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Susan Stark
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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The Exorcist (1973) |
Maybe the movie will bring in hordes of patrons. It is difficult to understand, however, why anyone of sound mind would pay good money to subject himself to so ghastly a movie-watching experience. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Sep 27, 2023
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Macbeth (1971) |
That the feelings provoked by Polanski's film go considerably deeper than the feelings provoked by traditional stage productions seems, to this viewer, anyhow, to be a definite plus factor. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Jul 21, 2023
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Girlfriends (1978) |
Calling Girlfriends a promising directorial debut only seems to damn it and its maker with faint praise. It is promising in the same sense that Francis Coppola's 1968 The Rain People and Steven Spielberg's 1974 Sugarland Express were promising. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted May 18, 2023
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One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977) |
One sings; the other doesn't. None of that matters. In Ms. Varda's world, an ideal yet to be realized, they are the same -- root and stock. They are women. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Mar 08, 2023
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The Deer Hunter (1978) |
One of the most ambitious, affecting, American movies ever made. Amazing. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Aug 30, 2022
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Annie Hall (1977) |
It is Allen's funniest and most satisfying screen work to date. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Aug 26, 2022
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The Sting (1973) |
There is just no way not to love this movie. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Aug 08, 2022
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) |
Although the overall effort is repellent in the extreme, several of the actors, and particularly Kristofferson, do manage to exude a certain personal charm. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Jun 14, 2022
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Buck and the Preacher (1972) |
It is savvy film entertainment that reflects the solid professionalism of everyone involved. Here's to more directing jobs for Sidney Poitier and more great movie parts for Harry Belafonte. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted May 31, 2022
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Midnight Cowboy (1969) |
Midnight Cowboy is an extraordinary movie, a compelling movie, a movie rich and powerful enough to print its images indelibly on the mind's eye. It just may turn out to be The Great American Movie. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Mar 11, 2022
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) |
Brilliantly visualized by director Forman and performed by an ensemble with Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher up front, the film operates continuously at a peak level of energy and intelligence. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Mar 05, 2022
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Oliver! (1968) |
Carol Reed's Oliver! is an incredibly rich screen musical, worth seeing once for the overall dazzle, worth seeing again for all the small bits of artistry -- all the touches of genius at work in this superlative movie. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Mar 02, 2022
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) |
[Parajanov] Is particularly sensitive to the universal symbolism of nature. He uses leaves and aky and earth and water to create a mood, or to convey an emotion, with breath-taking clarity. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Feb 28, 2022
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The Heartbreak Kid (1972) |
Considered as a whole piece of work, The Heartbreak Kid succeeds as well as any film ever made in displaying the tragicomic implications of being human. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Feb 23, 2022
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A New Leaf (1971) |
Maybe you can't even remember the last time you saw a purely lovable movie. A New Leaf, Elaine May's airy romantic comedy about a penniless bon vivant's pursuit of a gentle but very wealthy frump, will refresh your memory. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Feb 10, 2022
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Hair (1979) |
Forman enriches this amateur-hour structure by giving darned near every number a double meaning. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Nov 04, 2021
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Bad Company (1972) |
Robert Benton and David Newman, the writing team responsible for "Bonnie and Clyde," tell a simple story here in a simple, quietly convincing way. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Sep 22, 2021
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The Day of the Locust (1975) |
John Schlesinger brings West's vision to the screen, monstrosity for monstrosity, sadness for sadness, and makes of it an immensely affecting motion picture. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Sep 12, 2021
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French Connection II (1975) |
Riveting entertainment. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Sep 05, 2021
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The One and Only (1978) |
Clearly this is silly stuff, but Reiner's brand of silliness has a freshness and audacity that make it relatively simple to overlook the occasional lapses into potty humor and other forms of juvenile comedy... - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Aug 31, 2021
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Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1975) |
You've heard of "Lassie, Come Home"? They should call this one, "Won Ton Ton, Go Home." - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Aug 29, 2021
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Plaza Suite (1971) |
A marvelously entertaining film... - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Aug 29, 2021
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Blue Collar (1978) |
The lead actors, all three of them, are marvelous, working both with and off each other in performances of great integrity. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Aug 21, 2021
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Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975) |
The film has virtually no appeal. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Aug 17, 2021
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Blume in Love (1973) |
"Blume in Love" establishes Paul Mazursky as the most abundantly talented oddball at work in American cinema. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Aug 01, 2021
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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) |
A very funny and in significant ways a very admirable movie. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Jul 31, 2021
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The Late Show (1977) |
The film's striking originality, as well as its emotional force, stems from the two personalities that stand as an excuse for its mannered plot. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Jun 14, 2021
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Harry and Tonto (1974) |
Thrills and chills there are not in "Harry and Tonto." But there's a lot of Art Carney, a warmly welcome new starring presence at the movies. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Jun 11, 2021
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Charley Varrick (1973) |
It is sadistically brutal, based on a fault of logic or a warped moral code or both, and, get this, it is rated PG. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Jun 11, 2021
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Heroes (1977) |
The same script that regularly strains credulity well past the snapping point also provides a jolly enough vehicle for both Winkler and Ms. Field to break away from type and show the movie audience what they can do. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Jun 10, 2021
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Lifeguard (1976) |
The most Interesting thing about "Lifeguard" is the sight of Sam Elliott, who plays the title character. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Jun 08, 2021
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Scarecrow (1973) |
Thanks to an ingenious performance from Gene Hackman, "Scarecrow" commands more attention than its meandering and fundamentally pointless narrative deserves. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted May 25, 2021
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Freebie and the Bean (1974) |
In case bloody bodies don't strike everyone as funny, the movie also features several multiple car accidents. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted May 05, 2021
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The Sugarland Express (1974) |
Engrossing to watch, it begins to work on you, to declare its claim to greatness, after a while. You'll see. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Apr 20, 2021
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Schindler's List (1993) |
Once in a very great while, a movie insinuates itself so deeply into your consciousness that it offers not vicarious experience but instead, direct experience. Steven Spielberg's heartfelt, monumental Schindler's List is such a movie. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Apr 15, 2021
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The Godfather, Part II (1974) |
Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is an even richer, more spellbinding work than its wholly successful predecessor. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Apr 06, 2021
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The Godfather (1972) |
Maybe the secret of Brando's power is that he, like maybe a handful of others, understands fully what stillness and repose and tentativeness mean in terms of impact on film. - Detroit Free Press
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| Posted Mar 29, 2021
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Eve's Bayou (1997) |
- Detroit News
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| Posted Oct 18, 2008
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Mulan (1998) |
- Detroit News
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| Posted Oct 18, 2008
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CQ (2001) |
- Detroit News
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| Posted Oct 18, 2008
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Snake Eyes (1998) |
- Detroit News
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| Posted Oct 18, 2008
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Black and White (1999) |
- Detroit News
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| Posted Oct 18, 2008
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Get on the Bus (1996) |
- Detroit News
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| Posted Oct 18, 2008
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) |
- Detroit News
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| Posted Oct 18, 2008
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Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) |
- Detroit News
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| Posted Oct 18, 2008
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City of Angels (1998) |
- Detroit News
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| Posted Oct 18, 2008
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A Bug's Life (1998) |
- Detroit News
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| Posted Oct 18, 2008
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James and the Giant Peach (1996) |
- Detroit News
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| Posted Oct 18, 2008
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Girl 6 (1996) |
- Detroit News
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| Posted Oct 18, 2008
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Waking Life (2001) |
- Detroit News
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| Posted Oct 18, 2008
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