Kathleen Carroll
Kathleen Carroll's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
New York Daily News
Movies reviews only
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Patriot Games (1992) |
Patriot Games crackles with tension. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Jun 06, 2023
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The Color Purple (1985) |
Spielberg turns The Color Purple into a four-hankie tearjerker that reaffirms the importance of love in such a tender, inoffensive way that it could have been directed by the late Walt Disney. - New York Daily News
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| Posted May 31, 2023
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An American Tail (1986) |
For all the care that has been lavished on this production, it remains a rather plodding movie especially when compared with the far more sprightly Walt Disney feature, The Great Mouse Detective. - New York Daily News
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| Posted May 18, 2023
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Yentl (1983) |
Streisand, while she deserves an "A" for effort this time, tends to resort to her standard tricks when it comes to trying to please her loyal fans. - New York Daily News
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| Posted May 12, 2023
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3 Women (1977) |
It amounts to a dazzling exercise-- a delicate puzzle, in which Altman gleefully supplies the pieces and lets the audience work to put them together. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Apr 05, 2023
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One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977) |
It's light, easy on the eye, and almost guaranteed to leave everyone in an ebullient mood. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Mar 08, 2023
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9 to 5 (1980) |
Nine to Five still offers the best laughs of any movie this season. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Mar 03, 2023
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Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) |
The rewards for one's patience with this film are very small. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Mar 02, 2023
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Blazing Saddles (1974) |
Brooks' western is anything but typical. It is a brazen, punch-drunk, free-swinging spoof of every sagebrush saga that ever came down the Hollywood trail. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Jan 30, 2023
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A Dry White Season (1989) |
Although A Dry White Season is somewhat mechanical in the early scenes, Palcy's personal sense of outrage is so strong it ultimately transforms the movie into a stinging indictment of apartheid rule. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Jan 04, 2023
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) |
There is something curiously compelling about Ackerman's chillingly documented portrait of an obsessively neat woman who slowly but inevitably cracks under the strain of maintaining her image as a perfect mother and housekeeper. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Dec 07, 2022
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The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970) |
This film is simply too cold and calculated to be very exciting. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Sep 26, 2022
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Bedazzled (1967) |
What I had hoped would be a gloriously novel spoof breaks down into a series of comic sketches. Some of them are inspired, one or two deserve to be damned. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Sep 15, 2022
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Creepshow (1982) |
Creepshow is too benign to be frightening and it is not enough of a howl to please those who just want to see a ghoulish comedy. It appears as if success may have spoiled Romero's talent for raw horror. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Aug 09, 2022
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Terms of Endearment (1983) |
It takes all of perhaps five minutes to fall in love with the leading characters in Terms of Endearment and from that point on, the audience is just putty in the extremely capable hands of writer-director James L. Brooks. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Jul 20, 2022
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Amadeus (1984) |
The music is the movie's saving grace. The movie may be shrill and overbearing but, as a celebration of some of the most glorious music ever written, it contains moments of pure rapture. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Jul 11, 2022
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Thief (1981) |
Loaded with striking night shots of back alleys and glittering skyscrapers, Thief has an all-pervading atmosphere of gloom that suggests it could have been the work of a European director, someone who is as much a master of his craft as Antonioni. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Jul 07, 2022
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Up the Down Staircase (1967) |
In the final examination it is like the student who gets an average grade when he's capable of a 95 -- the underachiever. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Jul 05, 2022
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Dont Look Back (1967) |
Pennebaker has presented the many sides of Bob Dylan within a rather hazy focus... Those searching for some explanation of the Dylan mystique, especially now that a motorcycle accident has turned him into a hermit, will be disappointed. - New York Daily News
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| Posted May 09, 2022
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The Last Starfighter (1984) |
A surprisingly endearing tale of intergalactic warfare. - New York Daily News
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| Posted May 03, 2022
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The Witches of Eastwick (1987) |
By placing the ball in Nicholson's court, Miller allows the movie to run away with his megabuck star. It ultimately disintegrates into just a routine horror flick with some cheesy-looking special effects. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Apr 22, 2022
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Three Men and a Baby (1987) |
Just as in Coline Serreau's original comedy, there's no attempt to define the characters. But director Leonard Nimoy does put a little more heart into this push-button movie. And his stars slowly warm up to their roles as bachelor fathers. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Apr 20, 2022
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Mississippi Masala (1991) |
The movie is both wonderfully tender and wryly funny. Nair perfectly captures the contrasting lifestyles... She treats all her characters with such playful affection and obvious sensitivity that they are hard to resist - New York Daily News
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| Posted Apr 15, 2022
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Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) |
