The Breakfast Club (1985)
87%
“With a minimum of genre pandering and with the help of his gifted young ensemble, Hughes shows there is a life form after teenpix. It is called goodpix.” –
TIME Magazine
Feb 14, 2025
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Atanarjuat the Fast Runner (2001)
93%
“Of course, the pace of Kunuk's epic is less Vin Diesel fueled than dogsled deliberate. Which is only to say that Atanarjuat is not like every other film this summer. It's not like any other film, period.” –
TIME Magazine
Nov 8, 2023
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Selena (1997)
66%
“Even as hagiographies go, Selena misses the inspirational beat. ” –
TIME Magazine
Sep 6, 2023
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Mulholland Dr. (2001)
84%
“This handsome, persuasively inhabited spook show reveals Lynch’s talent for fooling, unsettling and finally enthralling his audience. ” –
TIME Magazine
Jul 10, 2023
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The Color Purple (1985)
73%
“For every scene of raw artistry, there are three others that seem photographed by Rainbow Brite for Hovel Beautiful... It's all very pretty, but it's cinematography, not cinema. ” –
TIME Magazine
May 25, 2023
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Crossing Delancey (1988)
82%
“Susan Sandler's script takes this same Old World view of urban feminism. Isabelle would be emotionally independent, but the movie knows better: she needs a man.” –
TIME Magazine
May 15, 2023
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Yentl (1983)
69%
“[The musical score's] treacherous glissandi and searching wit find their ideal interpreter in Streisand's incredible Flexible Flyer of a voice. After two decades of hard work, that voice is still as smooth as mercury poured over dry ice.” –
TIME Magazine
May 12, 2023
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9 to 5 (1980)
69%
“Nine to Five thinks it's a suspenseful comedy with a mind of its own; it isn't and hasn't.” –
TIME Magazine
Mar 3, 2023
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Wild Things (1998)
64%
“The Stephen Peters script is twisty but vacant of character, and John McNaughton's direction is coarse, slapdash, without the saving spark of low art or high camp. ” –
TIME Magazine
Feb 2, 2023
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Eve's Bayou (1997)
84%
“The poise and passion in Eve's Bayou leave one grateful, exhausted and nourished. For the restless spirit, here is true soul food.” –
TIME Magazine
Jan 10, 2023
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The Deer Hunter (1978)
86%
“It grabs you by the lapel and says, "Call me masterpiece!"... These weaknesses are The Deer Hunter's greatest strength -- because, in a year of timid moviemaking, they trumpet the film's daring to fail at being great.” –
New Times (magazine)
Sep 7, 2022
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Annie Hall (1977)
97%
“We have to stop and remind ourselves here that Annie Hall is not only the strangulated murmur of a neurotic urban heart: it is also a movie. Of various and satisfying kinds. ” –
New Times (magazine)
Aug 26, 2022
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Creepshow (1982)
65%
“The treatment manages to be both perfunctory and languid; the jolts can be predicted by any ten-year-old with a stop watch. ” –
TIME Magazine
Aug 9, 2022
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Amadeus (1984)
90%
“A grand, sprawling entertainment... Mozart sings the music of God, Salieri schemes and screams in tragic register, and the film keeps humming merrily along with them both.” –
TIME Magazine
Jul 8, 2022
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Up! (1976)
67%
“For most of its lo-o-ong 80 minutes the movie goes off in all directions -- and never gets anywhere.” –
New Times (magazine)
Jun 22, 2022
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The Shootist (1976)
81%
“Wayne is still both kinds of moving -- it’s the movie that’s sclerotic.” –
New Times (magazine)
Jun 22, 2022
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The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
91%
“Eastwood, his fifth time around as director, shows he can handle actors, especially John Vernon (as the tracker) and Chief Dan George. And he surely knows how to direct himself, playing his galvanizing sexiness against his grizzled sense of humor.” –
New Times (magazine)
Jun 22, 2022
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The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)
55%
“The movie code board has rated Return PG -- which means it’s fine to take your kid along, especially if he enjoys torturing hamsters for scientific purposes.” –
New Times (magazine)
Jun 22, 2022
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Drum (1976)
11%
“[Every character] is drawn in caricatures broad enough to do a pay-toilet artist proud.” –
New Times (magazine)
Jun 22, 2022
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Marathon Man (1976)
82%
“Marathon Man is kitsch of a pretty high order. And it dips effectively into the slightly-frayed, but still-full, bag of suspense-movie tricks.” –
New Times (magazine)
Jun 22, 2022
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The California Reich (1975)
“[Filmmakers Walter F. Parkes and Keith F. Critchlow] won the trust of the Nazis, who unconsciously insist on acting out Hannah Arendt’s theory about ‘‘the banality of evil.’’ But the film itself is anything but banal.” –
New Times (magazine)
Jun 22, 2022
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The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
79%
“The Man Who Fell to Earth winds up looking like a Carnaby Street commercial for alienation.” –
New Times (magazine)
Jun 22, 2022
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The Tenant (1976)
84%
“A few years ago, Polanski made.an enjoyably bizarre movie in Carlo Ponti’s villa, and called it What? His new movie, not unbearable but simply insubstantial, could be called So What?” –
New Times (magazine)
Jun 22, 2022
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The Last Woman (1976)
60%
“There are times when the movie seems to have been going on for a month.” –
New Times (magazine)
Jun 22, 2022
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The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
82%
“Dafoe's spiky, ferocious, nearly heroic performance is a perfect servant to the role. He finds sense in Jesus' agonies; he finds passion in the parables.” –
TIME Magazine
May 4, 2022
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