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Robert Zemeckis' rip-roaring sci-fi comedy classic still holds up four decades on from its release and is a fitting reminder of the power of love.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Nov 20, 2024

Strip away the sci-fi, and this trilogy is a tale as old as time. It's a classic hero's journey, the story of someone growing up and discovering where his power really lies.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 30, 2024

The ultimate American summer blockbuster. Incredibly clever, nostalgia-packed, and never gets old. To sum up BTTF in one line: "Last night Darth Vadar came down from the planet Vulcan and said if I didn't ask Lorraine to the dance, he'd melt my brain!!!"

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 25, 2023

It remains the best of the series.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 14, 2023

Glover's George McFly is the sweetest portrait of teen klutziness ever seen.

| Jun 28, 2023

Finally, here it is the first unadulterated pleasure of the summer. Back to the Future is a kick-off-your-shoes, settle-back-in-the-seat movie of abundant humor, boundless energy, and a relentlessly good heart.

| Jun 28, 2023

What pushes Back to the Future over the edge from so-so to oh-no is its willing complicity in the continuing glorification of the '50s.

| Jun 28, 2023

Back to the Future is no more than one big joke about going where you don't belong. It has all the substance of junk food and is as harmless as your average 온라인카지노추천 show.

Full Review | Jun 28, 2023

Just when it would seem that Steven Spielberg has touched all possible forms of fantasy, he comes up with another one that not only plucks, but plays a complete symphony, on the heartstrings.

| Jun 28, 2023

Remember how Huck Finn daydreamed about going to his own funeral? Back to the Future does an inverse, witty turnabout on this theme.

| Jun 28, 2023

Michael J. Fox is bright and likeable, convincing as a 17-year-old, and excellent when he introduces rock-and-roll to a stunned high school audience only just getting over doo wop.

| Jun 27, 2023

Despite the frequent laughs, I came out of the movie vaguely dissatisfied. I expected something more original from this... and from Zemeckis, who proved in Romancing The Stone that he can produce fresh, witty and entertaining pictures.

| Jun 27, 2023

I know it sounds a bit on the Disneyesque side, but like the hero's Delorean, it's light years away from all that. The gags, which are plentiful, are served up with a nice wry touch, and the performances all round are as zesty as Zemeckis's own.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 27, 2023

Back to the Future has an irresistible playfulness.

| Jun 27, 2023

Just a joyously whimsical, ingeniously devised, well-written time-travel comedy that anyone from five to 95 should find splendidly entertaining.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 27, 2023

In the end, this film puts you in such a good mood that you're liable to forget all about its fundamental contradictions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2023

It's all fiendishly complicated but Zemeckis is an inventive filmmaker with a knack for the happy ending. Disney would have been proud of him -- and more than a little envious of an entertainment which takes a risk or two, and has a ball doing it.

| Jun 27, 2023

What pushes Back to the Future over the edge from so-so to oh-no is its willing complicity in the continuing glorification of the '50s.

| Jun 27, 2023

A startlingly funny, enjoyably intricate piece of slapstick satire.

| Jun 27, 2023

This sci-fi blending of American Graffiti and It’s a Wonderful Life is the kind of movie that, try as you might to avoid it, you'll end up ingesting by osmosis anyway.

| Jun 27, 2023

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