Stefan Kanfer
Stefan Kanfer's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
TIME Magazine
Movies reviews only
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A New Leaf (1971) |
A New Leaf may be the first film in which Matthau is miscast. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 10, 2022
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The Music Lovers (1971) |
No matter how miserable his actual life, the classical composer tends to suffer in a new way on film. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jan 14, 2019
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The Reckoning (1969) |
[Williamson's] sooty origins have become as nothing to the putrefaction of his workdays. That is the master actor's detailed and tragic interpretation, the only justification needed to see the - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Sunflower (1970) |
Chetnal fortuna-the pornography of sex cannot be replaced by the opera of soap. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Plaza Suite (1971) |
In Arthur Hiller's rigid transcription of Neil Simon's Broadway one-acters set in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, Matthau essays not one part but three. Each is unique, all are achingly comic. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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A Severed Head (1971) |
"Ambiguous," appropriately, has definitions. It means "capable of understood in two or more senses." also means "uncertain, especially obscurity or indistinctness." A Severed Head leaps for the category and lands in the second. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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This Man Must Die (1969) |
This Man Must Die is as full of intelligence as a seminar and as suspenseful as a series of passes at Monte Carlo. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Waterloo (1970) |
As for the golden history and legend, they lie buried beneath this delayed replay of a primer on strategy. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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They Might Be Giants (1971) |
The pretense cannot mask the film's pusillanimous ideas. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Black Jesus (1968) |
For years Strode, a former Los Angeles Ram, has hovered on the periphery of films waiting for a movie adequate to his talents. He is still marking time. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970) |
At 31, Miles knows everything worth knowing about actors, if not about film. His water and fire symbols and andante flashbacks are modish and imprecise, but he makes his cast function with the proficiency and timing of a London rep company. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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The Andromeda Strain (1971) |
Despite its trappings, the plot employs nothing but the conventional weaponry of the grade-B thriller. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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THX-1138 (1971) |
Despite his scenes of bland horror, Lucas offers the 25th century as a arch, campy place, a conception not satiric enough to be accepted as comedy and not quite insightful enough to be taken seriously. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) |
With the exception of Zohra Lampert's subtle and knowledgeable performance, no one in the cast has enough substance even to be considered humanoid. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Blind Terror (1971) |
If [Farrow] displays a narrow emotional range, that is less the fault of the actress than of the film makers. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Ramparts of Clay (1970) |
Its politics have been diverted by the villagers and bleached by the African sun. If this evocative work manages to "sell" anything, it is the idea of Jean-Louis Bertucelli, 28, as a director of fresh and major significance. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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The Night Visitor (1970) |
Laslo Benedek's methodical direction and Henning Kristiansen's astonishing photography-a gothic mix of melancholy blue landscapes and pale, crumbling interiors-only serve to underline the film's deficiency, the utter lack of logic. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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The Anderson Tapes (1971) |
Unfortunately, failed comedy and vigorous suspense are handcuffed together for the entire trip. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Genocide (1981) |
In this film, memory and ambition ultimately collide. The 6 million deserve more than dire prophecy and less than an overproduction. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Death in Venice (1971) |
Visconti takes the veneer and calls it furniture. With infinite tedium, he pores over every facet of Tadzio's Botticelli visage. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Shinbone Alley (1971) |
I especially liked two songs flotsam and jetsam and the title number they seemed to catch what you called the golden nonsense of the heart. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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The Phantom Tollbooth (1969) |
The youthful viewer and his parents should overlook Phantom Tollbooth's flaws and concentrate on the film's underlying moral. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Cry Uncle (1971) |
Director John G. Avildsen directs his actors in the same manner that a red light may be said to direct patrons. No matter. Pornography is customarily, in Nabokov's fine phrase, a copulation of clichs. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Valdez Is Coming (1971) |
[Valdez] Is Coming offers little besides its star. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) |
The entire effort may, I think, be ascribed to an insufficiency of imagination. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Darling Lili (1970) |
Director Blake Edwards (Julie's new husband) seems to believe that if a man failing off a roof is funny, then two men falling should be hilarious. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Walkabout (1971) |
Aim and Misfire. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Blue Water, White Death (1971) |
It is more than a cinematic high. It is a justifiable anthropomorphism, a juxtaposition of hunter and hunted that Melville, or for that matter Moby-Dick, would have savored. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Promise at Dawn (1971) |
Surely Scenarist-Director Jules Dassin jests. Or does he? - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Love Story (1970) |
Ryan O'Neal gives the character of the neon scion a warmth and vulnerability entirely missing from the bestseller. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Hearts and Minds (1974) |
Throughout, Hearts and Minds displays more than enough heart. It is mind that is missing. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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Cold Turkey (1971) |
An extended sitcom loaded with the kind of jokes that induce canned laughter. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Mar 23, 2015
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The Clowns (1970) |
[Fellin] turns the world into his circus and, in a liberated, quasi-documentary style, resurrects some of history's great pagliacci with their cornucopia of practical jokes, smashed hats, pulled chairs, popping balloons and squirting flowers. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Mar 11, 2015
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The Last Movie (1971) |
That sound you hear is of checkbooks closing all over Hollywood. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Aug 26, 2014
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Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970) |
There are some men whose tragedy arises not from what they suffer but what they fail to feel. Little Fauss and Big Halsy are such men -- and so are those who made the movie. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jul 22, 2013
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The Aristocats (1970) |
The animals' exuberance is so infectious and their "acting" so true to human life that by the fadeout The Aristocats does, indeed, give the audience paws for reflection. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Nov 04, 2009
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The Last Picture Show (1971) |
Director Peter Bogdanovich has seen Anarene, Texas, in the cinematic terms of 1951 -- the langorous dissolves, the strong chiaroscuro, the dialogue that starts with bickering and ends at confessional. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Apr 27, 2009
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