Tag: 1980s
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‘Broadcast News’ is a Great Romantic Comedy
Nothing exists in a simple binary in Albert L. Brooks’ dazzling rom-com/media satire hybrid.
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‘Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters’ is an Exhilarating Biopic
You don’t finish ‘Mishima’ with a holistic sense of who this man was. That doesn’t seem to be what Schrader has in mind, anyway.
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‘Fletch’ is a Breezy Detective Romp
‘Fletch’ goes by with the odd sense that there is almost nothing to really be worried about, because this preternaturally assured journalist is going to figure it all out.
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Too High
On ‘The Stunt Man.’
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In the House
‘Tenebrae’ is about as personal as a slasher movie can get.
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On ‘Caddyshack’
‘Caddyshack’ never quite coalesces, but it has its moments.
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‘Stripes’: Joining the Military for the Laugh
Like the previous year’s ‘Private Benjamin,’ military life is broadly made to look sort of fun — the perfect playground for a sitcom.
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‘Choose Me’ is Classed-Up Soap Opera
‘Choose Me’ is made up almost entirely of romantic entanglements.
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Fairy Tales
On ‘The Company of Wolves’ and ‘Lemora.’
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‘The Long Good Friday’ is a Perfect Gloomy Mob Drama
Bob Hoskins, masterful, manages to make us care about a man who is for all intents and purposes ruthless and blackhearted.
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‘…All the Marbles’: Robert Aldrich’s Fun Swan Song
It’s among his lightest, easiest-to-enjoy projects.
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The Burned-Out Comedy of ‘Repo Man’
That ‘Repo Man’’s happy ending could only exist in a movie seems like another one of director Alex Cox’s dark jokes.
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