Production Company(ies)
Twentieth Century Fox,
 
Distributor
Weinstein Co.
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Passed
 
Year of Release
1969
 

 
Genre(s)
Documentary
 
Keyword(s)
Undefeated, PG-13, documentary, high school football, Manassas High School, Memphis, losing streak, coach, Bill Courtney, players, O.C., Chavis, sports documentary, Dan Lindsay, T.J Martin, directed by, Ed Cunningham, Glen Zipper, Seth Gordon, Rich Middlemas, produced by, Weinstein Co., box office, gross USA, $561.1K, budget, critic reviews, Tomatometer, audience score, reviewed by, Ralph Zipper, Nigel Sinclair, Guy East, MPAA rating, some language, English, runtime, 1h 53m, distributor, documentary genre
 

Cast & Crew

Bill Courtney

Dan Lindsay

T.J. Martin

Ralph Zipper

Nigel Sinclair

Bill Courtney

self

Dan Lindsay

T.J. Martin

Ralph Zipper

Bill Courtney – self
Dan Lindsay – Director
T.J. Martin – Director
Ralph Zipper – Executive Producer
Nigel Sinclair – Executive Producer
Guy East – Executive Producer

 

Dan Lindsay

NA

Ed Cunningham

Glen Zipper

Seth Gordon

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin
 
Writer(s)
NA
 
Producer(s)
Ed Cunningham, Glen Zipper, Seth Gordon, Dan Lindsay, Rich Middlemas

 

Film Festivals
South by Southwest
 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Best Documentary Feature Winners, Oscar Winners
 

Top Reviews

Henry Barnes

Tim Robey

Nigel Andrews

Matt Bochenski

Tom Huddleston

Guardian

Daily Telegraph

Financial Times

Little White Lies

Time Out

UNDEFEATED
  All Critics (102) | Top Critics (47) | Fresh (98) | Rotten (4)
  All eyes are on the ball, while the future screams from the sidelines.
 
  August 2, 2012 | Rating: 3/5
 
  Henry Barnes
  Guardian
  TOP CRITIC
  Undefeated works the whole macho-sentimental template so vigorously and well it’s practically a reflexive response to cry foul, but you’d have to find heroic reserves of cynicism not to care at all about the precarious fortunes of these unformed bruisers.
 
  August 2, 2012 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Tim Robey
  Daily Telegraph (UK)
  TOP CRITIC
  A watchable movie, no question. But perhaps best filed under guilty pleasures.
 
  August 2, 2012 | Rating: 3/5
 
  Nigel Andrews
  Financial Times
  TOP CRITIC
  Can take its place proudly alongside the best in the genre.
 
  August 2, 2012 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Matt Bochenski
  Little White Lies
  TOP CRITIC
  ‘Undefeated’ is no ‘Hoop Dreams’, but it’s sturdily built and worthwhile.
 
  July 31, 2012 | Rating: 3/5
 
  Tom Huddleston
  Time Out
  TOP CRITIC
  It may be a film that feels rather than analyses, but Undefeated is a compelling, uplifting experience that can’t fail to move even the most US football-phobic.
 
  July 30, 2012 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Ian Freer
  Empire Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  Has just about everything you could possibly want from a feature documentary.
 
  September 26, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4.0
 
  Richard Propes
  TheIndependentCritic.com
  The epitome of what a good sports documentary should be.
 
  January 31, 2019 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Patrick Gamble
  CineVue
  There can be power and comfort in cliché, and let’s get this one out of the way: it’s not about winning or losing, but how you play the game.
 
  August 30, 2018
 
  Pat Padua
  DCist
  “Feel-good movie of the year” is rarely a label that applies to documentaries. Yet, the Oscar-nominated Undefeated, which follows one season of an impoverished inner-city Memphis high school football team, may turn out to be exactly that.
 
  June 22, 2018
 
  Megan Basham
  WORLD
  Undefeated is as magnificent as its subject.
 
  September 18, 2017
 
  Neely Swanson
  Easy Reader (California)
  I admit, I was not enthusiastic about reviewing another sports film, let alone football. Now I can say that I understand why people see football as a religion — in a good way.
 
  June 30, 2017
 
  Sr. Rose Pacatte
  National Catholic Reporter…

 

Plot
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
NA
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Lurker
 
Distributor
RCA/Columbia, Columbia Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
R
 
Year of Release
1969
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, directed by Dennis Hopper, written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern, drama, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Penelope Gilliatt, Joe Morgenstern, Ed Potton, Tom Milne, John Mahoney, Charles Champlin, Mike Massie, Jacob Brackman, Paul Schrader, Ellen Willis, MPAA rating R, counterculture, Harley-riding hippies, drug deal, cross-country journey, bigotry, hatred, alternative lifestyles, drug experience, New Orleans, spiritual truth, anti-establishment, soundtrack, Jimi Hendrix, the Byrds, Steppenwolf, RCA/Columbia, Columbia Pictures, mono, 35mm, 16mm, flat (1.85:1), Wyatt, Billy, George Hanson, Jesus, Connection, Bodyguard
 

Cast & Crew

Peter Fonda

Dennis Hopper

Jack Nicholson

Antonio Mendoza

Phil Spector

Wyatt

Billy

George Hanson

Jesus

Connection

Peter Fonda – Wyatt
Dennis Hopper – Billy
Jack Nicholson – George Hanson
Antonio Mendoza – Jesus
Phil Spector – Connection
Mac Mashourian – Bodyguard

 

Dennis Hopper

Peter Fonda

Peter Fonda

Bob Rafelson

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Dennis Hopper
 
Writer(s)
Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern
 
Producer(s)
Peter Fonda, Bob Rafelson

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 2 Oscars
8 wins & 14 nominations total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Penelope Gilliatt

Joe Morgenstern

Ed Potton

Tom Milne

John Mahoney

New Yorker

Newsweek

Times (UK)

Sight & Sound

Hollywood Reporter

EASY RIDER
 All Critics (55) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (46) | Rotten (9)
 Ninety-four minutes of what it is to swing, to watch, to be fond, to hold opinions, and to get killed in America at this moment.
 
