"Russell's visual extravagance owes more to silent film expressionism than any British realist tradition."Film Comment93.56276
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"...As ghoulishly funny and frenzied as a carnival ride....[Richardson is] an original..." New York Times "...A poetic masterpiece....Ken Russell has made an unrelenting nightmare that is both uncomfortable and compulsive to watch..." Variety43.82869
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"...Dazzling..." Sight and Sound "...TOMMY virtually explodes with excitement on the screen....The performers are extravagantly fine..."New York Times "...The Who's rock opera TOMMY was an apt screen subject for director Ken Russell's visual bombast..." USA Today "[R]edeemed by the performances of Ann-Margret and Oliver Reed, interesting cameos from Elton John and Tina Turner, and a stylish sense of design." Uncut "[I]t's better enjoyed as a sequence of lurid performances of Who songs..." Mojo43.74335
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"...Dazzling..." Sight and Sound "...TOMMY virtually explodes with excitement on the screen....The performers are extravagantly fine..."New York Times "...The Who's rock opera TOMMY was an apt screen subject for director Ken Russell's visual bombast..." USA Today "[R]edeemed by the performances of Ann-Margret and Oliver Reed, interesting cameos from Elton John and Tina Turner, and a stylish sense of design." Uncut "[I]t's better enjoyed as a sequence of lurid performances of Who songs..." Mojo43.74335
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"...Buoyant, mischievous....A welcome element of droll humor..." New York Times "...Kinky..." -- Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly43.05428
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"...If only more prose could be so simply translated into such a soap-opera-style guilty pleasure..." Entertainment Weekly43.05428
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"...The film's playful and more heartfelt aspects are fused in mournfully beautiful imagery..." New York Times "...An immaculately lensed, intellectual jape....Always visually alert..." Variety "...Jarman has passed through the soul of his first master, Ken Russell, to a cinematic 'other side' where his work has the ethereal potency of unstressed metaphor..." Film Comment "[T]his is Jarman in playful and provocative groove....You can't help but be heartened by the way Jarman ignores the conventions of film biopics."Sight and Sound0.4425226
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Mojo (Publisher) (p.120) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's an absorbing LP packed with layered, exploratory grooves fusing orchestral funk with electric jazz."Record Collector (magazine) (p.82) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Very much of its time with its sleek blends of jazz, soul and funk, and at times pronounced cinematic edge..."0.3698325
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"...Exhilaratingly successful....[The] costumes, staging and locations are worthy of any great opera production and the sound quality is loud and clear and crisp..." Variety0.1540969
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"What distinguishes Arnold's work from that of his peers is his ability to invest pulp science-fiction material with an aura of speculation, perfectly pitched between not too wholesome and not too dark."Sight and Sound0.1319136
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"What distinguishes Arnold's work from that of his peers is his ability to invest pulp science-fiction material with an aura of speculation, perfectly pitched between not too wholesome and not too dark."Sight and Sound0.1055309
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"[T]his is the real thing..."USA Today 5 stars out of 5 -- "[A] terrific noir amid the angular shadows of postwar London."Uncut 4 stars out of 5 -- "Dassin took the location realism that he had pioneered in THE NAKED CITY and imbued it with vivid low-life characterisation and a mood of desperate paranoia."Empire "Richard Widmark excels as a small-time hustler....Dassin evokes the seedy glamour, misery and violence of Soho..."Sight and Sound0.08716689
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Record Collector (magazine) (p.105) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here are plenty of skilled players and good singers in evidence throughout..."0.07627103
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Musician (3/96, p.90) - "...Russell achieved...an integration of his two personae. He caressed the melody even while underscoring it with down-home rasps and scratchy yowls. Velvet and sandpaper, perfectly matched..."Musician (3/96, p.90) - "...Russell achieved what eluded him on ASYLUM CHOIR: an integration of his two personae. He caressed the melody even while underscoring it with down home raps and scratchy yowls..."15.3991
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"A landmark 10 1/2 hour mix of still photos and modern-day interviews with historians, musicians and critics..."USA Today "...A deft enmeshing of hard fact and intimate reflection encompassing military, political, and cultural history..."Entertainment Weekly14.53095
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"...Mr. Burns's elegiac thoroughness...is given a big lift by the artfully assembled music....JAZZ is full of dreams." New York Times "...This epic production surrounds its stories and civic lessons with an almost unquenchable torrent of great music..." -- 3 out of 4 stars USA Today13.35974
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