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John Skow

John Skow's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

Time Magazine film critic.

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The Innocent (1976) 79% EDIT “The Innocent is a beautifully made melodrama, whose elaborate and operatic moral dilemmas turn on issues that are curiosities today.” – TIME Magazine Feb 14, 2020 Full Review Wifemistress (1977) 40% EDIT “Wifemistress is thoroughly likable.” – TIME Magazine Feb 14, 2020 Full Review The Wiz (1978) 38% EDIT “So much wit and talent and energy crowd the screen in this lavishly filmed variant of the Oz story that it is depressing to realize that the production never had a chance. ” – TIME Magazine Mar 26, 2019 Full Review The Frisco Kid (1979) 54% EDIT “The Frisco Kid just misses being very good, perhaps because although Wilder is funny and endearing, we never quite believe in the character he plays.” – TIME Magazine Dec 12, 2018 Full Review Despair (1979) 65% EDIT “Dirk Bogarde, looking natty and nerve-worn, is exactly right as the fissured Hermann, a chocolate manufacturer whose business has turned bitter.” – TIME Magazine Mar 18, 2015 Full Review My Brilliant Career (1979) 86% EDIT “This is a modest, clear sighted film, and it profits considerably from a lack of the bravura landscape photography that most directors would have used to puff up a movie set in Australia.” – TIME Magazine Sep 9, 2014 Full Review The Jerk (1979) 82% EDIT “Its humor is successful and unsuccessful by turns, and although Comedian Carl Reiner is the director, the instinct here is to give most of both credit and blame to Martin.” – TIME Magazine Feb 2, 2009 Full Review The Muppet Movie (1979) 89% EDIT “The transition from the yank-'em-off-if-they-bomb lunacy of the TV show to the coherent narration of the film is not a complete success.” – TIME Magazine May 6, 2008 Full Review
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