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Stanley Eichelbaum
Stanley Eichelbaum's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Movies reviews only
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Planet of the Apes (1968) |
Exactly what good science-fiction entertainment should be -- an interesting conjecture about the future, sardonically influenced by the way man is behaving today. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted May 01, 2024
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Dog Day Afternoon (1975) |
It's a superlative, terrifically entertaining work, fraught with the excitement of a thriller, but enriched with spellbinding layers of sociological and psychological interest. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Apr 07, 2024
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Lady Sings the Blues (1972) |
It may not be a top-notch film, but it's an important one and Miss Ross' remarkably fine screen debut makes it well worth seeing. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Apr 05, 2024
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Chinatown (1974) |
The plot of Chinatown just misses the fascinating beat of first-rate works in the genre. It's a well-made film, however, rich in the thirties' atmosphere. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Mar 08, 2024
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Grease (1978) |
A raucous, gaudy, nonsensical rendering of the stage musical, and it's neither better nor worse than the original, which left me cold and unimpressed. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Feb 08, 2024
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Little Big Man (1970) |
Penn was able to interrelate comedy and killing with surprising sensitivity in Bonnie and Clyde. But in Little Big Man, he's clearly lost his delicate touch with the same sort of mixture. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Nov 10, 2023
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The Last Picture Show (1971) |
It's like a 1950s movie, though basically more honest, markedly unsentimental and uniquely realistic. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Oct 25, 2023
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) |
Scorsese amply fulfills the promise he showed with his very different previous feature, Mean Streets. He's done remarkably well with "Alice," which only shows up weaknesses in some shoddy plotting. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Oct 12, 2023
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Taxi Driver (1976) |
The director has created a highly effective profile of an incipient killer and De Niro's portrayal of the obsessively mad Travis is terrifically convincing. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Oct 06, 2023
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The Exorcist (1973) |
If The Exorcist doesn't knock you out of your seat, it's only because you'll be too stunned to move. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Sep 27, 2023
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Macbeth (1971) |
Intense, compelling and weirdly beautiful, it rakes up horrors few of us would permit ourselves to see in Shakespeare's bloody tragedy. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jul 21, 2023
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Phantom of the Paradise (1974) |
Just to untangle the operatic story requires more effort than it's worth. De Palma tends to overplay his hand, not only with plot, but with tricky technique. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jun 27, 2023
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Girlfriends (1978) |
Melanie Mayron's portrayal of Susan is so real that it hurts... We've seen Mayron before, but not in a major role, and she's wonderfully persuasive. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Fiddler on the Roof (1971) |
It pains me to report that the longest-running musical in Broadway history (and, for my money, the best) has been pickled -- rather than adapted for the screen -- in a brine of roadshow mediocrity. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted May 16, 2023
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3 Women (1977) |
The film is beautifully made and can't be dismissed, especially in the poignant reality of its more lucid sequences. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Apr 04, 2023
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Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) |
The film has strong moments, but it's stretched too thin, and would have been far more effective if it were half as long. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Mar 02, 2023
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Flower Drum Song (1961) |
Unadulterated musical entertainment. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Feb 27, 2023
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Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) |
Yet, despite certain familiar hearts-and-flowers flaws in Rod Sterling's screenplay, this is an extraordinarily appealing picture. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Feb 08, 2023
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The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970) |
The Mystery plot is about as substantial as soap bubbles and it's hardly mystifying.
