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Home » Film » Page 2855

Category: Film

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Monkey Business

by Dave Kehr January 18, 1985August 24, 2021

1 hour 37 min

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Battleship Potemkin

by Don Druker January 14, 1985August 24, 2021

NR • 1 hour 10 min • 1925

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Stage Door

by Don Druker January 14, 1985August 24, 2021

1 hour 32 min • 1937

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Rebel Without a Cause

by Dave Kehr January 14, 1985August 24, 2021

1 hour 51 min • 1955

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Streamers

by Dave Kehr January 14, 1985August 24, 2021

Sure it’s searing and intense, but so is a microwave oven. David Rabe’s play, about a barracks room of draftees waiting to be shipped to Vietnam, is a less than […]

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Perfumed Nightmare

by Dave Kehr January 14, 1985August 24, 2021

1 hour 33 min • 1977

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Fiddler on the Roof

by Dave Kehr January 14, 1985August 25, 2021

3 hours 1 min • 1971

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I Confess

by Dave Kehr January 14, 1985August 25, 2021

1 hour 35 min • 1953

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Irma La Douce

by Jonathan Rosenbaum January 14, 1985August 25, 2021

Billy Wilder’s soggy and uninspired 1963 adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, minus the songs. Shirley MacLaine stars as a Paris prostitute with a heart of gold who falls for […]

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The Woman Next Door

by Dave Kehr January 14, 1985August 24, 2021

Certainly the coldest film ever made about l’amour fou, Francois Truffaut’s 1981 production fails to satisfy emotionally but contains some of his most creative direction post-Jules and Jim. It’s a […]

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The President’s Analyst

by Dave Kehr January 14, 1985August 24, 2021

The 60s school of improvisational comedy is beautifully preserved in Theodore J. Flicker’s film, which pits LBJ’s shrink (James Coburn) against a plot for world dominance hatched by TPC (The […]

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The Turning Point

by Dave Kehr January 14, 1985August 25, 2021

Herbert Ross continues the venerable tradition of butting ballet and melodrama in a story of two old rivals (Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft) squabbling over the artistic soul of MacLaine’s […]

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Smiles of a Summer Night

by Dave Kehr January 14, 1985August 26, 2021

1 hour 48 min • 1955

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The Year of Living Dangerously

by Dave Kehr January 14, 1985August 26, 2021

Peter Weir’s attempt to make a Casablanca for the 80s—a romance set against a background of exoticism and intrigue—suffers from hazy plotting and a constant, pretentious mystification. The lovers—Mel Gibson […]

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The Dresser

by Dave Kehr January 14, 1985August 26, 2021

Director Peter Yates seems to have decided that the way to make a movie about the theater is to suppress every trace of the cinematic. His 1983 adaptation of Ronald […]

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