 July 6, 2022
 
 Penelope Gilliatt
 New Yorker
 TOP CRITIC
 Easy Rider is not consistently well made, but it’s purposefully made, and the purpose pays off.
 
 June 21, 2022
 
 Joe Morgenstern
 Newsweek
 TOP CRITIC
 That it still crackles with countercultural energy is down mainly to a soundtrack featuring Jimi Hendrix, the Byrds and Steppenwolf and a cast stuffed with anti-establishment icons.
 
 July 30, 2021 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Ed Potton
 Times (UK)
 TOP CRITIC
 It succeeds where it matters most, in communicating a yearning vision of a different way of life, in an America seen as a vast, unexplored repository of beauty, optimism and adventure.
 
 March 18, 2020
 
 Tom Milne
 Sight & Sound
 TOP CRITIC
 Easy Rider is very likely the clearest and most disturbing presentation of the angry estrangement of American youth to be brought to the screen.
 
 July 16, 2019
 
 John Mahoney
 Hollywood Reporter
 TOP CRITIC
 Fonda and Hopper, it should by this time go without saying, give immense performances.
 
 March 4, 2013 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Charles Champlin
 Los Angeles Times
 TOP CRITIC
 Despite the engaging look, themes, and editing, the story is largely lacking and drastically unhurried.
 
 August 24, 2020 | Rating: 4/10
 
 Mike Massie
 Gone With The Twins
 Easy Rider’s honesty, its beautiful, honest simplemindedness, could make it one of the surprise hits of the year.
 
 August 13, 2020
 
 Jacob Brackman
 Esquire Magazine
 Easy Rider deals with the most important issues facing America — and for that reason its superficiality is the more deplorable.
 
 July 1, 2020
 
 Paul Schrader
 Los Angeles Free Press
 Easy Rider, a sparsely written cross-country movie with a Don Quixote and Sancho Panza on extravagant motorcycles, is marred by draggy, romantic material.
 
 June 18, 2019
 
 Manny Farber
 Artforum
 Beyond the melodrama of groovy kids vs. rednecks is an emotion that more and more of us, young and old alike, are experiencing, the overpowering sense of loss, the anguish of What went wrong? We blew it — how?
 
 March 28, 2017
 
 Ellen Willis
 The New York Review of Books
 “Easy Rider,” even for those uninterested in the legacy of 1960s counterculture, punches the viewer in the gut with its hopelessness and emptiness.
 
 June 3, 2016
 
 Witney Seibold
 CraveOnline…

 

Plot
Netting a hefty profit from their latest drug deal, hippies Wyatt and Billy decide to outfit themselves with among other things motorbikes – Wyatt complete in what they call his Captain America gear and similar motif on the bike – and chucking any structure in their lives beyond the want to get there for the event, cycle from their home base of Los Angeles to New Orleans for Mardi Gras in just over a week. They don’t plan to spend their proceeds on this trip – they saving that for a more carefree life in Florida after the fact – they sleeping in the great outdoors along the way. While Wyatt is more easy going, believing in the karmic nature and practicality of helping others when they can and in turn asking for help when they need it, Billy is a little more suspicious of the people they encounter, especially in hiding their wad of cash that is stuffed into the gas tank of Wyatt’s bike, that money their future. They will find that not all counter-culturalists have the exact same mindset, while they will also find the spiritual and practical connections to others in perhaps the most unlikely of places and people. But they will also ruffle some feathers just for being hippies, arguably in the fear not of them as people but what they represent. Through it all, Wyatt in particular evaluates if the trip ends up being what he expects or wants for his life.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Easy Rider features a memorable performance from Jack Nicholson.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Carolco Pictures, Pacific Western Lightstorm Entertainment,
 
Distributor
Pathé Contemporary Films
 
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Limited)
 
Filming Location(s)
L’Aygade, Hyères, Var, France
 
MPAA / Certificate
Not Rated
 
Year of Release
1969
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, written by Jean-Luc Godard, drama, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Joe Morgenstern, Renata Adler, David Parkinson, Edward Porter, Kathy Fennessy, produced by Georges de Beauregard, MPAA rating, crime spree, French countryside, love affair, enigmatic babysitter, pursued by foreign thugs, subversive, colorful, beguiling, quintessential work, poetic, introverted, personal, loose picaresque format, postmodern games, scattergun shots, consumerism, cultural imperialism, Vietnam War, Algerian War, self-discovery, self-destruction, French New Wave, intellectual energy, colorful playfulness, pop-intellectual discourse, lost love, Raoul Coutard, striking images, ultimate Godard movie, homage, Chaplin hi-jinks, sweet Anna Karina
 

Cast & Crew

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Anna Karina

Dirk Sanders

Raymond Devos

Graziella Galvani

Ferdinand Griffon

“Pierrot”

Marianne Renoir

Fred

le frère de Marianne

Jean-Paul Belmondo – Ferdinand Griffon, “Pierrot”
Anna Karina – Marianne Renoir
Dirk Sanders – Fred, le frère de Marianne
Raymond Devos – L’homme du port
Graziella Galvani – La femme de Ferdinand
Jean-Luc Godard – Director

 

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

Georges de Beauregard

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Jean-Luc Godard
 
Writer(s)
Jean-Luc Godard
 
Producer(s)
Georges de Beauregard

 

Film Festivals
Cannes
 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Joe Morgenstern

Renata Adler

David Parkinson

Edward Porter

David Jenkins

Newsweek

New York Times

Empire Magazine

Times (UK)

Time Out

CRAZY PETE
  All Critics (46) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (6)
  “Pierrot” is less successfully artistically than several Godard films that followed it: Masculine Feminine, La Chinoise and Weekend. It’s much more than historically interesting, though, this funny little fugue for soured sweethearts.
 
