The Legend of Billie Jean (1985)
39%
“Robbins’ handling is a satisfying combination of precision and dynamism. The end result... offers a cheering reminder that Hollywood is still capable of elevating formula material without inflating it.” –
Monthly Film Bulletin
Nov 17, 2023
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Raging Bull (1980)
92%
“The camerawork underpins the movie's style of graphic abstraction, framing Robert De Niro's resonant chameleon impersonation of La Motta with the emblematic force of a Goya etching. ” –
Guardian
Oct 10, 2023
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The Pornographers (1966)
100%
“By any standards there is no gainsaying the distinctiveness of the black-and-white scope composition, nor the quirky engagement with the outlandish subject matter.” –
Guardian
May 3, 2023
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The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
78%
“More traditional family fare is served up by The Great Muppet Caper, which -- though it is somewhat thinly spread over 96 minutes -- contrives, to tolerably engaging effect, to involve the garishly cuddlesome creatures in a farcical live-action anecdote.” –
Guardian
May 3, 2023
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
94%
“The casual plotting that might have passed muster in the ramshackle context of an old Republic serial just won't support a two-hour super-production, and the disproportion between means and ends becomes increasingly tiresome and ultimately exasperating.” –
Guardian
May 3, 2023
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Hudson Hawk (1991)
31%
“[Hudson Hawk] seems able to provide little more than maladroit slapstick, mainly entailing graphic injuries, and reams of repartee whose sole distinction is to prove definitively that actors are incapable of dying from embarrassment. ” –
Guardian
Feb 28, 2023
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Thelma & Louise (1991)
86%
“The apocalyptic ending seems more fabricated than inevitable. All the same, sheer command lifts Thelma and Louise well clear of the commercial norm. ” –
Guardian
Feb 28, 2023
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Carnival of Souls (1962)
87%
“It is the limited B-picture format which gives the film some of its distinctiveness, for better as well as worse. ” –
Guardian
Sep 23, 2022
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Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
85%
“For all its pleasing moments of humour, the film seems to be held in the clutches of a rather questionable nostalgia. When near the end the matron confides to the chauffeur that he is the nearest thing she has to a friend, we cannot quite believe her.” –
Guardian
Jul 26, 2022
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Cinema Paradiso (1988)
91%
“The skill of Cinema Paradiso happily manages to suggest that such a legacy has not entirely evaporated. At any rate, I find the experience it offers an enchanting one. ” –
Guardian
Jul 26, 2022
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Critters (1986)
52%
“The picture provides a fair amount of knockabout fun, with some sprightly incidental jokes of a suitably unsubtle variety.” –
Guardian
Oct 27, 2021
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Round Midnight (1986)
100%
“A wonderfully detailed performance by a real jazz musician, Dexter Gordon.” –
Guardian
Oct 27, 2021
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Crossover Dreams (1985)
60%
“It would take more than some gleaming nocturnal cinematography and one or two sharp observations to invest any genuine interest in the posturing numbskull of a protagonist.” –
Guardian
Oct 27, 2021
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A Shock to the System (1990)
70%
“An expert, enjoyable comedy-thriller, giving Michael Caine the chance to remind us that there is nobody with a surer touch when it comes to maximising the potential of a sardonic script.” –
Guardian
Apr 9, 2021
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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
35%
“Gilded by personable performances, particularly from [Christina Applegate and Josh Charles], this wish-fulfilling fantasy manages to be wholeheartedly ridiculous in a manner that leaves criticism disarmed.” –
Guardian
Mar 13, 2021
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Def by Temptation (1990)
75%
“After a tolerably promising start the strain involved in parodying material that is to begin with essentially parodic increasingly betrays strain.” –
Guardian
Mar 13, 2021
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Wayne's World (1992)
79%
“The characters created by Myers and Carvey appear juvenile in the fullest sense.” –
Guardian
Mar 10, 2021
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Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1975)
85%
“Its characters are constantly individualised, in the writing (the script is by [Alain] Tanner and John Berger) as well as through the performances Tanner draws from his remarkable cast.” –
Sight & Sound
Mar 31, 2020
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Hair (1979)
83%
“As it is, Arthur Penn's Alice's Restaurant - a film whose situations and even imagery Hair several times calls to mind - offers from its contemporary vantage-point a far more reflective impression of late-60s counterculture.” –
Sight & Sound
Mar 17, 2020
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All of Me (1984)
85%
“Once the body-snare joke is under way, however, invention tends to flag and much of the ensuing humour explores the realms of fairly obvious smut -- brightly enough managed, though, if yon have a weakness for that.” –
Guardian
Jan 22, 2020
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Ms. 45 (1981)
86%
“No surplus exposition here, but not much surplus sense either.” –
Guardian
Jan 22, 2020
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Water (1985)
0%
“At least, as the harassed governor, Michael Caine displays his customary practised ease; Caine could do this sort of thing standing on his head, and on this occasion might have.” –
Guardian
Jan 22, 2020
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Edith and Marcel (1983)
29%
“The film is exhilarating. Here is a director in total command of his medium, reveling in Piafs conspicuous consumption.” –
Guardian
Jan 22, 2020
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Amadeus (1984)
90%
“A substantial achievement -- and graced by an uncommonly distinguished score.” –
Guardian
Jan 22, 2020
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Cinema Paradiso (1988)
91%
“Cinema Paradiso itself possesses enough command and self-conviction to demonstrate that movies can still manage to manifest an alternative universe.” –
Sight & Sound
Jan 11, 2020
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