Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
83%
“Clearly this is Luke's movie -- and rightly so. Mark Hamill has grown tremendously as an actor in the course of these three pictures, and his performance gives an authentic power and life to Luke's elevation to the level of Jedi.” –
L.A. Weekly
Apr 25, 2025
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
93%
“A beautiful model of fidelity -- of Kershner's to the emotional and moral core of the myth-in-progress, and of Lucas' to the huge success of the first film. In effect, Lucas pays back his most devoted fans by giving them an even better movie.” –
L.A. Weekly
Apr 23, 2025
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Tarzan (1999)
90%
“Of the many excellent animated features Disney has produced over the past decade, this is the one that feels the freest, and sweetest.” –
L.A. Weekly
Dec 20, 2024
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Smoke Signals (1998)
90%
“From the start, you can guess this journey will make them whole, but writer Sherman Alexie and director Chris Eyre carry off the inevitable with infectious energy and humor.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 8, 2023
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Magnolia (1999)
82%
“Magnolia lives up to its title, which on one level recalls a big street in the San Fernando Valley, and on another is a live, multipetaled object of contemplation, a source of wonder.” –
L.A. Weekly
Jun 29, 2023
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
94%
“[Raiders is] poised with monstrous delicacy on the cusps between so many pairs of worlds -- childhood and adulthood, anxiety and giddiness, religious miracles and special effects, studies of old movie classics and the primal moviegoing experience.” –
L.A. Weekly
May 2, 2023
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Wild Things (1998)
64%
“In the universe of Wild Things, innocence is a particularly lethal demon -- if it doesn't get you killed, it becomes too expensive to hang on to. To play this theme for such delicious, wicked laughs is a mark of true imaginative intelligence. ” –
L.A. Weekly
Feb 2, 2023
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Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)
100%
“This is an L.A. that no film or television show pays attention to, the L.A. of the people who ride the buses, the L.A. of the people who will never live on the hill and who couldn't care less about the Hollywood sign.” –
L.A. Weekly
Jan 10, 2023
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Eve's Bayou (1997)
84%
“Writer-director Kasi Lemmons works fast, and the world she conjures is powerfully realized.” –
L.A. Weekly
Jan 10, 2023
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Addams Family Values (1993)
75%
“Paul Rudnick's script is wicked, tart, satiric, hilarious: It gives director Barry Sonnenfeld and his impeccable cast both a springboard and a safety net. ” –
L.A. Weekly
Sep 22, 2022
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Mishima (1985)
79%
“Schrader has taken the four blank walls of that musty old form -- the Epic Movie Biography -- and knocked them out to add rooms full of light and fresh air... I can't think of a movie that has better embodied a human being, much less an artist.” –
L.A. Weekly
Apr 4, 2022
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
86%
“In the end, it makes for a beautiful summary, an envoi from which one can circle back through the re-runs and consider Star Trek as a finished whole. Even if they never make another, the saga can stand complete.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 10, 2021
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Summer Lovers (1982)
25%
“Hilariously bad. The best thing you can say about this film is that it establishes, once and for all, the themes and preoccupations of its writer-director.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 10, 2021
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
78%
“Here is a portrait of modern high school life that speaks lightly but truly to the fears and trials of post-Watergate teens.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 10, 2021
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Author! Author! (1982)
50%
“There are no easy answers. And thankfully, Horovitz doesn't fake any; he lets us savor his hero's difficulty, at the same time taking a sharp, funny and satiric look at the Broadway and New York literary crowds.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 10, 2021
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Night Shift (1982)
93%
“Because I was never a big fan of Happy Days, I didn't hold out much hope for a film starring Henry Winkler and directed by Ron Howard, but I came out of this one very surprised. It's genuinely funny and well made.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 10, 2021
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Rocky III (1982)
65%
“Give Sylvester Stallone credit: this picture so totally recycles the first two Rockys that -- in a just universe -- it would be practically nonexistent; but the finished product is nonetheless a huge crowd pleaser.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 10, 2021
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Paris, Texas (1984)
95%
“Paris, Texas is a landmark work in every sense: understated, powerful, sublime.” –
L.A. Weekly
Oct 7, 2021
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Chan Is Missing (1982)
96%
“Wayne Wang is definitely a young director to watch.” –
L.A. Weekly
May 19, 2021
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The Challenge (1982)
53%
“The Challenge is sloppy, but fun.” –
L.A. Weekly
Apr 19, 2021
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Out of Africa (1985)
62%
“Surprise! A movie I thought I'd hate has turned out to be one of the smartest, most enjoyable big-screen romances in years.” –
L.A. Weekly
Jan 12, 2021
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Chicken Run (2000)
97%
“What gives this movie its oddly strong grip on a viewer's heart is a physical tenderness inseparable from the nature of claymation.” –
L.A. Weekly
Aug 24, 2014
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The Iron Giant (1999)
96%
“The Iron Giant's theme of fear of the unknown is craftily balanced against the power of innocent imagination.” –
L.A. Weekly
Aug 12, 2014
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The Trouble With the Truth (2012)
94%
“There isn't a false note in either the dialogue or the performances.” –
Village Voice
Sep 11, 2012
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Toy Story 2 (1999)
100%
“No parent who's been roped into leading the troops to a matinee need fear being bored: gags are, Simpsons-like, conceived to tickle several generations at once.” –
L.A. Weekly
Aug 6, 2012
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