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| Posted Sep 26, 2022
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Andy Warhol's Trash (1970) |
Their dialogue -- inarticulately and tediously improvised -- makes one hunger for the most rudimentary script. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Sep 21, 2022
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Bedazzled (1967) |
Disregard the shortcomings of Bedazzled and enjoy it for what it is -- a light, frothy entertainment done with great verve and charm. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Sep 15, 2022
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A Man for All Seasons (1966) |
It is a film to satisfy the most discriminating taste, since it enriches the mind and stirs the emotions, while at the same time, skillfully reconstructing an important chapter from English history -- one that has pertinence in our age of conformity. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Sep 06, 2022
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The Deer Hunter (1978) |
Whatever your politics, I can't see how you can fail to be riveted, drained and deeply affected by this extraordinary anti-war movie. Its merits are considerable, and the acting very compelling, especially by De Niro and Walken. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Aug 30, 2022
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A Raisin in the Sun (1961) |
So satisfying, so intensely moving, and so sensitively performed. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Aug 23, 2022
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Barefoot in the Park (1967) |
The springy and idiotic elan of the play has diminished. It's been consumed, weighted down or stretched by new business, new jokes, new faces and places the inevitable "opening up" of a one-set theater piece for a movie. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted May 02, 2022
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) |
I found the ending, with its heavily rigged tragedy and trite metaphors, neither believable nor very moving... [But] in its better moments, [One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest] is hilariously and potently effective. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Mar 09, 2022
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Oliver! (1968) |
I thought it more effective on the stage, even though I enjoyed the film, which is big and lavish and fetchingly melodic. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Mar 03, 2022
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The Heartbreak Kid (1972) |
The flaws may be jarring. But the film has great merit and is as diverting as anything I've seen in the past year. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Feb 22, 2022
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Cleo From 5 to 7 (1961) |
While one is immediately drawn toward the originality, beauty and perception of Agnes Varda's technique of cinema, the French movie maker has strapped herself with an impossible assignment... For all her adventurous efforts, [Cleo] does not come off. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Feb 17, 2022
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A New Leaf (1971) |
There are endlessly long takes and scenes so static and talky, we're consumed by tedium. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Feb 09, 2022
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My Fair Lady (1964) |
Just get yourself a ticket, for this is as nearly perfect a movie as Hollywood has ever crafted. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Feb 09, 2022
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In the Heat of the Night (1967) |
It's quite a good movie -- forceful and interesting -- directed with much punch and pertinence by Norman Jewison. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Feb 02, 2022
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The Sandpiper (1965) |
The tritely-contrived story is rather difficult to digest. And the Burtons, who are unquestionably dynamic performers, deserve something more than a trying little tale of adultery that many will identify with the stars' off-screen image. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Nov 24, 2021
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Hair (1979) |
No matter how you look at it, Hair is dated, and the efforts by Forman to turn it into a '60s' fable -- a fondly remembered period piece -- is only moderately effective. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Nov 08, 2021
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Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) |
The dialogue is the worst within memory, so ridiculous that it invites explosions of laughter at its most serious and high-flown moments. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Oct 26, 2021
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Seconds (1966) |
Hudson, however, can't be blamed for the story going to pot. It never does regain the hypnotic appeal of the initial sequences. Yet Hudson actually turns in the most forcefully convincing performance of his career. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Sep 23, 2021
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Bad Company (1972) |
While the film has the merit of originality and contains some adroitly written moments of ironic tragicomedy, it fails ultimately, mostly because it's entirely too replete with commercial ingredients to command our respect, or even our involvement. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Sep 22, 2021
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Kwaidan (1964) |
In the course of the film, Kobayashi treats us to an unrivaled visual experience. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Sep 20, 2021
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The Day of the Locust (1975) |
Schlesinger's film tends to be diffuse, choppy and unwieldy. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Sep 12, 2021
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The Big Fix (1978) |
If you can accept Dreyfuss In a role inherited from Humphrey Bogart, you'll have no problem liking the film. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Sep 01, 2021
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The One and Only (1978) |
[A] silly, old-fashioned comedy directed with canny relish by Carl Reiner. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Aug 31, 2021
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Plaza Suite (1971) |
I found most of the film flatly uninspired and too mechanically locked into the wordy comedy that worked so much better on the stage. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Aug 29, 2021
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Blue Collar (1978) |
The film suffers from the flimsy justification for much that happens. But if we're confused, we're never bored, for this is a work of more than unusual Interest. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Aug 21, 2021
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Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975) |
Jeannie is cold and hasn't the inner glow the appeal and magnetism that an actress needs to carry a film. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Aug 17, 2021
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Peeper (1975) |
The... fun is rather limited, mainly because W.D. Richter's script is too pedestrian to allow for bristling, or even sparkling comedy. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Aug 06, 2021
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The Hot Rock (1972) |
What "The Hot Rock" lacks in originality, it more than makes up for in lively and engaging fun. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jun 23, 2021
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The Late Show (1977) |
A contemporary comedy thriller that doesn't so much spoof the old genre as reexamine it with sharp, witty, and fond regard. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jun 14, 2021
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Charley Varrick (1973) |
Siegel's expertise with crime melodrama brings a fine, gripping, suspenseful quality to the story, which is, alas, too defective to stand up to any scrutiny. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jun 11, 2021
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Save the Tiger (1973) |
Jack Lemmon gives the truest, most convincing performance of his career in "Save the Tiger," a vividly affecting film about middle-aged survival. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Jun 11, 2021
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California Split (1974) |
Altman's funniest, most satisfying film since "MASH." - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted May 19, 2021
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