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Richard Eder

Richard Eder's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “"Hard Times" is a stylish, sharp, ingratiating movie.” – New York Times Sep 26, 2025 Full Review Two Minute Warning (1976) 29% EDIT “Two Minute Warning, about a mad sniper in a crowded football stadium, has the suspense, the compassion, the human vision and the individual nuance you would expect in a movie about a foot stepping on an anthill.” – New York Times Sep 27, 2015 Full Review Give 'Em Hell, Harry! (1975) 100% 4/5 EDIT “The script, put together by Samuel Gallu, is beautifully articulated and balanced.” – New York Times Jun 18, 2012 Full Review Nickelodeon (1976) 13% 2/5 EDIT “Peter Bogdanovich knows a great deal about movies, including how they are made. Perhaps he doesn't know why they are made. In any case, knowing how something is made isn't the same as making it.” – New York Times Aug 17, 2010 Full Review The Travelling Players (1975) 87% EDIT “Length is part of its problem. A much greater problem is that the political message that is only one of the threads in the first part thickens into hawser dimensions, strangling the film and the audience along with it.” – New York Times Jul 25, 2005 Full Review Bug (1975) 43% EDIT “"Bug" is decidedly poisonous.It is not simply a scary picture, nor simply a violent one. It is a cruel picture.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review Hester Street (1975) 81% EDIT “There is nothing very original about Hester Street except its loveliness.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review Rancho Deluxe (1975) 62% 2.5/5 EDIT “It is so cool it is barely alive.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review The Omen (1976) 86% EDIT “A member of the Exorcist family, it is a dreadfully silly film, which is not to say that it is totally bad.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review Freaky Friday (1976) 65% 2/5 EDIT “Toward the end there are some amusing car-chase scenes. Elsewhere the humor is clotted by the feeling that the jokes are chasing the reactions, instead of the other way around.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review The Song Remains the Same (1976) 40% EDIT “Members of the group put on cloaks, ride around on horses, stand in the moonlight. They are pseudodreams, like the unconvinced artwork on rock record jackets. The scenes showing the group performing are more informative though not much more powerful.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review The Killer Elite (1975) 56% 1.5/5 EDIT “Sam Peckinpah knows how to make movies but perhaps he has forgotten why.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review Solaris (1972) 92% 3/5 EDIT “This complex and sometimes very beautiful film is about humanity but hardly at all about politics.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review Farewell, My Lovely (1975) 76% 3/5 EDIT “It's as if someone had put pillow springs, power-steering and a tape deck into a classic racing-car. It is still handsome and it still goes, but it is a handsome mediocrity.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review The Enforcer (1976) 69% EDIT “Money, the big name of Clint Eastwood, a lot of gore and howling sirens and the urge to rail at various liberal notions are not enough to make even a passable movie out of "The Enforcer."” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review Pumping Iron (1977) 92% 3/5 EDIT “An interesting, rather slick and excessively long documentary about the small but intensely competitive world of body-building.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review Gus (1976) EDIT “As I say, this is a decently average Disney film, with a few funny parts and other parts where you would agree to smile if you could.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review Fox and His Friends (1975) 86% 2/5 EDIT “It excludes all life that is not within the very narrow intentions of its author. Its pores have been painted over.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review Xala (1975) 91% 4.5/5 EDIT “It is part fable and part satire, but it is much more.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review End of the Game (1975) 43% 2/5 EDIT “Instead of every hour or half-hour, the cuckoo pops out every minute and a half.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975) 60% 2/5 EDIT “Walt Disney started by making movies in which animated drawings played the parts of people or animals who stood for people. Later he turned to making movies in which people or animals play the parts of animated drawings.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review Carrie (1976) 94% EDIT “It is sometimes funny in a puzzling kind of way, it is generally overwrought in an irritating kind of way, and once in a while it is inappropriately touching.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review The Black Bird (1975) 33% EDIT “The Black Bird is an enchanting half-hour spoof of Humphrey Bogart and The Maltese Falcon. Too bad it lasts over an hour and a half.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review The Gumball Rally (1976) 33% 2/5 EDIT “People who pay money to see this effort to find knee-slappers in the 55 mile-an-hour speed limit will also make amiable fools of themselves.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review Dersu Uzala (1975) 73% EDIT “The episodes in this second part go on endlessly, loosely, obviously. They lack the revelations of the winter scenes and they do little but belabor at length the points already made. They wreck the film's balance and make its achievements dull.” – New York Times May 9, 2005 Full Review
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