  July 6, 2022
 
  Joe Morgenstern
  Newsweek
  TOP CRITIC
  The film is poetic, quiet, introverted, personal.
 
  January 9, 2018
 
  Renata Adler
  New York Times
  TOP CRITIC
  Godard abandoned the conventions of narrative cinema and adopted a loose picaresque format around which he could arrange subversive generic tropes, poetic digressions, political ideas and comic-book escapades.
 
  July 16, 2014 | Rating: 4/5
 
  David Parkinson
  Empire Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  At its worst, in some of its improvised rambles, it demonstrates the value of a well-thought-out screenplay. At its exhilarating and poignant best, it proves that a film can play all sorts of postmodern games yet still touch its viewers’ emotions.
 
  May 28, 2009 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Edward Porter
  Times (UK)
  TOP CRITIC
  A wild-eyed, everything-in-the-pot cross-processing of artistic, cinematic, political and personal concerns, where the story stutters, splinters and infuriates its way to an explosive finale.
 
  May 22, 2009 | Rating: 5/5
 
  David Jenkins
  Time Out
  TOP CRITIC
  Godard opens up his box of tricks and tips it all over the screen in a flurry of improvised, postmodernism that takes scattergun shots at consumerism, cultural imperialism and the Vietnam and Algerian wars.
 
  May 22, 2009 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Ed Potton
  Times (UK)
  TOP CRITIC
  It’s [Jean-Luc] Godard in a nutshell–all for the price of one ticket.
 
  September 15, 2021 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Kathy Fennessy
  Seattle Film Blog
  a uniquely Godardian mess, which means that you can sense the order through the chaos, even if you can’t always put your finger on what, exactly, Godard is after at any given moment
 
  November 5, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  James Kendrick
  Q Network Film Desk
  This is Godard in free-floating form.
 
  October 13, 2020 | Rating: 3/4
 
  Matt Brunson
  Film Frenzy
  The film is beauty, whimsy, and magic all wrapped around a sour center.
 
  October 9, 2020 | Rating: 4.5/5
 
  Michael J. Casey
  Boulder Weekly
  It’s a masterpiece, one of the monumental films of our time.
 
  January 27, 2020
 
  Gene Youngblood
  Los Angeles Free Press
  There’s cool and then there’s Jean-Paul Belmondo. No one ever made being bored look so exciting, and the effortlessly graceful and impossibly hip actor gave the mid-’60s nouvelle vague a needed macho punch.
 
  July 16, 2014 | Rating: A
 
  Corey Hall
  Metro Times (Detroit, MI)…

 

Plot
Uninterested in his stagnant life, Ferdinand falls in love with his enigmatic babysitter and embarks on a crime spree with her through the French countryside in “Crazy Pete.”
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
The critic reviews for Crazy Pete describe the film as “colorful, subversive, and overall beguiling” and “a uniquely Godardian mess.”
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Amigo Media,
 
Distributor
NA
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
St. George Hotel, 24 Avenue Soudoni Boudjemaa, Algiers, Algeria
 
MPAA / Certificate
M/PG
 
Year of Release
1969
 

 
Genre(s)

 
Keyword(s)
starring Pedro Infante, directed by Luis Buñuel, written by Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza, drama, Mexican cinema, box office success, low budget, reviewed by Roger Ebert, produced by Óscar Dancigers, MPAA rating not applicable, poverty, street children, crime, corruption, social commentary, surrealism, dream sequences, religious imagery, black and white cinematography, haunting score, memorable characters, tragic ending, classic film, foreign language, subtitles, iconic performances, gritty realism, bleak atmosphere, powerful storytelling, multiple perspectives, unreliable narrators, moral ambiguity, existential themes, human condition, societal issues, timeless masterpiece, must-see film, cinematic history, cultural significance, artistic achievement, critical acclaim, award-winning
 

Cast & Crew

Alfonso Mejía

Roberto Cobo

Estela Inda

Sterling Hayden

Coleen Gray

Pedro

Jaibo

Meche

Johnny Clay

Fay

The Young and the Damned:
Director – Luis Buñuel
Cast:
Alfonso Mejía as Pedro
Roberto Cobo as Jaibo
Estela Inda as Meche

The Killing:
Director – Stanley Kubrick
Cast:
Sterling Hayden as Johnny Clay
Coleen Gray as Fay
Vince Edwards as Val Cannon

Rashomon:
Director – Akira Kurosawa
Cast:
Toshiro Mifune as Tajomaru
Machiko Kyō as Masako
Masayuki Mori as Takehiro

The Third Man:
Director – Carol Reed
Cast:
Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins
Orson Welles as Harry Lime
Alida Valli as Anna Schmidt

The Sacrifice:
Director – Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast:
Erland Josephson as Alexander
Susan Fleetwood as Adelaide
Allan Edwall as Otto

 

NA

NA

NA

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
NA
 
Writer(s)
NA
 
Producer(s)
NA

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 2 Oscars
12 wins & 13 nominations total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

