Richard T. Jameson
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) |
Eddie Coyle works as Yates's earlier films do not. It works because Yates's habitually uncommitted point-of-view is appropriate to the seasoned, didactic monotone of George V. Higgins's novel. - Parallax View
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| Posted Aug 24, 2021
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The Outside Man (1973) |
The Outside Man is a lifeless movie, bereft even of cult interest. - Parallax View
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| Posted Apr 16, 2021
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Hard Eight (1996) |
Hard Eight wouldn't be the compelling story it is without Philip Baker Hall as its center of gravity and values. Anderson wrote the script with Baker in mind, and it's about time somebody did. - Film Comment Magazine
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| Posted Apr 11, 2018
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999) |
Kubrick's final film is unique in his oeuvre for concluding on a note of apparent affirmation. - Film Comment Magazine
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| Posted Apr 10, 2018
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Slap Shot (1977) |
One of the film's unexpected bonanzas is a clutch of beautifully realized female roles. - Parallax View
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| Posted Sep 21, 2017
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Mr. Arkadin (1955) |
Arkadin was, according to one of his business rivals, "a phenomenon of an age of dissolution and crisis." The world of Mr. Arkadin aptly reflects such an age. - Parallax View
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| Posted Jun 20, 2015
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Moonlighting (1982) |
Moonlighting is the kind of film that had me marveling throughout how anyone ever came up with such a great idea for a movie and, having come up with it, proceeded to realize that idea so completely ... - Parallax View
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| Posted Jun 20, 2015
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Young Frankenstein (1974) |
... Brooks reveal(s) himself a true obsd and an honorable heir to the eerily delicate comic-horror tradition of James Whale. - Parallax View
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| Posted Jun 20, 2015
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Murder on the Orient Express (1974) |
I'm as fond of "production values" as the next fellow, maybe fonder, but I don't wish to be force-fed them by a soulless dietitian who knows what I as a consumer ought to want. - Parallax View
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| Posted Jun 20, 2015
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Rancho Deluxe (1975) |
I have to be on the side of any film in which Harry Dean Stanton is ordered to "Hoover the Navajos"-i.e., vacuum-clean the Indian rugs. - Parallax View
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| Posted Apr 25, 2015
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The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975) |
J. Lee Thompson's direction is formless. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 20, 2015
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Love Among the Ruins (1974) |
Love among the Ruins is an exquisite film, which may imply and in this case does imply that it's quite a nice film. Also an elegant comedy. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 20, 2015
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The Drowning Pool (1975) |
Perhaps the saddest thing about The Drowning Pool is that the incompetence-cum-artiness of Stuart Rosenberg has subverted the talent of the usually redoubtable Gordon Willis. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 14, 2015
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W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975) |
... it may be time to put in a word or two in behalf of this very easy-to-take summertime divertissement. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 14, 2015
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The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) |
As comedy committed to nothing more argumentative and less indispensable than grace, professionalism, and good fun, the film is certainly welcome. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 14, 2015
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The Wind and the Lion (1975) |
Milius's incredible balancing act might have turned very rancid, yet miraculously his mixture of full-blown romanticism and a genial sense of its absurdity produces a deeply satisfying picture. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 14, 2015
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The Eiger Sanction (1975) |
The Eiger Sanction lacks shape, rhythm, and any notable tone or point-of-view. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 14, 2015
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Brannigan (1975) |
There's some terrific supporting material in that cast list, but everybody onscreen looks, and has excellent reason for feeling, pretty embarrassed about the whole thing. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 14, 2015
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To Have and Have Not (1944) |
While there are moments implying breezy, spontaneous improvisation in virtually all Hawks pictures, no other has such an all-pervasive sense of a floating party... - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 14, 2015
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French Connection II (1975) |
French Connection II, sequel or no, comes off as more of a felt work, and what I make contact with through it is a director. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 14, 2015
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The Passenger (1975) |
I can't say that I liked The Passenger at first-I think I'm coming to that-but I'm impressed, to say the very least. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 14, 2015
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The Yakuza (1975) |
... Sydney Pollack ... manifests as much mythic sense as a mill foreman. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 14, 2015
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The Duellists (1977) |
... one of the most strikingly pictorial movies ever made. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 24, 2013
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Lifeforce (1985) |
Lifeforce is a pretty curious specimen in its own right. Its sci-fi/horror concept is epic in scale and metaphysical reach, but the casting is catchpenny... - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 24, 2013
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Cocoon (1985) |
... much of the beauty of Cocoon... has to do with its deft, loving observation of the things of this Earth. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 24, 2013
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The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday (1976) |