Fortunately, Spacek and Jones are able to make up for the superficiality of the script. Spacek, who does all her own singing in a clear voice that is, at times, more affecting than that of Lynn herself, does one of her magical character transformations. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Apr 07, 2022
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Mishima (1985) |
Mishima, in a way, is just a teaser of a film biography, a haunting, artistically daring movie that mainly succeeds in arousing the audience's curiosity about this eloquent man of many faces. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Apr 05, 2022
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The Heartbreak Kid (1972) |
Within this fragile framework, Elaine May has constructed scenes of stinging satire, each one more fresh and inventive than the next. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Feb 23, 2022
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Sidewalk Stories (1989) |
Sidewalk Stories has its flaws, but Lane is clearly a film maker with a fresh vision as well as a social conscience. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Jan 24, 2022
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Poltergeist II (1986) |
The plain truth is that director Brian Gibson fails to deliver the goods. His movie just doesn't stand a ghost of a chance without Spielberg's technical wizardry and professional polish. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Nov 02, 2021
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The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) |
"The Pope of Greenwich Village" is a rollicking, high-voltage New York movie that, in its best moments, produces tears of laughter. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Oct 30, 2021
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Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) |
It is an embarrassment for everyone involved -- particularly for Burton and Louise Fletcher, who appear to be in an advanced state of catatonia as if they were silently praying for some kind miraculous release from their contracts. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Oct 26, 2021
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Paris, Texas (1984) |
What separates "Paris, Texas" from most of today's movies is its gentle humanism. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Oct 07, 2021
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Teachers (1984) |
Fails to communicate its message of social concern and it winds up looking as frenzied and juvenile as every other teen exploitation flick. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Oct 03, 2021
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Bad Company (1972) |
Benton excels In creating the appropriately gritty frontier atmosphere for his characters. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Sep 22, 2021
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The Day of the Locust (1975) |
Conrad Hall's superb photography and Schlesinger's fine sense of detail all work to recreate the mood and substance of the novel. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Sep 12, 2021
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Teen Wolf Too (1987) |
[A] feeble, bush-league comedy. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Sep 04, 2021
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To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) |
This movie leaves one feeling just squeamish and bored. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Aug 22, 2021
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Garbo Talks (1984) |
Lumet demonstrates once again that comedies are definitely not his forte... - New York Daily News
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| Posted Aug 22, 2021
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Blue Collar (1978) |
"Blue Collar" is a gritty, hard-driving movie and one that, for all its flaws, is not easily forgotten. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Aug 21, 2021
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The Hand (1981) |
"The Hand" is a fairly tantalizing psychological thriller, made with a far greater artistic flair than your average, everyday fright movie. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Aug 11, 2021
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A Man Called Adam (1966) |
Character development is superficial. John Knight directs from a script that has no novelty or suspense. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Aug 10, 2021
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El Norte (1983) |
Through the efforts of cinematographer James Glennon, Nava has almost succeeded in matching the unique style of Latin American writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez whose tales are a vibrant mixture of fantasy and reality. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Aug 03, 2021
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Romantic Comedy (1983) |
The movie has a few perky, funny moments, but Slade is determined to stretch things out until one no longer cares what happens to his star-crossed lovers. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Aug 03, 2021
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Backdraft (1991) |
The movie definitely cools off when it gets bogged down with a murky plot involving an arsonist and political corruption. But it succeeds in exploring the combustible relationship between two firefighting brothers. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Aug 03, 2021
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Enemies, a Love Story (1989) |
It's a brave effort on Mazursky's part; although the movie is too long, it does occasionally achieve an unsettling blend of humor and pathos that the director strove for. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Aug 01, 2021
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Big Trouble in Little China (1986) |
Watching Kurt Russell display not only a set of bulging biceps, but also... easy-going self-confidence is admittedly fun at times, even if the movie is as impenetrable as chop suey. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Jun 29, 2021
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Adventures in Babysitting (1987) |
[A] mildly entertaining little comedy... - New York Daily News
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| Posted Jun 26, 2021
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Baby Boom (1987) |
The script is too coy and calculating. But watching Keaton romp through "Baby Boom" is a special treat. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Jun 24, 2021
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Simon (1980) |
"Simon" is probably one of those unfortunate movies that seems hilarious on paper, but doesn't begin to work on the screen. It just isn't funny. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Jun 23, 2021
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Crimes of Passion (1984) |
"Crimes of Passion" was obviously trimmed to avoid an X rating. Too bad the entire movie wasn't left on the cutting room floor. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Jun 23, 2021
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The Sunshine Boys (1975) |
"The Sunshine Boys" views the afflictions of old age with compassion and understanding and makes these two characters as endearing as they are comical. - New York Daily News
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| Posted Jun 14, 2021
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