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A.D. Murphy

A.D. Murphy's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Chinatown (1974) 98% EDIT “Richard Sylbert’s production design is magnificent. The Paramount release, first to bear the producing credit of production chief Robert Evans, has money written all over it.” – Variety Mar 8, 2024 Full Review Taxi Driver (1976) 89% EDIT “It’s a powerful film, an excellent credit for Scorsese, and a terrific showcase for the versatility of star Robert De Niro.” – Variety Feb 23, 2012 Full Review Born Free (1966) 88% EDIT “Gerald L. C. Copley has done a first rate adaptation of the true story of Joy Adamson, who with hubby George involuntarily domesticated several pet lions.” – Variety Jul 6, 2010 Full Review Shaft (1971) 88% EDIT “Excellent cast, headed by newcomer Richard Roundtree, may shock some audiences with heavy dose of candid dialog and situation.” – Variety Mar 26, 2009 Full Review Saturday Night Fever (1977) 82% EDIT “Travolta's characterization, given the script and directorial demands, is okay. It will please the already-committed; but it won't win him any new fans.” – Variety Mar 5, 2009 Full Review Rocky (1976) 93% EDIT “There are occasional flashes that the film may be patronizing the lower end of the blue-collar mentality, as much if not more than the characters who keep putting Rocky down on the screen. However, Avildsen is noted for creating such ambiguities.” – Variety Feb 20, 2009 Full Review The Sting (1973) 93% EDIT “Extremely handsome production values and a great supporting cast round out the virtues.” – Variety Feb 19, 2008 Full Review In the Heat of the Night (1967) 96% EDIT “An excellent Sidney Poitier performance, and an outstanding one by Rod Steiger, overcome some noteworthy flaws to make In The Heat of the Night an absorbing contemporary murder drama.” – Variety Feb 19, 2008 Full Review Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% EDIT “A magnificent film. George Lucas set out to make the biggest possible adventure fantasy out of his memories of serials and older action epics, and he succeeded brilliantly.” – Variety Feb 19, 2008 Full Review One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 93% EDIT “Jack Nicholson stars in an outstanding characterization of Ken Kesey's asylum anti-hero, McMurphy, and Milos Forman's direction of a superbly-cast film is equally meritorious.” – Variety Feb 19, 2008 Full Review The Godfather, Part II (1974) 96% EDIT “The Paramount release has everything going for it.” – Variety Feb 19, 2008 Full Review The Godfather (1972) 97% EDIT “The biggest achievement here is the establishment of mood and time.” – Variety Jan 29, 2008 Full Review A Man for All Seasons (1966) 89% EDIT “Producer-director Fred Zinnemann has blended all filmmaking elements into an excellent, handsome and stirring film version of A Man For All Seasons.” – Variety Jan 29, 2008 Full Review The Exorcist (1973) 78% EDIT “The Exorcist is an expert telling of a supernatural horror story. The well cast film makes credible in powerful laymen's terms the rare phenomenon of diabolic possession.” – Variety Sep 21, 2007 Full Review Doctor Zhivago (1965) 82% EDIT “One of the most meticulously designed and executed films.” – Variety Aug 13, 2007 Full Review American Graffiti (1973) 95% EDIT “There is brilliant interplaying and underplaying, of script, performers and direction which will raise howls of laughter from audiences, yet never descends on the screen to overdone mugging, pratfall and other heavy-handed devices normally employed.” – Variety Jun 27, 2007 Full Review Jaws (1975) 97% EDIT “The fast-moving 124-minute film engenders enormous suspense as the shark attacks a succession of people.” – Variety Jun 27, 2007 Full Review THX-1138 (1971) 84% EDIT “With political paternalism rampant at both extremes of the spectrum, Lucas is onto something. In any case, we'll know for sure in about a generation.” – Variety Jun 5, 2007 Full Review Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 91% EDIT “A daring film concept which in its special and technical effects has been superbly realized.” – Variety Jun 5, 2007 Full Review A Clockwork Orange (1971) 86% EDIT “Stanley Kubrick's latest film takes the heavy realities of the 'do-your-thing' and 'law-and-order' syndromes, runs them through a cinematic centrifuge, and spews forth the commingled comic horrors of a regulated society.” – Variety May 8, 2007 Full Review Network (1976) 90% EDIT “This is a bawdy, stops-out, no-holds-barred story of a TV network that will, quite literally, do anything to get an audience.” – Variety Feb 13, 2001 Full Review The Graduate (1967) 87% EDIT “A delightful, satirical comedy-drama.” – Variety Feb 13, 2001 Full Review Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) 71% EDIT “Examines its subject matter with perception, depth, insight, humor and feeling” – Variety Feb 13, 2001 Full Review
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