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Colin Bennett

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Peeper (1975) 30% EDIT “Quite early on, the endless weak plot complications and soon become a heavy millstone around its neck.” – The Age (Australia) Nov 22, 2025 Full Review The Wiz (1978) 38% EDIT “No myth-making magic here.” – The Age (Australia) Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Death Race 2000 (1975) 80% EDIT “It makes its satirical points economically, with great stunting, and at 1 1/4 hours does not outstay its welcome despite the gory carnage on the roads.” – The Age (Australia) Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Hennessy (1975) EDIT “Two-thirds of the film are a rather dull warm-up.” – The Age (Australia) Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Superman: The Movie (1978) 88% EDIT “Reeve manages a satirical edge at the expense of Superman's self-righteous, goody-goody perfection. He handles the cartoon-bubble dialogue with just the right range of knowing expressions.” – The Age (Australia) Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Rollerball (1975) 56% EDIT “This mock-serious, fashionable, feeble "protest" against barbarity in leisure and sterility in life feeds on its own brutality, almost as though it were programed as a two-hour commercial to popularise a new sport.” – The Age (Australia) Jun 5, 2025 Full Review Night Moves (1975) 78% EDIT “This is a most intriguing film, if ultimately inconclusive and unsatisfactory. ” – The Age (Australia) May 28, 2025 Full Review The Stepford Wives (1975) 55% EDIT “Its characterisation is mostly dull, and visually it is uneventful, to say the least.” – The Age (Australia) May 2, 2025 Full Review Brannigan (1975) 48% EDIT “It's a modestly holding slice of cops and robbers.” – The Age (Australia) Apr 12, 2025 Full Review Supervixens (1975) 49% EDIT “Evidently Russ now has pretentions to caricature, if not satire -- on dirty cops and aggressively liberated women. He strives for a super-comic. All he manages is a kind of vicious facetiousness.” – The Age (Australia) Apr 11, 2025 Full Review 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 90% EDIT “The film gives a graphic impression, as no predecessor has done, of the relative magnitude of the craft and the limitless universe itself.” – The Age (Australia) Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Capone (1975) 32% EDIT “This is skin-deep stuff... no new light is shed on the underworld king, or the 1920s” – The Age (Australia) Apr 8, 2025 Full Review Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 92% EDIT “There are uninspired lapses... and there are rich and hilarious moments of the absurd. A review cannot help turning into a catalogue of the hits rather than the misses.” – The Age (Australia) Apr 1, 2025 Full Review At Long Last Love (1975) 22% EDIT “With one toneless exception this cast cannot even enunciate, although the wit of the Porter lyrics demands to be heard distinctly.” – The Age (Australia) Mar 25, 2025 Full Review Tommy (1975) 71% EDIT “I only wish the astonishing Mr. Russell would not lay on the symbols quite so thick... so that any soul-searching message had a chance to emerge through the non-stop clamor.” – The Age (Australia) Mar 18, 2025 Full Review The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) 51% EDIT “If you give a genuinely bitter role to Jack Lemmon, he will make it too disturbingly real for comfort.” – The Age (Australia) Mar 7, 2025 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% EDIT “Mostly an exhilarating experience -- funny, deadly satire, rich in pieces of character the feeling of immediacy. I have seldom gone all the way with the off-beat Robert Altman. But I accept this juggled jigsaw as a splendidly original statement.” – The Age (Australia) Feb 27, 2025 Full Review The Yakuza (1974) 49% EDIT “Director Sydney Pollack makes the most of... periodic eruptions and bloody gun and swordplay.” – The Age (Australia) Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Aloha, Bobby and Rose (1975) EDIT “The film never reaches any heights as comedy, has limited appeal as pop lore and an ending far too arbitrary for any pretensions to tragedy.” – The Age (Australia) Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% EDIT “The film is little more than a static illustration of a work of literature, drama so swamped in harmonious decoration that it only just holds our attention for three hours.” – The Age (Australia) Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Barbarella (1968) 65% EDIT “Everyone except sciene-fiction and Vadim fanatics will find it a load of absolute rubbish. ” – The Age (Australia) Feb 12, 2025 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% EDIT “Shampoo reminds me of all those films against violence which cashed in on all the violence they could muster. This one is exploiting the very trendiness it condemns.” – The Age (Australia) Feb 10, 2025 Full Review Wedding in Blood (1973) 88% EDIT “Claude Chabrol makes the same film several times a year. The film is as confident and precise as ever but, as the French say, deja vu. ” – The Age (Australia) Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Themroc (1973) EDIT “In this happily subversive affair, the words are gibberish, the gestures Tatiesque and the fantasising entertainingly topsy-turvy. ” – The Age (Australia) Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Mean Streets (1973) 92% EDIT “Despite vivid playing by Robert De Niro as the wildest and most self-destructive of them, relationships are not developed very far. Violence finally swamps them -- a brutal slaying which tries to elevate banal characters to some kind of heroic status.” – The Age (Australia) Sep 24, 2024 Full Review
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