Tag: 1980s
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Maneaters
On ‘Eating Raoul’ and ‘Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills.’
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Cooking Dreams
‘Tampopo’ is a touching, fancifully funny movie shot with great original style.
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Odds & Ends: October 2023
Halloween movies, 2023 edition.
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The Winking Fun of ‘The Last Horror Film’
This comedy-horror movie allows Caroline Munro and Joe Spinell to play with the images with which they’re associated.
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Fly Me to the Moon
‘Flash Gordon’’s very-intentional one-dimensionality and arch artifice add up to something delectable and fun.
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The Profound Blandness of ‘Krull’
‘Krull’ famously bombed at the box office, only to in recent years be heralded by many as a fantasy movie actually worth savoring. I can’t say I’m among them.
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Richard Gere and Debra Winger Take ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ to the Next Level
Taylor Hackford’s “An Officer and a Gentleman” is well-made and acted and sometimes emotionally effective. Its trouble is a fundamentally not that interesting premise.
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Things Fall Apart: Two by Uli Edel
Two by Uli Edel.
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‘The Cotton Club’ is Slight But Beautiful to Look At
Even the encore cut of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1984 box-office flop feels dramatically hollow.
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‘8 Million Ways to Die’ is an Uneasy, But Engaging, Neo-Noir
The movie always feels uncomfortable. Its attempts to be a labyrinthine mystery, a squalid noir, and a somewhat serious study of alcoholism’s destructiveness all have a similar quality to walking around in clothes that don’t fit.
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‘The Money Pit’ Digs Itself Into a Hole
‘The Money Pit’ pretty much has just one joke.
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Too Much Too Soon in ‘Bright Lights, Big City’
Like the best-selling book on which it’s based, the movie is smart and efficient — has a certain elegance to it — without ever going anywhere particularly interesting.
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