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John Hofsess

John Hofsess's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 96% EDIT “Dog Day Afternoon derives its strength from telling the truth about its characters' desperate lives.” – Maclean's Magazine Apr 7, 2024 Full Review Diamonds Are Forever (1971) 64% EDIT “Only the British apparently (judging by dozens of unfortunate imitations) can make a crude sex-and-violence formula yield such refined, exhilarating entertainment as this. ” – Maclean's Magazine Oct 24, 2023 Full Review The Last Picture Show (1971) 98% EDIT “The Last Picture Show is the finest American film of 1971, and a completely accessible film to Canadian audiences as it portrays an American era that was purposive and sensible. ” – Maclean's Magazine Oct 24, 2023 Full Review The Death of a Lumberjack (1973) EDIT “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 Jun 15, 2022 Full Review The Day of the Jackal (1973) 91% EDIT “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 Jun 15, 2022 Full Review Kid Blue (1973) 50% EDIT “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 Jun 15, 2022 Full Review Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) 60% EDIT “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 Jun 15, 2022 Full Review Murder on the Orient Express (1974) 89% EDIT “For the first time Christie's social world is recreated in all of its splendor and romance.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 18, 2020 Full Review Portnoy's Complaint (1972) EDIT “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 May 13, 2020 Full Review Frenzy (1972) 89% EDIT “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 May 13, 2020 Full Review The Conversation (1974) 94% EDIT “It proves, ten years early, in a compelling, chilling vision, how close we are to Orwell's 1984.” – Maclean's Magazine Feb 10, 2020 Full Review The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) 93% EDIT “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 Feb 10, 2020 Full Review Papillon (1973) 73% EDIT “Charrière's book has been treated well...” – Maclean's Magazine Jan 30, 2020 Full Review The Sting (1973) 93% EDIT “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 Jan 30, 2020 Full Review The New Land (1972) 100% EDIT “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 Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Réjeanne Padovani (1973) EDIT “...it oversimplifies, it does not probe sympathetically, it has no interest in complex truths, or moral ambiguities.” – Maclean's Magazine Jan 30, 2020 Full Review The Godfather (1972) 97% EDIT “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 Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Gumshoe (1972) 88% EDIT “Gumshoe is a perfect sort of summer film - light as a Panama hat, cool as a frosted daiquiri.” – Maclean's Magazine Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) 67% EDIT “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 Jan 30, 2020 Full Review The Concert for Bangladesh (1972) EDIT “...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 Jan 30, 2020 Full Review The Rowdyman (1972) EDIT “...funny, sad, with a ring of truth.” – Maclean's Magazine Jan 30, 2020 Full Review EDIT “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 Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Claire's Knee (1970) 96% EDIT “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 Oct 21, 2019 Full Review The Conformist (1970) 98% EDIT “The Conformist is a beautiful and provocative film, and its theme could not be more timely.” – Maclean's Magazine Oct 21, 2019 Full Review Waterloo (1970) 27% EDIT “... in Waterloo the style is pedantic, the information dubious.” – Maclean's Magazine Oct 21, 2019 Full Review
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