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Clancy Sigel

Clancy Sigel's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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EDIT “[Lina Braake is an] understated, gently funny German film about an eighty-one-year-old lady who swindles the bank which evicted her from her apartment.” – The Spectator Jun 29, 2020 Full Review Obsession (1976) 77% EDIT “Obsession is a laughably bad film. So bad, in fact, that it becomes almost interesting to speculate on why all the critical enthusiasm.” – The Spectator Jun 29, 2020 Full Review Goodbye, Norma Jean (1976) EDIT “[A] cheap, ugly film.” – The Spectator Jun 29, 2020 Full Review Cooley High (1975) 83% EDIT “A tender and shrewd look at Chicago high school kids in the 1960s.” – The Spectator Mar 26, 2019 Full Review Orca (1977) 10% EDIT “And so, encouraged by someone in the film company once having read a comic-strip version of Melville, Orca slides inexorably down to a sea of slosh where Moby Dick and other symbolic mammals lurk.” – The Spectator Mar 26, 2019 Full Review A Star Is Born (1976) 37% EDIT “The dialogue is surpassingly mawkish, and Barbra Streisand's performance is a non-stop aria of self-regarding cuteness. In short, A Star Is Born is a real stinkeroo which wastes a potentially good idea.” – The Spectator Oct 3, 2018 Full Review Rocky (1976) 93% EDIT “The power of Rocky lies in its audacity in breaking free of currently fashionable despair and paranoia in order to shout from the rooftops: "The American Dream works!"” – The Spectator Feb 28, 2018 Full Review Fellini's Casanova (1976) 58% EDIT “Fellini's Casanova held me for its entire two hours and forty-three minutes.” – The Spectator Dec 11, 2017 Full Review King Kong (1976) 55% EDIT “However much we laughed, I resented the film's tendency to nudge and wink at us.” – The Spectator Mar 14, 2017 Full Review The Marquise of O... (1976) 80% EDIT “What is unarguable is Rohmer's mastery of the discreetly erotic.” – The Spectator May 3, 2016 Full Review Pumping Iron (1977) 92% EDIT “This kind of sweetly numbskull arrogance is cleverly caught by Pumping Iron which depicts Mr Olympia as a beauty, not body, contest.” – The Spectator Feb 16, 2016 Full Review The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) 82% EDIT “It's good clean British fun.” – The Spectator Oct 23, 2015 Full Review The Devil's Playground (1976) 100% EDIT “An outstandingly good Australian import.” – The Spectator Oct 23, 2015 Full Review Nasty Habits (1976) 40% EDIT “Nasty Habits is both too cute, a radical-chic Going My Way, and too timid.” – The Spectator Oct 23, 2015 Full Review The Late Show (1977) 95% EDIT “The Late Show is the best picture in town, the nicest takeoff on 1940s private eye films since Gumshoe.” – The Spectator Oct 23, 2015 Full Review F for Fake (1973) 88% EDIT “I enjoyed every dubious minute of this bit of hanky-panky.” – The Spectator Oct 11, 2015 Full Review The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 85% EDIT “Nauseated and shaken, I walked out of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre after half an hour of its butchery.” – The Spectator Sep 28, 2015 Full Review Carrie (1976) 94% EDIT “Carrie won't add much to your life -- but it will scare you, not least about your friends and neighbours.” – The Spectator Sep 27, 2015 Full Review Two Minute Warning (1976) 29% EDIT “In applauding the military tactics of the SWAT anti-terrorist squad, the picture justifies a kind of war psychology for civilians.” – The Spectator Sep 27, 2015 Full Review Sweeney! (1977) EDIT “Thaw, and Joe Melia as an East End crook, do their best but are knee-capped by a witless script.” – The Spectator Sep 27, 2015 Full Review Effi Briest (2009) 73% EDIT “It's so visually boring, insanely talkative, arrogantly formalistic.” – The Spectator Aug 4, 2015 Full Review Viva Knievel! (1977) 14% EDIT “If you're into a giggle Viva Knievel! may appall but I don't think will bore you.” – The Spectator Aug 4, 2015 Full Review The Devil, Probably (1977) 85% EDIT “Despite Bresson's characteristic evenness of tone and technical curtness -- his trademark is an almost contemptuous dismissal of flashiness -- I felt involved and moved by his pessimistic picture of four young French students.” – The Spectator Jul 21, 2015 Full Review Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% EDIT “It is competently if not brilliantly mounted, moderately exciting and charmingly capable of poking fun at itself... It's a lot less patronising than most Disney films and toweringly better than the other blockbusters around at the moment.” – The Spectator Jun 23, 2015 Full Review Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 91% EDIT “Obviously [Spielberg] had a ball with Close Encounters, and his pleasure in tinkertoying it together makes it enjoyable, mildly funny and -- in one sequence -- even credible.” – The Spectator Jun 16, 2015 Full Review
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