The Breakfast Club (1985)
87%
“As these people talk about themselves, each other, their families and their school, you sometimes laugh and you may want to cry, or, if you're a grown-up, want to be able to do something for them, but you're always with them.” –
L.A. Weekly
Feb 14, 2025
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Dune (1984)
36%
“Dune has been diluted, diminished and twisted. One of the great works of our time has been cheapened. Stolen. For nothing, or for a kind of aesthetic greed. ” –
L.A. Weekly
Feb 14, 2024
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The Duellists (1977)
74%
“Keith Carradine finally proves he can act in his most demanding role yet, while Harvey Keitel struggles manfully against gross miscasting, but there can be no electricity while they strain to keep up with their parts.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 21, 2023
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Alien (1979)
93%
“This thing scared the shit out of me. Alien's a masterpiece of fright. ” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 16, 2023
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The Elephant Man (1980)
91%
“It is a great film, if great means that, seeing it once, you see it forever. Great in the manner of Chaplin's City Lights, of Griffith's Way Down East, or Cukor's David Copperfield... like them, its beauties rise out darkness, struggle and shine.” –
L.A. Weekly
Oct 7, 2023
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
77%
“We are back to the racial standards of Hollywood 50 years ago, and I doubt that there is anything more disgusting that can be said about a contemporary American film.” –
L.A. Weekly
Apr 17, 2023
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Gandhi (1982)
89%
“Through the filmcraft of Attenborough and the incredible subtlety of Kingsley, the film is alive with a sense of Gandhi's privacy, the thoughts behind his thoughts, the feelings that lead to his deeds. ” –
L.A. Weekly
Jul 19, 2022
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Chariots of Fire (1981)
84%
“As a character study and as a sports film it's awfully good, and the one thing that bothers me about this good English film is... It purports to be evocative of a time, an era; but what it really shows is the era as we wish it had been. ” –
L.A. Weekly
Jul 14, 2022
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The Last Starfighter (1984)
76%
“The Last Starfighter has the feisty charm and excitement of Robert Heinlein's early sci-fi novels for kids, with that Heinlein-esque mix of fantastical plot and down-to-earth funny characters. ” –
L.A. Weekly
May 3, 2022
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Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
84%
“Perhaps because director Michael Apted is English, his eye for American faces and his ear for American speech is more than refreshing in a town that usually goes for American plastic. Quite a good movie.” –
L.A. Weekly
Apr 7, 2022
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Lion of the Desert (1981)
75%
“This is a serious movie, done not greatly but seriously and well. It helps you read between the headlines.” –
L.A. Weekly
Dec 29, 2021
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Excalibur (1981)
72%
“Excalibur is an instigator of dreams. Like the sword itself. A mighty work. And, like so much of the great Pagan lore, it's compelling, wondrous, and fun!” –
L.A. Weekly
Dec 29, 2021
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Thief (1981)
80%
“Thief is the best crime movie since Chinatown. Period. And it's better.” –
L.A. Weekly
Dec 29, 2021
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Atlantic City (1980)
100%
“Atlantic City is a rough and tender film, a dreamer's film, and beautifully made. A small film that plays for high stakes and ends with the wheel still rolling.” –
L.A. Weekly
Dec 29, 2021
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
99%
“After doing not much more in Raiders [of the Lost Ark] than flexing his muscles, Spielberg has come through again -- he's the Fellini of our electronic games culture.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 10, 2021
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Firefox (1982)
41%
“It feels as though Eastwood the director and producer was trying to stretch himself here, technically, and got caught up in the exercise, forgetting the movie.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 10, 2021
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Poltergeist (1982)
88%
“Poltergeist has a humanity, a care for genuine human feeling, rarely found in scare-movies -- I left not so much afraid of nightmares, as I often am, but hoping to find a ghost of my own to mess with.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 10, 2021
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The Warriors (1979)
88%
“It's the most exciting film in America right now -- so exciting that Paramount may be forced to call it back and lock it up, like the juvenile delinquent it is.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 5, 2021
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Norma Rae (1979)
91%
“Best of all is Sally Field -- this may be her finest performance, the most exuberant and the most intelligent. She'll get an Academy nomination next year if there's any justice. Hyperbole aside: this is simply a good film.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 5, 2021
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The China Syndrome (1979)
88%
“It's refreshing beyond hyperbole to see such suspense generated not by distortions of human perversion and/or heroism, but by well-portrayed human reactions in a terrible but not exaggerated situation.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 5, 2021
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Coming Home (1978)
83%
“A beautifully acted love-story -- Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern are memorable and then some, but the politics that supposedly gave the film prestige hardly remain in its after-image.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 5, 2021
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Superman: The Movie (1978)
93%
“This is a grandiose tongue in cheek adventure yarn, full of sight gags and in-jokes, all the fun you can get for 45 million dollars.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 5, 2021
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Hair (1979)
83%
“Somehow Milos Foreman has transcended the pap of his material to produce a lively, infectiously sincere film that dances you along.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 4, 2021
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The Deer Hunter (1978)
86%
“Horrific history remembered as noble fantasy can only create more horrific history. Cimino bids to become our own Leni Riefenstahl.” –
L.A. Weekly
Nov 4, 2021
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Last Embrace (1979)
58%
“I can't remember another film that recreates so completely the physical rhythms and visual perceptions of someone capable of murder. Virtually every shot is worthy of comment.” –
L.A. Weekly
Sep 24, 2021
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