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Judith Crist
Tomatometer-approved critic
(Photo Credit: Ron Galella Collection/Ron Galella Collection/ Getty Images)
Movies reviews only
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The Exorcist (1973) |
If The Exorcist isn't the thinking-man's horror movie we were expecting -- congratulate Friedkin for keeping us thinking when the chill is on. - New York Magazine/Vulture
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| Posted Sep 27, 2023
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Fiddler on the Roof (1971) |
What really counts is that this universal story of tradition, of generations, of man and God surmounts the inevitable and is in many ways refreshed. Even Tevye is somehow refurbished by Topol. - New York Magazine/Vulture
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| Posted May 16, 2023
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A Man for All Seasons (1966) |
A Man for All Seasons is a beautiful and satisfying film, the ultimate demonstration, perhaps, of how a fine stage play can be transcended and, with integrity and inspiration, turned into a great motion picture. - New York World Journal Tribune
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| Posted Sep 07, 2022
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The Penthouse (1967) |
[The Penthouse] made a splash at the Berlin Film Festival (if muck can make a spash). - Vogue
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| Posted Aug 16, 2022
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Alfie (1966) |
Alfie emerges as a stingingly funny and perceptive comedy, with a thoroughly discomforting and discomfiting moral and very little to offer the sensation seeker. - New York World Journal Tribune
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| Posted Aug 16, 2022
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A New Kind of Love (1963) |
Well, it's A New Kind of Love and an old kind of moviemaking and, my, my, but the rubes are supposed to wallow in it. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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The V.I.P.s (1963) |
Where once, in a romantic melodrama, we were allowed to see that unloveliness and heartbreak touch the lives of some, today we are permitted only the triumph of love and the pursuit of happiness -- and the cotton wool is tucked around us cozily. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Greenwich Village Story (1963) |
A prime example of all that pretentious amateurism can produce. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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David and Lisa (1962) |
David and Lisa has something to say in its exploration of troubled adolescents, that it recognizes and probes the wounds of the mind and the heart and the power of love to penetrate even the most private of worlds. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Hud (1963) |
We have not before encountered a man so immured from humanity as the Hud created by Paul Newman, so completely uncaring, so alien -- and yet (this is the singular achievement of this film) so very much among us, of our time and of our society. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Spencer's Mountain (1963) |
Spencer's Mountain [is] outstanding for its smirking sexuality, its glorification of the vulgar, its patronizing tone toward the humble, its mealymouthed piety. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Becket (1964) |
The power of the film is in the close-up, the concentration on the two protagonists. And what is so fascinating in this exploration is that Burton and O'Toole provide no ultimate answers for each other or for us. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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The Servant (1963) |
A "fascinating" film, one from which it is virtually impossible to turn our eye or our attention, for we are watching a snake at work, a poisonous worm of corruption disguised as a servant and brilliantly played with a vicious servility by Dirk Bogarde. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Night Must Fall (1964) |
"Psychological" thriller? Psycho is the word -- and sodden the art. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) |
The Fall of the Roman Empire, costing sixteen million dollars, is half the price of Cleopatra but twice as tolerable because there's a complete lack of pretension, a childish innocence, about it. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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The Best Man (1964) |
Cliff Robertson gives his best performance to date. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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The Organizer (1963) |
The bane of American moviemaking has been its perpetual big-think in larger-than-life terms. Certainly The Organizer sets a brilliant standard for big-think in human terms. Our hope would be that it set an example as well. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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The Long Ships (1964) |
I choose to think all this was intentional, a straight-faced spoof of all the stuff and nonsense that mythologies are made of -- so straight-faced that it can afford the occasional wisecrack, the here-we-go-again ending. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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That Man From Rio (1964) |
The chase goes on and on, the joke is prolonged beyond its juiciest and That Man from Rio passes its peak of fun not too long after the first of its two hours. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Nothing but the Best (1964) |
he latest effort in this direction, a successful one, Nothing But the Best, does not have a "lovable" hero, only one who charms us completely because he's our kind of anti-Establishment success story. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Monsieur Verdoux (1947) |
Chaplin's Bluebeard story is ours to revel in for the sheer brilliance of performance, the cinematic excellence of his direction and the simplicity that shines in all its latter-day naivete. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) |
It stands by itself as not only a psychological suspense thriller but also a top-notch crime-and-detection tale and, above all, a horror film. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) |
It is all so sweet, so sentimental, so artsy, so craftsy, so pretty, so pretentious, so abysmally simple-minded. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) |
A witless bore, with neither a smile nor a laugh to augment the smirk for the feebleminded. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Nothing But a Man (1964) |
Nothing but a Man is a fine film -- a first one that sets a towering standard for its makers. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Sylvia (1965) |
