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Russell Davies

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Cooley High (1975) 83% EDIT “A weird mixture of crazy laughs and intensely grubby realism. ” – Observer (UK) Aug 15, 2025 Full Review Rollerball (1975) 56% EDIT “Between bouts of action, the pace is dreadfully slow, and Caan mumbles intolerably as he gropes towards the final act of defiance.” – Observer (UK) Jun 5, 2025 Full Review Funny Lady (1975) 55% EDIT “The narrative songs purpose-built for the film are inept. ” – Observer (UK) Apr 24, 2025 Full Review The Deep (1977) 38% EDIT “The fact is that Peter Yates has knocked himself out doing masterly underwater action sequences and aquatic stunts in the service of a woefully crummy book.” – Observer (UK) Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% EDIT “I'd better leave the subject to the millions of children who will shortly be experts on it. This is a pre-sold success; but also, for my taste, a pre-digested one. ” – Observer (UK) Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Brannigan (1975) 48% EDIT “The liveliest sequence is a mock Western brawl in a London market pub. It would be distractingly silly in a better film, but in a comedy thriller-star vehicle there is no such thing as unity of tone.” – Observer (UK) Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Capone (1975) 32% EDIT “Ben Gazzara is too small and dapper for the title role.” – Observer (UK) Apr 8, 2025 Full Review Rancho Deluxe (1975) 62% EDIT “You are left with the feeling that the creative team has turned on its own product halfway through and sent it up hugely -- which is always an uncomfortable feeling, however hearty the stray laughs involved.” – Observer (UK) Mar 27, 2025 Full Review Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) 87% EDIT “Eddie Albert, Ray Milland and Donald Pleasance play the adults with nicely varied degrees of crustiness.” – Observer (UK) Mar 19, 2025 Full Review Tommy (1975) 71% EDIT “It is best not to join in the comic-book soul-searching of 'Tommy," but to take pleasure in the film's sometimes astonishing surfaces.” – Observer (UK) Mar 19, 2025 Full Review The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) 60% EDIT “Only the stunts really work; the emotions... come straight from the days of those old trapeze-dramas -- will he ever do the triple-somersault into the bucket of whitewash again?” – Observer (UK) Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Sharon's Baby (1975) EDIT “The uttermost gunk.” – Observer (UK) Feb 27, 2025 Full Review The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975) 33% EDIT “People love the idea of coming back, and The Reincarnation of Peter Proud exploits it just well enough to do good business. A moment's reflection, though, reveals it to be nonsense, and J. Lee Thompson's direction leaves plenty of reflecting time.” – Observer (UK) Feb 27, 2025 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% EDIT “As it strums and yowls along, the film is excellent and thought-provoking entertainment, made up of some remarkable individual efforts.” – Observer (UK) Feb 27, 2025 Full Review The Yakuza (1974) 49% EDIT “Sydney Pollack, directing, uncharacteristically wastes a lot of time on ideological expositions which events make plain, and in general the two-hour tale could do with a good trim.” – Observer (UK) Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “An honest first feature for the director, but an umpteenth money-spinning re-run for the star, Charles Bronson.” – Observer (UK) Feb 25, 2025 Full Review A Woman Under the Influence (1974) 86% EDIT “The film seems to me to go badly wrong... The optimistic ending, in the circumstances, is a joke.” – Observer (UK) Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% EDIT “The world Kubrick presents, for all its masterminded oneness, is spacious enough to allow one's imagination to roam free. But mine got lost. The knack of distinguishing an important scene from a 'merely' beautiful one gradually deserted me.” – Observer (UK) Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% EDIT “The biggest danger inherent in an ambitious statement about superficial people is successfully avoided: though the entire cast of characters is steeped in an atmosphere of derision, audiences will find their interest sustained by laughter.” – Observer (UK) Feb 10, 2025 Full Review Innocents From Hell (1973) EDIT “Examining my conscience, I now find I would rather be incensed by Ken Russell than bored witless by Anne Heywood and a clutch of Mother Inferior in thrall to lusts so oft-implied and so feebly stated.” – Observer (UK) Sep 24, 2024 Full Review The Conversation (1974) 94% EDIT “I must say it is good to see the director of The Godfather putting the proceeds of that vastly overrated epic of mumble-and-bang to such good and articulate use.” – Observer (UK) Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Lucky Lady (1975) 25% EDIT “The picture simply won't commit itself to any register or mood. ” – Observer (UK) Jul 2, 2024 Full Review Jaws (1975) 97% EDIT “Go on, then, you might as well see it once -- of all the civilian-panic pictures so far made, it's quite the most economical.” – Observer (UK) Jul 2, 2024 Full Review Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 91% EDIT “At this rate, [Steven Spielberg] will end up an unsurpassed master of demagogic techniques, but he will have nothing to say, and no respect for the people's he's supposedly saying it to.” – Observer (UK) Apr 3, 2024 Full Review Caravan to Vaccares (1974) 0% EDIT “I like the Camargue region, I don't see how you can help liking Charlotte Rampling, and I hadn't anything against Alistair Maclean either, until now. But this flimsy nonsense... ruins one's every appetite.” – Observer (UK) Mar 8, 2024 Full Review
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