Tag: 1980s
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‘Swing Shift’: A Good Movie That Could Have Been Great
Rumor has it that Jonathan Demme’s WWII soap opera had been a masterpiece before his final cut was tampered with by Hawn and her producing partner.
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‘Conan the Destroyer’ is a Lame Sequel
It does have its moments, though.
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‘Vamp’ is a Showcase for Grace Jones’ Mere Presence
The multihyphenate doesn’t nearly get enough to do, but her handful of scenes loom largely over a surprisingly strong teen horror movie.
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‘Absence of Malice’ is an Inert Journalism Drama
On the one hand the narrative is uninvolving; on the other Sally Field’s character is such a reckless reporter that you spend most of the movie mad that she hasn’t been fired.
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Paul Newman Gives One of His Best Performances in ‘The Verdict’
The intensity of ‘The Verdict’ reverberates even more because its quest for justice, if everything goes right, doubles as a type of salvation for its lawyer protagonist.
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‘Love Letters” Bad Romance
The movie, featuring one of Jamie Lee Curtis’ best performances, is like a yellow-paged romance potboiler with the emotional dishonesty taken out.
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More Movies to Fall in Love with This February
Last February, I recommended some underappreciated movies worth checking out to ring in the year’s most romantic month for 425. Here are a few more.
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‘À Nos Amours’ is One of the Great Coming-of-Age Movies
Where other directors might moralize or condescendingly diagnose, Maurice Pialat delicately and sensitively handles the emotional complications of a teenage girl’s budding sex life.
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‘Walker’ is Alex Cox at His Best
‘Walker’ starts not at the beginning of its subject’s life but just before he started down the path to his doom.
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More Scary Movies to Watch in the Dark
What I’m watching to get in the Halloween spirit.
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On ‘They Live’
In John Carpenter’s ‘They Live,’ a man finally starts seeing things for what they are.
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Watching ‘The Princess Bride,’ on Its 35th Anniversary, with Cary Elwes
The English actor made an appearance at a special screening of the movie at Tacoma’s Pantages Theater.
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