Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
83%
8/10
“Return of the Jedi is terrific fun. Comic-book fun? Sure. But when that theme music starts up, you get shivers down your spine.” –
Detroit Free Press
Apr 25, 2025
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Back to School (1986)
81%
4/10
“The screenplay...is proof that too many comics spoil the froth.” –
Detroit Free Press
Feb 27, 2025
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The Breakfast Club (1985)
87%
8/10
“What a remarkable pleasure it is to see an intelligent, sensitive, moving, politically astute and loving film made for teenage audiences.” –
Detroit Free Press
Feb 14, 2025
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Blue Velvet (1986)
91%
5/10
“The acting's grand, all right; too bad the characters aren't. ” –
Detroit Free Press
Jan 21, 2025
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Aliens (1986)
94%
7/10
“While Aliens would come in a distant second to Alien in any double-feature, it is a rapidly paced, hard-driving, very frightening picture that withholds nothing.” –
Detroit Free Press
Jul 30, 2024
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Dune (1984)
36%
7/10
“Dune is the kind of fantastic tale that can transport viewers the way Herbert's book transported readers.” –
Detroit Free Press
Feb 14, 2024
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Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
73%
6/10
“So forget Mazursky. Forget the expedient politics and comic-book finales. Instead, watch Williams and Baskin in Bloomingdale's... Williams and Alonso when she tells hims why she can't move in with him. It's great stuff. ” –
Detroit Free Press
Aug 17, 2023
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The Color Purple (1985)
73%
9/10
“If Whoopi Goldberg isn't a star after this film, there's no justice. She becomes Celie.” –
Detroit Free Press
May 31, 2023
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Yentl (1983)
69%
5/10
“Yentl, which is not a good movie but is often an irresistible one, is only for Streisand fans. Fortunately, that's a big audience. ” –
Detroit Free Press
May 12, 2023
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
77%
7/10
“[Temple of Doom] has so much violence, torture and bloodshed, parents should see it themselves before exposing small children to it. Despite its faults, audiences will probably love this Steven Spielberg epic. It's big, loud, brash and often very funny.” –
Detroit Free Press
Apr 17, 2023
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Gandhi (1982)
89%
“Gandhi is a triumph, a great achievement, and a masterful look at history that manages to avoid becoming anything as trite as an epic.” –
Detroit Free Press
Jul 19, 2022
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Amadeus (1984)
90%
9/10
“Abraham and Hulce make these men absolutely real; even powdered wigs and extravagant clothes cannot conceal the timeless emotions being played out.” –
Detroit Free Press
Jul 11, 2022
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The Last Starfighter (1984)
76%
7/10
“Earth is inferior in every way to Out There. But once Alex gets Out There, audiences are in for goose bumps and prickling napes.” –
Detroit Free Press
May 3, 2022
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Poltergeist II (1986)
20%
5/10
“Poltergeist was an original, and Poltergeist II is not. The first was good enough to justify a sequel; the second is not good enough to justify a third.” –
Detroit Free Press
Nov 2, 2021
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The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
77%
7/10
“"The Pope of Greenwich Village" is an actor's movie and a good love story with a twist.” –
Detroit Free Press
Oct 30, 2021
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Short Circuit (1986)
62%
5/10
“Folks who like tweaking the Army or those with a special fondness for adorable robots may enjoy this harmless, reasonably funny film.” –
Detroit Free Press
Oct 27, 2021
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Salvador (1986)
90%
8/10
“Although it doesn't attain the stature of The Killing Fields, the film is an effective comment on the actions in Central America.” –
Detroit Free Press
Oct 27, 2021
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Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986)
58%
4/10
“A disappointing waste of talented actors.” –
Detroit Free Press
Oct 27, 2021
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My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
98%
8/10
“A brutally funny social comedy about the racial and social consequences of a Pakistani and an Englishman going into business and becoming lovers.” –
Detroit Free Press
Oct 27, 2021
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La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding (1985)
6/10
“Spring is here, and Renato and Albin, the '80s version of Lucy, and Ricky, are back in a rococo sequel that, while not as divine as the first two, allows us to drop in on our friends at that tres gai nightclub on the French Riviera.” –
Detroit Free Press
Oct 27, 2021
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Critters (1986)
52%
6/10
“Sure, it's a Gremlins derivative. But this nifty little alien invasion movie is a thoroughly engaging, simultaneously funny and frightening pop horror romp with much of the same trash culture verve as The Howling.” –
Detroit Free Press
Oct 27, 2021
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Echo Park (1985)
78%
5/10
“Susan Dey is the best thing in an often strenuously arty picture whose actors manage to triumph over a graceless script.” –
Detroit Free Press
Oct 27, 2021
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Sweet Liberty (1986)
76%
6/10
“Mature audiences looking for decent mainstream entertainment should have a good time watching the consequences of this classic Hollywood standoff.” –
Detroit Free Press
Oct 27, 2021
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Paris, Texas (1984)
95%
8/10
“"Paris, Texas," despite its history of last-minute rewrites, is unsentimental adult entertainment.” –
Detroit Free Press
Oct 7, 2021
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Teachers (1984)
61%
5/10
“Despite its faults, "Teachers" has moments that make it worth seeing. Just don't expect too much.” –
Detroit Free Press
Oct 3, 2021
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