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Paul Taylor

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Dune (1984) 36% EDIT “For all my half-hearted hedging, I can see Lynch's Dune lasting the repertory course a lot longer than Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings or Fred Haines' Steppenwolf. ” – Financial Times May 4, 2022 Full Review The Last Starfighter (1984) 76% EDIT “An engaging enough comic fantasy for the post-'60s generation who've given up entirely on the Gutenberg Galaxy and are tracking Horatio Alger's footsteps via the video circuitry route. ” – Financial Times May 3, 2022 Full Review The Legacy (1979) 19% EDIT “Dumps its statutory American leads (Katharine Ross and Sam Elliott) into a hardly-stirred plot-pot of diabolic conspiracy - and slowly congeals.” – Time Out Jul 31, 2021 Full Review Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) 100% EDIT “A curious but highly entertaining hybrid.” – Time Out Sep 7, 2020 Full Review A Love in Germany (1983) 55% EDIT “The sheer accumulation of contextual detail overwhelms and diminishes the narrative of amour foil at the film's centre.” – Financial Times Mar 24, 2020 Full Review Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) 83% EDIT “Arzner's internal critique of Hollywood ideology (woman as silent object of male scrutiny). It works within the confines of a stock vaudevillian golddiggers comedy-drama.” – Time Out Sep 28, 2015 Full Review Fighting Back (1982) 20% EDIT “There's political conscience somewhere in the script which places its hero as a blood-lust racist and an opportunist politico, but it's all too easily drowned by the crowd-pleaser set pieces of 'righteous' revenge.” – Time Out Jul 28, 2015 Full Review Fitzcarraldo (1982) 77% EDIT “Herzog charts an ironically circular course around an indulged, benevolent Aguirre; perversely illuminates colonialism with surrealism; and demonstrates once again in his always suspect yet somehow irresistible way that 'only dreamers move mountains'.” – Time Out Nov 17, 2011 Full Review Alien (1979) 93% EDIT “The limited strengths of its staple sci-fi horrors always derived from either the offhand organic/ Freudian resonances of its design or the purely (brilliantly) manipulative editing and pacing of its above-average shock quota.” – Time Out Aug 16, 2007 Full Review Hooper (1978) 57% EDIT “Director Needham (an ex-stuntman himself) slips effortlessly into a lightweight satire of the movie biz and an almost Hawksian action-comedy of male-group professionalism.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) 93% EDIT “Kaufman here turns in his most Movie Brattish film, but soft-pedals on both his special effects and knowing in-jokiness in a way that puts De Palma to shame.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) 50% EDIT “Characteristically elephantine Big Top epic from DeMille, thumped across with a winning brashness and garnering the veteran showman his first Best Picture Oscar.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review A Kiss Before Dying (1956) 100% EDIT “Wagner is perfect as the college kid psycho coolly removing the pregnant Woodward from his life.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Hello, Dolly! (1969) 43% EDIT “The Jerry Herman score is unmemorable, Michael Kidd's choreography is foreshortened to accommodate yards of additional dialogue by Ernest Lehman, and the rest is Streisand capably doing her thing in a series of plushily colossal sets.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Man of the West (1958) 95% EDIT “A superb Western, exemplifying Mann's capacity for integrating his interest in spectacle with a resonant narrative.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Scarface (1932) 98% EDIT “Its seminal importance in the early gangster movie cycle outweighed only by its still exhilarating brilliance, this Howard Hughes production was the one unflawed classic the tycoon was involved with.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Point of Order (1963) 100% EDIT “de Antonio's debut feature is perhaps the purest expression of his analytical approach to documentary and the 'media-event'.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Mommie Dearest (1981) 50% EDIT “Really no dafter, perhaps, than some of Joanie's own Warner Bros melodramas; the trouble is, it thinks it's Art.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) 87% EDIT “The net effect, between embarrassed guffaws, is incredulity: a movie at once post-TV and pre-DW Griffith.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970) 63% EDIT “A grim demonstration of the inadequacies of liberal compromise over the institutional conflicts of class and colour.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Promoter (1952) 50% EDIT “Complacent class-based British comedy.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Blume in Love (1973) 70% EDIT “There's only so much mileage to be gained from glossing the '50s Hollywood sex comedy with 'sophisticatedly' ambivalent light satire.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Chapter Two (1979) 50% EDIT “The success of Neil Simon movies is dispiriting evidence that most people still watch with their ears. 'Seen one, seen 'em all' quite literally applies to his static exercises in theatrical smart-talk and unfailing wit-under-pressure.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Lili Marleen (1981) 50% EDIT “Elaborate proof that the devil really does have all the best tunes.” – Time Out Jun 3, 2006 Full Review Torn Curtain (1966) 63% EDIT “An above-average quota of glaringly shaky process work; but at least one classic sequence of protracted violence in a farmhouse kitchen.” – Time Out Feb 9, 2006 Full Review
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