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Tony Mastroianni
Tomatometer-approved critic
Publications:
Movies reviews only
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Little Big Man (1970) |
During that early part of the film Little Big Man is a raucously funny work as bit by irreverent bit it deflates the western legend as expounded in hundreds of western movies. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Nov 09, 2023
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) |
The dramatic scenes don't play well, and the action sequences are treated like set pieces, dropped in every now and then when the mood strikes. - Akron Beacon Journal
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| Posted Aug 16, 2021
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Aliens (1986) |
Just when you think the movie is over, Cameron comes back with another piece of action more daring than the last. While Aliens has more than its share of special effects, the heart of the film's success is its intense, unrelenting and spectacular action. - Akron Beacon Journal
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| Posted Aug 16, 2021
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Summer School (1987) |
Director Carl Reiner, a veteran of television comedy and movies as well as being a performer, is an old hand at milking a script for laughs. With this one, he must have really squeezed. - Akron Beacon Journal
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| Posted Aug 16, 2021
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Pirates (1986) |
Pirates is long and dull. Even the background music is tepid. And there's nothing Matthau can do to save the movie. - Akron Beacon Journal
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| Posted Aug 16, 2021
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Beyond Therapy (1987) |
Altman sometimes gets close to the split-second timing that is required to make farce work well. But close in a farce is not good enough. - Akron Beacon Journal
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| Posted Aug 16, 2021
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Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985) |
Police Academy 2 won't win any awards and its humor is pure slapstick. Like most of the number sequels, this is a pale imitation of the first. - Akron Beacon Journal
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| Posted Aug 16, 2021
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The Last Dragon (1985) |
The Last Dragon tries to do a great many things and does none of them well. - Akron Beacon Journal
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| Posted Aug 16, 2021
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Porky's Revenge (1985) |
The material is about as inspired as a second-rate television comedy except that the jokes are more off-color. - Akron Beacon Journal
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| Posted Aug 16, 2021
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One Crazy Summer (1986) |
One Crazy Summer has its moments and an appealing cast of talented performers. Perhaps some other time in some other movie... - Akron Beacon Journal
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| Posted Aug 16, 2021
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Creature (1985) |
Some bad movies are so bad they are funny or fascinating or both. This one makes counting grains of sand seem more lively. - Akron Beacon Journal
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| Posted Aug 16, 2021
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The Care Bears Movie (1985) |
The movie preaches the positive power of friendship. And if it succeeds at the box office, it will prove the positive power of commercial tie-ins. - Akron Beacon Journal
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| Posted Aug 16, 2021
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Over the Top (1987) |
The arm-wrestling championship eats up about a third of the movie, which is a lot of grunting, snarling and perspiring. All things being relative, this beats what passes for drama in the rest of the movie. - Akron Beacon Journal
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| Posted Aug 16, 2021
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La Bamba (1987) |
La Bamba is a movie with a few rough edges, but it has so much vitality you can't help being grabbed and held by it. - Akron Beacon Journal
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| Posted Aug 10, 2021
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The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun (1970) |
Mystery-starved audiences may find some of this diverting, about the first half of it anyway. But the movie achieves a sort of plateau and never moves from it. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Mar 18, 2020
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Life at the Top (1965) |
Life at the Top emerges as stronger stuff than the average sequel. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 06, 2019
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Made in Italy (1967) |
The result is light and entertaining fare for adults. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 06, 2019
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The film's virtues include an adherence to Machiavelli's witty and biting dialog; its faults include the freedom of the camera to roam the boudoir. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 06, 2019
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Money Talks (1972) |
The problem is that it says nothing at great length. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 06, 2019
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Gassman is a master of nuances. So much is expressed with a shrug, a gesture, a curled lip. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 06, 2019
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The Slender Thread (1965) |
The Slender Thread is a carefully constructed study in suspense, its climaxes well sustained. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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The Sting (1973) |
This is sheer entertainment, artfully made but without self conscious artiness. It is a picture put together by craftsmen who bring to it all their skills with only one purpose-entertainment. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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The Steagle (1971) |
The Steagle is another movie about alienation and not a very good one. With so much alienation on screen is it any wonder that audiences are beginning to feel alienated? - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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A Study in Terror (1966) |
