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Paul D. Zimmerman

Paul D. Zimmerman's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Bite the Bullet (1975) 69% EDIT “Brooks stretches his story with meaningless two-horse sprints that seems senseless in an endurance contest and lots of deadend incident.” – Newsweek Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Night Moves (1975) 78% EDIT “The movie just vanishes, loose ends and all, in the pit of its own black vision.” – Newsweek May 29, 2025 Full Review The Stepford Wives (1975) 55% EDIT “Director Bryan Forbes photographs the victims of Stepford in the most romantic way.” – Newsweek May 2, 2025 Full Review Rancho Deluxe (1975) 62% EDIT “"Rancho Deluxe" is a quirky, inventive portrait of the no longer wild West.” – Newsweek Mar 27, 2025 Full Review The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) 51% EDIT “The action is essentially mechanical, since none of the events proceeds from character. ” – Newsweek Mar 7, 2025 Full Review The Yakuza (1974) 49% EDIT “Imagine The Big Sleep shot in the back alleys of Tokyo and you have something of the muddled mood of The Yakuza, a cultural cross-breed that is neither sushi nor Southern fried chicken.” – Newsweek Mar 3, 2025 Full Review The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) 60% EDIT “The Great Waldo Pepper lifts off on what appears to be a flight of pure, light-hearted adventure and almost immediately runs into rough weather.” – Newsweek Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Love and Death (1975) 100% EDIT “It sparkles with an unremitting succession of terrific moments, if not the soaring, sustained stretches of Sleeper.” – Newsweek Jan 19, 2024 Full Review The Last Picture Show (1971) 98% EDIT “The Last Picture Show is a masterpiece. It is not merely the best American movie of a rather dreary year; it is the most impressive work by a young American director since Citizen Kane. ” – Newsweek Oct 26, 2023 Full Review Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) 60% EDIT “The questions remains: did the studio ruin an interesting film, or did it merely try to salvage a hopelessly muddled one? Whatever the case, the movie is a misshapen mess. ” – Newsweek Jun 8, 2022 Full Review Serpico (1973) 93% EDIT “Al Pacino is destined to become the next big American film star. The proof lies in his ability to transform so mediocre a cop movie as Serpico into a glittering showcase for his growing talents.” – Newsweek Feb 10, 2022 Full Review Don't Look Now (1973) 93% EDIT “Roeg, for all his artiness and tricks, succeeds in creating a dark and frightening experience unlike anything ever filmed.” – Newsweek Feb 10, 2022 Full Review Papillon (1973) 73% EDIT “It is a tournament of brutality unrelieved by imagination.” – Newsweek Feb 10, 2022 Full Review The Sting (1973) 93% EDIT “Like its heroes, the film succeeds on charm and con. Newman and Bedford radiate a charismatic appeal that tilts the movie in their favor.” – Newsweek Feb 10, 2022 Full Review Young Frankenstein (1974) 95% EDIT “This black-and-white parody of the Karloff classic is the most cinematically assured, coherent and (relatively speaking) tasteful of Brooks's films.” – Newsweek Feb 10, 2022 Full Review The Front Page (1974) 57% EDIT “Sadly, the movie strongly suggests that Wilder is out of touch with the temper of the times.” – Newsweek Feb 10, 2022 Full Review Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) 77% EDIT “Peckinpah saddles his themes with so many sordid sideshows and so many privative and private obsessions that, in the end, it is about nothing so much as the strange, special world of Peckinpah's own psyche.” – Newsweek Nov 2, 2021 Full Review Cries and Whispers (1972) 92% EDIT “That this magnificent movie had difficulty finding an American distributor reflects the sad decline over the past decade reflects the sad decline over the past decade of this country's interest in serious work by the best foreign filmmakers.” – Newsweek Nov 2, 2021 Full Review The Godfather, Part II (1974) 96% EDIT “Somehow this beautifully made, intermittently exciting film never pulls us once and for all into its own world. But its ambition, vision and artistic courage make it more marvelous than anything we might have expected from that ill-fated form, the sequel.” – Newsweek Apr 6, 2021 Full Review Carnal Knowledge (1971) 89% EDIT “Nichols has broken thoroughly now with his stage beginnings, integrating camera and action easily, using space and silence with the fluency of a man at home behind a lens.” – Newsweek Feb 12, 2020 Full Review Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) 92% EDIT “Heilman's heroes remain insulated from us by their own failures to feel. We are part of the world they pass through invisibly -- and so they remain as foreign and opaque as ever.” – Newsweek Feb 12, 2020 Full Review Fortune and Men's Eyes (1971) 57% EDIT “For all its failings, Fortune and Men's Eyes remains a powerful and often shocking film.” – Newsweek Feb 12, 2020 Full Review McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) 85% EDIT “A fitfully fascinating failure.” – Newsweek Nov 1, 2007 Full Review
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