Publications list

Punch

Punch is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer^® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Dilys Powell.

Rating	Title \| Year	Author	Quote
	Apocalypse Now (1979)	Dilys Powell	It really is an extraordinary film. Finely played, yes; but somehow the normal terms of reviewing seem out of place. It is as a huge shadow of the merciless and the horrible that it asks to be judged; it has the size for that. Posted Sep 23, 2024 Edit critic review
	Alien (1979)	Dilys Powell	Alien is far from the customary exercise in disgust; it is a thriller which makes its points through passages of horror -- by my reckoning three passages; and the tension is enjoyable because so much is left to the imagination. Posted Nov 16, 2023 Edit critic review
	Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)	Dilys Powell	I find Who Framed Roger Rabbit a deplorable development in the possibilities of animation -- and a melancholy waste of the gifts of one of our most gifted actors. Posted Oct 02, 2023 Edit critic review
	Fanny and Alexander (1982)	Dilys Powell	For over two hours one watched, spellbound, a story of two children enclosed in the memories and the experiences of their elders. But really it is the birth of the Ingmar Bergman cinema which one is watching. Posted Oct 02, 2023 Edit critic review
	Plenty (1985)	Dilys Powell	Plenty is a film alive with ideas. Posted Oct 02, 2023 Edit critic review
	The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)	Dilys Powell	Two themes, dramatic and emotional, two love-stories which run parallel, coincide, fuse, part company again -- it is the matching and balancing of the two which, as one reflects on The French Lieutenant’s Woman first surprises. Posted Oct 02, 2023 Edit critic review
	Breaker Morant (1980)	Dilys Powell	Why do I recommend an experience which is uncomfortable, even painful? That is the question I ask myself after Breaker Morant. Posted Oct 02, 2023 Edit critic review
	Manhattan (1979)	Dilys Powell	The film, shot in deeply satisfying black and white, has the nervous tension and the romantic excitement of a beloved city. Posted Oct 02, 2023 Edit critic review
	The Deer Hunter (1978)	Dilys Powell	A great deal is left not to the dialogue but to performance, and one is grateful to the direction, at once sensitive and powerful, of Michael Cimino. And grateful for his splendid cast. Posted Aug 10, 2022 Edit critic review