Add John Neville, a skillful English actor to the long list of performers who have played Sherlock Holmes, and place him high on the list. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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Stop the World, I Want to Get Off (1966) |
Director Philip Saville has a free-wheeling camera technique which helps give the movie motion and variety: Tanner is a good Littlechap and makes the most of his big moments. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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The biggest flaw in the movie Is the script which concentrates on individual scenes but fails to tie them into a comprehensible or logical plot. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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Showdown (1973) |
Showdown is a tired western. Everyone in it is tired. The only suspense in the film is watching a tired Dean Martin and a tired Rock Hudson getting on their horses. Sometimes you think they won't make it. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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Let's Talk About Women (1964) |
The actor is a tireless performer. It's the movie that sometimes gets tiresome. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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Little Murders (1971) |
The movie tells no story. It is almost an unconnected series of sketches, some funny, others dull, all uneven. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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Looking for Love (1964) |
The plot is wildly improbable yet completely predictable. But for all of that Looking for Love is pleasant, a movie that is strictly for fun. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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The Silencers (1966) |
The total effect is overblown sensationalism on the tawdry side. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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Love Story (1970) |
Love Story is a three-handkerchief movie if you are hard boiled. Otherwise it rates six hankies. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966) |
Regardless who is on screen, the chimp steals the movie. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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Lawman (1971) |
Trying to be thoughtful, it is merely dull. Since it doesn't replace gore with thoughts it ends up being both dull and gory. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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Magnum Force (1973) |
The dialog is as uninspired as the plot but the stunt and chase sequences are up to par for this sort of thing. The action is fast, brutal and bloody. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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The Late Liz (1972) |
The Late Liz hits you over the head with its message and while you cannot fault it for a lack of sincerity -- it is about as sincere as you can get -- a little professionalism would have gone a long way to help it. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971) |
Maybe it's true that no one starts out to make a bad movie, but surely no one must have thought this one to be very good to begin with. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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The Last Run (1971) |
The scenery is breathtaking and the mountain road chases better than average. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 04, 2019
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The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966) |
There's a good deal of frantic activity as Marty Allen and Steve Rossi attempt] slapstick that never comes off, satire that's merely dull and a story about secret agents and international art thefts that never generates any interest. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 04, 2019
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Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972) |
[It] was a very funny thing on stage, but with serious overtones. On film Simon's lines have just as much wit, just as much fun and just as much bite. But... The hero's anguish seems to overshadow his fumbling attempts at being a Casanova. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 04, 2019
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Monkeys, Go Home! (1967) |
An amusing, light-hearted and pleasant motion picture for the entire family. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 04, 2019
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The Mind of Mr. Soames (1970) |
Soames is a movie that remains inventive throughout. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 04, 2019
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Dynamite Chicken (1971) |
Most of it is pretty repetitious. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 04, 2019
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The Sleeping Car Murders (1965) |
Five or 10 years from now connoisseurs of murder mystery motion pictures will be calling The Sleeping Car Murder a classic. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 04, 2019
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Skin Game (1971) |
Garner has the characterization of lovable rascal down to a science. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 04, 2019
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Shootout (1971) |
Peck is adequate in a role that doesn't demand much more than adequacy. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 04, 2019
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Night Flight From Moscow (1973) |
Serpent is a low-key espionage procedural drama that has more good moments than bad. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 03, 2019
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Such Good Friends (1971) |
The picture takes on such institutions as marriage, medicine and friendship and treats them all pretty roughly. What succeeds is a barrage of bright, witty, trenchant lines written by Elaine May operating under the pseudonym of Esther Dale. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 03, 2019
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The Secret of My Success (1965) |
Secret of My Success is an absurd, formless, shapeless affair that was handsomely photographed and well acted. Trouble with it is a script that wanders off in several directions resulting in a very uneven motion picture. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 03, 2019
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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973) |
The whole thing is rather jerky. The sensitivity is in the performances but seldom anywhere else. - Cleveland Press
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| Posted Apr 03, 2019
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