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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 08 Sep 2004

If Star Wars was Lucas' vision of a Buck Rogers future, THX 1138 is his mordantly funny Metropolis…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 08 Sep 2004

May be a naively simple variation on that other George-Orwell-but it remains a dazzling triumph of creativity and style over financial limitations…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for Philadelphia Weekly (778) on 07 Sep 2004

The new digital meddling and a bunch of gratuitous, anachronistic effects shots only serve to make the movie even more annoying than it used to be…

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By Tony Mastroianni (119) for Cleveland Press (118) on 20 Nov 2003

Bleak, depressing but visually interesting…

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By Bob Bloom (1,124) for Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (1,017) on 14 Aug 2002

Lucas' vision of the future is disturbing. A wonderful first effort…

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By Rob Vaux (1,125) for Flipside Movie Emporium (617) on 25 Jul 2002

This thought-provoking science fiction is most interesting for the protean ideas which came to full bloom six years later in Star Wars…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Jul 1994

The surprising thing about George Lucas's first feature (1971), a dystopian SF parable now digitally enhanced and expanded by five minutes,…

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By Leighton Klein (6) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 26 Jan 1991

For someone wanting to get noticed as a filmmaker, George Lucas couldn't have done much better than THX 1138, his 1971 feature debut that starts…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 05 Oct 1989

The movie's strength is not in its story but in its unsettling and weirdly effective visual and sound style. (Review of Original Release)…

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By William Arnold (1,101) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 22 Mar 1984

Reportedly, Lucas has been tinkering with this director's cut for nearly two years, so its sound and visual elements -- which were fairly impressive…

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By Mark Bell (109) for Film Threat (5,156) on 03 Feb 1978

Enough about the CGI tweaking, is this film really Lucas's unloved masterpiece…

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