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Plot
In a mid-sized metropolis (population 500,000) in a right-wing military led country, a pacifist organization, which supports the opposition party in the government, is planning on holding an anti-military, nuclear disarmament rally. The organization’s charismatic leader – the deputy – is scheduled to arrive in the town from the capital the day of the rally. Beyond the problems arranging the rally due to the probable incitement of violence at such a rally, the organization learns of an unconfirmed report that there will be an attempt on the deputy’s life. The rally does happen, after which a three-wheeled kamikaze runs over the deputy, who eventually passes away from his injuries. The official report is that the incident was a drunken accident. In reality, the deputy’s death was murder orchestrated by the secret police, the general for who likens the pacifist organization to mildew killing off agricultural crops. A magistrate is assigned to the case. Although he does have political views, he is more interested in finding out the truth, and as such has to wade through the political rhetoric and politically motivated testimony he hears. Thrown into the mix is a photojournalist who too is looking for the truth, as it, he believes, will make a great front page story.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
NA
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Columbia Films, Anouchka Films, Orsay Films,
 
Distributor
20th Century Fox
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Zion National Park, Utah, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1969
 

 
Genre(s)
Western/Action
 
Keyword(s)
starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones, Jeff Corey, directed by George Roy Hill, written by William Goldman, Western, Action, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Chris Stuckmann, John Mahoney, Dave Kehr, TIME Staff, Whitney Willaims, Bob McCabe, Richard Schickel, Taylor Baker, Sarah Brinks, Mike Massie, Michael Ross, Bernard Drew, PG, 20th Century Fox, John Foreman, Burt Bacharach score, train robberies, bank robberies, Bolivia, fast-draws, posses, torrid love affair, character study, remarkable friendship, Butch Cassidy, Robert Leroy Parker, The Sundance Kid, Harry Longbaugh, Etta Place, Sheriff Steve Bledsoe, Mono, Scope (2.35:1)
 

Cast & Crew

Paul Newman

Robert Redford

Katharine Ross

Strother Martin

Henry Jones

Butch Cassidy

The Sundance Kid

Etta Place

Percy Garris

Bike Salesman

Paul Newman – Butch Cassidy (Robert Leroy Parker)
Robert Redford – The Sundance Kid (Harry Longbaugh)
Katharine Ross – Etta Place
Strother Martin – Percy Garris
Henry Jones – Bike Salesman
Jeff Corey – Sheriff Steve Bledsoe

 

George Roy Hill

William Goldman

John Foreman

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
George Roy Hill
 
Writer(s)
William Goldman
 
Producer(s)
John Foreman

 

Film Festivals
Sundance
 
Awards & Nominations
Won 4 Oscars
21 wins & 15 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
 

Top Reviews

Chris Stuckmann

John Mahoney

Dave Kehr

TIME Staff

Whitney Willaims

ChrisStuckmann.com

Hollywood Reporter

Chicago Reader

TIME Magazine

Variety

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
  All Critics (54) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (48) | Rotten (6)
  It’s a hilarious film with some surprising dark moments…it’s a damn good one.
 
  September 7, 2018 | Rating: A-
 
  Chris Stuckmann
  ChrisStuckmann.com
  TOP CRITIC
  It is a great film and will be an exceptionally popular and profitable one.
 
  October 3, 2015
 
  John Mahoney
  Hollywood Reporter
  TOP CRITIC
  You have to admire the craft and assurance of the thing even as its artificiality hits you in the face.
 
  May 27, 2011
 
  Dave Kehr
  Chicago Reader
  TOP CRITIC
  Every character, every scene, is marred by the film’s double view, which oscillates between sympathy and farce.
 
  October 1, 2008
 
  TIME Staff
  TIME Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  The John Foreman production is episodic, but George Roy Hill’s direction is so satisfying in catching the full value of the Goldman screenplay that a high degree of interest is sustained.
 
  October 1, 2008
 
  Whitney Willaims
  Variety
  TOP CRITIC
  Note-perfect performances, a screenplay steeped in both nostalgia and a timely sense of insight, and anti-heroes you can’t help but love: it’s no surprise that the always re-watchable Butch And Sundance was once labelled the most likeable film ever made.
 
  May 10, 2006 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Bob McCabe
  Empire Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  Busch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a perfectly harmless and quite entertaining film.
 
  November 1, 2021
 
  Richard Schickel
  LIFE
  Episode 15: The West Was Red
 
  September 1, 2021 | Rating: 65/100
 
  Taylor Baker
  Drink in the Movies
  Overall I felt disappointed in the film, I wanted to more engaged then I was.
 
  April 1, 2021
 
  Sarah Brinks
  Battleship Pretension
  A most unusual, quirky, eccentric Western biography.
 
  August 24, 2020 | Rating: 7/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  Quite simply, the most entertaining Hollywood film around.
 
  January 15, 2020
 
  Michael Ross
  Los Angeles Free Press
  The film is a raffish, good humored ballad with Butch and Sundance as a pair of lovable rogues — a Bonnie and Clyde to a ragtime beat.
 
