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Stefan Kanfer

Stefan Kanfer's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Little Big Man (1970) 91% EDIT “The '70s has its first great epic. Blood brother to the 1903 one-reeler, The Great Train Robbery, Little Big Man is the new western to begin all westerns.” – TIME Magazine Nov 10, 2023 Full Review A New Leaf (1971) 94% EDIT “A New Leaf may be the first film in which Matthau is miscast.” – TIME Magazine Feb 10, 2022 Full Review The Music Lovers (1971) 59% EDIT “No matter how miserable his actual life, the classical composer tends to suffer in a new way on film.” – TIME Magazine Jan 14, 2019 Full Review The Reckoning (1969) EDIT “[Williamson's] sooty origins have become as nothing to the putrefaction of his workdays. That is the master actor's detailed and tragic interpretation, the only justification needed to see the” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review Sunflower (1970) EDIT “Chetnal fortuna-the pornography of sex cannot be replaced by the opera of soap.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review Plaza Suite (1971) 67% EDIT “In Arthur Hiller's rigid transcription of Neil Simon's Broadway one-acters set in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, Matthau essays not one part but three. Each is unique, all are achingly comic.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review A Severed Head (1971) EDIT “"Ambiguous," appropriately, has definitions. It means "capable of understood in two or more senses." also means "uncertain, especially obscurity or indistinctness." A Severed Head leaps for the category and lands in the second.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review This Man Must Die (1969) 100% EDIT “This Man Must Die is as full of intelligence as a seminar and as suspenseful as a series of passes at Monte Carlo.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review Waterloo (1970) 27% EDIT “As for the golden history and legend, they lie buried beneath this delayed replay of a primer on strategy.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review They Might Be Giants (1971) 61% EDIT “The pretense cannot mask the film's pusillanimous ideas.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review Black Jesus (1968) EDIT “For years Strode, a former Los Angeles Ram, has hovered on the periphery of films waiting for a movie adequate to his talents. He is still marking time.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970) EDIT “At 31, Miles knows everything worth knowing about actors, if not about film. His water and fire symbols and andante flashbacks are modish and imprecise, but he makes his cast function with the proficiency and timing of a London rep company.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review The Andromeda Strain (1971) 69% EDIT “Despite its trappings, the plot employs nothing but the conventional weaponry of the grade-B thriller.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review THX-1138 (1971) 84% EDIT “Despite his scenes of bland horror, Lucas offers the 25th century as a arch, campy place, a conception not satiric enough to be accepted as comedy and not quite insightful enough to be taken seriously.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) 42% EDIT “With the exception of Zohra Lampert's subtle and knowledgeable performance, no one in the cast has enough substance even to be considered humanoid.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review Blind Terror (1971) 63% EDIT “If [Farrow] displays a narrow emotional range, that is less the fault of the actress than of the film makers.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review Ramparts of Clay (1970) EDIT “Its politics have been diverted by the villagers and bleached by the African sun. If this evocative work manages to "sell" anything, it is the idea of Jean-Louis Bertucelli, 28, as a director of fresh and major significance.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review The Night Visitor (1970) 13% EDIT “Laslo Benedek's methodical direction and Henning Kristiansen's astonishing photography-a gothic mix of melancholy blue landscapes and pale, crumbling interiors-only serve to underline the film's deficiency, the utter lack of logic.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review The Anderson Tapes (1971) 75% EDIT “Unfortunately, failed comedy and vigorous suspense are handcuffed together for the entire trip.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review Genocide (1981) EDIT “In this film, memory and ambition ultimately collide. The 6 million deserve more than dire prophecy and less than an overproduction.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review Death in Venice (1971) 70% EDIT “Visconti takes the veneer and calls it furniture. With infinite tedium, he pores over every facet of Tadzio's Botticelli visage.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review Shinbone Alley (1971) EDIT “I especially liked two songs flotsam and jetsam and the title number they seemed to catch what you called the golden nonsense of the heart.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review The Phantom Tollbooth (1969) 100% EDIT “The youthful viewer and his parents should overlook Phantom Tollbooth's flaws and concentrate on the film's underlying moral.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review Cry Uncle (1971) EDIT “Director John G. Avildsen directs his actors in the same manner that a red light may be said to direct patrons. No matter. Pornography is customarily, in Nabokov's fine phrase, a copulation of clichs.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review Valdez Is Coming (1971) EDIT “[Valdez] Is Coming offers little besides its star.” – TIME Magazine Feb 8, 2018 Full Review
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