As American-International Pictures' first "class" production, the film does not bode well. Any one of AIP's beach party flicks was funnier... - Parallax View
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| Posted May 04, 2012
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Midway (1976) |
To make an uninvolving movie out of one of the most decisive battles of the Second World War may seem a dubious challenge, but there's no denying Universal their full credit in meeting it. - Parallax View
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| Posted May 04, 2012
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Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976) |
If you don't go expecting a lot, you might find the film makes for a half-evening's worth of laidback diversion. - Parallax View
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| Posted May 04, 2012
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Shoot (1976) |
[Harvey] Hart, for all his egregious handheld-camera zeroings-in and cutaways to available-light overhead shots, has nothing really to tell us about this environment or the people who live there. - Parallax View
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| Posted May 04, 2012
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Logan's Run (1976) |
... I found myself reflecting that sf writers can get away with a lot on the printed page that moviemakers just can't. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 10, 2012
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That's Entertainment, Part 2 (1976) |
... the new compilation lacks focus of any kind beyond a general let's-look-at-more-of-that-old-stuff. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 10, 2012
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Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1975) |
... as lowbrow as a dachshund and as funny as a dead rat. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 10, 2012
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Salute to the Artist (1973) |
There's a biographical rightness to Marcello Mastroianni's characterization, in Salut, l'artiste, of a job actor... - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 10, 2012
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Vincent, Francois, Paul... and the Others (1974) |
... an abundance of nicely observed moments in the lives of characters who are not at all remarkable played by actors who number among the extraordinary. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 10, 2012
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Dreileben: One Minute of Darkness (2011) |
This third section, like the first, is shot in razor-sharp hi-def, and needs it. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 10, 2012
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Dreileben: Don't Follow Me Around (2011) |
Each scene, interaction, or apparent digression is worth watching, yet the eschewal of anything resembling a conventional narrative agenda grows more insistent as the movie proceeds. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 10, 2012
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Dreileben: Beats Being Dead (2011) |
... to define the incompleteness of "truth," to underscore the impossibility of "seeing" everything, even about ourselves. - Parallax View
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| Posted Mar 10, 2012
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The Big Bus (1976) |
I'd like to pretend it's a better movie than it is... its failings aren't gross and its modest pleasures are so far superior to the general run this slummy summer season that I feel very kindly toward it. - Parallax View
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| Posted Feb 19, 2012
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Vigilante Force (1976) |
... a film of such consuming sleaziness of motivation and rationale that the feeblest gestures toward credibility and mere continuity are bypassed ... - Parallax View
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| Posted Dec 17, 2011
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Gator (1976) |
Good-ol'-boy humor is my least favorite form of masculine love-antagonism in the cinema, but even a generous-minded peckerwood ought to weary rapidly of the snorting, yokking, hooting interplay... - Parallax View
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| Posted Dec 17, 2011
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The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976) |
... the most interesting phenomenon in this otherwise gaseous enterprise is Owen Roizman's almost three-dimensional landscape photography in 70mm. - Parallax View
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| Posted Dec 17, 2011
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Scorchy (1976) |
... more attractive and expensive-looking than what we are accustomed to see in grindhouse actioners... - Parallax View
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| Posted Dec 17, 2011
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Lifeguard (1976) |
Lifeguard belongs to that elect, if scarcely elite, class of film fondly designated "the nice little movie." - Parallax View
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| Posted Dec 17, 2011
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Pleasure Party (1975) |
The interactions get pretty raw, and so is Chabrol's style markedly more raw than we are accustomed to ... - Parallax View
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| Posted Dec 17, 2011
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Valley (1972) |
Schroeder is more infatuated with than perceptive about the compulsion to search for paradise ... - Parallax View
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| Posted Dec 17, 2011
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Swashbuckler (1976) |
... just a dumb film boasting broadly bad performances by a good cast, some pleasant scenery, the pleasure of watching a real ship tossing on a real ocean ... - Parallax View
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| Posted Dec 17, 2011
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Rancho Notorious (1952) |
Rancho Notorious is strange. Peculiar. Outrageous. Utterly distinctive. - Parallax View
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| Posted Oct 22, 2011
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St. Ives (1976) |
This movie is so bad that when the convoluted action takes us to a drive-in movie the same film clips can be glimpsed four times... - Parallax View
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| Posted Oct 22, 2011
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Crime and Passion (1976) |
... an agreeably peculiar picture, a kind of zonked-out St. George and the Dragon in which St. George is a certifiably incompetent zany and the maiden turns out to be half Dragon Lady herself. - Parallax View
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| Posted Oct 22, 2011
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The Three Musketeers (2011) |
It's an odd film in a beguiling, sometimes bewildering assortment of modes. - Parallax View
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| Posted Oct 22, 2011
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