  July 11, 2019
 
  Bernard Drew
  Gannett News Service…

 

Plot
Butch and Sundance are the two leaders of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Butch is all ideas, Sundance is all action and skill. The west is becoming civilized, and when Butch and Sundance rob a train once too often, a special posse begins trailing them no matter where they run. Over rocks, through towns, across rivers, the group is always just behind them. When they finally escape through sheer luck, Butch has another idea, “Let’s go to Bolivia”. Based on the exploits of the historical characters.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Paul Newman and Robert Redford’s on-screen chemistry in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is what really elevates the production, according to audience reviews.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Toho Company,
 
Distributor
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Criterion Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Calvary Cemetery – 4902 Laurel Hill Boulevard, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
X
 
Year of Release
1969
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Barnard Hughes, directed by John Schlesinger, written by James Leo Herlihy, Waldo Salt, drama, R-rated, box office gross $201.0K, reviewed by Sophie Monks Kaufman, Marjory Adams, John Huddy, Elston Brooks, Evan Williams, Michael Talbot-Haynes, Janet Graves, Madeleine Harmsworth, Harold V
 

Cast & Crew

Dustin Hoffman

Jon Voight

Sylvia Miles

John McGiver

Brenda Vaccaro

Enrico Salvatore “Ratso” Rizzo

Joe Buck

Cass

Mr. O’Daniel

Shirley

Dustin Hoffman – Enrico Salvatore “Ratso” Rizzo
Jon Voight – Joe Buck
Sylvia Miles – Cass
John McGiver – Mr. O’Daniel
Brenda Vaccaro – Shirley
Barnard Hughes – Towny

 

John Schlesinger

James Leo Herlihy

Jerome Hellman

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
John Schlesinger
 
Writer(s)
James Leo Herlihy, Waldo Salt
 
Producer(s)
Jerome Hellman

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 3 Oscars
28 wins & 16 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Best Picture Winners, Oscar Winners
 

Top Reviews

Sophie Monks Kaufman

Marjory Adams

John Huddy

Elston Brooks

John Russell Taylor

Time Out

Boston Globe

Miami Herald

Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com

Times (UK)

MIDNIGHT COWBOY
 All Critics (115) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (102) | Rotten (13)
 Director John Schlesinger and screenwriter Waldo Salt pump so much emotion into it that it becomes a moving epitaph both to its two striving characters and the American dream itself.
 
 March 14, 2022 | Rating: 5/5
 
 Sophie Monks Kaufman
 Time Out
 TOP CRITIC
 Midnight Cowboy is America’s challenge to any film from foreign shores… From now on, it is going to be difficult for the cinema snob to declare tritely that films in this country are made for immature audiences.
 
 March 14, 2022
 
 Marjory Adams
 Boston Globe
 TOP CRITIC
 The film is a masterpiece, one of the finest ever made. It is staggering, shattering, heartbreaking, hilarious, tragic, raw and absurd. Midnight Cowboy surpasses even The Graduate in its uniqueness, sensitivity, and curious blend of the sad and the funny.
 
 March 11, 2022
 
 John Huddy
 Miami Herald
 TOP CRITIC
 John Schlesinger, the British director who gave us Darling and Far From the Madding Crowd, has had the audacity to come to this country and capture on film the flavor of sun-baked West Texas and seamy New York City better than any director before him.
 
 March 11, 2022
 
 Elston Brooks
 Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
 TOP CRITIC
 This is obviously the sort of film in which people argue endlessly about which of the principals steals it, and the argument is irresistible, if pointless. Both are very good, in different ways.
 
 March 11, 2022
 
 John Russell Taylor
 Times (UK)
 TOP CRITIC
 Mr. Voight’s and Mr. Hoffman’s performances are pretty well impossible to fault. I found the film profoundly touching and funny, and quite hypnotically enjoyable to watch.
 
 March 11, 2022
 
 Evan Williams
 Sydney Morning Herald
 TOP CRITIC
 The characters’ dreams and memories intermingle with their daily actions, sometimes combining in surreal ways. The camerawork is amazing, capturing vistas of glory and grime from the dawn of 1970s New York.
 
 March 25, 2022 | Rating: 10/10
 
 Michael Talbot-Haynes
 Film Threat
 The movie is brilliantly acted by newcomer Jon Voight, in the lead, and Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo, his pathetic companion. Not only a study of loneliness, the movie probes the depths of love.
 
 March 11, 2022
 
 Janet Graves
 Photoplay
 Both performances are masterly. Rizzo, the human wreck, is a dream of a part and Hoffman plays him for all he is worth, gradually turning our disgust into sympathy. Voight’s identification with Joe Buck is so perfect, he doesn’t seem to be acting at all.
 
 March 11, 2022
 
 Madeleine Harmsworth
 Sunday Mirror (UK)
 Nothing so completely heart-warming and compassionate has ever come from something so sleazy. The performances are simply immense.
 
 March 11, 2022
 
 Harold V. Cohen
 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
 Schlesinger has not only made a technically adroit and profoundly humane film: he has also provided the framework for some marvelous screen acting.
 
 March 11, 2022
 
 Michael Billington
 Birmingham Post
 Making bold use of the permissiveness of our uninhibited present-day artistic codes, this “X” picture takes the viewer through sickening disillusionment and degradation in a young man’s bitter story.
 
 March 11, 2022
 
 Dick Banks
 Charlotte Observer…

 

Plot
Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York City for the first time. Preening himself as a real “hustler”, he finds that he is the one getting “hustled” until he teams up with down-and-out but resilient outcast Ratso Rizzo. The initial “country cousin meets city cousin” relationship deepens. In their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. Each has found his first real friend.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
There is no specific tidbit about someone in the cast mentioned in the Fresh Kernels description of Midnight Cowboy.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Greenwich Film Productions, Herald Ace Nippon Herald Films,
 
Distributor
Warner Home Vídeo
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
La Loma, Durango, Mexico
 
MPAA / Certificate
R
 
Year of Release
1969
 

 
Genre(s)
Western
 
Keyword(s)
Western, Sam Peckinpah, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O’Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sanchez, Phil Feldman, Walon Green, Roy N Sickner, R rating, Warner Home Vídeo, box office, budget, reviewed by Penelope Gilliatt, Tom Milne, Judith Crist, Sheila Johnston, David Ansen, Pauline Kael, Brian Eggert, Mike Massie, Allen Almachar, Jean Carey Bond, Paul Schrader, Fernando Trueba, Neptune Frost, 18 1/2, H.P Lovecraft’s Witch House, 11th Hour Cleaning, Sh*t Saves the World, Stay Prayed Up, Final Caller, Girl in the Picture, Hello, Goodbye, Everything in Between, Confessions from the Hart, The Prey: Legend of Karnoctus, Moon, 66 Questions, Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel, The Road to Galena, Incantation, Dangerous Liaisons, Jewel, Warriors on the Field, Fair Play
 

