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Philip Strick

Philip Strick's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Point Break (1991) 68% EDIT “Oddly lightweight in cast, as though the theme belonged to some departed race of Hollywood giants, Point Break usefully resists the temptation to act as a vehicle for Patrick Swayze,” – Sight & Sound Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Tron (1982) 60% EDIT “For those who would have favoured less spectacle and more substance, the saving grace of Tron is its humour. Lisberger's script carries a mocking edge that trims away most of the pretensions and just leaves the fun.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Oct 6, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) 77% EDIT “With its anything-goes script supported by Leslie Nielsen's urbane mugging, this is an appealing rag-bag of the ribald and the ridiculous, showing only the slightest signs of running out of steam.” – Sight & Sound Jul 23, 2025 Full Review 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 90% EDIT “If there was any doubt that space travel will be the most spectacular of mankind's future, "Space Odyssey" is the definitive affirmation that every last coin spent on the space race will be worth it. ” – Sight & Sound Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% EDIT “Characteristic of Altman's work, Nashville swings unpredictably between a certain kind of overkill and, at the other extreme, scenes of quite appealing delicacy, mostly derived from the beautiful performances of a whole range of unfamiliar faces.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Alien 3 (1992) 44% EDIT “Completing the unforeseen trilogy, this is a sad and incoherent non sequitur.” – Sight & Sound Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Schindler's List (1993) 98% EDIT “A near-documentary, brilliantly designed and choreographed, [and] a character study in which Ralph Fiennes, the winningly urbane Liam Neeson, and the magnificently impassive Ben Kingsley attain a memorable dramatic intensity.” – Sight & Sound Apr 15, 2021 Full Review Topaz (1969) 68% EDIT “Whatever doubts there may be about what drew Hitchcock to the novel by Leon Uris, there is no doubt at all that he enjoyed enormously the rearrangement of it to suit himself.” – Sight & Sound May 13, 2020 Full Review EDIT “[Zbigniew] Cybulski and Harriet Andersson may not have understood much of each other's language but they plainly enjoyed the larking around, the pantomime, and the funny faces.” – Sight & Sound Apr 2, 2020 Full Review The Fixer (1968) 56% EDIT “If [director] John Frankenheimer occasionally shows uncharacteristic signs of letting the story ride along as best it can, [Alan] Bates ensures that it never loses its force.” – Sight & Sound Mar 31, 2020 Full Review Places in the Heart (1984) 90% EDIT “[The] story has the fond hues and textures of instant nostalgia, cosily wrapped in the Sunday rituals of the film's leisurely start and outrageously sentimental finish.” – The Times (UK) Mar 23, 2020 Full Review Contes Immoraux (1974) 75% EDIT “The film ends on the infant's cheerful face... it's the perfect conclusion.” – Sight & Sound Mar 19, 2020 Full Review Mr. Klein (1976) 100% EDIT “[Director Joseph] Losey has created a wholly admirable work of art.” – Sight & Sound Mar 19, 2020 Full Review Justine (1969) EDIT “It is a sorry irony that from writings so concerned with actuality should emerge so many lifeless fragments.” – Sight & Sound Mar 18, 2020 Full Review Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) 60% EDIT “Where Wild Bunch used brute force, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid favours elegy; the effect is less shattering, but the tone of savoured melancholy is just as haunting. ” – Sight & Sound Mar 18, 2020 Full Review The Shooting (1967) 100% EDIT “Heilman a master in the art of putting his camera, quite unpredictably, in the right place at the right time. He matches the absorbing imprecision of his subject with a spectacular precision of technique” – Sight & Sound Feb 12, 2020 Full Review Faust (1994) 73% EDIT “Svankmajer finally renders their quest so inconsequential, deflecting himself time and again into other rituals and amusements.” – Sight & Sound Feb 6, 2020 Full Review Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 83% EDIT “If the revels of Star Wars are indeed now ended, Jedi couldn't have been a better resolution for them.” – Sight & Sound Dec 17, 2019 Full Review Alien (1979) 93% EDIT “This gorgeous, leisurely horror film expresses a spectacularly British xenophobia, a parenthetical nightmare of invasion envisioned between an awakening (at the start of the film) and a return to sleep (at its close).” – Sight & Sound Mar 4, 2019 Full Review Before the Revolution (1964) 93% EDIT “The style, the narrative and the message may not be particularly revolutionary in themselves, but Bertolucci as a director with enormous promise is still in there, pitching away.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Feb 22, 2017 Full Review The Sixth Sense (1999) 86% EDIT “Constantly on the brink of explanation, The Sixth Sense in fact derives most of its fascination from explaining next to nothing.” – Sight & Sound Jun 18, 2012 Full Review Virus (1999) 14% EDIT “Virus makes another loud and colourful case for the special-effects epidemic.” – Sight & Sound Jul 6, 2010 Full Review Mission to Mars (2000) 23% EDIT “There's some throwaway fancy camerawork at the beginning and a repeat of his shock-shot trick from Raising Cain, but otherwise De Palma's own ride appears to be largely on autopilot.” – Sight & Sound Dec 2, 2002 Full Review The Patriot (2000) 61% EDIT “The main irony, of course, lies in the film's title, which suggests that the absurdly flag-waving activist should be taken at face value despite the ample evidence that defending his country is the last thing on his mind.” – Sight & Sound Dec 2, 2002 Full Review The Limey (1999) 92% EDIT “The film is subtly stolen by Amelia Heinle, joining such actresses as Andie MacDowell, Elisabeth Shue, Betsy Brantley and Jennifer Lopez as the latest in a line of Soderbergh's saving graces.” – Sight & Sound Dec 2, 2002 Full Review
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