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Review of Halloween (1978)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 05 Nov 1998

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 American Gigolo (1980)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 31 Oct 1998

The whole movie has a winning sadness about it; take away the story's sensational aspects and what you have is a study in loneliness…

Review of Over the Edge (1979)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 15 Oct 1998

A lot of Over the Edge is awkwardly acted and motivated, but it is staged with such vivid efficiency and concern that, as you watch it, you…

Review of Brubaker (1980)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 16 Jul 1998

Brubaker is an earnest, right-minded, consistently unsurprising movie about a penologist named Brubaker (Robert Redford), who sets out to reform…

Review of Bright Lights, Big City (1988)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 30 May 1998

It may not capture Mr…

Review of Phantasm II (1988)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 29 Jan 1998

The target audience for Phantasm II obviously is teenagers, especially those with abbreviated attention spans, who require a thrill a minute…

Review of The Final Countdown (1980)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 06 Dec 1997

As a documentary on the USS Nimitz, The Final Countdown is wonderful…

Review of License to Drive (1988)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 24 Jul 1997

I spent a lot of time during the new Corey Haim-Corey Feldman movie, License to Drive, trying to figure out where it is set. Then it hit me…

Review of The Outsiders (1983)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 21 Jan 1997

The Outsiders works itself up into overstylized tizzies during things like the rumble sequence, but its overall energy level is alarmingly…

Review of Silkwood (1983)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 06 Jan 1997

Silkwood is a very moving work about the raising of the consciousness of one woman of independence, guts and sensitivity…

Review of Pretty Woman (1990)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 18 Dec 1996

The intelligence and wit of this glass-slipper heart-of-gold fantasy are shocking…

Review of Terms of Endearment (1983)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 16 Dec 1996

No film since Preston Sturges was a pup has so shrewdly appreciated the way the eccentric plays hide-and-seek with the respectable in the ordinary…

Review of Somewhere in Time (1980)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 13 Oct 1996

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

Review of Dracula (1979)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 23 Jul 1996

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

Review of Total Recall (1990)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 09 Jul 1996

Guilty of gross mellerdrammer & innocent of sophistication…

Review of Rich and Famous (1981)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 14 Jun 1996

The lead performances, by Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen as two college friends who become competing novelists in later life, have the…

Review of Risky Business (1983)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 20 Feb 1996

Risky Business is like a promising first novel, with all the pros and cons that come with that territory…

Review of Nightbreed (1990)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 26 Jan 1996

Barker calls his shambolic, uninvolving narrative 'scattershot'; put less kindly, it's as explosive and directionless as a blunderbuss…

Review of Mystic Pizza (1988)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 01 Jan 1996

Inoffensive in its simplicity; its high, if naive, spirits send viewers out into the all too real streets clothed in the glow of a fantasy well-spun…

Review of Stella (1990)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 11 Dec 1995

Stella is never dull, but by the time it replays the famous Barbara Stanwyck-in-the-rain scene, it’s jerking camp laughter instead of tears…

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