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Review of Scarface (1983)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 07 Mar 1986

Brian De Palma dedicates this 1983 feature to Howard Hawks and Ben Hecht, authors of the 1932 original, though I doubt they would find much…

Review of American Pop (1981)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 14 Dec 1985

Director Harold Ramis, star and co-writer of STRIPES (1981) and GHOST BUSTERS (1984), keeps this film moving and heightens the humor with his…

Review of Days of Heaven (1978)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 18 Sep 1985

The film has too much surface beauty not to earn it a recommendation, but Days of Heaven satisfies only on a sensory level…

Review of Caveman (1981)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 17 Jun 1985

The movie is nicely whimsical, and elaborate in a way that no fantasy film this side of outer space has lately been…

Review of Goin' South (1978)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 03 Jan 1985

Although the premise of Goin' South is clever, the story is unbelievable and, under Nicholson's first grip as a director, is unwieldy and directionless…

Review of Urban Cowboy (1980)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 05 Dec 1984

Unapologetically trashy, Urban Cowboy is a virtual pageant of high redneck style—there are lots of bootleg trousers, halter tops, shag haircuts,…

Review of Flash Gordon (1980)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 20 Sep 1984

The expensive new version of Flash Gordon is a lot more gaudy, and just as dumb, as the original series starring Buster Crabbe. Sam J…

Review of Breaking Away (1979)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 20 Apr 1984

The way the movie handles cycling, which isn't one of cinema's more heavily covered sports, introduces another entire dimension and transforms…

Review of Rocky II (1979)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 24 Feb 1984

Sequel manages to retain some pathos and credibility…

Review of Dragonslayer (1981)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 16 Dec 1983

Verges on the nasty for the nippers; sails close to déjà vu for fantasy fans; fated, probably, to damnation by faint praise…

Review of Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 02 Jul 1983

The weakest point is its construction, sturdy and compact up to the point when it has to use flashbacks in order to explain the British side…

Review of Escape to Victory (1981)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 15 Feb 1983

The beauty of the sport, especially the ultimate grace of a player of Pele's extraordinary caliber, is captured in a series of slow-motion…

Review of Time After Time (1979)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 13 Dec 1982

Director Jeannot Szwarc strains hard for spectacular visual effects, though he's barely able to compose a competent close-up…

Review of Personal Best (1982)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 11 Sep 1982

PERSONAL BEST offers a detailed, believable insider's portrait of the world of track and field…

Review of Car Wash (1976)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 09 Sep 1982

This low-budget horror film, sophisticated far beyond its budget, is the work of John Carpenter, an authentic prodigy whose style recalls both…

Review of History of the World: Part I (1981)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 21 Jun 1981

Despite cameos by many superior comic actors and well-known celebrities, this episodic would-be laughfest comes up wanting as many of Brooks…

Review of The Stunt Man (1980)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 01 May 1981

The Stunt Man is a bravura piece of moviemaking — a true popular work of modernist art…

Review of Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 29 Nov 1979

Eyes of Laura Mars is a very stylish thriller [from a story by John Carpenter] in search of a better ending…

Review of Tom Jones (1963)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 26 Dec 1976

A fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek movie about an engaging foundling…

Review of Dracula (1931)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 21 Jan 1938

Dracula has the nervy enthusiasm of the work of a precocious film student who has magically acquired a master's command of his craft…

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