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David Pirie

David Pirie's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Witches of Eastwick (1987) 67% EDIT “For three-quarters of the film, Miller triumphantly welds a strong comic element on to a taut, truly menacing atmosphere, but the last 20 minutes dive straight to the bottom of the proverbial barrel with a final crass orgy of special effects. ” – Time Out Apr 21, 2022 Full Review Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) 10% EDIT “The theme is attacked with engaging intensity, and Boorman brings off more than one visual coup (notably the ingenious locust photography in the African sequences). Dennis Wheatley fans, at least, will love it.” – Time Out Oct 27, 2021 Full Review Harry and Son (1984) 30% EDIT “The result is a curiously indigestible phenomenon, like being forced to eat five courses of avocado by an overbearing dinner-party host.” – Time Out Jun 1, 2021 Full Review Players (1979) 14% EDIT “The soapy plot is so incredibly old-fashioned that it might be forgiven if the script didn't keep hitting so many lines straight into the net.” – Time Out Jun 22, 2020 Full Review Taps (1981) 69% EDIT “A fascinating first hour is drowned in the clichés of siege cinema.” – Time Out Dec 4, 2018 Full Review The Sentinel (1977) 48% EDIT “The only frightening thing about The Sentinel is its director's mind.” – Time Out Sep 28, 2018 Full Review Theater of Blood (1973) 88% EDIT “Comedy horror that really does give Vincent Price a chance to do his stuff, with deliciously absurd results.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Cruising (1980) 50% EDIT “Opening with some powerful moments, Cruising soon drifts into bloody Village People-type caricature.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Juggernaut (1974) 83% EDIT “A penetrating and sardonic commentary on a fading and troubled Britain, neatly characterised by the lumberingly chaotic ocean liner, 'The Britannic', in which everything is falling apart...” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) 93% EDIT “Miller's choreography of his innumerable vehicles is so extraordinary that it makes Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark look like a kid fooling with Dinky Toys.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Them! (1954) 93% EDIT “By far the best of the '50s cycle of 'creature features.'” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review California Suite (1978) 50% EDIT “Quick and varied comedy, highly suited to Neil Simon's machine-gun gag-writing.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review King Kong (1976) 55% EDIT “The results of this technological bonanza are pretty mixed.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Porky's (1981) 33% EDIT “It's vulgar enough to be fascinating even while you hate it, and it's certainly the most revealing American success since Taps.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) 54% EDIT “Only Michael York's metamorphosis into a beast has any impact, and the film predictably fails to follow through even on that.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Annie (1982) 50% EDIT “The songs never take off into anything very much, the whole atmosphere (apart from the climax) is distinctly stagebound, and Huston merely reveals why he had never before in his long career been hired to make a musical.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Blade Runner (1982) 89% EDIT “The android villains are neither menacing nor sympathetic, when ideally they should have been both. This leaves Scott's picturesque violence looking dull and exploitative.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Mad Max (1979) 89% EDIT “The tone sometimes wavers into self-parody, and there are occasional crude patches, but overall this edge-of-seat revenge movie marks the most exciting debut from an Australian director since Peter Weir.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Terms of Endearment (1983) 81% EDIT “Then The Illness strikes, and the film changes gear completely, pulling out all the stops and almost incidentally delivering one of the best-acted, most moving death-bed scenes in recent memory.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review The Clowns (1970) 100% EDIT “Fellini's documentary celebration of the dying art of the clown is his best film in years.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) 65% EDIT “The tone is beautifully sustained throughout, hovering just on the right side of conviction, with superbly understated comic performances from Camilleri and Meillon (the latter as a cosmically impotent mayor).” – Time Out Feb 9, 2006 Full Review Black Sunday (1977) 76% EDIT “Unfortunately, all the major characters have a whiff of Hollywood artifice, largely because (as has happened too often before in his career) Frankenheimer gets carried away by their verbosity.” – Time Out Feb 9, 2006 Full Review The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) 76% EDIT “The effects aren't simply fascinating for their own sake -- they genuinely convey a sense of the magical and otherworldly.” – Time Out Feb 9, 2006 Full Review Poltergeist (1982) 88% EDIT “It is consistently redeemed by its creator's dazzling sense of craft.” – Time Out Feb 9, 2006 Full Review Cujo (1983) 60% EDIT “This adaptation on a modest budget from Stephen King's bestseller about a rabid St Bernard is a pleasing illustration of the filmic simplicity at the heart of King's better writing.” – Time Out Feb 9, 2006 Full Review
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