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Review of New Jack City (1991)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 10 Jul 1991

Filmmakers pull off a provocative, pulsating update on gangster pics with this action-laden epic about the rise and fall of an inner city crack…

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Review of Fire Birds (1990)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 07 Dec 1990

It would be hard to reduce filmmaking to its basics more than Fire Birds does…

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Review of Problem Child (1990)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 01 Oct 1990

Every time Problem Child gets an interesting edge, it loses it…

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Review of Empire of the Ants (1977)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 25 Sep 1989

Every bit as contrived as the leading lady's hairstyles, and rather less technically impressive, this is still trashy fun…

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Review of Outrageous Fortune (1987)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 17 Feb 1988

Outrageous Fortune is well crafted, old-fashioned entertainment that takes some conventional elements, shines them up and repackages them as…

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Review of Look Back in Anger (1959)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 03 Mar 1978

Sixty years on, the big-screen adaptation of the landmark play looks more conservative than revolutionary but Burton’s firepower is undimmed…

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Review of The Wind and the Lion (1975)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 16 Jul 1976

This opulently romantic celebration of American imperialism certainly presents the contradictions and is one hell of an epic…

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Review of Daughters of Darkness (1971)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 11 Dec 1973

Daughters of Darkness is so intentionally perverse that it often slips into impure camp, but Kumel and Seyrig hold interest by piling twists…

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Review of Downhill Racer (1969)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 05 Nov 1973

Redford contributes a sensitive, interesting portrayal. His interpretation is many-faceted and probing…

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Review of Shanghai Express (1932)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 02 Jul 1942

Von Sternberg, who was forever looking for new kinds of stylisation, said that he intended everything in Shanghai Express to have the rhythm…

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