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Review of Into the Night (1985)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 08 Jan 1987

In the early scenes, Landis and Goldblum work hard to make the character's depression dramatically real, and this infusion of gravity in a…

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Review of Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Jan 1987

[An] amiable, rambunctious New World production, aimed ostensibly at the teen trade but more obliquely and effectively at the new wave cult...It's…

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Review of Foul Play (1978)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Dec 1986

Director Colin Higgins plays foul with the audience, constructing some of the most dishonest suspense sequences ever filmed, and ends with…

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Review of The Killers (1964)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Nov 1986

The second film version (1964) of Ernest Hemingway's short story, directed by Don Siegel with far more energy than Robert Siodmak could muster…

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Review of The Birds (1963)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 Oct 1986

As emblems of sexual tension, divine retribution, meaningless chaos, metaphysical inversion, and aching human guilt, his attacking birds acquire…

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Review of A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Oct 1986

Here the idea of sleep as the ultimate threat is still fresh and marvelously insidious, and Craven vitalizes the nightmare sequences with assorted…

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Review of Superman (1978)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 31 Aug 1986

The film is best when it takes itself seriously, worst when it takes the easy way out into giggly camp--as it does, finally and fatally, when…

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Review of All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Aug 1986

Lewis Milestone's powerful 1930 adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's antiwar novel, starring Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim, deserves its reputation…

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Review of The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Jun 1986

The film is very proud of itself, exuding a stifling piety at times, but it works as well as this sort of thing can, thanks to accomplished…

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Review of The Paper Chase (1973)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Apr 1986

Assisted by Gordon Willis's cinematography and John Houseman's performance as the demanding Professor Kingsfield, director James Bridges manages…

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Review of Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Apr 1986

Ward, a gruff, amiable presence, has the stuff of an appealing blue-collar hero, but he hasn't got a chance with the feeble setup the filmmakers…

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Review of Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Nov 1985

This three-hour 1962 remake of the Charles Laughton-Clark Gable MGM classic (1935) was the first production in which Marlon Brando really ran…

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Review of A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 11 Oct 1985

Cassavetes makes the viewer's frustration work as part of the film's expressiveness; it has an emotional rhythm unlike anything else I've ever seen…

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Review of Days of Wine and Roses (1963)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 10 Jul 1985

Edwards's attention to detail pays off; while this isn't his best film, it is far superior to most problem dramas of the early 60s…

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Review of Dune (1984)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Jul 1985

The problem is that the imagery—as Sadean as Pasolini's Salo—isn't rooted in any story impulse, and so its power dissipates quickly…

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Review of The Last Detail (1973)

By Don Druker (117) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 02 Jul 1985

A tough-talking, sparely directed effort by Hal Ashby, with an immaculate performance by Jack Nicholson as the arrogant and salty (but feeling)…

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Review of The Terminator (1984)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 May 1985

Schwarzenegger is presented as a lumbering slab of dumb, destructive strength--the image is more geological than human--and Cameron plays his…

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Review of Duel (1971)

By Drew Hunt (128) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 May 1985

The existential allegories are pretty blunt—star Dennis Weaver’s character, a symbol for all mankind, is literally named Mann—but the…

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Review of Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Apr 1985

One of Sidney Lumet's best jobs of directing and one of Al Pacino's best performances (as a bisexual bank robber) come together in a populist…

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Review of Terror Train (1980)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Apr 1985

This 1979 teenage horror film has no redeeming style: it's a straight, pedestrian cop of Halloween, from the opening shock to the climactic…

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