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David Robinson

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Bite the Bullet (1975) 69% EDIT “The scenery is great; the story pushes on; only it would be nice to know where the film-makers thought it was actually going.” – The Times (UK) Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Death Race 2000 (1975) 80% EDIT “Death Race 2000 was frankly aimed as a rip-off of Rollerball, but it has a number of advantages over the original. It never takes its pretensions or its future projections too seriously.” – The Times (UK) Dec 22, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% EDIT “The love story is not an imposed element, but integral to all the rest and faultlessly handled by the director and actors, who treat it without emphasis or drama, as something inevitable, natural and sweetly erotic. ” – The Times (UK) Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “Charles Bronson is Charles Bronson. His stone-killer turn finally domineers over Walter Hill's rather cautious interpretation of his own script; and the fable is swamped by the star vehicle.” – The Times (UK) Sep 27, 2025 Full Review Cooley High (1975) 83% EDIT “Schultz has a way of astonishing with small marvellous moments.” – The Times (UK) Aug 15, 2025 Full Review Supergirl (1984) 19% EDIT “Helen Slater is personable enough as Superman's cousin; but David Odell's less than lustrous script fails to give her any very real character.” – The Times (UK) Jun 28, 2025 Full Review Rollerball (1975) 56% EDIT “It is in fact a simple tale, the familiar theme of sci-fi back to Metropolis, despite the costly dressing and the confusions of William Harrison's ill-made screenplay.” – The Times (UK) Jun 5, 2025 Full Review Night Moves (1975) 78% EDIT “Night Moves is a fascinating formal exercise -- staggering a little between artifice and artiness.” – The Times (UK) May 28, 2025 Full Review The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) 51% EDIT “Jack Lemmon is a pastmaster of the Simon style; and Anne Bancroft bats the dialogue back with lovely expertise.” – The Times (UK) May 2, 2025 Full Review Report to the Commissioner (1975) 55% EDIT “Over-written by Abby Mann and Ernest Tidyman, and under-directed by Milton Katselas.” – The Times (UK) May 2, 2025 Full Review The Stepford Wives (1975) 55% EDIT “The film is... a very effective fable.” – The Times (UK) May 2, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 83% EDIT “A cunning and prodigal synthesis of every kind of popular myth... Aimed with deadly calculation at the child in all of us, Return of the Jedi estimates our mental age -- no doubt quite accurately -- at around six and a half.” – The Times (UK) Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% EDIT “Star Wars unashamedly restores all those qualities which film-makers and audiences have almost forgotten in their chase after illusory sophistication... a genuine escapism that obliges you to make no connexions at all with real worlds. ” – The Times (UK) Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Brannigan (1975) 48% EDIT “The thrills are modest and predicable enough.” – The Times (UK) Apr 12, 2025 Full Review Capone (1975) 32% EDIT “The film is more interesting in theory than in practice. The script rehearses all the old familiar incidents dutifully, but without any sort of revelation.” – The Times (UK) Apr 8, 2025 Full Review Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 92% EDIT “It is all hit-and-miss; but the hits are often rich fun.” – The Times (UK) Apr 1, 2025 Full Review At Long Last Love (1975) 22% EDIT “Bogdanovich's book has most of the silliness of the real thing but none of the sparkle and verve.” – The Times (UK) Mar 25, 2025 Full Review Tommy (1975) 71% EDIT “Like it or not, there is no question of Russell's prodigal inventiveness, his vitality, his exhilarating indiscretion, his ability to be anything except boring.” – The Times (UK) Mar 19, 2025 Full Review The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) 60% EDIT “Some critics have written off The Great Waldo Pepper as another exercise in nostalgia; but it has a poetic texture altogether richer than that.” – The Times (UK) Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% EDIT “If Nashville in fact has not much to say, it says it at great length, and entertainingly. It all sails along, stopping and starting, maintaining its hold on us by Altman's appreciation of all the oddity of the American scene and its people.” – The Times (UK) Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% EDIT “Plastically, certainly, the film is marvellous, but not quite enough to hold your patience for upwards of three hours, or to stop you wondering what Kubrick, having discarded most of... the sheer information of Thackeray, intended to put in its place.” – The Times (UK) Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% EDIT “There's no doubt of the sincerity of Beatty and Ashby and Towne in wanting to use their anecdote to illustrate the moment of American moral history; but it is a big ambition, which defeats them.” – The Times (UK) Feb 10, 2025 Full Review Apocalypse Now (1979) 91% EDIT “Small wonder that Coppola could not decide how to end the film, even as late as the Cannes Festival in May. The ending on which he has settled is as good as any, and as irrelevant to the ambitions of this majestic, spoiled enterprise. ” – The Times (UK) Sep 23, 2024 Full Review Under the Cherry Moon (1986) 38% EDIT “It is fast and featherweight, and the diminutive Prince is funny, cheekily charming and pretty as a picture. ” – The Times (UK) Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Rosa Luxemburg (1986) 80% EDIT “The strength and success of the film is the central portrait: Barbara Sukowa convincingly develops the character.” – The Times (UK) Jul 30, 2024 Full Review
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