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William B. Collins

William B. Collins's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Wiz (1978) 38% EDIT “The weakness in Lumet's method lies in the clash that sometimes occurs between the real and the fanciful.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Nov 17, 2025 Full Review The Conversation (1974) 94% EDIT “As a mystery, the film is pretty trashy, relying on a clue which ends up different from the way you remember it. But, as a character study, the picture is wholly absorbing, thanks to another of Gene Hackman's extraordinarily authentic performances.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Lady Sings the Blues (1972) 73% EDIT “The onetime lead vocalist of the Supremes [Ross] shows an amazing range as an actress, triumphing astonishingly in a movie which is nothing to brag about otherwise.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 5, 2024 Full Review Little Big Man (1970) 91% EDIT “There's this to be said for Little Big Man: watch the movie long enough and, sooner or later, you'll see something you like... [But] director Arthur Penn has not been able to pull this picaresque yarn together into a satisfying whole.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Nov 10, 2023 Full Review The Last Picture Show (1971) 98% EDIT “The movie gets to you quietly. You are likely to succumb to its melancholy spell without knowing quite why. But you realize, with absolute certainty, that you are watching something extraordinary in the way of filmmaking. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 25, 2023 Full Review The Exorcist (1973) 78% EDIT “The sign of the Devil is all over the film, which survived strange troubles in the two years of its making to emerge as a creation of infernal inspection -- cunning, shocking, obscene, outrageously bold and immorally spellbinding. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Sep 27, 2023 Full Review Macbeth (1971) 78% EDIT “There are excellences in this Macbeth that would be beyond tamer talents. The play has been translated from the stage to the screen with a movement, a rhythm and a visual impact unique to the medium. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jul 21, 2023 Full Review Fiddler on the Roof (1971) 81% EDIT “In passage from stage to screen, the musical has gained a little and it has lost a little. On balance, the film is a successful translation. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer May 16, 2023 Full Review Theater of Blood (1973) 88% EDIT “A frequently amusing exercise in camp horror that misses being wholly satisfying because it has too many people to kill. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Sep 27, 2022 Full Review The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970) 85% EDIT “A certain amount of ingenuity lifts The Bird with the Crystal Plumage above the run-of-the-mill murder mystery. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Sep 27, 2022 Full Review Andy Warhol's Trash (1970) 80% EDIT “The film tends to make scavengers of its audience. Scabrous as it is, Trash has moments of poignancy and others of sheer farce. But you have to rescue them from the rubbish yourself.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Sep 21, 2022 Full Review The Sting (1973) 93% EDIT “Our interest is directed less to the people we meet than to the step-by-step construction of the trap, a process which exerts neither less nor more fascination than a book on how to cheat at cards. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Aug 8, 2022 Full Review Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) 82% EDIT “With a gross touch which wavers between bedroom farce and satire, a picture called Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice exploits the sexual revolution's arrival in the middle class.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 15, 2022 Full Review A Warm December (1973) EDIT “Once you are let in on the secret, there isn't much to do but enjoy the suffering and there is something just as dishonest about that as there is about booby-trapping an audience.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 14, 2022 Full Review The Day of the Jackal (1973) 91% EDIT “As the tension rises, you feel terribly helpless. You just have to sit there and let it happen. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 14, 2022 Full Review Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) 60% EDIT “The picture is asking what profiteth it a man to get along if he has to kill his friends. Not a bad question, but it is not asked with any rigor. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 14, 2022 Full Review Buck and the Preacher (1972) 84% EDIT “With Poitier doing another of his more-dignified-than-thou characterizations, it falls to Belafonte to put some life into the picture. This he does, most amusingly.” – Philadelphia Inquirer May 27, 2022 Full Review Midnight Cowboy (1969) 89% EDIT “Midnight Cowboy leaves a person out of breath, feeling sad and kind of washed out but, at the same time, as if something beautiful had taken place right in front of everybody -- a vision of tender truth in unlikely circumstances.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Mar 10, 2022 Full Review The Heartbreak Kid (1972) 92% EDIT “Funny at first, this treatment grows progressively uglier until something resembling a sense of shame makes you want to look away.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 22, 2022 Full Review A New Leaf (1971) 94% EDIT “[A New Leaf] is a certain remedy for the glooms which currently afflict us. It is a very funny movie for most of the way.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 10, 2022 Full Review The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) 98% EDIT “It's as if director Peter Yates regretted all the excitement he whipped up in "Bullitt" and wanted to make an understatement. He has succeeded too well.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Aug 24, 2021 Full Review The Hot Rock (1972) 83% EDIT “A crazily funny show with satisfying measures of wit and ingenuity in cunning combination.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 23, 2021 Full Review Scorpio (1973) 59% EDIT “"Scorpio" is a swell example of its kind, a story about spies who spy on each other, a dagger under everyone's cloak and suspicion endemic.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 3, 2021 Full Review The French Connection (1971) 97% EDIT “There are times in The French Connection when you feel you'll be lucky to get home alive.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 15, 2021 Full Review The Godfather (1972) 97% EDIT “Practically everything has been done right in this version of Mario Puzo's best-selling novel about the Mafia. The picture hews to a strong narrative line that keeps an audience looking forward eagerly to what will happen next.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Mar 29, 2021 Full Review
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