Tag: 1980s
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‘Personal Best’ Takes the Sports Movie to New Heights
‘Personal Best’ accomplishes many things and well, but among the most impressive of its achievements is that is also functions, almost off-handedly, as a paean to the undersung and the could-have-beens.
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Purgatories
‘Predator’ and ‘The Last Action Hero,’ reviewed.
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‘A Chinese Ghost Story’ Feels Like It Could Be Recounted Over a Campfire
Just like how even told-to-death, campfire-baiting ghost stories never truly get old if told the right way, movies like ‘A Chinese Ghost Story’ don’t either.
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‘Trouble in Mind’ is Cold to the Touch
‘Trouble in Mind’ is in a state of used to be.
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‘Conan the Barbarian’: The Movie That Made Arnold Schwarzenegger a Star
This is a project manifestly as interested in thrill-giving as it is in milieu-building.
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Lesson in Survival
Five films by Zhang Yimou, starring Gong Li.
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‘The Vanishing’: Darker Than Dark
The film is a testament to an imprecise malice always waiting around the corner — a reminder that anything can happen to anyone.
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‘The Big Red One’: The Glory of War
‘The Big Red One’ has the look and feel of a far more romantic movie but is perhaps even more pessimistic than its more conventionally pessimistically-presenting counterparts.
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Chic Thrills
Notes on ‘The Unfaithful Wife,’ ‘Le Boucher,’ ‘Just Before Nightfall,’ ‘Violette Nozière,’ and ‘Betty.’
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‘Babette’s Feast’: Excellent Gastro-Cinema
It’s a lyrical testament, both narratively and visually, to the often transcendental power of cuisine.
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‘To Live and Die in L.A.’ and ‘Cruising,’ Reviewed
Two neo-noirs from William Friedkin.
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‘Losing Ground’ Makes You Wish We Got More from Kathleen Collins
‘Losing Ground,’ shot for $125,000, is semi-autobiographical for the gone-too-soon director.
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