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July 31, 1975
Say It with Music
Nashville, The Fortune, and Jaws: the perils and rewards of making it big.
Author
Katharine Lowry
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June 30, 1975
Wanderers East, Wanderers West
Day of the Locust, French Connection II, The Passenger: doing some hard traveling.
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April 30, 1975
It’s a Steal
Frank Perry used a lot of hackneyed material in his new film, but Neil Simon just ripped off his own.
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March 31, 1975
Cleaning Up the Act
Both Warren Beatty and Ellen Burstyn are going to wash that malaise right out of their hair.
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February 28, 1975
Doiní the Monster Mashed
The new Frankenstein is a horror movie. Unfortunately, it wasn’t intended to be.
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February 1, 1975
An Offering You Canít Refuse
Godfather II is one sequel that’s as good as the original.
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January 1, 1975
Talk on the Wild Side
Both human and natural eruptions inspire some disasters, but a quietly poetic film moves the most.
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December 1, 1974
Fiends and Lovers
A love affair that is so real it hurts; and one that hurts so much it’s unreal.
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November 1, 1974
Go West, Old Man
Gambling and growing old, odd subjects for films, odd films for those subjects.
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September 30, 1974
Who’s Minding the Gore?
Blood-and-guts movies take a back seat to a film about a pushy kid on the way up.
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June 30, 1974
When All the Laughter Turned to Sap
All these movies have something missing; it didn’t take Sam Spade to find it.
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May 31, 1974
From Badlands to Worselands
Gatsby is not a complete disappointment while an unheralded little movie about Texas looks great.
Maim!
Another big money musical is another disaster and cop stories are a too-familiar tune.
Comic Cowboys and Other Heroes
Cops, sci-fi, and westerns get served up as leftovers, and only one still tastes good. Meanwhile, Robert Altman has another dazzling film.
Devil Without a Cause
Lots of spooky movies this month as a new reviewer takes the wheel.