley High (1975) 83% EDIT ““Cooley High” stacks up as a fairly entertaining movie. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Aug 15, 2025 Full Review Superman: The Movie (1978) 87% EDIT “It is a fable for our time, and it is particularly welcome because justice triumphs and the villains are punished, which does not often happen in movies any more. Or elsewhere. It may not be art, but it is fun.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Rollerball (1975) 56% EDIT “It's a chilling view of the future Jewison gives us, and it would be more entertaining if the picture itself did not become as artificial as its environment.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jun 5, 2025 Full Review Night Moves (1975) 78% EDIT “The picture turns out to be more rewarding intellectually than it is emotionally. But it is a gold mine for enjoyers of compelling performances. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer May 28, 2025 Full Review The Stepford Wives (1975) 55% EDIT “It's too talky. Although it runs nearly two hours, someone seems to have written nearly four hours of dialog for it.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer May 2, 2025 Full Review Funny Lady (1975) 55% EDIT “The picture has a good feel for time and place.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Apr 24, 2025 Full Review Brannigan (1975) 48% EDIT “There is a feast for cliche spotters, both oral and visual, in "Brannigan."” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Supervixens (1975) 49% EDIT “Meyer adds a great deal of humor tot he raunchy goings on.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975) 34% EDIT “The performances are good about half as far as they go, but they go too far. Furie can't restrain himself.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Apr 9, 2025 Full Review 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 90% EDIT “The film is a work of splendid imagination always, but it is less often a work of delight, owing in part to its tediously slow pace when expedition would seem to be called for.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Sheba, Baby (1975) 28% EDIT “The writing is stolid and stumbling, the performances are wooden and only the gunfire rings clear.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Capone (1975) 32% EDIT “The picture would be even worse without Ben Gazzara, who makes Capone into evil incarnate mainly by glinting his eye.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Apr 8, 2025 Full Review Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 92% EDIT “The picture is made up entirely of what are supposed to be hokes, which account for its falling off toward the end. Jokes up against another joke in endless procession, like buckets of cistern chain, are inclined to sag.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Apr 1, 2025 Full Review At Long Last Love (1975) 22% EDIT “Cybill Shepherd can neither sing nor dance. Burt Reynolds cannot either... the affair is decidedly ho-hum.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Mar 25, 2025 Full Review Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) 87% EDIT “Usually Disney tots have a tendency to be unpleasantly previous, but Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann as the children are unobjectionable; even likable on occasion.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Mar 19, 2025 Full Review Report to the Commissioner (1975) 55% EDIT “The first two-thirds "Report to the Commissioner" is so interesting that a man can almost forgive its clumsy and pretentious ending. Almost.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Mar 12, 2025 Full Review Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975) 53% EDIT “For some reason there are a great many movies these days celebrating the idea that life can be crummy. "Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins" is as crummy as any of them.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Mar 11, 2025 Full Review Mr. Ricco (1975) 30% EDIT “"Mr. Ricco" is a rambling picture that goes off in several directions.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Mar 7, 2025 Full Review The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) 51% EDIT “The big difference between this and previous Neil Simon works is that the gags are not quite so funny, and no less obtrusive. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Mar 7, 2025 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% EDIT “Where it shines is in showing real people, while making social comment in the best possible way, namely by never insisting that you must get the message.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% EDIT “A fine, sprawling romance, but it must be approached with caution... Usually a movie will try to make its characters live in a real world. Kubrick makes his characters live in a Victorian novel. They are not to be confused with flesh and blood.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 25, 2025 Full Review
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