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Norman Dresser

Norman Dresser's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Bite the Bullet (1975) 69% EDIT “I found this a dully, overlong film which only occasionally is sparked by flashes of creativity. ” – Toledo Blade Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Dracula (1979) 64% EDIT “"Dracula" is a cunning blend of horror and romance and it's a movie with considerable class in all departments.” – Toledo Blade Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “They're trying to inject a little class into Charles Bronson's action-oriented act and the result is "Hard Times," a flawed surprisingly good movie.” – Toledo Blade Sep 26, 2025 Full Review Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) 87% EDIT ““Escape to Witch Mountain” may be formula, but it's a superior entry in its class.” – Toledo Blade Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Funny Lady (1975) 55% EDIT “Miss Streisand is in fine form, both as a singer and as an actress.” – Toledo Blade Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Mr. Ricco (1975) 30% EDIT “I pondered at length trying to find a justi­fication for making this movie.” – Toledo Blade Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975) 53% EDIT “The picture has a certain lean honesty which lifts it above the banality of the theme, and scattered throughout is a wry wit which imparts a certain charm.” – Toledo Blade Aug 20, 2025 Full Review The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) 51% EDIT “Despite the bleakness of the theme, "Prisoner of Second Avenue" ranks as an entertaining and often funny movie.” – Toledo Blade Aug 20, 2025 Full Review The Song Remains the Same (1976) 40% EDIT “It is a garish movie.” – Toledo Blade Aug 20, 2025 Full Review The Stepford Wives (1975) 55% EDIT “No performer can rise much above the padded script and dull direction of this movie.” – Toledo Blade Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Cooley High (1975) 83% EDIT “While Turman and Jacobs can't be described as exceptional actors, they play their roles spiritedly and with good comedy timing.” – Toledo Blade Aug 15, 2025 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% EDIT “While the whole doesn't quite add up to the sum of the individual parts, "Shampoo" nevertheless ranks as a mostly entertaining comedy for the sophisticated movie-goer.” – Toledo Blade Aug 14, 2025 Full Review Superman: The Movie (1978) 87% EDIT “Superman ranks as a dazzling cinematic comic strip, a movie which wonderfully blends fantasy, fantastic special effects, comedy, and tongue-in-cheek charm.” – Toledo Blade Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Rollerball (1975) 56% EDIT “"Rollerball" is a brilliant movie, as powerful in its impact as a steel ball crushing flesh and bone.” – Toledo Blade Jun 5, 2025 Full Review Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975) 34% EDIT “Furie, who apparently had at least skimmed the novel but failed utterly to absorb its message, gives the film a dark, dismal look totally at varience with the admittedly feeble stabs to create a comedy romance.” – Toledo Blade Apr 9, 2025 Full Review 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 90% EDIT “It is a difficult movie to review -- for pete's sake, it's a difficult movie to view in some ways! -- but I'm convinced that Kubrick's inventive work is a cinematic landmark. Movies enter a new dimension with "Space Odyssey."” – Toledo Blade Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Capone (1975) 32% EDIT “This version is strictly an exploitation quickie of interest only to diehard action fans.” – Toledo Blade Apr 8, 2025 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% EDIT “Robert Altman's Nashville is a sprawling, massive cinematic tour de force which established the producer-director as one of the world's great moviemakers. ” – Toledo Blade Feb 26, 2025 Full Review The Conversation (1974) 94% EDIT “Coppola has delivered in one neatly tied package a near cinematic masterpiece, a work which could not be transformed, without great loss of effectiveness, to the stage, the printed word, or any other art form. ” – Toledo Blade Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 96% EDIT “[With] an extraordinary performance by Al Pacino, developing into the finest of the new actors in the anti-romantic school, it has about everything to rivet an audience to their seats during more than two hours of excitement, laughter, pathos, and drama.” – Toledo Blade Apr 4, 2024 Full Review Chinatown (1974) 98% EDIT “Chinatown has class written all over it. This superb crime melodrama, set in the Los Angeles of the 1930s, doesn't miss a trick in any department.” – Toledo Blade Mar 8, 2024 Full Review Alien (1979) 93% EDIT “The impressive technical work, however, fails to compensate for the strictly grade B, formula screenplay, which is another hackneyed version of the creaky plot pitting humans against monsters. ” – Toledo Blade Nov 16, 2023 Full Review Little Big Man (1970) 91% EDIT “This is an infinitely rich, perceptive, tragic, lusty, beautifully told cinematic tale. It comes close to being a masterpiece of a movie.” – Toledo Blade Nov 10, 2023 Full Review The Last Picture Show (1971) 98% EDIT “This is a very complex movie with a magic which in many ways is a mystery. What Bogdanovich has done, I think, is to create, with utter perfection in every detail, a portrait of a town and its inhabitants. How he did it I don't know. ” – Toledo Blade Oct 25, 2023 Full Review Taxi Driver (1976) 89% EDIT “This is a powerful, frightening, eventually stomach-wrenching movie, all the more shattering because, as anyone who has ever strolled through the Times Square district knows, this hell on earth actually exists. ” – Toledo Blade Oct 6, 2023 Full Review
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