Cast & Crew

William Holden

Ernest Borgnine

Robert Ryan

Edmond O’Brien

Warren Oates

Pike Bishop

Dutch Engstrom

Deke Thornton

Freddie Sykes

Lyle Gorch

William Holden – Pike Bishop
Ernest Borgnine – Dutch Engstrom
Robert Ryan – Deke Thornton
Edmond O’Brien – Freddie Sykes
Warren Oates – Lyle Gorch
Jaime Sanchez – Angel

 

Sam Peckinpah

Walon Green

Phil Feldman

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Sam Peckinpah
 
Writer(s)
Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner, Sam Peckinpah
 
Producer(s)
Phil Feldman

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 2 Oscars
6 wins & 8 nominations total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Penelope Gilliatt

Tom Milne

Judith Crist

Sheila Johnston

David Ansen

New Yorker

Sight & Sound

New York Magazine/Vulture

Independent (UK)

Newsweek

THE WILD BUNCH
  All Critics (64) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (58) | Rotten (6)
  Apart from Peckinpah’s simple technical control and the cut of his script, which is a knife that never slips off the bone, there is an angry quality to his mind.
 
  July 7, 2022
 
  Penelope Gilliatt
  New Yorker
  TOP CRITIC
  The film drives to its foregone conclusion with the sureness of an arrow.
 
  March 18, 2020
 
  Tom Milne
  Sight & Sound
  TOP CRITIC
  If you must see The Wild Bunch, be sure to take along a barf bag.
 
  January 1, 2020
 
  Judith Crist
  New York Magazine/Vulture
  TOP CRITIC
  Remains hugely impressive, both for its technical brilliance and the emotional ferocity of its themes: old age, friendship, betrayal and the struggle to retain some kind of cock-eyed code of honour in an increasingly cynical world.
 
  December 3, 2018
 
  Sheila Johnston
  Independent (UK)
  TOP CRITIC
  Underneath the movie, which is set on the eve of World War I, there’s an elegiac plangency that stays with you long after the shocks have worn off…The Wild Bunch still won’t go down easy.
 
  February 21, 2018
 
  David Ansen
  Newsweek
  TOP CRITIC
  It’s a traumatic poem of violence, with imagery as ambivalent as Goya’s.
 
  March 28, 2016
 
  Pauline Kael
  New Yorker
  TOP CRITIC
  Demystifying the traditional Western through raw, unglamorous violence, The Wild Bunch exploded onto the screen in 1969 and altered the face of the genre, and filmmaking, forever.
 
  February 23, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Brian Eggert
  Deep Focus Review
  This controversial epic was as highly praised as it was condemned upon its release, boomingly announcing the arrival of daring new director.
 
  August 27, 2020 | Rating: 10/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  It is one of the greatest of all westerns.
 
  July 30, 2020
 
  Allen Almachar
  The MacGuffin
  It has canonized, for our enjoyment and monstrous edification, the freak-out.
 
  July 16, 2020
 
  Jean Carey Bond
  Freedomways
  The result is one of the strongest emotional kickbacks of any film. The Wild Bunch does for the emotions what Shane did for the intellect.
 
  July 1, 2020
 
  Paul Schrader
  Los Angeles Free Press
  The Wild Bunch is the last and indisputable epic story of the Western genre. [Full Review in Spanish]
 
  August 6, 2019
 
  Fernando Trueba
  El Pais (Spain)…

 

Plot
It’s 1913, and the “traditional” American West is dying. Amongst the inhabitants of this dying era are a gang known as “the wild bunch.” After a failed railroad office robbery, the gang heads to Mexico to do one last job. Seeing their times and lives drifting away in the 20th century, the gang takes the job and ends up in a brutally violent last stand against their enemies deemed to be corrupt, in a small Mexican town ruled by a ruthless general.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
William Holden shows range in his portrayal of the blood-letting Pike in The Wild Bunch.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Plattform Produktion Film i Väst Essential Filmproduktion, GmbH,
 
Distributor
United Artists
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Piz Gloria Revolving Restaurant, Piz Gloria, Kanton Bern, Switzerland
 
MPAA / Certificate
(Rating Symbol Changed)
 
Year of Release
1969
 

 
Genre(s)
Action
 
Keyword(s)
starring George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, directed by Peter Hunt, written by Ian Fleming, Richard Maibaum, Simon Raven, action, James Bond, spy, SPECTRE, Swiss Alps, ski chases, germ warfare, PG, Albert R Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, United Artists, box office, budget, reviewed by Variety Staff, Don Druker, Geoff Andrew, A.H Weiler, Debbie Barham, Charles Taylor, Victor Pineyro, Joe Baltake, Matt Brunson
 

Cast & Crew

George Lazenby

Diana Rigg

Telly Savalas

Gabriele Ferzetti

Bernard Lee

James Bond

Tracy

Blofeld

Draco

M

George Lazenby – James Bond
Diana Rigg – Tracy
Telly Savalas – Blofeld
Gabriele Ferzetti – Draco
Bernard Lee – M
Lois Maxwell – Moneypenny

 

Peter Hunt

Ian Fleming

Albert R. Broccoli

Harry Saltzman

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Peter Hunt
 
Writer(s)
Ian Fleming, Richard Maibaum, Simon Raven
 
Producer(s)
Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
1 win & 4 nominations
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Variety Staff

Don Druker

Geoff Andrew

A.H. Weiler

Debbie Barham

Variety

Chicago Reader

Time Out

New York Times

BBC.com

ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE
 All Critics (56) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (45) | Rotten (11)
 Film of break-neck physical excitement and stunning visual attractions in which George Lazenby replaced Sean Connery as James Bond.
 
