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Richard Roud

Richard Roud's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Benjamin (The Diary of an Innocent Boy) (1968) EDIT “It's not a film anyone need be ashamed of, after all, and if it allows new Bressons and the new Godards to be made, then why not?” – Guardian Mar 18, 2025 Full Review Weekend (1967) 93% EDIT “Dramatically speaking, it's [Jean-Luc Godard's] most fast-moving and hard-hitting in some time.” – Guardian Mar 18, 2025 Full Review Le Samouraï (1967) 92% EDIT “The story is classic, but ingeniously worked out, and the main interest of the film is aesthetic... A welcome return to the style of some of Melville's earlier films.” – Guardian Mar 18, 2025 Full Review One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977) 65% EDIT “It's a very novelistic movie; I haven't seen a film in years with so much plot. But Varda's handling of it is so warm-hearted that one is totally absorbed. ” – Guardian Mar 7, 2023 Full Review Bedazzled (1967) 74% EDIT “There are some funny jokes, but they aren't made to add up to anything: just one damned gag after another. This works on a half-hour show, but not, it seems to me, in a feature-length film. Pity.” – Guardian Sep 15, 2022 Full Review A Man for All Seasons (1966) 89% EDIT “On the philosophical level this is no more profound or thought-provoking than Batman. However -- and this is a big however -- A Man for All Seasons is a good film, competently made and extremely well acted.” – Guardian Sep 8, 2022 Full Review Up the Down Staircase (1967) 78% EDIT “Neither is it a sermon; it is, in fact, an accurately observed and very funny film. This may sound unlikely; and yet, the unforced humour often comes precisely from the very frightfulness of the situation.” – Guardian Jul 1, 2022 Full Review Tess (1979) 81% EDIT “The film has all the air of an expensive, classy commercial product, the result more of market research than intimate inspiration... [Roman Polanski's] experiences seem to have left [him] without much compassion, and Tess without compassion is nothing.” – Guardian Jun 17, 2022 Full Review My Fair Lady (1964) 94% EDIT “It's not that there's anything really wrong with My Fair Lady. It's just that it could have been so much better.” – Guardian Feb 9, 2022 Full Review From Russia With Love (1963) 97% EDIT “A highly immoral film in every imaginable way but it sure is fun...” – Guardian Sep 29, 2021 Full Review Seconds (1966) 79% EDIT “Much as I admire the work of John Frankenheimer, I cannot recommend Seconds, except, perhaps, for the first half hour, which is as nightmarishly absorbing as almost anything in The Manchurian Candidate.” – Guardian Sep 23, 2021 Full Review Howard the Duck (1986) 13% EDIT “The real problem is Howard himself, an utterly charmless, cigar-smoking boor, who is not helped by the script's sophomoric attempts at humour.” – Guardian Dec 12, 2020 Full Review Le Gai Savoir (Joy of Learning) (Joyful Wisdom) (1969) EDIT “Le Gai Savoir will never be a popular film, but it might well turn out to be an extremely important one.” – Sight & Sound Mar 18, 2020 Full Review Les Vampires (1915) 95% EDIT “Les Vampires is indeed one of the cinema's supreme masterpieces. That much is certain. It is more difficult to explain why.” – Sight & Sound Feb 7, 2020 Full Review The Concrete Jungle (1960) 86% EDIT “Not a shot is wasted, [Losey's] control over his material, his actors, and his visuals is more rigorous and more strikingly personal than before. In The Criminal he has at last fought his way to the top.” – Sight & Sound Jan 11, 2020 Full Review 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 90% EDIT “Speculation and ambiguity are fine, but it does rather look as if Kubrick and his co-writer, Arthur C. Clarke, just haven't thought it through.” – Guardian May 3, 2018 Full Review The Phantom of Liberty (1974) 85% EDIT “Beneath its lucid exterior, beneath its classical style, The Spectre of Liberty is one of those poetic works: a coherent enigma, inexhaustibly prismatic.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 11, 2018 Full Review EDIT “The greatest virtue of Edouard Luntz's Naked Hearts is the empathy the director has -- and shares -- with his teenage delinquents from the western suburbs of Paris.” – Guardian Mar 22, 2018 Full Review Blow-Up (1966) 87% EDIT “I always liked to think that even the worst film by Antonioni would be better than the best by almost any other director. Now I know that this is so, because I've just seen his worst film, and I was right: Blow-up is still an absolute must.” – Guardian Mar 21, 2018 Full Review Poor Cow (1967) 50% EDIT “If I hadn't seen Poor Cow with my own eyes, I would never have believed that a film with so much to offer could ultimately be so downright awful.” – Guardian Mar 20, 2018 Full Review Doctor Zhivago (1965) 82% EDIT “One of those rare film adaptations which, unless you have already read the book, makes you wonder why anyone ever bothered to make the film at all.” – Guardian Apr 29, 2016 Full Review Planet of the Apes (1968) 86% EDIT “It's a film to see, all right, and it does confirm Schaffner's talent. It is only that one can now see more clearly the limits of that talent, limits which are much narrower than I had hoped.” – Guardian Nov 3, 2015 Full Review
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