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Arthur Steele

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Bite the Bullet (1975) 69% EDIT “I liked its very personal touch. Rather over-extended and spasmodic in its action and interaction of character, but made with real feeling for the moving camera and what it can do.” – Birmingham Mail Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Black Christmas (1974) 72% EDIT “It actually generates a real feeling of fear.” – Birmingham Mail Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Death Race 2000 (1975) 80% EDIT “What makes such an awful idea acceptable to anyone? Presumably because the treatment is of the comic-strip, fantasy kind.” – Birmingham Mail Dec 21, 2025 Full Review The Wiz (1978) 38% EDIT “There's a sad lack of whizz-bang about "The Whizz."” – Birmingham Mail Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Born Yesterday (1950) 95% EDIT “The film is basically a plea for the simple, culture's or country life, but Miss Holliday makes it a comedy must for most people.” – Birmingham Mail Oct 13, 2025 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “Not in the usual run of Bronson films, but better than most.” – Birmingham Mail Sep 25, 2025 Full Review The Stepford Wives (1975) 55% EDIT “It is Miss Ross's mentally tortured loner that helps give it credibility. ” – Birmingham Mail May 2, 2025 Full Review Mad Max (1979) 89% EDIT “One of the most horrific experiences I have suffered even by current grisly standards... The kind of ghoulish satisfaction that crowds once got from watching murderers disembowelled in public.” – Birmingham Mail Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 93% EDIT “Is "Empire" as good as Star Wars? That is what everyone is asking. In some ways it is better. There is a slightly stronger adult feeling about it.” – Birmingham Mail Apr 23, 2025 Full Review The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968) EDIT “A wittily conceived fantasy.” – Birmingham Mail Apr 9, 2025 Full Review 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 90% EDIT “2001: A Space Odyssey is not just a film. It is an experience; one that is successfully informative, fantastically and beautifully eye-holding, a bit of a bore and, finally, a disturbing enigma.” – Birmingham Mail Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 92% EDIT “As a piece of ribbing at the expense of all those armour-plated gallant knights-and-bold epics, it is a typically cruel yet rollicking piece.” – Birmingham Mail Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) 87% EDIT “Hardly a grain of sugar: more a basinful of spookery and load of super-sensory fun.” – Birmingham Mail Mar 19, 2025 Full Review The Song Remains the Same (1976) 40% EDIT “Singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page come across very well, and the film is only slightly spoiled by meaningless fantasy sequences involving each of the four-man band.” – Birmingham Mail Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Barbarella (1968) 65% EDIT “What surprised me was the genuine sense of light-hearted innocence created by Miss Fonda when it might have been all too dirty for words. ” – Birmingham Mail Feb 12, 2025 Full Review The Conversation (1974) 94% EDIT “Hackman is quietly magnificent -- so real in emotions you feel that if you touched the screen you would feel the flesh of his face.” – Birmingham Mail Sep 24, 2024 Full Review The Big Heat (1953) 95% EDIT “It is because The Big Heat made me feel that it was happening today and not in a pre-war era vaguely associated in the mind with Chicago and such names as Al Capone and Dillinger that I found it almost frightening.” – Birmingham Mail Apr 10, 2024 Full Review Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 96% EDIT “A biting satire on life today where the criminal can get the crowd behind him.” – Birmingham Mail Apr 7, 2024 Full Review Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 91% EDIT “Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a unique spellbinder. At least for those willing to surrender to its particular brand of mystical wizardry. ” – Birmingham Mail Apr 3, 2024 Full Review Sabrina (1954) 89% EDIT “From first to last shot, you are either laughing out loud, quietly enjoying yourself or trying to control the lump that has crept into your throat. And he [Wilder] does it without ever being terribly serious. ” – Birmingham Mail Mar 28, 2024 Full Review The Searchers (1956) 87% EDIT “There were times in its two hours when I felt the film’s hold slacken, but again and again I found myself suddenly aware of this sensation of epic adventure and electric excitement -- so rare in the cinema today.” – Birmingham Mail Mar 22, 2024 Full Review Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) 94% EDIT “Much of this film can be taken as intentional satire as well as the way most audiences will see it -- as a small budget, but often nail-bitingly effective spine-chiller. ” – Birmingham Mail Nov 21, 2023 Full Review The Duellists (1977) 74% EDIT “It would be nice to think that The Duellists could build its own "cult" audience.” – Birmingham Mail Nov 20, 2023 Full Review Little Big Man (1970) 91% EDIT “It is certainly a must-be-seen movie, but I must confess that for me the alchemy worked only sporadically -- mainly because Penn and his players fail to tread the knife-edge with the confidence that carried Bonnie and Clyde. ” – Birmingham Mail Nov 10, 2023 Full Review Raging Bull (1980) 92% EDIT “Robert De Niro's efforts to become the man he apes have been well-documented... This is certainly a tremendous performance, while newcomer Cathy Moriarty makes a stunning debut as his wife, Vickie. ” – Birmingham Mail Oct 10, 2023 Full Review
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