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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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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 92% EDIT “As soon as he comes on the screen, Nicholson removes all doubts about the wisdom of his taking the part. This is a lovely, remarkably restrained performance. ” – Globe and Mail Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 94% EDIT “It's a rewarding, richly detailed film -- not only the best work Sidney Lumet has ever done but also possibly the most perceptive movie ever made on the intriguing subject of New York City's collapse.” – Globe and Mail Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Jaws (1975) 97% EDIT “Jaws is undoubtedly trash, but it is trash of a particularly gratifying order; Jaws is absolutely top-drawer trash. ” – Globe and Mail Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% EDIT “You feel no expense or effort has been spared in exhibiting things with formal correctness. You feel called upon to murmur approval of the extreme decorum and esthetic detail, yet the over-all effect is excruciating.” – Globe and Mail Mar 5, 2026 Full Review THX 1138 (1971) 72% EDIT “THX 1138 has so little spark that it's as if the movie had been conceived as an entertainment for the humorless, glum machine creatures on the screen.” – Globe and Mail Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Misery (1990) 86% 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) 52% 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) 33% 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
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