Tag: 1980s
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‘Brother from Another Planet’ Has an Intriguing Premise, But It Struggles to Sustain a Feature-Length Movie
Our curiosity depletes before the journey has ended — or has just begun.
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‘Night of the Comet’: One to Remember
‘Night of the Comet’ loses some of its vigor once the action moves to the scientist base. By then it’s become clear that the movie doesn’t need a sci-fi-typical climactic showdown to be effective.
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‘Alone in the Dark’ Makes the Home-Invasion Thriller Feel New Again
Writer-director Jack Sholder lends the material a satirical edge.
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‘Crossing Delancey’ is Like if a Rom-Com Plot Played Out in Real Life
‘Crossing Delancey’ suggests what might happen if the narrative of a romantic-comedy movie were grafted onto life — a place where the genre’s big emotions, plot contrivances, and sudden appearances of soulmates would naturally be a little overwhelming.
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Michelle Pfeiffer’s Radiance Takes ‘Married to the Mob’ to the Next Level
‘Married to the Mob’ is too good-natured and well-performed to have many damaging gripes with.
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‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’: Bad Santa
Underrepresented in the typically cheery holiday-movie subgenre is the person for whom the season is legitimately nightmarish. ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’ has a character who more than makes up for their representational absence.
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‘Hollywood Shuffle’ Cuts Deep
The movie is a semi-autobiographical product of frustration for co-writer and director Robert Townsend.
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The Human Comedy
On ‘Real Life,’ ‘Modern Romance,’ and ‘Lost in America,’ three projects from writer-director-actor Albert Brooks.
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‘Santa Sangre’: A Slasher Movie, Jodorowsky Style
‘Santa Sangre’ is wonderfully perverse.
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‘From Beyond’: Not Quite as Good as ‘Re-Animator’
But even if ‘From Beyond’ doesn’t really work, it’s hard to outrightly dislike.
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Splat!
On ‘Zombi 2’ and ‘The House by the Cemetery,’ gore classics from Lucio Fulci
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Three horror-omnibus movies.
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