 October 13, 2008
 
 Variety Staff
 Variety
 TOP CRITIC
 Director Peter Hunt manages to inject some life into this 1969 exercise with a wonderful ski chase, but otherwise the film is a bore.
 
 October 13, 2008
 
 Don Druker
 Chicago Reader
 TOP CRITIC
 The Bond films were bad enough even with the partially ironic performances of Connery.
 
 June 24, 2006
 
 Geoff Andrew
 Time Out
 TOP CRITIC
 What are Bond’s problems now? They’re too numerous, as usual, to hold the constant attention of anyone other than a charter member of Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
 
 May 9, 2005
 
 A.H. Weiler
 New York Times
 TOP CRITIC
 By no means the premium Bond, but an intriguing one.
 
 July 25, 2001 | Rating: 3/5
 
 Debbie Barham
 BBC.com
 TOP CRITIC
 It offers supremely satisfying versions of all the conventions we expect from the series … and then it does the one thing you don’t expect a James Bond movie to do: It breaks your heart.
 
 January 1, 2000
 
 Charles Taylor
 Salon.com
 TOP CRITIC
 George Lazenby’s only 007 movie, turns out to also simply be my favorite James Bond movie of all time. [Full review in Spanish]
 
 June 23, 2022 | Rating: 9/10
 
 Victor Pineyro
 Seventh Art Studio
 His fantastic adventures, which once seemed slick and incredibly daring, now come across as warmed-over leftovers; they’re embarrassingly silly and weatherbeaten. The series has completely lost what little sophistication and humor it ever had.
 
 June 15, 2022
 
 Joe Baltake
 Philadelphia Daily News
 You won’t find a more tragic ending in any Bond flick.
 
 September 25, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
 Matt Brunson
 Film Frenzy
 Savalas makes a great Bond villain here as the notorious Blofeld.
 
 September 25, 2020 | Rating: 3/4
 
 Tom Meek
 Cambridge Day
 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is pure poetry. It transcends the idea of a Bond film. Gorgeously photographed, thrillingly executed, and wonderfully performed, this is the franchise zenith.
 
 September 1, 2020
 
 Jake Tropila
 Film Inquiry
 While trying to include all of the expected constituents of a Bond picture, many elements actually slow down the pacing – creating the longest runtime yet.
 
 August 27, 2020 | Rating: 6/10
 
 Mike Massie
 Gone With The Twins…

 

Plot
George Lazenby steps into the role of James Bond and is sent on his first mission. For help with Marc-Ange Draco (Gabriele Ferzetti), he must become very close friends with his daughter, Teresa “Tracy” (Dame Diana Rigg), and heads off to hunt down Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas) one more time. This takes him to Switzerland, where he must pose as Sir Hilary Bray to find out the secret plan of Blofeld. The facility is covered with Blofeld’s guards, as well as his henchwoman, Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat). What does Blofeld have in mind this time? Can Bond keep up this act for much longer? Are any Bond Girls safe?
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Diana Rigg’s portrayal of Tracy di Vincenzo is considered one of the most intriguing Bond girls in the series.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures,
 
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
Buena Vista Ranch, New Mexico, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG-13 for some intense sequences of western violence including disturbing images
 
Year of Release
1969
 

 
Genre(s)
Western
 
Keyword(s)
starring John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Corey, directed by Henry Hathaway, written by Marguerite Roberts, produced by Hal B Wallis, Western, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Nick Schager, Laremy Legel, Stephanie Zacharek, Joe Neumaier, Nell Minow, Peter Howell, Michael Kostelnuk, Matt Brunson, Mike Massie, Penelope Houston, MPAA rating G, vengeance, U.S Marshal, Texas Ranger, outlaw, revenge, adventure, Technicolor, cinematography, landscapes, John Wayne’s performance, Kim Darby’s performance, Academy Award, revenge-themed, classic Hollywood, Robert Duvall’s performance, Dennis Hopper’s performance, Jeff Corey’s performance, Glen Campbell’s performance, Henry Hathaway’s collaboration with John Wayne, Paramount Pictures
 

Cast & Crew

John Wayne

Glen Campbell

Kim Darby

Jeremy Slate

Robert Duvall

Rooster Cogburn

La Boeuf

Mattie Ross

Emmett Quincy

Ned Pepper

John Wayne – Rooster Cogburn
Glen Campbell – La Boeuf
Kim Darby – Mattie Ross
Jeremy Slate – Emmett Quincy
Robert Duvall – Ned Pepper
Dennis Hopper – Moon

 

Henry Hathaway

Marguerite Roberts

Hal B. Wallis

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Henry Hathaway
 
Writer(s)
Marguerite Roberts
 
Producer(s)
Hal B. Wallis

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 10 Oscars
38 wins & 169 nominations total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Nick Schager

Laremy Legel

Stephanie Zacharek

Joe Neumaier

Nell Minow

Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

Laremy Legel

Film.com

Stephanie Zacharek

TRUE GRIT
 All Critics (55) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (49) | Rotten (6)
 Far too often for True Grit to quite overcome, [Wayne’s] larger-than-life turn flirts with, if not outright topples into, self-parody.
 