This one has a brain of pure plutonium. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) |
We sit in lethargy because there are no insights, no illuminations, no fresh or even specific points of view to stimulate or satisfy the beliefs or disbeliefs we have brought to the film. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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The Pawnbroker (1964) |
It is distinguished not only by Mr. Steiger's portrayal of a man encased in the world's anguish but also by several other performers and, above all perhaps, by its dealing with its story on its own terms. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964) |
Here is a young man caught in the momentum of his rebellion, adults trapped in the dilemma of their helplessness -- and none is theatrical, each is an individual that we know, a familiar face in the crowd. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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A Boy Ten Feet Tall (1963) |
Suspense, humor, adventure and some home truths are embodied in the film. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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The Rounders (1965) |
The Rounders is one of those utterly relaxed comedies that make ideal entertainment because there's tender loving care every step of the way and no sweat. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Eva (1962) |
A quintessentially a midadolescence night's dream of how the arty-smarty set must live and love and suffer. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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The Collector (1965) |
It is Stamp who raises The Collector to heights of parable, who brings significance to and sustains the suspense. His performance is brilliant in its gauge of the madness of a madman. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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The Knack... and How to Get It (1965) |
Richard Lester, the director who demonstrated his own knack with A Hard Day's Night, knows just how to disorganize a fragile little plot to make it a wonderfully rollicking, go-with-the-breeze film. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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These Are the Damned (1962) |
A film that sticks to the ribs, that bothers you in its implication, that makes you do some of the work of interpreting what you have watched. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Ship of Fools (1965) |
Despite the aspirations of his title, Mr. Kramer has done little beyond floating Grand Hotel out to sea, with a handful of brilliant performances to keep it above water. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Juliet of the Spirits (1965) |
Miss Masina is transcendent. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965) |
The result is a compassionate but unsentimental portrait worthy of his subject, a vivid reconstruction of a fascinating and inspiring life. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) |
The framework is there, ready for all the clichés of the desert-survival story, but somehow each expected cliché never quite develops as one. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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The Oscar (1966) |
Nowhere, on stage or screen or even in a revue skit, has there been so complete a cliché of the Hollywood-heel-on-the-rise-and-fall theme to the tune of such ripe dialogue. "Ripe"? The word is all too feeble, and "dialogue" itself inadequate. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Harper (1966) |
Harper can be dismissed as just another private-eye story... But we'd rather hold on to it as a return to a classic -- a triumphant return to something that's been missing from the screen, something for grown-ups by grown-ups. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Seduced and Abandoned (1964) |
Seduced and Abandoned is a hilarious and ferocious film, seething with anger and sparkling with scorn of the hypocrisies -- nay, the crimes -- that are committed in the name of honor and the sanctity of the family and society. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 10, 2022
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Cat Ballou (1965) |
Well, let’s get those old superlatives out again, this time for a small package of enormous delight labeled Cat Ballou, a western to end all westerns... and a comedy that epitomizes the sheer fun of moviemaking and movie watching. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 10, 2022
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A Thousand Clowns (1965) |
A Thousand Clowns comes to the screen with a joyous vitality and a probing compassion that are irresistible. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 10, 2022
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Billy Liar (1963) |
There's vigor, high comedy, dry wit, and subtlety in Billy Liar. And it presents to us an adolescent nonhero whose dreams, alas, are far more likable than his reality. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 10, 2022
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Loves of a Blonde (1965) |
Mr. Forman is shrewdly aware of the foolish hearts and simple minds at hand, but fondness and understanding make comedy rather than condescension the touchstone of his realism. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 10, 2022
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This Sporting Life (1963) |
A brilliantly ruthless portrait of a professional football player and his brutish world. - New York Herald Tribune
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| Posted Aug 10, 2022
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Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976) |
It is fitting also that Altman... should cast his creative eye on history with the clarity, humor, and affectionate cynicism that have been the hallmarks of his work. - Saturday Review
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| Posted Aug 09, 2022
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Bound for Glory (1976) |
Carradine's performance is sweet and sure, spiced by the willfulness of a dedicated man. - Playgirl
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| Posted Aug 09, 2022
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Accident (1967) |
[Accident is] a film to watch with fascination and brood about afterward. And if ultimately we are left to question whether it is worth the brooding, at very least we are left also with the satisfaction of having watched two master craftsmen at work. - New York World Journal Tribune
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| Posted Aug 08, 2022
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