“He may, like Zapata, be that ultimate contradiction — a man 'of the people' who towers above them, a man in constant tension with his own myth.”
Originally published June 14, 1973
“Bertolucci and Brando conspire magnificently, sometimes awkwardly, to create not just a film about an affair, but the affair itself — an affair which we have the option of resisting or accepting on a gut level, and which like most affairs (and unlike most current films) is better experienced than written about.”
Originally published October 26, 1972
“Since 'The Godfather' is about as unkind to the Mafia as 'Mein Kampf' is to Adolf Hitler, it is hard to understand why the local little Caesars didn’t pay a commission for all the free publicity.”
Originally published March 16, 1972
“Suddenly moviegoers of both sexes have encountered ... Marlon Brando’s pseudo-sensitive stud’s swagger, Burt Reynolds’s coy centerfold swagger, and Norman Mailer’s ballsy literary swagger.”
Originally published February 22, 1973