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Parallax View

Parallax View is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Andrew Wright, Richard T. Jameson, Robert Horton, Sean Axmaker, Tom Keogh.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Bite the Bullet (1975) Richard T. Jameson It’s particularly gratifying to see Candice Bergen assimilated painlessly into the structure of film and events as a hard-riding contender who turns out to have something besides her gender in store as a surprise.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Supervixens (1975) Richard T. Jameson SuperVixens is pretty hard to take.
Posted Apr 10, 2025  Edit critic review
At Long Last Love (1975) Richard T. Jameson Only the relatively beeline pursuit of reluctant gentleman’s gentleman Hillerman by maid–cum–Eve Arden soulmate Brennan has any narrative potency.
Posted Mar 15, 2025  Edit critic review
The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) Richard T. Jameson Thematically Hill goes through the motions.
Posted Feb 27, 2025  Edit critic review
The Horse Whisperer (1998) Robert Horton A handsome still life, bloodless and schematic.
Posted Nov 28, 2023  Edit critic review
High Sierra (1941) Rick Hermann Story and reality so often become mixed in 'High Sierra' that it’s hard to separate the two ...
Posted Jun 03, 2022  Edit critic review
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) Sean Axmaker Give (director Marc Webb) credit for the terrific chemistry between Garfield and Stone, but otherwise this rehash that added nothing new to what was becoming a familiar formula.
Posted Jun 03, 2022  Edit critic review
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) Richard T. Jameson Eddie Coyle works as Yates's earlier films do not. It works because Yates's habitually uncommitted point-of-view is appropriate to the seasoned, didactic monotone of George V. Higgins's novel.
Posted Aug 24, 2021  Edit critic review
The Outside Man (1973) Richard T. Jameson The Outside Man is a lifeless movie, bereft even of cult interest.
Posted Apr 16, 2021  Edit critic review
Slap Shot (1977) Richard T. Jameson One of the film's unexpected bonanzas is a clutch of beautifully realized female roles.
Posted Sep 21, 2017  Edit critic review
The Night Stalker (2016) Sean Axmaker It's the story of Richard Ramirez, who was branded The Night Stalker during his 14 month reign of terror... but it's just as much about how his actions reverberated through the culture of Southern California.
Posted Sep 19, 2017  Edit critic review
Out 1, Noli Me Tangere (1971) Sean Axmaker Out 1 is Rivette redux. His engagement with actors is there on the screen, creating energy even in simple conversational scenes, and they are co-conspirators in his hide-and-seek stories...
Posted Apr 15, 2016  Edit critic review
The Visit (2015) Kathleen Murphy Working Hitchcockian elements of existential terror into a grotesque Hansel and Gretel fairy tale, Shyamalan has delivered a satisfyingly scary old-school hair-raiser that's smart, funny, and deeply disturbing.
Posted Sep 11, 2015  Edit critic review
Listen to Me Marlon (2015) Kathleen Murphy [Stevan] Riley explores the seductive, dangerous business of acting, using one of its greatest and most conflicted practitioners as case history.
Posted Aug 20, 2015  Edit critic review
Colorado Territory (1949) Peter Hogue Colorado Territory is closer to the melancholy romantic ballad on an outlaw couple than High Sierra is, but it is also richer in social ironies.
Posted Jun 23, 2015  Edit critic review
Freedom to Die (1959) Sean Axmaker ... a searing portrait of young soldiers unprepared for the realities of war thanks to the fantasies of Nazi propaganda.
Posted Jun 23, 2015  Edit critic review
High Sierra (1941) Sean Axmaker Bogie settles into the role of leathery prohibition era gangster Roy “Mad Dog” Earle with real authority, giving this veteran criminal a sense of lived history knocking about from heist to heist and arrest to release.
Posted Jun 21, 2015  Edit critic review
The Silence of the Sea (1949) Sean Axmaker Melville called it an "anti-cinematic" film, and he creates the expressiveness in what remains unspoken, the glances and gestures that take on grand drama in the minimalist presentation.
Posted Jun 21, 2015  Edit critic review
Around the World with Orson Welles (1955) Sean Axmaker Welles foregrounds the machinery of moviemaking, reminding us that he's brought a crew with him, and he manipulates his documentary footage as aggressively as he does in his fictional storytelling.
Posted Jun 21, 2015  Edit critic review
The Trial (1962) Sean Axmaker The legal system is a literal maze in Welles' visualization and the disparate locations all lead back to one another.
Posted Jun 20, 2015  Edit critic review
Mr. Arkadin (1955) Richard T. Jameson Arkadin was, according to one of his business rivals, "a phenomenon of an age of dissolution and crisis." The world of Mr. Arkadin aptly reflects such an age.
Posted Jun 20, 2015  Edit critic review
Mr. Arkadin (1955) Sean Axmaker Arkadin was, according to one of his business rivals, "a phenomenon of an age of dissolution and crisis." The world of Mr. Arkadin aptly reflects such an age.
Posted Jun 20, 2015  Edit critic review
Only Angels Have Wings (1939) Peter Hogue Only Angels Have Wings is one of Hawks's "male adventurer" films, but it is also one of his comedies-and is perhaps best understood as such.
Posted Jun 20, 2015  Edit critic review
Still Alice (2014) Sean Axmaker It's the kind of performance that doesn't just support a film, it gives the film its breath of life.
Posted Jun 20, 2015  Edit critic review
Moonlighting (1982) Richard T. Jameson Moonlighting is the kind of film that had me marveling throughout how anyone ever came up with such a great idea for a movie and, having come up with it, proceeded to realize that idea so completely ...
