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Eric Shorter

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The Sure Thing (1985) 84% EDIT “After so much blood and thunder, Mr. Reiner's diffident young couple make oddly aggregable company. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Christine (1983) 72% EDIT “However unpleasant or unconvincing the idea may appear, it is developed with the proper compulsion of a good thriller.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 17, 2025 Full Review The Wiz (1978) 38% EDIT “If "The Wiz" is a stylistic failure the all-black company creatures an exuberant sense of joy and vitality in the choreography Louis Johnson.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Re-Animator (1985) 88% EDIT “Witty in its lurid imagination.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Rollerball (1975) 56% EDIT “The script is woefully thin and the attempt to create a fearful new world of robot-like science fiction is as dull as such a world would no doubt be.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 5, 2025 Full Review Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984) 39% EDIT “These cuddly creatures were last seen in "Return of the Jedi" but the dramatic level of this storytelling struck me as nearer to Sooty in its appeal.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Apr 28, 2025 Full Review Supervixens (1975) 49% EDIT “Stylish nonsense.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Tommy (1975) 71% EDIT “Even if one keeps a careful grip on the plot it is impossible to take much interested in it because of the self-consciously operatic trimmings.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Mar 18, 2025 Full Review Double Suicide (1969) 100% EDIT “Naturally, the results are fatal; and the effect is of Victorian melodrama. But the absurdities come across with panache. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Mar 18, 2025 Full Review A Nest of Gentlefolk (1969) EDIT “With superb reticence and emotional delicacy, this turns a lovely Turgenev story into a lovely -- and beautifully photographed -- film.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Mar 18, 2025 Full Review Le Samouraï (1967) 92% EDIT “Very cool, very obvious, and carefully banal, the film typifies the average French cinéaste's reverence for an era which to me depended on actors, most of whom are dead.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Mar 18, 2025 Full Review The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 85% EDIT “The foreground becomes comically absurd in its congested derivation of gags to make our flesh creep. So the film is neither sickening nor thrilling nor artistically interesting. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 30, 2024 Full Review Napoleon (1927) 87% EDIT “The scale of conception and presentation, the coherence of action in drawing room or on battlefield, the handling of great historical figures, and the detailed observation of marginal people reflected the genius and powerful imagination of [Abel Gance].” – Daily Telegraph (UK) May 14, 2024 Full Review Lady Sings the Blues (1972) 73% EDIT “What makes the film so steadily watchable, even to fuddy-duddy puritans like myself, is the performance of Diana Ross, who often looks and sometimes sounds, like the remarkable original, but whose acting is all her forceful own.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Apr 5, 2024 Full Review Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 91% EDIT “The result is visually brilliant; and with the psychic dimension we have for once a science-fiction film of genuinely mystical fascination which Mr. Spielberg, who wrote it, never fails to dramatise imaginatively.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Apr 3, 2024 Full Review The Last Picture Show (1971) 98% EDIT “Just as Americans trouble with our North-country films, so I am slow to tune into Texan dialect. It is not, though, a high price to pay for the feeling of verisimilitude which Mr. Bogdanovich achieves. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 25, 2023 Full Review Raging Bull (1980) 92% EDIT “[Martin Scorsese's] recreation of what went on in the ring may be no credit to the New York boxing world, which seems here mainly sadistic. But filmgoers with a stomach for such fighting will enjoy the thunderously sickening sound of every punch. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 10, 2023 Full Review Who's That Knocking at My Door? (1968) 71% EDIT “I can't, at a second view, see much to commend, except for neat technical execution of an ambitious construction which contrasts, by cutting to a fro, a young man's romantic love for a girl a bit beyond him, and the sordid background of his life. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 6, 2023 Full Review Taxi Driver (1976) 89% EDIT “Marvelously cryptic, with first-rate acting by Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd and Jodie Foster. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 6, 2023 Full Review Moscow on the Hudson (1984) 74% EDIT “Robin Williams and María Conchita Alonso act in it with just that lightness of touch which should bring it popularity. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 16, 2023 Full Review The Great Muppet Caper (1981) 78% EDIT “There are characters which have sprung to mythical life on the box because their creators are an artistic team to compare with the original Walt Disney's. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) May 3, 2023 Full Review Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 94% EDIT “It lacks unity of aim, time, place and action. Worst of all, it lacks thrills... And to think that Mr. Spielberg was once rated as a director of talent. Sad, really. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) May 3, 2023 Full Review Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) 80% EDIT “An elaborately cumbersome and self-indulgent exercise in highbrow fooling. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Mar 2, 2023 Full Review Theater of Blood (1973) 88% EDIT “A jokey horror film. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 27, 2022 Full Review The Deer Hunter (1978) 86% EDIT “The film is hardly interested in moral issues. It is concerned with our emotions and the ruder kinds of dramatic tension. On that level it is remarkably exciting.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 30, 2022 Full Review
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