Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
93%
“Uncharacteristically for a Star Wars saga, [Luke and Vader's confrontation] is chilling psychologically as well as physically. For the rest, though, The Empire Strikes Back is good-natured hokum. ” –
Christian Science Monitor
Apr 24, 2025
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
94%
“We've come full circle. George Lucas, one of Hollywood's current boy wonders, has launched space opera to exhilarating new heights in a speed-of-light epic called Star Wars.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Apr 22, 2025
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Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975)
36%
“The story gets stickier by the minute, and there are an awful lot of minutes as Sheila drags on interminably.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Apr 9, 2025
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American Psycho (2000)
68%
2/4
“Bret Easton Ellis's novel is a manic blend of incisive satire and repellent violence. Harron and screenwriter Guinevere Turner reduce it to a standard-issue slasher movie.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Apr 4, 2025
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Rancho Deluxe (1975)
62%
“The writer has provided pithy parts for good actors.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Mar 27, 2025
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At Long Last Love (1975)
23%
“It all comes down to Mr. B's weary script (just filler between endless musical numbers) and tired direction.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Mar 25, 2025
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Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
86%
“The cast is marvelous.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Mar 19, 2025
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Tommy (1975)
71%
“"Tommy" is inspiring in its energy, its refusal to hesitate... startling in its purely visual quality.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Mar 18, 2025
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Report to the Commissioner (1975)
56%
“It's slick, inventive, and sometimes visually electrifying. ” –
Christian Science Monitor
Mar 12, 2025
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Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975)
47%
“Alan Arkin is at his self-effacing best.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Mar 11, 2025
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
47%
“We are held at arm's length by shallow dialogue, predictable plot twists, overblown situations.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Mar 7, 2025
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The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
61%
“It never flies very high but always keeps its wings at least a smidgin above the treetops.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Mar 3, 2025
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Nashville (1975)
89%
“The resulting movie brims with the bad and the beautiful, careens dazzling among comedy, drama, melodrama, farce, politics, tragedy and even magic tricks. Without ever dropping the beat of that music, music, music which is the very pulse of Nashville.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Feb 27, 2025
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
93%
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a bruising film -- boisterous, unflinching, sometimes ugly. Yet it is tempered with a quiet humanity, a genuine regard for people and their impossible predicaments.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Feb 25, 2025
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Barry Lyndon (1975)
78%
“A giant of a movie, standing so tall that its delicate legs must inevitably shake a little. Despite its shortcomings, it is a breathtaking and mysterious achievement that will likely see no direct competition for years to come. ” –
Christian Science Monitor
Feb 25, 2025
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The Song Remains the Same (1976)
39%
“Some of the fantasies show vague lapses of taste... most of the going is harmless enough to the mind and eyes -- though your eardrums may suffer.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Feb 19, 2025
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Shampoo (1975)
75%
“"Shampoo" is not nearly so thoughtful as its dirgelike pace and glib philosophizing would like you to believe.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Feb 10, 2025
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Blue Velvet (1986)
91%
“Ragged performances and overwritten dialogue weaken some scenes, and much of the evil behavior is so obsessively bleak that it seems more tortured than revealing. Still, at times there are vivid glimpses of [David Lynch's] visionary talent.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Jan 22, 2025
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
90%
“Coppola goes for brooding contemplation instead of character analysis or story resolution. The result is a thoughtful but unnecessarily narrow work. Technically, however, Apocalypse Now is an extraordinary achievement.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Sep 22, 2024
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Jaws (1975)
97%
“Jaws isn't personal, it's slick as sharkskin. It is the work of a first-rate craftsman, however: harrowing, sometimes nasty to look at, but rousingly adventurous. ” –
Christian Science Monitor
Jul 2, 2024
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The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976)
87%
“In sum, Bingo Long moves from the sad to the preposterous, keeping up a roistering batting average in both categories despite some seventh-inning stretches of dullness and enough ball-park language to merit a PG rating.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Apr 11, 2024
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Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
96%
“Pacino works furiously... but his efforts fail under the onslaught of bad jokes and the sheer passage of time... ” –
Christian Science Monitor
Apr 7, 2024
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
89%
5/5
“The Shawshank Redemption has a clever plot, conveyed through a well-crafted screenplay that loses momentum only when twists and turns stretch it... What gives the picture most of its zest and poignancy, however, is the excellence of its lead performances.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Mar 1, 2024
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Alien (1979)
93%
“In space, no one can hear you ask for your money back.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Nov 16, 2023
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Smoke Signals (1998)
90%
3/4
“The movie makes up in sincerity and goodwill what it lacks in originality and style.” –
Christian Science Monitor
Nov 8, 2023
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