Night Moves (1975)
77%
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“It's a film that leaves you feeling empty. It was mean to. Happy endings are not part of the detective formula.” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
May 28, 2025
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
94%
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“So realistic is this imaginary world on a galaxy far, far away, it could have been filmed on location in space. It's mindless entertainment to be sure, but entertainment for people sick to death of directors who contemplate their navels and call it art.” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Apr 22, 2025
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
90%
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“"2001" takes our vision beyond the overwhelming problems of now. Kubrick, as is his want, takes us visually and emotionally and intellectually farther than even his genius might have promised.” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Apr 9, 2025
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At Long Last Love (1975)
23%
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“The truth is that Cole has been reduced to an ember. The tunes are shabbily treated and sound like Muzak.” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Mar 25, 2025
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
48%
EDIT
“The comedy becomes an ordeal unrelieved by genuinely funny flights of madness.” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Mar 7, 2025
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Nashville (1975)
89%
EDIT
“Robert Altman's Nashville ranks among the finest hours on the American screen. It's a work so epic, so exhilarating and engrossing that it can be compared to Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. ” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Feb 27, 2025
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Barry Lyndon (1975)
78%
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“Barry Lyndon is a most frustrating film, yet that frustration is perhaps small price to pay for so beautiful a work. Each shot is a visual masterwork. ” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Feb 25, 2025
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Shampoo (1975)
75%
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“"Shampoo" is a portrait done primarily in black. It's too serious to be funny, but it has elements pointing up the drama that are among the funniest scenes in recent memory.” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Feb 10, 2025
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Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
69%
1/4
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“The film is a lemon, a pain in the neck, a bloody bore.” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Sep 26, 2024
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
90%
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“It's the blackest of all comedies, the most terrifying of all war films. It's the $30 million cinema opera that the director-writer promised. And it leaves first degree burns on the psyche.” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Sep 23, 2024
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Jaws (1975)
97%
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“The protagonists would be nothing more than cardboard (nothing more needed, actually) if it were not for the polished playing of the three stars. Nobody, like the shark, bites off more than he can chew.” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Jul 2, 2024
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Little Women (1994)
92%
4/5
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“This whole film is magic. ” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Apr 11, 2024
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Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
96%
EDIT
“What starts as a very funny movie -- on the order of a realistic escapade involving the Keystone Kops -- evolves into a very sobering drama.” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Apr 10, 2024
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
90%
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“The special effects are so breathtaking that one is almost blinded to the fact that this is really a genre film blown up to epic proportions.” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Apr 3, 2024
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Chinatown (1974)
98%
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“This is a complex and richly detailed work and, like the Bogart films before it, one that is best when you savor the moment. It works magnificently if you accept Polanski's innate sense of low-keyed pace and shocking surprise.” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Mar 8, 2024
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Little Big Man (1970)
91%
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“Director Arthur Penn has stylishly spun one entertaining sequence after another, varying tempo and mood as the subject demands, and stringing it all together with a quietly comic performance by Dustin Hoffman. ” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Nov 10, 2023
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Smoke Signals (1998)
90%
4/4
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“Smoke Signals is a picaresque adventure that I found altogether satisfying and truly delicious. It's not a frivolous film, but it is a grandly entertaining movie, a motion picture that looks you right in the eye -- and winks.” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Nov 8, 2023
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The Last Picture Show (1971)
98%
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“Cloris Leachman's affair with Timothy Bottoms provides some of the film's finest dramatic scenes. One would have to say too much here to convey a fraction of what this woman does... with her role. You'll love her in this film. ” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Oct 25, 2023
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
92%
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“Ellen Burstyn plays the title role in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as though she were auditioning for the Pearly Gates Repertory Company. She's heavenly. ” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Oct 12, 2023
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Raging Bull (1980)
92%
EDIT
“It's a stunning piece of cinema -- as stunning as anything Scorsese has ever filmed. But why spend two hours with a shallow, truly obnoxious character if it's not to understand his tragedy?” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Oct 10, 2023
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Taxi Driver (1976)
89%
EDIT
“Though Martin Scorsese tends to overstate certain moments, he has fashioned a truly electric motion picture with tension brilliantly underscoring every frame, scene and sequence. Few movies have provided so harrowing an experience.” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Oct 6, 2023
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When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
69%
2/4
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“The film works best in these passages showing her struggle as a recovering alcoholic, but it's pretty slick and shallow stuff as presented.” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Sep 1, 2023
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The Color Purple (1985)
73%
3/4
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“You may not like what director Steven Spielberg has done to The Color Purple... But you can not be indifferent to this astonishingly beautiful film based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel or to Whoopi Goldberg's screen debut as Celie. ” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
May 25, 2023
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Dances With Wolves (1990)
87%
3.5/4
EDIT
“A deeply moving and hauntingly beautiful film directed by Kevin Costner.” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Nov 3, 2022
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Don't Look in the Basement (1972)
- -
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“The "R" rating in most cases stands for repulsion. ” –
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Sep 27, 2022
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