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Beetlejuice (1988) 83% “Beetlejuice has Michael Keaton's funniest acting... yet the movie fails to match him. ” – Copley News Service Aug 16, 2024 Full Review Postcards From the Edge (1990) 83% “Postcards From the Edge has a soft edge, and scenes like postcards from some private party -- we feel half-invited, half-ignored.” – Copley News Service Apr 29, 2024 Full Review Spaceballs (1987) 52% “That opening of the new Mel Brooks comedy is a pleaser. Brooks offers some other fine moments. yet he commits a real show-biz mistake. His best stuff is nearly alt in the first 20 minutes. After that, he is struggling.” – Copley News Service Apr 12, 2024 Full Review Pulp Fiction (1994) 92% “A mischievous, violent, smashingly stylized rebuke to all the crime thrillers that ever sported a fig leaf of Redeeming Value.” – Copley News Service Feb 29, 2024 Full Review Home Alone (1990) 66% “Macaulay Culkin, all of 10 wisecracking years old, single-handedly rescues this John Hughes script from the abyss. ” – Copley News Service Nov 28, 2023 Full Review Paper Moon (1973) 91% “Bogdanovich has learned the oldest trade in Hollywood -- he doesn't direct the movie, he directs the audience. He doesn't have the tonic vision of the artists he admires, Wells and Ford; he has the commercial acumen of the first-class hacks. ” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review The French Connection (1971) 97% “The French Connection gives us suspense mixed with violence, and the cocktail is so volatile that you don't really care if the film is nothing more than two hours of fun in the dark. ” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Man of La Mancha (1972) 53% “Peter O'Toole, as Don Quixote-Cervantes, gives a performance of such sincerity, stylized with such a fine line, that he carries the movie right along with him, past the bad songs and clumsy action scenes and Wasserman's often squishy dialogue.” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review The Man (1971) “The film has only a bland, interior decorator's regard for the presidency, combined with the tackiest sort of plot-turning by Rod Serling. ” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review The Candidate (1972) 89% “The synthetic quality of The Candidate, along with its sacrifice of substance for image, should make it offensive. It isn't, however, because it never tries to milk our emotions and is such visible fun with itself. ” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Deliverance (1972) 89% “It is not meant to be "liked," and in a sense I didn't like it at all, but that made its power and control all the more convincing, and I greatly admire the film's single-minded intensity. ” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Two English Girls (1971) 89% “Ardent fans of François Truffaut have often wished that he would give us another Jules and Jim. Now, 11 years after that masterwork, the great French director has obliged with Two English Girls. ” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) 71% “The heavy touch probably belongs mostly to scriptwriter Jacob Blackman... Rafelson pulls off some striking scenes, but he's never on top of Brackman's dull symbolism and gassy chatter, and finally it buries him. ” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972) 29% “The movie is a miserable experience. The gags keep coming crazily, punch-pressing laughter from the audience long after the mirth of the situation has been curdled by the waves of pity, pain, contempt and blistering self-abuse.” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review The Way We Were (1973) 64% “It's a movie with big sharp teeth but no bite. The mouth opens, the dentures fall out and the story just sits there gaping at its own emptiness. ” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review The New Land (1972) 100% “Troell's victory (and that of his wonderful actors) is to show us a world we would not really want to live in but that we can cherish because of the people who did live in it so humanly. ” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Electra Glide in Blue (1973) 69% “It's easy to enjoy the film's brash energy, but there's no way to admire a movie in which [the characters] are all used as devalued chips in a game without meaning -- a crap game. ” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review American Graffiti (1973) 95% “I'm not sure I would have enjoyed their way of life, but it's a great one to remember, even if you didn't live it yourself, and it makes American Graffiti the ultimate nostalgia movie -- certainly the best teen-myth movie since Rebel Without a Cause.” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) 50% “"Superstar" would be fairly innocuous except that its appeal is so calculated to blitz the audience with pure, dumb sensation. The emphasis on brute scale and shrill volume is oppressive, and at times even frightening. ” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Smokey and the Bandit (1977) 72% “For me at least, the world of "Smokey" is stranger than the outer space of Star Wars... "Smokey" may be faintly memorable as the absolute pit of Jackie Gleason's career. ” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Greased Lightning (1977) “Pryor's rabbit-faced anxiety does not really get the chance it needs here -- he's a natural loony -- but his performance is very humanly attractive. ” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review The Go-Between (1971) 100% “The Go-Between, taken from L.P. Hartley's novel, is also facile but in the best sense, and more a work of genuine sensitivity. It's a vignette, nothing more -- but of the kind that changes a man's life forever. ” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review The Emigrants (1971) 94% “They've made a connoisseur's "family movie," without special pomp or special pleading, one that sums up the best spirit of our country's past and that could, without a bit of jingoism, help revive our faith in its future. ” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Carnal Knowledge (1971) 88% “[Jules Feiffer and Mike Nichols] have made a film that is hard but not cynical, clever but not superficial and, as movies go, quite important. ” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Big Jake (1971) 75% “It's not great Wayne, in the tradition of Hondo or The Searchers, because neither the story nor the direction has any comparable flair... But at last it does move, an imperative asset in any decent Western. ” – Chicago Daily News Oct 3, 2023 Full Review
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