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Richard Combs

Richard Combs's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Bite the Bullet (1975) 69% EDIT “Both visually and dramatically the film is constantly receding, since Brooks seems to doubt that he can convey what he means except by making sleeve-tugging speeches.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Death Race 2000 (1975) 80% EDIT “Paul Bartel's comic conceits and the general parodying of the super hype and/hushed awe of sports commentating, are themselves too shakey to hold the movie together.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Halloween (1978) 97% EDIT “It is one of the cinema’s most perfectly engineered devices for saying ‘Boo!’; it is also a good illustration of director John Carpenter’s philosophy of film and audience involvement.” – Sight & Sound Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “Hill's own dull direction and Charles Bronson's familiar demonstration of a kind of bone-weary invincibility effectively reduce the film to a monolithic star portrait.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Sep 27, 2025 Full Review Night Moves (1975) 78% EDIT “In keeping with the fragmentary, allusive nature of Sharp's script, Penn gives a discontinuous episodic feeling to the film.” – Sight & Sound May 29, 2025 Full Review Brannigan (1975) 48% EDIT “When not making tiresome, overstated work of his sight-seeing, Douglas Hickox directs in a busy but characterless style.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Apr 12, 2025 Full Review Capone (1975) 32% EDIT “Capone settles for hanging everything on one star performance.” – Financial Times Apr 8, 2025 Full Review At Long Last Love (1975) 22% EDIT “It may have been Bogdanovich's intention to produce something with the lightness and whimsicality of Minnelli, but the end results looks peculiarly as if a very Altman-esque conceit had been buried within a William Wyler epic.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Mar 25, 2025 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% EDIT “The principal sophistication of Shampoo -- indeed the major play round which its casual jigsaw of social comedy is built -- is never to allow its general and personal themes too intertwine to obviously.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% EDIT “Barry Lyndon emerges as perhaps Kubrick's most intensely human spectacle, comparable to Paths of Glory in its tragic confrontations that seem to throw whole worlds into the balance with individual lives.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Raging Bull (1980) 92% EDIT “What is most remarkable about the new rigour of Raging Bull is that it tells La Motta's story with both complete realism and total subjectivity. In a way that leaves them difficult to disentangle... each is even made to seem a function of the other.” – Sight & Sound Oct 10, 2023 Full Review Taxi Driver (1976) 89% EDIT “Its method is to construct a series of steel traps for its hero, all of which have firmly shut before the film is half over, though Scorsese's grandstanding and Schrader's Bressonian pretensions continue to push for moments of religious transcendence.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Oct 5, 2023 Full Review The Color Purple (1985) 73% EDIT “Overall, what Spielberg has done to The Color Purple combines the spare drive of The Searchers and the gloomy lushness of Doctor Zhivago. ” – Sight & Sound May 25, 2023 Full Review Salvador (1986) 90% EDIT “Of Stone's two recent films, Salvador is the most remarkable, if only for its drive and sense of attack, its willingness to deal in current politics as directly as it does. ” – Sight & Sound Aug 22, 2022 Full Review Platoon (1986) 89% EDIT “Platoon evokes Vietnam more intensely than any previous film, and at the same time drowns it in all the particularities, infused by boredom, exhaustion, terror, of what it meant to fight there. ” – Sight & Sound Aug 22, 2022 Full Review Cockfighter (1974) 100% EDIT “Cockfighter looks as sleek an item - and almost as exploitable - as any of the company's recent work in the girl gang prison revolt cycle, and far less bizarre than the two Westerns which [Roger] Corman allowed [director Monte] Heilman to make.” – Sight & Sound Apr 2, 2020 Full Review The Last Waltz (1978) 98% EDIT “At its best the style of The Last Waltz, at once kaleidoscopic and concentrated, discursive and fixated, distils more about its subject and its times (and about its maker and his obsessions) than the impressionism of cinema verite.” – Sight & Sound Mar 31, 2020 Full Review The Last Wave (1977) 78% EDIT “Unfortunately, Weir's deftness with 'atmosphere' seems to have been developing at the expense of any narrative or thematic sense.” – Sight & Sound Mar 31, 2020 Full Review The Morning After (1986) 61% EDIT “The Morning After is, for a romantic thriller, perhaps over-burdened with possible patterns.” – Sight & Sound Mar 27, 2020 Full Review The Exorcist (1973) 78% EDIT “The film continually struggles to suggest through atmosphere what it promises but fails to provide in substance.” – Sight & Sound Mar 27, 2020 Full Review The Day of the Dolphin (1973) 44% EDIT “A glibly sour and sentimental thriller.” – Sight & Sound Mar 27, 2020 Full Review Winter Kills (1979) 88% EDIT “Richert gives the film a hard, bright surface -- this is not a seductive fantasy, it's more of the sarcastic, take-it-or-leave-it kind.” – Sight & Sound Mar 24, 2020 Full Review Demon Seed (1977) 57% EDIT “Very uncomfortably directed: the performances are stilted and metallic (whatever is supposed to be assumed about robots taking over), and the perfunctory visuals leave the ramshackle plotdangerously over-exposed.” – Sight & Sound Mar 19, 2020 Full Review Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (1972) EDIT “In the comic context of A Gorgeous Bird Like Me, a good deal of the savour is lost simply because this femme comes over as much less fatale than may have been intended.” – Sight & Sound Mar 18, 2020 Full Review Woyzeck (1979) 86% EDIT “What Herzog does is to make his own contrary film inside the original, elevating Jonathan Harker from functionary to dual protagonist.” – Sight & Sound Mar 17, 2020 Full Review
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