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Bruce McCabe

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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 93% “The sequel is more calculated. The spontaneous energy of the original, which grew out of the arcane riskiness of the project, is missing. "Empire" is the work of people who know they're going to make money.” – Boston Globe Apr 24, 2025 Full Review Apocalypse Now (1979) 90% “Some critics fault Coppola for not delivering a seamless, flawless film. But this is to misperceive and misread the film in a crucial way. The film by definition couldn't be flawless. It attempts too much.” – Boston Globe Sep 23, 2024 Full Review Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 90% “This is a revolutionary film. It's revolutionary in the sense that it suggests, as few films have, the extraordinary sensory potential of the medium.” – Boston Globe Apr 3, 2024 Full Review Grease (1978) 66% “It's a jumble of things having to do with the fifties' revival, the original stage version, the ersatz nature of media nostalgia and a lot of other vague apprehensions floating around like misty particles in the air. ” – Boston Globe Jan 26, 2024 Full Review Raging Bull (1980) 92% “This is a masterpiece. It proves that a film can have violent undertones and overtones, but still illuminate and comment upon violence in a moving, poetic and profound way.” – Boston Globe Oct 6, 2023 Full Review Girlfriends (1978) 93% “It's sort of a low-budget Turning Point, with perhaps a little more honesty. ” – Boston Globe May 17, 2023 Full Review 3 Women (1977) 83% “This is a film for those who find whatever Altman does intriguing. ” – Boston Globe Apr 6, 2023 Full Review One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977) 65% “It ought to be seen although, while watching it, I'm not always sure why. The reason is that Varda's politics, intelligent and perceptive as they are, sometimes work against her talents as a filmmaker. ” – Boston Globe Mar 8, 2023 Full Review The Deer Hunter (1978) 86% “It's a film of excesses, some of which succeed admirably and others of which fail spectacularly. But the excesses are what make this a distinctive film. Its obsessiveness is riveting. ” – Boston Globe Aug 30, 2022 Full Review Annie Hall (1977) 97% “I could easily consume the rest of this space quoting from Annie Hall, which is, the more I think about it, as close to a work of cinematic art as I've seen in ages.” – Boston Globe Aug 26, 2022 Full Review Tess (1979) 81% “This film is one of those rare treasures that restores one's faith in the efficacy of the cinema.” – Boston Globe Jun 17, 2022 Full Review Hair (1979) 83% “It's a highly structured creation of something resembling that Sixties phenomenon, the "happening." Unlike the happening, however, one gets a clear sense of control, of discipline. That's what gives Hair its freewheeling and uninhibited aura.” – Boston Globe Nov 4, 2021 Full Review Blue Collar (1978) 96% “Schrader's visceral writing and direction illuminate "Blue Collar" in the manner of chain lightning in a darkening summer sky.” – Boston Globe Aug 21, 2021 Full Review The Late Show (1977) 95% “Tomlin invests all her genius in this role, fleshing it out into a study in vulnerability. It's the most fully realized characterization of a woman I've seen in ages.” – Boston Globe Jun 14, 2021 Full Review Little Miss Marker (1980) “The problem is that this Little Miss Marker obtusely ignores or obscures the elements that might justify it.” – Boston Globe Apr 28, 2018 Full Review Loulou (1980) 88% “Loulou is a bravura French comedy of manners and morals -- or, if you will, lack of them -- which freely explores new and occasionally unconventional and unfamiliar attitudes toward sex, love, romance and life.” – Boston Globe Apr 28, 2018 Full Review Fame (1980) 81% “Fame isn't only the best musical of the summer, it's one of the best films of any genre -- a fresh and funky, sassy and brassy, gutty and gritty, slick and smart piece of work.” – Boston Globe Apr 28, 2018 Full Review Raise the Titanic (1980) 38% “The movie is a misconceived, anticlimactic, wooden, phlegmatically paced and waterlogged travelogue that devotes so much time to its nautical machinery that there's none left over for even an approximation of interaction among the actors.” – Boston Globe Apr 28, 2018 Full Review Gorp (1980) “It confuses vulgarity with humor, a problem of epidemic proportions these days.” – Boston Globe Apr 28, 2018 Full Review The Getting of Wisdom (1977) 80% “This is a charming, sensitive and discreet portrait of female adolescence set in turn-of-the-century Australia.” – Boston Globe Apr 28, 2018 Full Review Stony Island (1980) “Part of Stony's charm is its ambition. It's an emotional portrait of and commentary on the musician's lifestyle at the same time that it's a gritty musical which shifts moods cockily and assuredly.” – Boston Globe Apr 28, 2018 Full Review Middle Age Crazy (1980) “Is it possible to make a movie about something everyone can relate to -- and miss? Middle Age Crazy suggests that it is.” – Boston Globe Apr 28, 2018 Full Review Scanners (1981) 67% “Scanners, according to David Cronenberg's new film, are people who can control others with their thoughts...The idea has a certain cachet. But Scanners doesn't pay off on it.” – Boston Globe Apr 28, 2018 Full Review Heart Beat (1980) 20% “Heart Beat, which is supposedly about Jack Kerouac and his friends in the Beat Generation, is Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice without Alice and without humor.” – Boston Globe Apr 28, 2018 Full Review Dimenticare Venezia (1979) “A rich, stirring and quite heartening film, a sophisticated work of affirmation.” – Boston Globe Apr 28, 2018 Full Review
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