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Joseph Gelmis

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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 83% 3/4 “One may carp, gripe, quibble with "Jedi," but Lucasfilm's special effects subsidiary, Industrial Light and Magic, is in a class by itself as creator of screen magic. And when it is good, "Jedi" is peerless escapist fantasy.” – Newsday Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Funny Lady (1975) 51% “Some of the one-liners are very tasty.” – Newsday Apr 24, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 93% 3/4 “Compared to the recent competition, "Empire" is in a class by itself as space opera entertainment for kids of all ages. It's a handsome, slick, humorous, imaginative adventure epic. ” – Newsday Apr 24, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% “A masterpiece of entertainment. I haven't had as much fun at a movie in years. With its technical wizardry, high-velocity storytelling, and spirited good humor, Star Wars dazzles the child in us.” – Newsday Apr 22, 2025 Full Review 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 90% “After seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey a second time, I'm convinced it is a masterwork. Take it from one who mistrusts superlatives... this awesome film is light-years ahead of any science fiction you have ever seen.” – Newsday Apr 9, 2025 Full Review The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) 61% “The picture is a tepid drama.” – Newsday Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Night Moves (1975) 86% “A terse, bleak, psychological suspense flick that has a lot going for it despite a totally incomprehensible slam bang ending that leaves the plots unsorted.” – Newsday Feb 27, 2025 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% “Nashville is as unstructured as life itself. You are never sure what you are watching -- whether it's supposed to be funny or sad -- until it is over, or until you get a different perspective. Meaning depends upon context.” – Newsday Feb 27, 2025 Full Review The Yakuza (1974) 47% “When the violence finally comes in several episodes, it's with the ferocity of massacres trying to make up for lost time. ” – Newsday Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% “A magnificent Ferrari compared to the assembly line of Volkswagens and Cadillacs of moviedom. To criticize Kubrick for making a gorgeous movie about a loveless world of decadent grandeur is like bawling out Dostoevsky for writing about [degenerates].” – Newsday Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% “"Shampoo" is a personal movie of a superior caliber, one that marks a further development in the maturation of Warren Beatty.” – Newsday Feb 10, 2025 Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 91% 3/4 “Blue Velvet is bruising, but it's fascinating -- a bizarre thriller, deliriously erotic, perversely funny, appallingly cruel.” – Newsday Jan 22, 2025 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (1991) 95% 4/4 “Beauty and the Beast is cause for celebration. By humbling male vanity and making the woman the indisputable hero of the story, the movie intelligently disrupts and confounds a sexual stereotype that has been a Disney trademark for half a century.” – Newsday Dec 16, 2024 Full Review The Rescuers Down Under (1990) 85% 3.5/4 “The dialogue is snappy, the characters amusing, the flying sequences are exhilarating, and there's a realistic sense of scale -- of being a vulnerable speck of life in the immensity of the rugged Outback.” – Newsday Dec 15, 2024 Full Review The Prince and the Pauper (1990) 76% 4/4 “[The Prince and the Pauper] is satisfying because something of value we thought was gone is back, restored and good as new.” – Newsday Dec 15, 2024 Full Review Butley (1974) “The theme and character are tedious. But the vigor of the wit in the language is stimulating and full of callous humor. Bates is good at this mixture of self-pity, anger and pain.” – Newsday Sep 24, 2024 Full Review The Conversation (1974) 93% “Francis Ford Coppola, who directed The Godfather and was executive producer of American Graffiti, has masterfully combined technology and ethics in The Conversation so that the form is a seamless expression of the film's content.” – Newsday Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Apocalypse Now (1979) 90% 3.5/4 “One of the very few must-see movies of 1979. It's brilliant, beautiful, thought-provoking and superbly acted, a horror movie and an adventure story, an important Vietnam War document.” – Newsday Sep 23, 2024 Full Review Napoleon (1927) 87% “Napoleon is a masterwork of cinema at once brilliant and disturbing. It is supremely romantic hero-worship, gung-ho chauvinistic filmmaking.” – Newsday May 14, 2024 Full Review Sweet November (1968) “The assumption of the film, that by casually picking up a stranger at a motor vehicle bureau and scratching his businessman's heart she would uncover a repressed poet, is too bizarre to be believed.” – Newsday May 2, 2024 Full Review Planet of the Apes (1968) 86% “If you can forgive, or ignore, the low-grade gags, you should find Planet of the Apes a first-rate science fiction adventure enriched with serious moral, theological and social implications.” – Newsday May 2, 2024 Full Review The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976) 87% “It is pretty tame stuff. And, as the year's second baseball comedy, it's a no-hitter compared to The Bad News Bears.” – Newsday Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 96% “It is a good movie, with even better performances.” – Newsday Apr 6, 2024 Full Review Lady Sings the Blues (1972) 71% “It's a film where coincidence and oversimplification are forgivable, because the form itself is really adult fairy tale or fantasy. ” – Newsday Apr 5, 2024 Full Review Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 90% 3/4 “"Close Encounters" is neither a masterpiece or a disaster. See it for its effects. ” – Newsday Apr 3, 2024 Full Review
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