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The New Beverly is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Quentin Tarantino.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
American Graffiti (1973) Quentin Tarantino Like a lot of great nostalgia pieces (Meet Me in St. Louis, Summer of ‘42, Cooley High, New York New York, Dazed and Confused) it seems to get better the further it gets from its original release date.
Posted Jun 30, 2022  Edit critic review
B+
No Way Out (1972) Quentin Tarantino No Way Out doesn’t play like an Italian crime picture done in the style of J.P. Melville. It plays as if Jean-Pierre Melville came to Italy in ‘74 and made a violent Hit Man movie with his boy Delon.
Posted Jun 30, 2022  Edit critic review
C+
Trackdown (1976) Quentin Tarantino Trackdown is Taxi Driver without irony.
Posted Jun 30, 2022  Edit critic review
Death Promise (1977) Quentin Tarantino Director Robert Warmflash keeps the fight blocking convincing in this ‘77 martial arts entry.
Posted Jun 30, 2022  Edit critic review
Manhunter (1974) Quentin Tarantino Walter Grauman's work here isn't flashy, especially when compared to Milius and Penn, but his shooting is clever, resourceful, and dynamic. All qualities essential to pulling off a quality piece of work on a TV movie schedule.
Posted Jun 26, 2020  Edit critic review
Deliverance (1972) Quentin Tarantino While thematically it's rich, and structurally it's daring to sideline Burt Reynolds' Lewis just before the third act... in this movie, cinematically, it's suicidal.
Posted Jun 23, 2020  Edit critic review
The Mack (1973) Quentin Tarantino Even including its flaws, The Mack is the best and most memorable crime picture of the whole blaxploitation genre.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972) Quentin Tarantino Yes, the ending is really clever. And I would say it makes this whole movie worth watching.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
I Escaped From Devil's Island (1973) Quentin Tarantino The film's three lead characters, Jim Brown's alpha male Le Bras, Christopher George's pacifist Davert and especially Rick Ely's fancy boy Jo-Jo are refreshingly complicated and three dimensional.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
A Man Called Tiger (1972) Quentin Tarantino Lo Wei's film has a lot of attractive elements. Chief amongst them being its Japanese Yakuza milieu, which gives it a very different look than any other Hong Kong martial art film of this period.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Dynamite Brothers (1974) Quentin Tarantino It's a damn good seventies shoestring grade Z little picture.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Targets (1968) Quentin Tarantino It was one of the most powerful films of 1968 and one of the greatest directorial debuts of all time. And I believe the best film ever produced by Roger Corman.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Daisy Miller (1974) Quentin Tarantino By Bogdanovich turning the whole story into one that turns on fast-paced comic repartee, he leans the material into Shepherd's strengths.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Prophecy (1979) Quentin Tarantino Aside from the bonkers bear monster, the film's one saving grace is Talia Shire.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Fatal Needles vs. Fatal Fists (1977) Quentin Tarantino Chang Yi's villainous turns in martial arts movies are one of the reasons fans of the genre like Kung Fu flicks in the first place.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
The Beguiled (1971) Quentin Tarantino While the offbeat film is ultimately successful, it does bring out Siegel's worst stylistic impulses.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Coogan's Bluff (1968) Quentin Tarantino For all intents and purposes, what we think of as comedic action cinema was born the day Coogan's Bluff was released.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Carny (1980) Quentin Tarantino The missed and fumbled opportunities add up to an ultimately unsatisfying experience.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Catlow (1971) Quentin Tarantino Catlow is my nomination for worst studio western of the seventies.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Nightwing (1979) Quentin Tarantino Maybe one of the reasons American Cinema in the seventies was so great is because we could expect to see Strother Martin four times a year.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Sometimes a Great Notion (1970) Quentin Tarantino Sometimes a Great Notion is a good somewhat compromised movie, that is justly famous for one of the greatest scenes in early seventies cinema.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
The Lady in Red (1979) Quentin Tarantino We feel every single emotion Polly feels. We go on this epic journey with Polly. That's why when the film reaches her hard-fought final freeze frame we're all exhausted.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Big Wednesday (1978) Quentin Tarantino While all in all I prefer Milius' directorial debut Dillinger, it's hard to argue against the idea that his surfer epic "Big Wednesday" isn't his classic.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
The Shootist (1976) Quentin Tarantino There's nothing in The Shootist you haven't seen done many times before and done better.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
The Muthers (1976) Quentin Tarantino This cruddy little grindhouse cheapie has actually become one of my favorite movies.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Soul Brothers of Kung Fu (1977) Quentin Tarantino The whole film rests not on the brutal Kung Fu fights but how we feel about Wong (Bruce Li) and San (Lo Meng). The two men prove to be a terrific team and they bring out a depth of feeling from their characters that accumulates power as the film goes on.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Showdown (1973) Quentin Tarantino My review might be a touch generous. Yet Seaton, Hudson, Martin and the whole film possess a sweetness that inspires generosity.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Players (1979) Quentin Tarantino [Players'] best moments are Dean Paul Martin training with his coach, real life tennis giant Poncho Gonzales (playing himself), including a must in a sports movie, a great training montage.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
The Yakuza (1974) Quentin Tarantino In The Yakuza, for the last time as a lead, Mitchum was vibrantly alive.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Escape From Alcatraz (1979) Quentin Tarantino Never before and never again would Siegel engage in this type of cinematic bravura.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
The Lords of Flatbush (1974) Quentin Tarantino All this made the movie both a hit and a very fondly remembered artifact of its era... And like American Graffiti before it, and Dazed & Confused after it, it had a cast of young actors of its era who would go on to distinguish themselves in the future.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Ulzana's Raid (1972) Quentin Tarantino Ulzana's Raid is hands down Aldrich's best film of the seventies, as well as being one of the greatest westerns of the seventies.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Shootout (1971) Quentin Tarantino Nothing special, but by the time it was over, I enjoyed it and was glad I saw it.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
The Image of Bruce Lee (1980) Quentin Tarantino Just as the unmotivated fights begin to become tedious, a terrific end fight between Bruce and Old Man Han caps the film off excitingly.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
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