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Christopher Hudson

Christopher Hudson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Lady Sings the Blues (1972) 73% EDIT “The film is about Billie Holiday. And the qualities that lay behind her supremacy as a jazz singer -- her timing, inflection and voice timbre -- Diana Ross tries, and necessarily fails, to reproduce. ” – The Spectator Apr 4, 2024 Full Review Little Big Man (1970) 91% EDIT “All the acting is good, the photography outstanding, and the pace kept up from beginning to end. Underneath the higher purpose there is a film well worth seeing.” – The Spectator Nov 10, 2023 Full Review Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) 81% EDIT “Valerie and her Week of Wonders, a Czech film about an adolescent girl and her fantasies about vampirism, is so fey and kitsch as hardly to be retained upon the retina, let alone survive in the memory.” – The Spectator Oct 7, 2020 Full Review The Canterbury Tales (1971) 60% EDIT “Canterbury Tales is a caricature, utterly lacking in poetry of human feeling, which cannot be excused by Pasolini's ignorance of Chaucer or the contempt he affects for the prudery of the society he lives in.” – The Spectator Apr 30, 2020 Full Review The Day of the Jackal (1973) 91% EDIT “All of this the cinema is properly and effectively equipped to handle. Zinnemann, with the help of an excellent script from Kenneth Ross, has tansferred the novel lock, stock, barrel and silencer to the screen.” – The Spectator Apr 24, 2020 Full Review Revenge (1971) 0% EDIT “Joan Collins and James Booth are unconvincing even on this low level; and the best talent, Sinead Cusack, is thrown away in a minor part.” – The Spectator Mar 17, 2020 Full Review The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun (1970) 20% EDIT “In attempting to ingratiate itself with everyone, the film manages to appeal to nobody.” – The Spectator Mar 17, 2020 Full Review The Candidate (1972) 89% EDIT “[The Candidate] is the best film about American electioneering politics since The President's Analyst.” – The Spectator Jun 29, 2018 Full Review Murmur of the Heart (1971) 94% EDIT “The film is funny, attractive, and worthwhile.” – The Spectator Jun 13, 2018 Full Review Blanche (1971) EDIT “The grave and measured unfolding of the tragedy, the remoteness of the setting and the beautiful, precise camerawork add up to something more sinister, an enigma rich and indecipherable.” – The Spectator Dec 12, 2017 Full Review Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) 38% EDIT “[Hitler: The Last Ten Days] offers neither instruction nor entertainment.” – The Spectator Dec 12, 2017 Full Review Fiddler on the Roof (1971) 81% EDIT “All I can say is that a very good stage show has, for me, been transformed into an equally good work of cinema.” – The Spectator Nov 17, 2017 Full Review Man of La Mancha (1972) 53% EDIT “For the most part [Peter O'Toole] and Sophia Loren as Dulcinea fight the unwinnable fight against the assassins of Cervantes's reputation.” – The Spectator Nov 17, 2017 Full Review Play It Again, Sam (1972) 97% EDIT “Play It Again, Sam, is another demonstration of the comedian's self-obsessed, self-abusive humour. It is almost continuously funny in a brittle way. But the sour, allusive, intellectual witticisms begin to lose their pith” – The Spectator Nov 17, 2017 Full Review Jeremiah Johnson (1972) 91% EDIT “Anyone who likes looking at Robert Redford or mountain landscapes or both will be very happy.” – The Spectator Nov 17, 2017 Full Review Walkabout (1971) 86% EDIT “Walkabout has a good script by Edward Bond, and is directed and stunningly photographed by Nicolas Roeg.” – The Spectator Oct 19, 2016 Full Review Twins of Evil (1971) 79% EDIT “Part of the fascination lies in the variations on the familiar typology.” – The Spectator Oct 19, 2016 Full Review Hands of the Ripper (1971) 88% EDIT “Part of the fascination lies in the variations on the familiar typology.” – The Spectator Oct 19, 2016 Full Review The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) 88% EDIT “No film can be all bad which opens in a vast Art Deco chamber... with Vincent Price, masked, cloaked and hooded, rising out of the floor at the keyboard of a Wurlitzer organ playing Cole Porter melodies.” – The Spectator Oct 19, 2016 Full Review Beyond the Law (1968) EDIT “There is a perfectly sensible massacre at the end, with Lionel Stander, here a decayed preacher, giving one of his gruesome dying performances which anyone who saw Polanski's Cul-de-Sac will remember him for.” – The Spectator Oct 19, 2016 Full Review Live and Let Die (1973) 67% EDIT “As fastpaced and snappily entertaining a piece of claptrap as we have a right to expect.” – The Spectator Oct 23, 2015 Full Review A Doll's House (1973) EDIT “The photography is superb (the Norwegian setting makes little difference to either play), and Losey's direction is marred only by an occasional over-insistence in the editing.” – The Spectator Oct 23, 2015 Full Review Don't Look Now (1973) 93% EDIT “Roeg's expertly conceived visual metaphors sustain a powerful foreboding.” – The Spectator Sep 28, 2015 Full Review The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972) EDIT “The film is a humdinger, not to be missed.” – The Spectator Sep 28, 2015 Full Review A Touch of Class (1973) 86% EDIT “[Glenda Jackson] is a rivetingly good actress, able to turn the shallowly-defined character of Melvin Frank's screenplay into a woman of some depth and complexity.” – The Spectator Sep 27, 2015 Full Review
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