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Molly Haskell

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Movies TV Shows
Rollerball (1975) 56% EDIT “So confused and so poorly articulated is Jewison's vision of the future, that it's hard to know what the message is.” – Village Voice Jun 5, 2025 Full Review The Stepford Wives (1975) 55% EDIT “In trying to be more than science fiction, in aspiring to social commentary, "The Stepford Wives" winds up less.” – Village Voice May 1, 2025 Full Review Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975) 34% EDIT “Every time Furie's relentlessly dreary movie gets anywhere near a laugh, it immediately swerves and plunges into bathos.” – Village Voice Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Capone (1975) 32% EDIT “The primary reason for seeing Capone... is Ben Gazzara's interpretation of the gangster... he plays Capone like an animal afflicted with hypertension.” – Village Voice Apr 8, 2025 Full Review One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 93% EDIT “As for Nicholson, he is nothing short of miraculous. ” – Village Voice Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Jaws (1975) 97% EDIT “It is a thriller, according to the classic distinction, of surprise rather than suspense. You feel like a rat, being given shock treatment, who has not yet figured out what to do to call off the buzzers.” – Village Voice Jul 2, 2024 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% 3/4 EDIT “An unusual and richly rewarding viewing experience.” – Video Review Nov 29, 2023 Full Review Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) 92% EDIT “"Alice" has been put together in so obvious an attempt to answer the womanless or woman-hating films of today, that I only wish I could have liked it more than I do. ” – Village Voice Oct 12, 2023 Full Review Play It as It Lays (1972) 64% EDIT “The movie shares the book's anesthetized quality, but without the acute sensory awareness of a person going under, and with only a little of its hard, brittle humor.” – Village Voice Sep 28, 2023 Full Review Macbeth (1971) 78% EDIT “Polanski sacrifices the reverberation of anticipation and memory for the chills of immediate moment. But he gains in momentum, so that we never have the sense of coming to a halt at the Great Soliloquies, like a tourist bus before the monuments of a city.” – Village Voice Jul 21, 2023 Full Review Crossing Delancey (1988) 82% EDIT “The implausible and the irresistible come joyfully together.” – Vogue May 16, 2023 Full Review Funny Lady (1975) 55% EDIT “When the show hits the road, first in its bloated "draft" form, with sketches that would make the great Ziegfield groan, then in its final, Fanny-polished version, it literally falls to, or into, pieces.” – Village Voice Feb 10, 2023 Full Review A Passage to India (1984) 77% 3/4 EDIT “David Lean's adaptation of E.M. For- ster's great Anglo-Indian novel is, for a great deal of its 2 1/2-hours running time, an exceptionally fine and civilized movie, almost a great one.” – Video Review Jan 19, 2023 Full Review Platoon (1986) 89% EDIT “Platoon makes us understand in the most savagely dramatic terms that this was a war in which we fought not the enemy, but ourselves, both in 'Nam and at home.” – Vogue Aug 19, 2022 Full Review A Summer Story (1988) 80% 3/4 EDIT “This story of a tragic betrayal of a loving heart rolls with the inexorable force of a runaway railway train as it unfurls one unforgettable image after another of unrequited commitment.” – Video Review Aug 5, 2022 Full Review Nadine (1987) 55% 3/4 EDIT “Writer-director Benton’s feeling for the endless surprises of domestic intimacy (Kramer vs. Kramer) and the built-in resilience of Southern communal life (Places in the Heart) come together in this lighthearted mock-thriller.” – Video Review Aug 5, 2022 Full Review No Way Out (1987) 92% 4/4 EDIT “This stunning thriller about a murder and an elaborate cover-up in present-day Washington power circles was one of the best movies of 1987 and, to my mind, an all-time classic.” – Video Review Aug 5, 2022 Full Review The Bostonians (1984) 81% 3/4 EDIT “Ivory, working in concert with his longtime producer-partner Ismael Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, possesses an abundance of those civilized virtues we could use more of in everyday life but that are often a handicap in making movies.” – Video Review Aug 5, 2022 Full Review The Parallax View (1974) 87% EDIT “The Parallax View is a movie of splendid bits and pieces disappointingly strung together.” – Village Voice Apr 20, 2022 Full Review Don't Look Now (1973) 93% EDIT “It is a film in which everything seems to have been sacraficed for pictorial effect.” – Village Voice Apr 20, 2022 Full Review The Heartbreak Kid (1972) 92% EDIT “Elaine May's second feature is a funny and sometimes side-splitting whose whole never approaches the success of its best moments in which the two levels of romantic fantasy and satire are reconciled.” – Village Voice Apr 20, 2022 Full Review A New Leaf (1971) 94% EDIT “The picture as it now stands is very funny indeed, but more charming than uproarious, and quite surprisingly romantic.” – Village Voice Apr 20, 2022 Full Review A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969) 95% EDIT “The joys are more leisurely. For instance we can watch the gradual formation of Charlie Brown's crinkle smile and some well-timed slow reactions.” – Village Voice Apr 20, 2022 Full Review Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) 79% EDIT “Despite a genuinely resonant performance by Ken Ogata as the mature Mishima, what finally emerges is a psychological drama without a Rosebud, a puzzle that, when all the pieces fall neatly into place, leaves us cold. ” – Vogue Apr 7, 2022 Full Review The Age of Innocence (1993) 87% EDIT “This is a magical tribute to a long-gone world. And in the tradition of the great films of romantic heartbreak, it leaves us in an after- glow of yearning.” – Ladies' Home Journal Aug 4, 2021 Full Review
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