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Adrian Turner

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Bite the Bullet (1975) 69% 3/5 EDIT “The picture is perhaps too long, with too many trough-stops for discourses about machismo and the motives of the competitors. But on the hoof it's an excellent adventure with a splendid cast and some spectacular turn-of-the-20th-century settings.” – Radio Times Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Peeper (1975) 30% 2/5 EDIT “It's clear that most of the effort went into the splendid 1940s settings” – Radio Times Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Pirates (1986) 25% 1/5 EDIT “The waste of money and talent, together with the sub-Python japes, make this a uniquely depressing experience that should serve as a warning to producers with grandiose ideas and no script.” – Radio Times Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% EDIT “Deitch tells this tale with great economy and style, reviving the lost art of slow fade-out, dissolves and even wipes. ” – Observer (UK) Oct 12, 2025 Full Review Report to the Commissioner (1975) 55% 3/5 EDIT “A solid script by Abby Mann and Ernest Tidyman and some crisp action sequences, including a shoot-out in the Saks department store, make this eminently watchable.” – Radio Times Aug 31, 2025 Full Review Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975) 53% 2/5 EDIT “The plot twists every which way and is easily seduced down secondary roads or by "colourful" characters, but compensations include the southwest scenery and Rafferty's amazingly funky conveyance.” – Radio Times Aug 31, 2025 Full Review Brannigan (1975) 48% 3/5 EDIT “Wayne's ten-gallon charisma carries the movie and Attenborough looks fairly gobsmacked by acting with such a living legend.” – Radio Times Aug 31, 2025 Full Review Wise Guys (1986) 29% 1/5 EDIT “Conclusive evidence that De Palma can't tell a joke is provided by this woeful, barely shown effort in which Danny DeVito plays a Mafia messenger boy and Harvey Keitel is a hotelier.” – Radio Times Jul 2, 2025 Full Review Carlito's Way (1993) 84% 4/5 EDIT “The set pieces are among the most thrilling De Palma has ever filmed, while Pacino's restrained performance as the leather-clad, gently lisping Carlito allows plenty of scope for the supporting cast to chew the scenery. ” – Radio Times Jul 2, 2025 Full Review The Ghoul (1933) 4/5 EDIT “Karloff's commanding presence elevates it to the level of seminal British Grand Guignol.” – Radio Times Oct 31, 2024 Full Review Apocalypse Now Redux (1979) 93% 5/5 EDIT “Whether the additional scenes greatly enhance an already exhilirating experience is debatable, but they are certainly worth the wait. ” – Radio Times Sep 22, 2024 Full Review Shallow Grave (1995) 72% 5/5 EDIT “Boyle's film bursts with energy and springs some deliciously macabre surprises, and he is rewarded with wonderful performances from Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston and Kerry Fox, whose characters are all outwardly ordinary yet inwardly strange.” – Radio Times Sep 6, 2024 Full Review The Remains of the Day (1993) 96% 5/5 EDIT “This impeccable adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning novel stars Anthony Hopkins as the emotionally repressed butler and Emma Thompson as the housekeeper he possibly loves.” – Radio Times Aug 30, 2024 Full Review My Darling Clementine (1946) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Filmed in black-and-white against Monument Valley locations, the film combines both the grandeur and the folksiness so typical of its director.” – Radio Times Aug 17, 2024 Full Review The Ipcress File (1965) 97% 4/5 EDIT “It's cunning, calculated and still works, thanks to some droll humour, John Barry's marvellously twangy score, Sidney J Furie's energetic direction and spot-on performances by Guy Doleman and Nigel Green as bowler-hatted spooks.” – Radio Times Aug 8, 2024 Full Review The Hill (1965) 75% 5/5 EDIT “Class, race and the abuse of power all receive unsparing examination while ace cameraman Oswald Morris artfully evokes the claustrophobic, feverish atmosphere. ” – Radio Times Jul 31, 2024 Full Review The Hustler (1961) 94% 5/5 EDIT “As a showcase for one of Paul Newman's best screen performances, it's still a masterpiece, with Newman, Jackie Gleason and George C Scott striking sparks in the perfectly captured seedy pool-hall atmosphere. ” – Radio Times Jul 31, 2024 Full Review The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 100% 5/5 EDIT “In this magnificent adaptation of John Steinbeck's Depression-era novel, Henry Fonda plays the farmer who leads his family from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the promised land of California. ” – Radio Times Jul 22, 2024 Full Review Chinatown (1974) 98% 5/5 EDIT “The result was acrimony behind the scenes and genius on the screen in a masterpiece that repays any number of viewings.” – Radio Times Jul 1, 2024 Full Review The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Shot in bright-as-a-button Technicolor, this swashbuckler is an action picture that, over 80 years on, still delights people of all ages.” – Radio Times May 30, 2024 Full Review My Old Ass (2024) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Megan Park explores coming-of-age ideas about leaving your family and the first flush of love with humour and heart, in a charmer with cross-generational appeal that suggests older does not always mean wiser.” – Radio Times May 20, 2024 Full Review Crimson Tide (1995) 89% 4/5 EDIT “This is riveting stuff, an achievement that is even more remarkable in view of the movie's restricted setting - a submarine's claustrophobic confines.” – Radio Times Feb 2, 2024 Full Review Roadhouse 66 (1984) 2/5 EDIT “Almost every cliché of the youth movie - from The Wild One to Rebel without a Cause to American Graffiti - is tossed into the blender, together with a nonstop soundtrack of jukebox faves.” – Radio Times Aug 3, 2021 Full Review Top Secret! (1984) 77% 3/5 EDIT “Not as funny as it should be, but entertaining enough.” – Radio Times Apr 20, 2021 Full Review Breaking Away (1979) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Director Peter Yates's delightfully unpredictable comedy uses a local bicycle race to uncover the sexual, class and economic tensions within an all-American community.” – Radio Times Mar 14, 2021 Full Review
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