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Marsha McCreadie

Marsha McCreadie's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

Marsha McCreadie has written four books on women and film before becoming pleasantly obsessed with the documentary form and writing Documentary Superstars, interviews with prominent documentary filmmakers. She was the staff film critic at the Arizona Republic for many years, currently reviews for Film Journal International, and her film articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles times, Film Comment, sensesofcienma, and many other Googleable publications. Her interest in film started as a child when her mother, a disappointed actress, took her to Saturday double features as a child in a tiny village in upstate New York, reminding her to always comb her hair before going to the ladies room, because a producer might be in the lobby. It?s been a push-pull between cinematic fantasy and reality ever since.

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Shampoo (1975) 75% “The broad, funny strokes of these escapades -- the three ladies playing their parts with consummate skill -- show no winners.” – FilmsInReview.com Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Back to School (1986) 81% “...it is one of those movies that, with seemingly nothing going for it, turns out to be one of the best. It will speak to all kinds of people.” – Arizona Republic Feb 26, 2025 Full Review The Breakfast Club (1985) 87% “For what it is -- which isn't everything -- The Breakfast Club is quite good. The script isn't bad. The plot is nothing. The Breakfast Club is about the acting.” – Arizona Republic Feb 14, 2025 Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 91% “It's as if Fellini were suddenly taking on the punk world of '50s memorabilia. It makes no sense, but it sticks in your mind. Lynch may be brilliant, but I bet he's a little bonkers, too.” – Arizona Republic Jan 22, 2025 Full Review Aliens (1986) 94% “Weaver does a terrific job of showing extreme anxiety. You can't blame her.” – Arizona Republic Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Birdy (1984) 84% “Not all of the film's metaphors work; a few seem predictable and overdone. And the theme of identity interchange, or the doubling aspect between the two heroes, is a bit trite. Yet the film is still an emotional sledgehammer.” – Arizona Republic Dec 16, 2023 Full Review Cocoon (1985) 82% “The most improbable success of a film, implausible not in the sci-fi, special effectsy way that is so common nowadays, but in the fantastic melange of themes, personalities and even settings it incorporates.” – Arizona Republic Nov 12, 2023 Full Review Moscow on the Hudson (1984) 73% “Mazursky and the script... seem confused rather than purposefully ambivalent about America, the Soviet Union, and freedom. ” – Arizona Republic Aug 17, 2023 Full Review Back to the Future (1985) 93% “Remember how Huck Finn daydreamed about going to his own funeral? Back to the Future does an inverse, witty turnabout on this theme.” – Arizona Republic Jun 28, 2023 Full Review The Great Outdoors (1988) 40% 1/4 “Like an early-summer fly, it can be brushed off easily.” – Arizona Republic Jun 16, 2023 Full Review The Color Purple (1985) 73% “The Color Purple is the surprise cinematic wonderment of the holiday season, and we hope with all our hearts it signals director Steven Spielberg's permanent turn toward adult narrative film. ” – Arizona Republic May 25, 2023 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) 77% “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, however, moves us toward one rather dreary place that is part Dickensian mines and part B-movie version of satanic blood-drinking myths.” – Arizona Republic Apr 17, 2023 Full Review Platoon (1986) 89% “I didn't take a single note during the screening of Platoon: It's that engrossing, that overwhelming. ” – Arizona Republic Aug 23, 2022 Full Review The Last Emperor (1987) 86% “The movie, however, belongs to John Lone. Like all great actors, he's a chameleon, and his occasional nobility as the Emperor is brilliantly, comically, contrasted with his Westernization as a playboy. ” – Arizona Republic Aug 2, 2022 Full Review Terms of Endearment (1983) 81% “Though the sudden shift into Love Story territory may have the clang of soap opera for some, it's an effective twist.” – Arizona Republic Jul 21, 2022 Full Review Amadeus (1984) 90% “What has happened in the long-awaited, much-acclaimed Miloš Forman film, with its script by Shaffer, is that the popularization has gone so broad and so far afield of its elevated subject as to make that subject seem ridiculous.” – Arizona Republic Jul 11, 2022 Full Review The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) 82% 4/4 “All that the very talented director Martin Scorsese has done is to show the Word made Flesh. And -- humble agnostic that I am -- I thought that was the whole idea of Christianity anyway.” – Arizona Republic May 4, 2022 Full Review The Witches of Eastwick (1987) 66% “You always knew he had it in him: Jack Nicholson makes a most astounding, alarming and totally charming devil in The Witches of Eastwick. ” – Arizona Republic Apr 21, 2022 Full Review Three Men and a Baby (1987) 67% “I'm willing to bet that Three Men and a Baby will top the holiday roster of popular movies.” – Arizona Republic Apr 19, 2022 Full Review Poltergeist II (1986) 20% “As technically clever as the special effects are, they are oddly unthreatening. You would almost swear they were done with tongue planted firmly in cheek.” – Arizona Republic Nov 1, 2021 Full Review The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) 77% “After you see the film, certain aspects of machismo will be forever fixed in your mind, satirized and better understood.” – Arizona Republic Oct 30, 2021 Full Review Paris, Texas (1984) 95% “The movie belongs to Stanton, of course, and it's hard to think of any other actor who can go from Chaplinlike outcast to tragic hero in the space of a feature film.” – Arizona Republic Oct 7, 2021 Full Review El Norte (1983) 92% “There is no question El Norte is one-sided, even propagandistic and sentimental at times, but its emotional and visual power supersedes some of its predictability.” – Arizona Republic Aug 3, 2021 Full Review Baby Boom (1987) 67% “Baby Boom is so far into the realm of fable as to be a cartoon, or a wish fulfillment. It's as if Frank Capra had read Ms. and missed the point.” – Arizona Republic Jun 24, 2021 Full Review The Secret of My Success (1987) 48% “The Secret of My Success delivers, and in the fairy tale realm of wish fulfillment, this is what counts.” – Arizona Republic Jun 9, 2021 Full Review
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