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Michael Blowen

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Starman (1984) 84% “"Starman" is a close encounter of the most curious kind that never sacrifices hardware for humanity, intelligence for action or character for caricature.” – Boston Globe May 13, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 83% “Return of the Jedi, the final act of George Lucas' first Star Wars trilogy, is the best one yet.” – Boston Globe Apr 25, 2025 Full Review A Room With a View (1986) 100% “The performances -- particularly by Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter and Denholm Elliot -- are superbly wrought in this tale of conflicting cultures, embattled sexes and changing values.” – Boston Globe Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Letter to Brezhnev (1985) 100% “A low-budget, tart-tongued comedy as audacious as it is funny.” – Boston Globe Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Heartburn (1986) 48% “So far it's the best American movie of the year.” – Boston Globe Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) 83% “A sparkling comedy that skips along on the strength of Matthew Broderick's deceptively difficult performance.” – Boston Globe Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Aliens (1986) 94% “Even though it's too long, director James Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's Alien is a worthy successor. ” – Boston Globe Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 96% “Pacino's inner alienation transforms this film into something far beyond a simple historical recreation of an "actual" event.” – Boston Globe Apr 7, 2024 Full Review The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) 50% “The producers have transformed a gentle, well-meaning, satirical Broadway musical into a parody of itself.” – Boston Globe Dec 31, 2023 Full Review The Duellists (1977) 74% “Overall, the lavish mixture of painfully slow pictorial scenes, historical authenticity, and a few interesting duels never coalesce into an effective pattern.” – Boston Globe Nov 20, 2023 Full Review The Legend of Billie Jean (1985) 39% “The Legend of Billie Jean, while neither as grotesque as Rambo nor as sleazy as a slasher movie, is repulsive in its vacuous cheerleading for an empty heroine and her ridiculous escapades.” – Boston Globe Nov 17, 2023 Full Review Alien (1979) 93% “Alien is another triumph of technology over art. It is also a horror movie set in space -- and it just doesn't work. ” – Boston Globe Nov 16, 2023 Full Review The Color Purple (1985) 73% “Spielberg's The Color Purple seems as close to the real, American black experience as Disney World's Frontierland is to the American West. ” – Boston Globe May 25, 2023 Full Review To Be or Not to Be (1942) 96% “The running gags, swift direction, and concise script makes it the best comedy about Fascism since Chaplin's The Great Dictator. ” – Boston Globe May 17, 2023 Full Review Evil Dead II (1987) 88% “Raimi combines animation, models and process photography with dazzling camera angles and sharp cutting to create a marvelous collection of tricks. I hope someone gives him a chance to make a better movie some day.” – Boston Globe Mar 29, 2023 Full Review Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) 80% “A cauldron of magic, symbol, humor, dreams, and skits, that is ultimately defeated by its inordinate length. ” – Boston Globe Mar 2, 2023 Full Review Creepshow (1982) 65% “It's just too bad that Creepshow wasn't like a real comic book. You could skip the first four stories and read the finale.” – Boston Globe Aug 9, 2022 Full Review Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) 90% “Hoffman, Streep and Henry persuade you that they are "real" people in a "real" situation, and that is a rare phenomenon in contemporary movies.” – Boston Globe Aug 5, 2022 Full Review Thief (1981) 80% “Thief looks like a good movie... But, in spite of director Michael Mann's authentic sets and a workmanlike performance by Caan, the film never crackles. It merely ambles across the screen with no particular place to go.” – Boston Globe Jul 7, 2022 Full Review The Witches of Eastwick (1987) 66% “In spite of the script's drawbacks and the director's weak knees, the performances of the stars and the superb supporting cast make The Witches of Eastwick an intelligent adult comedy. ” – Boston Globe Apr 22, 2022 Full Review Annie (1982) 49% “Producer Ray Stark and director John Huston have relied more on the rigid style of the comic strip than on the high-steppin' pizazz' of the Broadway show. They've transformed a big-hearted hit that won seven Tonys into a small-minded musical.” – Boston Globe Apr 15, 2022 Full Review Excalibur (1981) 72% “The absence of a central dramatic concept robs Excalibur of the artistic thrust it desperately requires... Each part works as an isolated set piece, but Boorman fails to weave them into a significant whole.” – Boston Globe Dec 28, 2021 Full Review The Secret of NIMH (1982) 93% “Don Bluth, a former Disney Studios animator, has created a sophisticated, visually stunning, dramatic feature that may very well end Disney's dominance of the animated feature film market.” – Boston Globe Nov 9, 2021 Full Review Poltergeist II (1986) 20% “Unlike many sequels, this continuation is an admirable effort that, in many ways, surpasses the original.” – Boston Globe Nov 1, 2021 Full Review The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) 77% “A prime example of an excellent movie that could have been great. The hot acting and snappy script set a savage pace that leaves director Stuart Rosenberg in the dust.” – Boston Globe Oct 30, 2021 Full Review
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