John Hofsess
John Hofsess's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
New York Times
Maclean's Magazine
Movies reviews only
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The Death of a Lumberjack (1973) |
Any film by Gilles Carle is worth seeing, even one that is off the gold standard, but with Death Of A Lumberjack it becomes clear that the greatest enemy of Carle’s bright promise is his tendency to be careless. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Jun 15, 2022
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The Day of the Jackal (1973) |
Day Of The Jackal is not a great film, but it’s a damn good one, one of the very few films released this year that is worth all the trouble and expense of going out to the movies. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Jun 15, 2022
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Kid Blue (1973) |
Kid Blue is the kind of film you’ve seen even if you haven’t seen it. It’s not even a particularly brisk stirring of familiar movie making ingredients. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Jun 15, 2022
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) |
Dylan’s presence is so slyly subversive that the film -- as a Western -- barely survives. Instead it becomes an unintentional comedy, which is great for Dylan’s fans but an unforgivable casting gaffe if you’re a Peckinpah enthusiast. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Jun 15, 2022
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Murder on the Orient Express (1974) |
For the first time Christie's social world is recreated in all of its splendor and romance. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Jul 18, 2020
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Portnoy's Complaint (1972) |
It is no accomplishment that the film has been made with restraint and good taste. The Philip Roth novel was an attack on restraint and good taste. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted May 13, 2020
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Frenzy (1972) |
By using London, a city that has preserved a tradition of citizen safety and civilization, as the background, Hitchcock creates a sharp tension between the city and the rapist-strangler who is running loose. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted May 13, 2020
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The Conversation (1974) |
It proves, ten years early, in a compelling, chilling vision, how close we are to Orwell's 1984. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Feb 10, 2020
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) |
If acting alone could save Duddy Kravitz, it would be a good film, but acting cannot save a story as thin and threadbare as this. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Feb 10, 2020
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Papillon (1973) |
Charrière's book has been treated well... - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Jan 30, 2020
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The Sting (1973) |
The Sting is so funny, so charming and diverting, it's one of the few films I've ever seen that could be offered to the public with a money-back guarantee of pleasure. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Jan 30, 2020
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The New Land (1972) |
The New Land is a film filled with original touches and intelligent insights, into the hardy, heroic families who built the foundations of Canada and the United States a century ago. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Jan 30, 2020
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Réjeanne Padovani (1973) |
...it oversimplifies, it does not probe sympathetically, it has no interest in complex truths, or moral ambiguities. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Jan 30, 2020
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The Godfather (1972) |
The Godfather is the most substantial and satisfying of all the mass entertainment films to come out of Hollywood in recent years. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Jan 30, 2020
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Gumshoe (1972) |
Gumshoe is a perfect sort of summer film - light as a Panama hat, cool as a frosted daiquiri. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Jan 30, 2020
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Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) |
Queen Of Scots would be an unmitigated disaster without Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson. The script by John Hale is not factual, yet not persuasively fictional. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Jan 30, 2020
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The Concert for Bangladesh (1972) |
...music films such as Concert For Bangladesh don't do nearly a good enough job of uplifting people and making them feel happy. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Jan 30, 2020
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The Rowdyman (1972) |
...funny, sad, with a ring of truth. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Jan 30, 2020
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Felix The Cat is so funny no one could clock the laughs. As for its alleged offense to morals - who ever heard of anyone being corrupted by a cartoon? - New York Times
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| Posted Jan 30, 2020
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Claire's Knee (1970) |
Claire's Knee, with its lucidity, bittersweet wit, unpredictable characters and tight directorial control, is certainly a rare bird among modern movies... - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Oct 21, 2019
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The Conformist (1970) |
The Conformist is a beautiful and provocative film, and its theme could not be more timely. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Oct 21, 2019
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Waterloo (1970) |
... in Waterloo the style is pedantic, the information dubious. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Oct 21, 2019
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Friends (1971) |
Filtered through the decades of pop culture, Friends is where D. H. Lawrence's "love ethic" has come to rest. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Oct 21, 2019
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Making It (1971) |
It's careful not to be shocking, a powder-blue movie more interested in making dollars than sense. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Oct 21, 2019
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Gas-s-s-s (1970) |
... the nadir of "youth cult" pandering and Corman's long-and-always-low film career. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Oct 21, 2019
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) |
If you've never been a Bunuel film, this is a fine one to start with; Luis Bunuel is one of life's great originals and he's in top form here. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Oct 09, 2019
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The Emigrants (1971) |
The film is so accurately detailed, beautifully photographed and acted, that it becomes an imperishable memory, a moving testament to the courage and tenacity of the human spirit. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Oct 09, 2019
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The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) |
The Assassination Of Trotsky is a superb film that debunks the romanticism of political violence. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Oct 09, 2019
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Deliverance (1972) |
...profoundly distasteful. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Oct 09, 2019
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The Valachi Papers (1972) |
The film has neither subtlety nor depth and acting, with Charles Bronson in the starring role, earnest but dull. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Oct 09, 2019
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Savage Messiah (1972) |
It's the sort of grade B melodrama that John Barrymore would have played heavily, hammily and stoned in his twilight years. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Oct 09, 2019
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Young Winston (1972) |
In the title role, 31-year-old Simon Ward makes as auspicious a debut in his first major performance as Peter O'Toole did in Lawrence Of Arabia, - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Oct 09, 2019
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Barry Lyndon (1975) |
Maybe the only abstract maxim that one can derive from Kubrick's new film is: 'Openness is everything.' - New York Times
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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