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Stanley Eichelbaum

Stanley Eichelbaum's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Bite the Bullet (1975) 69% EDIT “"Bite the Bullet" might have been an exciting, off-beat Western, but loses its chance by dealing limply and slothfully with the unusual theme of an endurance horse race across 700 miles of rugged country.” – San Francisco Examiner Jan 15, 2026 Full Review The Wiz (1978) 38% 2/4 EDIT “It's wastefully overproduced, so that every musical number is frantically busy.” – San Francisco Examiner Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “While the role of inarticulate, gutsy, self-sufficient fight is perfect fodder for Bronson, he is badly let down by writer-director Walter Hill. His script is a sorry affair, emptier and duller than a shopworn kettle drum.” – San Francisco Examiner Sep 26, 2025 Full Review Superman: The Movie (1978) 87% 4/4 EDIT “The movie surprises us with its sharp wit, and is all the more delightful for being uncommonly funny -- and more sophisticated than Star Wars and most entries in the sci-fi handicap.” – San Francisco Examiner Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Rollerball (1975) 56% EDIT “"Rollerball" suffers from the same sluggishness of so many other sci-fi thrillers dealing with a brainwashed, Big Brother society.” – San Francisco Examiner Jun 5, 2025 Full Review Night Moves (1975) 78% EDIT “"Night Moves" pours psychology into a standard detective-thriller plot and the mix, albeit fascinating, is unsatisfactory. ” – San Francisco Examiner May 28, 2025 Full Review The Stepford Wives (1975) 55% EDIT “Before the story deteriorates from its low-keyed and slow build-up of suspense, it's fairly kicky and even superiorly engrossing. ” – San Francisco Examiner May 2, 2025 Full Review Funny Lady (1975) 55% EDIT “There's a great deal of sharp and witty banter in the screenplay.” – San Francisco Examiner Apr 24, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% EDIT “By a colossal stretch of the imagination, George Lucas has created a science-fiction world like none other we've seen for his new film. ” – San Francisco Examiner Apr 22, 2025 Full Review 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 90% EDIT “The stupendous accomplishment of the movie lies in the exceptional quality of its special effects. On the Cinerama screen, the episodes in space create thrills and involvement that I never thought possible.” – San Francisco Examiner Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 92% EDIT “The film is so splendidly witty and riotously entertaining, it may seem petty to bring up certain lapses.” – San Francisco Examiner Apr 1, 2025 Full Review At Long Last Love (1975) 22% EDIT “The production has class and Laszlo Kovacs' photography does well by it. But nothing else works.” – San Francisco Examiner Mar 25, 2025 Full Review Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975) 53% EDIT “Dick Richards has kept the film moderately entertaining, but his touch is too heavy and insistent to ward off the tedium of a disagreeable and discordant road story.” – San Francisco Examiner Mar 11, 2025 Full Review The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) 51% EDIT “The few jokes that work are ruined by overkill.” – San Francisco Examiner Mar 7, 2025 Full Review The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) 60% EDIT “The script... is terribly flimsy and limps along in arid, corny, or mawkish stretches between aerial sequences.” – San Francisco Examiner Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% EDIT “The film's brilliance stems from its teeming, sprawling vitality, which is a leitmotiv of Altman's highly original cinematic language. His freewheeling, minutely textured, semi-improvised style has never been better or compellingly utilized.” – San Francisco Examiner Feb 27, 2025 Full Review The Yakuza (1974) 49% EDIT “The screenplay is an incredible mess over-charged with banalities and shot through with plodding, guide-book explanations of Japanese culture and traditions.” – San Francisco Examiner Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% EDIT “A meticulously woven and richly atmospheric tapestry that is a masterwork of visual beauty. No film, with the exception of Visconti's Death in Venice and Rossellini's Rise to Power of Louis XIV, has displayed more careful, awesome, sophisticated artistry.” – San Francisco Examiner Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% EDIT “"Shampoo" is flawlessly acted and directed with brilliant ingenuity by Ashby, who has only faltered in allowing garbled exposition and inaudible sound to dull the razor-sharp impact of Towne and Beatty's screenplay.” – San Francisco Examiner Feb 10, 2025 Full Review The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 85% EDIT “An inexcusably lurid piece of junk from a producer-director named Tobe Hooper, who knows his craft, but must have been desperate to want to make his mark with such a raw and gory outlay of baroque horror.” – San Francisco Examiner Sep 30, 2024 Full Review The Conversation (1974) 94% EDIT “A small, personal film that looms large and important because of its theme of professional eavesdropping. ” – San Francisco Examiner Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Planet of the Apes (1968) 86% EDIT “Exactly what good science-fiction entertainment should be -- an interesting conjecture about the future, sardonically influenced by the way man is behaving today.” – San Francisco Examiner May 1, 2024 Full Review Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 96% EDIT “It's a superlative, terrifically entertaining work, fraught with the excitement of a thriller, but enriched with spellbinding layers of sociological and psychological interest.” – San Francisco Examiner Apr 7, 2024 Full Review Lady Sings the Blues (1972) 73% EDIT “It may not be a top-notch film, but it's an important one and Miss Ross' remarkably fine screen debut makes it well worth seeing. ” – San Francisco Examiner Apr 5, 2024 Full Review Chinatown (1974) 98% EDIT “The plot of Chinatown just misses the fascinating beat of first-rate works in the genre. It's a well-made film, however, rich in the thirties' atmosphere.” – San Francisco Examiner Mar 8, 2024 Full Review
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