Posted Jun 20, 2015  Edit critic review
The Premature Burial (1962) Sean Axmaker Like most of Corman's Poe films, the script (this one by Charles Beaumont and Ray Russell) borrows little more than the central idea and the title from Poe. This one owes a debt to Gaslight and Diabolique
Posted Jun 20, 2015  Edit critic review
Day of the Outlaw (1959) Sean Axmaker ... one of the toughest, most tension-filled pictures from Andre de Toth, a studio filmmaker who could be counted on to bring a savage edge to his assignments.
Posted Jun 20, 2015  Edit critic review
Amarcord (1973) Rick Hermann "I remember." Perhaps that's slightly misleading if you regard memory as purely objective recollection, which this movie obviously isn't.
Posted Jun 20, 2015  Edit critic review
Scenes From a Marriage (1973) Rick Hermann In Scenes from a Marriage we are only infrequently offered relief from the claustrophobic intimacy resulting from Bergman's preoccupation with the faces of Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson.
Posted Jun 20, 2015  Edit critic review
Young Frankenstein (1974) Richard T. Jameson ... Brooks reveal(s) himself a true obsd and an honorable heir to the eerily delicate comic-horror tradition of James Whale.
Posted Jun 20, 2015  Edit critic review
Red Army (2014) Sean Axmaker The sports story is also our entry into a culture, and this hockey film provides no less than a sideways look into the way that communist USSR controlled its athletes...
Posted Jun 20, 2015  Edit critic review
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Richard T. Jameson I'm as fond of "production values" as the next fellow, maybe fonder, but I don't wish to be force-fed them by a soulless dietitian who knows what I as a consumer ought to want.
Posted Jun 20, 2015  Edit critic review
La polizia ha le mani legate (Killer Cop) (Portrait of a 60% Perfect Man) (The Police Can't Move) (1975) Sean Axmaker The northern capital of Milan, the symbol of modernity and progress in the Italian cinema of the 50s and 60s, is the epitome of official corruption and the urban mob in the crime cinema of the 70s.
Posted Jun 20, 2015  Edit critic review
Mark of the Devil (1970) Sean Axmaker An early entry in the "sex and sadism" genre, this is an exploitation film with an intelligence behind it, but an exploitation film nonetheless...
Posted Apr 25, 2015  Edit critic review
Vice and Virtue (1963) Sean Axmaker ... the titillating title that Roger Vadim gave to his 1963 take on two Marquis de Sade stories, "Justine" and "Juliette," which he reframed as a morality play set in Nazi-occupied France.
Posted Apr 25, 2015  Edit critic review
Bellissima (1951) Sean Axmaker ... this is about ruthless competition to break into show business with Anna Magnani as the working-class woman turned aggressive stage mother ...
Posted Apr 25, 2015  Edit critic review
La Terra Trema (1948) Sean Axmaker It's as if Sicily has existed in a bubble, unchanging for a century as sons take over the boats of their fathers and children apprentice at their feet, taking their place in "a hopeless slavery."
Posted Apr 25, 2015  Edit critic review
Rancho Deluxe (1975) Richard T. Jameson I have to be on the side of any film in which Harry Dean Stanton is ordered to "Hoover the Navajos"-i.e., vacuum-clean the Indian rugs.
Posted Apr 25, 2015  Edit critic review
The Immigrant (2013) Sean Axmaker One of the wonders of the film is how Gray reveals unexpected depths and dimensions of these characters throughout their journeys.
Posted Apr 25, 2015  Edit critic review
Sadie Thompson (1928) Peter Hogue Swanson's Sadie Thompson is immediately a complex, electrifying presence in the film ...
Posted Apr 25, 2015  Edit critic review
Ride the Pink Horse (1947) Sean Axmaker The film is both tough and touching, with crackling dialogue (scripted by the great Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer) and stylized scenes...
Posted Apr 25, 2015  Edit critic review
The Bowery (1933) Peter Hogue Occasionally it seems designed as a weepy vehicle for Jackie Cooper and Wallace Beery, but it's also a delightfully uncouth period piece with much of the rough comedy of earlier Walsh films...
Posted Apr 25, 2015  Edit critic review
Me and My Gal (1932) Peter Hogue Me and My Gal is almost a series of parties given in and around a story about a young cop courting a waterfront waitress ...
Posted Apr 25, 2015  Edit critic review
Furious 7 (2015) Peter Hogue The Cock-eyed World is a plodding, heavyhanded and rather entertaining sequel, with sound, to What Price Glory?.
Posted Apr 25, 2015  Edit critic review
White Heat (1949) Peter Hogue White Heat with James Cagney as Cody Jarrett is a veritable cauldron of violent masculine passion.
Posted Apr 25, 2015  Edit critic review
High Sierra (1941) Peter Hogue ... it's often an appealing film and its misfires seem more those of attempted innovation rather than of strained seriousness.
Posted Apr 25, 2015  Edit critic review
The Roaring Twenties (1939) Peter Hogue While The Roaring Twenties is hardly a definitive history of an era, its chronicle... has a sharp bite socially and more than a touch of tragic vision.
Posted Apr 25, 2015  Edit critic review
Days of Wrath (2008) Sean Axmaker Day of Anger is another reminder of why Lee Van Cleef became a major spaghetti western star. He doesn't just dominate Day of Anger (1967), he owns the film..
Posted Apr 25, 2015  Edit critic review
They Drive by Night (1940) Peter Hogue Manpower is a kind of paradox. It is full of relentlessly silly antics, and yet it also has an abundance of Walshian delights.
Posted Apr 25, 2015  Edit critic review
The Strawberry Blonde (1941) Peter Hogue The Strawberry Blonde is unusually domestic for a Walsh film, and rather sentimental to boot.
Posted Apr 25, 2015  Edit critic review
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