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By Tim Dirks (207) for Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films (207) on 01 Jan 2000

Young George Lucas' influential hallmark film American Graffiti (1973) recreates the feel, landscape, and sounds of early 60s…

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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Nov 1999

A brilliant work of popular art, it redefined nostalgia as a marketable commodity and established a new narrative style, with locale replacing…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Dec 1997

A funny, touching, nearly cliché-free, and thoroughly considered evocation of a time, place, and state of mind…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 31 Dec 1995

American Graffiti is an unabashed nostalgia piece, but the poignancy of Lucas holding onto this memory only becomes clear at the end…

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By Jay Cocks (51) for Time (1,811) on 16 Nov 1992

This superb and singular film catches not only the charm and tribal energy of the teen-age 1950s but also the listlessness and the resignation…

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By R. L. Shaffer (285) for IGN (1,013) on 28 Oct 1987

There's a sense of beauty and dread that's cleverly injected into George Lucas' American Graffiti, a tone poem and ode to the music, cars and…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 26 Sep 1986

Teen tales don’t get much better than this…

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By Alan R. Howard (6) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 30 Jul 1981

The ingeniously structured screenplay by Katz, Huyck and Lucas offers up a load of wonderful characters who whirl about in ducktail haircuts…

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