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JoAnn Rhetts

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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 83% “"Jedi" is the rousing finish to a marvelous yarn -- icing on a myth-fortified fantasy cake guaranteed to delight countless millions of moviegoers, particularly young ones, who've forgotten, or never knew, about happily every after.” – Charlotte Observer Apr 25, 2025 Full Review The Breakfast Club (1985) 87% “When they arrive at 7 a.m., you wonder "how are they going to entertain me in this one room?" But like French farceurs working within strict limits of time and place, they are wildly entertaining and inventive. ” – Charlotte Observer Feb 14, 2025 Full Review Aliens (1986) 94% “For Weaver, this tech noir journey into the belly of the beast provides one of the best women's roles in recent years.” – Charlotte Observer Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Spaceballs (1987) 52% “Spaceballs is the most dumb fun you'll have this summer.” – Charlotte Observer Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Dune (1984) 36% “Dune, consequently, is a movie you feel with your eyes. ” – Charlotte Observer Feb 13, 2024 Full Review Birdy (1984) 84% “What's particularly gratifying about Cage's performance as the preening and pitiful Al is that it proves at long last that his delightful work in "Valley Girl" was no fluke.” – Charlotte Observer Dec 16, 2023 Full Review Moscow on the Hudson (1984) 73% “Moscow on the Hudson is particularly frustrating in the number of comic responsibilities unfulfilled by either Williams or Muzursky. ” – Charlotte Observer Aug 17, 2023 Full Review The Color Purple (1985) 73% “Even if you think the idea of reincarnation a cuckoo concept, you'll look into Goldberg's reflecting-pond eyes to find a very old, wise and witty soul in those quiet depths. ” – Charlotte Observer May 25, 2023 Full Review A Chorus Line (1985) 48% “The change in form from stage piece to movie only points up all the weaknesses that were disguised in the theater by the magic of live performance. ” – Charlotte Observer May 25, 2023 Full Review An American Tail (1986) 77% “A lavish, entertaining and emotionally satisfying tale that recaptures the best of the good old Disney days.” – Charlotte Observer May 16, 2023 Full Review Yentl (1983) 69% “If Yentl were the work of an unknown first-time director, critics and moviegoers would be knocking each other out of the way to "discover" this voluptuous talent.” – Charlotte Observer May 12, 2023 Full Review Clash of the Titans (1981) 63% “Clash of the Titans is more fun than a '50s fur, forbidden fruit and fin flick has any right to be... Harryhausen's stop-action menagerie is unflaggingly engaging. ” – Charlotte Observer May 3, 2023 Full Review History of the World: Part I (1981) 61% “History of the World: Part I is Mel Brooks at his most appealing since The Producers and Young Frankenstein... This is just the sort of harmless, frequently hilarious summer movie that will appeal to adolescents of all ages. ” – Charlotte Observer May 3, 2023 Full Review Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 94% “Without the tempo and the contrasting characters, about two hours of continual hanging from cliffs in "Raiders" leaves you with sore arms. ” – Charlotte Observer May 3, 2023 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) 77% “Stunts and special visual effects (by Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic) nearly match Spielberg's matchless steam-locomotive-out-of-control direction. Nobody does an action scene better.” – Charlotte Observer Apr 17, 2023 Full Review Platoon (1986) 89% “Extravagantly well acted and passionately directed, it is not a pretty picture. But it may well prove a healing one for Americans who were there or who are beginning to understand and accept the particular heroics of the 27 million Vietnam veterans.” – Charlotte Observer Aug 23, 2022 Full Review Terms of Endearment (1983) 81% “In a true Hollywood miracle, first time director-producer James Brooks and his stars Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger transplant these characters, with all their vivid eccentricities intact, from the page to the screen's best comedy-drama in years.” – Charlotte Observer Jul 21, 2022 Full Review Gandhi (1982) 89% “The brain of the $22 million, 3-hour and 8-minute, straightforward telling of Gandhi's political life is Attenborough's measured, meticulous direction. Its miraculous heart is a wise and powerful performance in the title role by Ben Kingsley.” – Charlotte Observer Jul 19, 2022 Full Review Chariots of Fire (1981) 84% “The $6 million movie paints a soft watercolor of a halcyon era.” – Charlotte Observer Jul 14, 2022 Full Review Amadeus (1984) 90% “Like Mozart's operas, the glittering movie is as often melodramatic as it is sweepingly romantic.” – Charlotte Observer Jul 11, 2022 Full Review The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) 85% “The Muppets Take Manhattan is a merry remake of any movie in which Mickey Rooney, Eddie Bracken, or Gene Kelly said to Judy Garland "C'mon, my dad says we can use the barn for our show." ” – Charlotte Observer May 3, 2022 Full Review The Last Starfighter (1984) 76% “Star Wars extols the limitless human imagination. The Last Starfighter extols Star Wars.” – Charlotte Observer May 3, 2022 Full Review The Witches of Eastwick (1987) 66% “Miller and Cristofer have made The Witches of Eastwick -- an elegant, witty, slightly shady and very sexy book -- into a very ordinary horror movie of dubious purpose.” – Charlotte Observer Apr 22, 2022 Full Review Three Men and a Baby (1987) 67% 4/5 “As cozy as a crib blanket, smooth and sweet as baby applesauce.” – Charlotte Observer Apr 19, 2022 Full Review Excalibur (1981) 72% “A vision fragrant with myth, as outrageously romantic as a Wagnerian opera... This child's picture book come to bloody, glittering life belongs to Merlin the sorcerer and Nicol Williamson, the actor, breathing fire and ice all over the screen.” – Charlotte Observer Dec 28, 2021 Full Review
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