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Martin Knelman

Martin Knelman's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Misery (1990) 87% EDIT “To me, the merit of Misery was limited to the formidable acting of Kathy Bates, who would be astonishing even if Caan's wimpy performances didn't make her the winner by default.” – National Post Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Tommy (1975) 71% EDIT “Russell smashes everything he touches, but there's no affirmation; he smashes because he enjoys destruction.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review The Yakuza (1974) 50% EDIT “It's very clear that Pollack and Schrader have taken the material very seriously -- too seriously.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review The Stepford Wives (1975) 55% EDIT “This one has a brilliantly low premise that bound to touch a few nerves.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) 51% EDIT “Without the theatricality of the theatre it's easier to notice how hollow the gags are, how contrived the plot, how mechanical the direction.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) 60% EDIT “The flying machines themselves provide the only kick in this exercise.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975) 34% EDIT “The problem is not the resolution but the outlook of the whole movie.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Rollerball (1975) 56% EDIT “The combat brutality is strictly routine, and fails entirely to relieve the excruciating lethargy of Rollerball.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Rancho Deluxe (1975) 62% EDIT “Rancho Deluxe has an awfully slim plot.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Report to the Commissioner (1975) 55% EDIT “This is a sleazy, loaded fabrication.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975) 54% EDIT “The film is low-key, but with a wry and sensitive feeling for contemporary American freakishness.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review At Long Last Love (1975) 23% EDIT “When the movie is over, you still haven't figured out why anybody would have wanted to make it.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Night Moves (1975) 78% EDIT “Night Moves is generally compelling even when you're not sure why you're being drawn in by it.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Bite the Bullet (1975) 69% EDIT “Mainly serves to illustrate the sort of hack vehicle that an actor like Hackman can get trapped in if he isn't careful.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Funny Lady (1975) 55% EDIT “James Caan makes what he can of the role, but he's the wrong kind of actor for a musical.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review My Pleasure Is My Business (1974) 10% EDIT “The wealth of allusions is almost too great to be absorbed and understood in one viewing.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% EDIT “This is an enjoyably sharp comedy but with deeper levels of meaning, too.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) 78% EDIT “Nothing in the picture is up to the level of the witty credits.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “You don't basically care about what happens to Charles Bronson, because he has no human characteristics.” – Globe and Mail Sep 26, 2025 Full Review 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 90% EDIT “The fact that it cannot, beyond a certain point, be verbalized is proof not that it's a mess but that it is so perfectly, sensuously cinematic that its experience is not easily translated into a linear medium of communication.” – Toronto Star Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Planet of the Apes (1968) 86% EDIT “An old-fashioned anything-goes hair-raiser that takes us back to the Saturday afternoon of childhood, when we could like movies without feeling compelled to explain why. As black comedy, it's an elbow-in-the-ribs triumph of excess. ” – Toronto Star May 2, 2024 Full Review Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) 82% EDIT “The performers achieve a marvelous improvisational quality; while they're all good, it's Elliott Gould who walks away with the movie, coming into his own as a light comedian.” – Globe and Mail Jun 15, 2022 Full Review Natasha (2015) 100% 3/4 EDIT “The movie succeeds because of its haunting lead performances.” – Toronto Star May 6, 2016 Full Review Borealis (2015) 60% 3.5/4 EDIT “On the surface it seems like a chronicle about desperate people and troubled lives. Yet it's full of rich comic moments and euphoric revelations.” – Toronto Star Apr 7, 2016 Full Review Al Purdy Was Here (2015) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “Brian D. Johnson makes a strong transformation from Maclean's film critic to documentary director with this engaging account of the late Al Purdy, the colourful rebel poet who became a CanLit star.” – Toronto Star Dec 3, 2015 Full Review
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