 January 5, 2011 | Rating: C+
 
 Nick Schager
 Lessons of Darkness
 TOP CRITIC
 January 1, 2011 | Rating: A
 
 Laremy Legel
 Film.com
 TOP CRITIC
 December 27, 2010 | Rating: 8.5/10
 
 Stephanie Zacharek
 Movieline
 TOP CRITIC
 December 25, 2010 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Joe Neumaier
 New York Daily News
 TOP CRITIC
 December 25, 2010 | Rating: A-
 
 Nell Minow
 Movie Mom
 TOP CRITIC
 December 25, 2010 | Rating: 3/4
 
 Peter Howell
 Toronto Star
 TOP CRITIC
 A marvelously entertaining blend of classic Western melodrama and irresistible old-style sentiment.
 
 August 19, 2021
 
 Michael Kostelnuk
 Winnipeg Free Press
 Wayne won a Best Actor Academy Award for his rambunctious turn.
 
 May 30, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
 Matt Brunson
 Film Frenzy
 A winning, action-packed, humorous, road trip-styled revenge epic.
 
 August 27, 2020 | Rating: 8/10
 
 Mike Massie
 Gone With The Twins
 True Grit depends on that simple, no doubt reprehensible (at least emphatically illiberal), irrepressibly amiable star image the cinema is supposed to have out- grown.
 
 July 18, 2018
 
 Penelope Houston
 The Spectator
 Classic Western with memorable characters, some gun violence
 
 April 18, 2017 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Andrea Beach
 Common Sense Media
 Maybe it is not great cinema, but it is great entertainment.
 
 July 1, 2016 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Phil Hall
 Examiner.com…

 

Plot
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with “true grit,” Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her “grit” tested.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
John Wayne won an Academy Award for his performance as U.S. Marshal “Rooster” Cogburn.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)

 
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
 
Release Type
Streaming
 
Filming Location(s)

 
MPAA / Certificate

 
Year of Release
1968
 

 
Genre(s)
Comedy
 
Keyword(s)
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Cast & Crew

Jack Lemmon

Walter Matthau

John Fiedler

Herbert Edelman

Monica Evans

Felix Ungar

Oscar Madison

Vinnie

Murray

Cecily Pigeon

Jack Lemmon – Felix Ungar
Walter Matthau – Oscar Madison
John Fiedler – Vinnie
Herbert Edelman – Murray
Monica Evans – Cecily Pigeon
Carole Shelley – Gwendolyn Pigeon
Director – Gene Saks
Producer – Howard W. Koch
Writer – Neil Simon

 

Gene Saks

Neil Simon

Howard W. Koch

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Gene Saks
 
Writer(s)
Neil Simon
 
Producer(s)
Howard W. Koch

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Judith Crist

Ray Loynd

Mark Bourne

Kim Newman

Dave Kehr

New York Magazine/Vulture

Hollywood Reporter

Film.com

Empire Magazine

Chicago Reader

THE ODD COUPLE
 All Critics (40) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (39) | Rotten (1)
 The Odd Couple, one of the very best comedies to have emanated from Broadway in recent years, arrived on screen not only intact but actually enhanced by the transition.
 
 June 7, 2022
 
 Judith Crist
 New York Magazine/Vulture
 TOP CRITIC
 Capitalizing on almost every funny line in the play, and keeping physical setups to a wise minimum, playwright-screenwriter Neil Simon and director Gene Saks have adapted to the screen, fidelity-sharp, the embattled hilarity of The Odd Couple.
 
 May 3, 2019
 
 Ray Loynd
 Hollywood Reporter
 TOP CRITIC
 …a durable classic, the sort of comedy that doesn’t try to yank laughs by cramming its fist down our throats.
 
 March 18, 2009
 
 Mark Bourne
 Film.com
 TOP CRITIC
 Lemmon and Mathau’s finest hour.
 
 April 1, 2008 | Rating: 5/5
 
 Kim Newman
 Empire Magazine
 TOP CRITIC
 For all its overfamiliarity, this is a good play, easily Simon’s best, and Matthau and Lemmon inhabit it with grace and style.
 
 April 1, 2008
 
 Dave Kehr
 Chicago Reader
 TOP CRITIC
 An irresistible double act from Lemmon and Matthau.
 
 January 26, 2006
 
 Tom Milne
 Time Out
 TOP CRITIC
 The two stars go together like scotch and soda, and their rapport lifts every scene.
 
 October 4, 2022
 
 Edward Porter
 Sunday Times (UK)
 …a deliberately-paced and often unabashedly stagy comedy that benefits substantially from the justifiably iconic work of its stars…
 
 January 17, 2021 | Rating: 3/4
 
 David Nusair
 Reel Film Reviews
 Lemmon and Matthau have an undeniable chemistry that allows their highly contrasting personalities to generate a fitting camaraderie and plenty of comical conundrums.
 
 August 27, 2020 | Rating: 7/10
 
 Mike Massie
 Gone With The Twins
 I enjoy some moments of this comedy directed by Gene Saks when I see the fabulous pair of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, although the tour is somewhat repetitive and superficial. [Full review in Spanish]
 
 July 24, 2020 | Rating: 6/10
 
 Yasser Medina
 Cinemaficionados
 Simon’s The Odd Couple is proof that smart writing and adult themes can still make for a fun evening at your family home theater, if your children are older than 10.
 
 March 30, 2016 | Rating: B
 
 James Plath
 Family Home Theater
 Classic buddy comedy finds hilarity in its mature themes.
 
 July 8, 2014 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Renee Schonfeld
 Common Sense Media…

 

Plot
When Felix becomes suicidal over his impending divorce, he moves in with his best friend Oscar, but his obsession over his ex drives Oscar crazy and puts their friendship to the test in The Odd Couple.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Fresh Kernels doesn’t have anything goofy or funny or odd to say about the film Signed in.
 

 
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