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RT Archives
Even the oldest movies were new once. With the RT Archives, we're digging through newspapers and magazines from the past to find out what the critics said about classic movies -- before they were classics. What did the critics say about your favorites when they were brand new? Take a deep dive into the RT Archives and find out.
RT Archive Sources
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Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael was a prolific film critic at The New Yorker from 1967-1991, whose legacy lives on for her sharp wit, pioneering spirit, and prickly sensibility.
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Dan DiNicola
Dan DiNicola was an Emmy Award winning journalist whose versatility as a reporter, former school teacher, and most notably a film critic garnered him respect, acclaim, and notoriety as a daring voice for the arts.
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Curve
Curve was a lesbian magazine created by Franco Stevens in 1991 and originally called Deneuve. Its first issue sold out in just six days, evidence of the need for and lack of lesbian media in the ’90s. Curve covered everything in pop culture and lesbian life, from politics and civil rights to music, books, movies, television, and style.
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Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald)
Originally published as the Exhibitors Herald for Chicago-based exhibitors, this trade ran from 1915 to 1973. By 1930, many acquisitions and mergers expanded the publication nationally – it was renamed as the Motion Picture Herald, with the entire American film industry as its audience. Founder Martin Quigley served as a voice of reason and wariness within the film industry throughout his years at the helm of this mighty influential paper.
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Recently Added Archive Reviews
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Much more disciplined than their first film and, therefore, more effective in gags which, however brutal, still manage to smartly crack the funnybone.
Tom Hutchinson, Liverpool Echo (June 27 1975)
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Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann are happy choices as the orphans. Eddie Albert inserts just the proper type of crankiness as the camper-owner who gets entangled with them, and Ray Milland properly hams the multimillionaire.
Whitney Willaims, Variety (December 31 1974)
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Do the Right Thing (1989)
The strengths of Do the Right Thing lie firstly in its stylishness - its brash energy, its bright, primary palette, its technical virtuosity...and, secondly, in Lee's moral generosity.
Sheila Johnston, Independent (UK) (June 22 1989)
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Barbarella (1968)
What surprised me was the genuine sense of light-hearted innocence created by Miss Fonda when it might have been all too dirty for words.
Arthur Steele, Birmingham Mail (October 21 1968)