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Mike Petryni

Mike Petryni's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Peeper (1975) 30% EDIT “Caine is excellent. His is droll without droning, bemusing without bewildering and low-key without being lethargic.” – Arizona Republic Nov 22, 2025 Full Review The Wiz (1978) 38% EDIT “"The Wiz" is a multimillion-dollar crashing bore and maybe the gloomiest movie-musical entertainment ever.” – Arizona Republic Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “"Hard Times," in short, is a hard, hard time.” – Arizona Republic Sep 25, 2025 Full Review Superman: The Movie (1978) 87% EDIT “Buoyed considerably by John Williams' brassy, Strauss-like score, the ebb and flow of heroics here are grand indeed.” – Arizona Republic Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Rancho Deluxe (1975) 62% EDIT “"Rancho Deluxe," under the direction of Frank Perry, is an easy-going devil-may-care-vision.” – Arizona Republic Apr 24, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% EDIT “After the success of American Graffiti, which he made for $700,000, director-writer George Lucas could do anything in the movies he wanted. So, bless him, he took $8 million and made Star Wars into a priceless entertainment. ” – Arizona Republic Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% EDIT “It's time audiences saw through Kubrick's sleight-of-hand... Barry Lyndon looks like a peacock but it's a turkey. ” – Arizona Republic Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Jaws 2 (1978) 56% EDIT “While it's not worth standing too long in line for, it's [a] pleasant little thriller. ” – Arizona Republic Aug 7, 2024 Full Review The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976) 87% EDIT “The whole thing is saved by its three stars.” – Arizona Republic Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 96% EDIT “"Dog Day Afternoon" is, from beginning to end, simply splendid.” – Arizona Republic Apr 7, 2024 Full Review Grease (1978) 65% EDIT “Grease is so obviously aimed at an audience's wallet, one suspects with its shallow quick-hit attitude, it's going to be no more than a movie a lot of people see once and easily forget a few minutes later. ” – Arizona Republic Feb 8, 2024 Full Review Taxi Driver (1976) 89% EDIT “It is an ugly story, filled with tension and an ambiguity that borders disturbingly on emptiness. ” – Arizona Republic Oct 6, 2023 Full Review One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977) 65% EDIT “It's not that Ms. Varda is not well meaning. It's not even that she's out of date, if only because this is a historical tract. It's just that One Sings, the Other Doesn't is so banal. ” – Arizona Republic Mar 7, 2023 Full Review The Deer Hunter (1978) 86% EDIT “The Deer Hunter operates on several emotional, intellectual and artistic levels, yet, like the best of American films, it remains fundamentally a moving entertainment. ” – Arizona Republic Aug 30, 2022 Full Review Annie Hall (1977) 97% EDIT “Annie Hall, his intensely felt, hilariously realized film about his own love affair with actress Diane Keaton, is Allen's masterpiece and it's a masterpiece among comedy films. ” – Arizona Republic Aug 26, 2022 Full Review One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 93% EDIT “As played by Jack Nicholson, McMurphy is one of the most affecting characters in recent cinema.” – Arizona Republic Mar 4, 2022 Full Review Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) 10% EDIT “In short, Boorman and Goodhart have gone right out of their minds. And the movie they made suffers so much from the state of delirium, it looks as if the devil has won.” – Arizona Republic Oct 26, 2021 Full Review Last Embrace (1979) 58% EDIT “It is an irritatingly empty movie which shows its maker to be a student who quotes his master merely to pile up the footnotes in hopes the resulting list will pass as the original thesis.” – Arizona Republic Sep 24, 2021 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% EDIT “Nashville is no different than the slice-of-life approach of Altman's other movies. It is just so, so much more.” – Arizona Republic Aug 19, 2021 Full Review Jabberwocky (1977) 45% EDIT “Gilliam, who also wrote the screenplay with Charles Alverson, adds the absurd touches that make every moment a crazy surprise.” – Arizona Republic Aug 18, 2021 Full Review Survive! (1976) EDIT “It's a story all the more tragic because Paramount has released this inept, even boring movie (poorly dubbed into English) in hopes of greedily cashing in on some interest audiences may have in seeing people being skinned.” – Arizona Republic Aug 18, 2021 Full Review All Screwed Up (1976) EDIT “[All Screwed Up] haunts with a hideous grin.” – Arizona Republic Aug 18, 2021 Full Review The Sunshine Boys (1975) 69% EDIT “The handling of individual scenes by Simon and director Herbert Ross (who controlled Woody Allen in "Play It Again, Sam") is finest of any movie based on Simon's work.” – Arizona Republic Jun 14, 2021 Full Review The Late Show (1977) 95% EDIT “Many movies these days ballyhoo their stars and then deliver drivel. But "The Late Show" is genuinely one in which the slow-burning excitement started cooking the moment it was cast.” – Arizona Republic Jun 14, 2021 Full Review Heroes (1977) 27% EDIT “A sensitive contemporary love story that doesn't cop out on modern problems.” – Arizona Republic Jun 10, 2021 Full Review
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