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Rick Chatenever

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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 93% “Rather than a unified story, The Empire Strikes Back is more a loosely tied episodic string of "good parts" -- as in, "oh, here comes the good part -- oh, here comes another one!"” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Do the Right Thing (1989) 92% “Spike may have thought he was doing the right thing...But this movie makes a wrong turn on the way to greatness, coming up with a big mind and sense-numbing blur in the place its soul was when it started.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Mar 20, 2025 Full Review Back to School (1986) 81% “"Back to School" will never be mistaken for great cinema but it has no trouble qualifying as very good comedy, getting laughs from the beginning and sustaining them all the way through.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Feb 27, 2025 Full Review The Little Mermaid (1989) 92% “It looks like classic Disney, almost at its best. But its world view is fresh, free of some of Uncle Walt's underlying biases. And the songs, by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, turn the whole thing into a delightful musical experience.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Dec 13, 2024 Full Review Apocalypse Now (1979) 90% “The film is overwhelming in its scope, and powerful in its minor details. But its central concern winds up buried under Coppola's demonstration of his own abilities. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Sep 22, 2024 Full Review Beetlejuice (1988) 83% “The entire concept of this project is obscure and esoteric, making no effort to explain itself to audiences who haven't gotten their PhD's in the classics yet. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Aug 22, 2024 Full Review Aliens (1986) 94% “Defying the conventional Hollywood wisdom where sequels are concerned, this one actually manages to better the first one. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Jul 30, 2024 Full Review When Harry Met Sally... (1989) 89% “It succeeds admirably -- not only making you laugh but also providing a sweet romantic refuge. It makes you want to believe in romance again, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Jul 11, 2024 Full Review Steel Magnolias (1989) 73% “The problem here is that in taking the play off the stage, director Ross and company dropped Magnolias' heart and soul, badly damaging them in the process. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel May 3, 2024 Full Review Grease (1978) 66% “This cinematic Grease is a sticky, murky substance indeed, which tries to hold together a number of elements that seem completely out of place in relation to one another. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Feb 8, 2024 Full Review Home Alone (1990) 66% “For a dumb movie, Home Alone gets pretty smart pretty fast... just like little Kevin.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Nov 29, 2023 Full Review The Duellists (1977) 74% “A film of rare visual beauty, which all but overpowers the ambiguous nuances of Conrad's tale with the sheer power of its camerawork. Even the sky seems to be cooperating with Tidy's painterly sense of composition. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Nov 20, 2023 Full Review Alien (1979) 93% “Scott's cinematic savvy is matched by the intelligence of O'Bannon's script, which not only fills the plot with surprises, but strikes deeper in its uncanny ability to make abstract, universal fears into tangible form.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Nov 16, 2023 Full Review Cocoon (1985) 82% “Even the heartrending "E.T." was basically old-fashioned melodrama in a new sci-fi wrapping; this one, in contrast, manages to be quite provocative at the same time it's thoroughly entertaining.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Nov 12, 2023 Full Review Raging Bull (1980) 92% “Raging Bull is, in spite of its depressing subject matter, another brilliant film from Scorsese and De Niro. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Oct 10, 2023 Full Review An American Tail (1986) 77% “The quality of the animation is impressive, but equally so is the almost naïve optimism that Spielberg once again taps into so effectively.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel May 17, 2023 Full Review Girlfriends (1978) 93% “Mayron's portrayal seems effortless, encompassing joy, sorrow and many more subtle ambivalences in between. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel May 17, 2023 Full Review Yentl (1983) 69% “The hype, like the music, like the bottomless pit of Streisand's ambition, all get in the way of Yentl's charming synthesis of spirituality and sociology. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel May 12, 2023 Full Review Crossing Delancey (1988) 82% “[Irving] can't do much to raise the movie very far above sitcom level -- but she does make a mighty contribution to the warm pleasant glow it leaves audiences feeling as they leave the theater.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel May 9, 2023 Full Review Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 94% “For all of its fantastic leaps of the imagination... there is an attention to detail that makes Raiders as cinematic as it is exciting.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel May 2, 2023 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 84% “People who like action for its own sake will think this movie's great. As for people who think there should be something more than action -- that it should signify or symbolize or say something -- they'll think it's great, too.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel May 1, 2023 Full Review One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977) 65% “It is to director Varda's credit that the portrayals ring so true, and touch so deeply. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Mar 8, 2023 Full Review 9 to 5 (1980) 69% “Nine to Five is so caught up in its own fantasies that it keeps failing to create believable fantasies for all the rest of us. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Mar 3, 2023 Full Review Thelma & Louise (1991) 86% “Overshadowed by the two stars' luminous performances, the movie craft is superb. Director Scott doesn't merely tell a story, but immortalizes a locale in the process. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Mar 2, 2023 Full Review A Dry White Season (1989) 82% “It does justice to its "message" by being an excellent movie. Being devastating is one thing; being relevant is something else. A Dry White Season uses its creative and fictional devices to achieve a degree of truth rare on any sort of screen.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Jan 4, 2023 Full Review
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