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Review of The NeverEnding Story (1984)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 29 Mar 1989

This was sweet and charming at the time but now it just lacks either the comedy or sophistication of kids' fantasy film that we've all become…

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Review of Jake Speed (1986)

By Salem Alaton (12) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 17 Feb 1989

Most of the possibilities for humor or tension, either sexual or dramatic, are badly botched by the flat performances of the other lead actors…

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Review of Moonraker (1979)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 12 Jan 1989

Moonraker begins with one of the funniest and most dangerous (as well as most beautifully photographed and edited) sequences Bond has ever faced…

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Review of The Wanderers (1979)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 30 Dec 1988

What revs up the movie and keeps it humming is the driving energy of early rock, with its innocent/rebellious spirit, and its theme that teens…

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Review of Honkytonk Man (1982)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 21 Apr 1988

It is a guileless tribute not only to plain values of plain people in Depression America, but also to the sweet spirit of country-and-western…

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Review of The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 05 Feb 1988

There are some moments in The Witches of Eastwick that stretch uncomfortably for effects - the movie's climax is overdone, for example - and…

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Review of King Kong Lives (1986)

By Salem Alaton (12) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 30 Oct 1987

The problem with everyone in King Kong Lives is that they're in a boring movie, and they know they're in a boring movie, and they just can't…

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Review of Summer Rental (1985)

By Deirdre Kelly (2) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 12 Oct 1987

Summer Rental is a wan but good-natured hot-weather comedy, with a big debt to National Lampoon's Vacation plus a few nice touches of its own…

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Review of Death Wish 3 (1985)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 28 Aug 1987

With the strong element of fantasy, the frenetic attempts to create an end-product, and the squandering of resources, this is nothing more…

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Review of Once Bitten (1985)

By Salem Alaton (12) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 02 Aug 1987

Once Bitten affects a glossy, sophisticated look that does little to upgrade the film's adolescent humor…

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Review of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

By Jane Schoettle (2) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 28 Jul 1987

The plot is only semi-comprehensible, but the nearly non-stop musical numbers-brilliant conflations of glam-rock and showtunes-and transgressive…

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Review of No Small Affair (1984)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 18 Jul 1987

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

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Review of Doctor Detroit (1983)

By Matthew Fraser (4) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 15 Jul 1987

There isn't one laugh in this so-called comedy...The resulting situations are so moronic that the movie is unwatchable…

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Review of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 10 Jul 1987

It's one modern film worthy of being called a contemporary classic. [2002 re-release]…

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Review of White Nights (1985)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 09 May 1987

Pic shies away from the world of classical dance, personified by leading man Mikhail Baryshnikov, in favor of Gregory Hines' 'improvography…

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Review of Cocoon (1985)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 16 Apr 1987

Mr…

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Review of Paris Blues (1961)

By John Doyle (19) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 17 Jan 1987

Within its snappy, flashy veneer is an undernourished romantic drama of a rather traditional screen school…

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Review of Altered States (1980)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 21 Dec 1986

Essentially a big-budget, modern-day version of a 1960s acid-trip film, ALTERED STATES was helmed by flamboyant, talented, but frequently self-indulgent…

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Review of 48 Hrs. (1982)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 31 Aug 1986

The film is still an entertaining and invigorating thriller, with a structure and some curious sexual overtones that suggest Howard Hawks's…

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Review of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 29 Aug 1986

Both leads excel at showing a true feeling (be it love or lust) but both covered in the guilty angst that one will betray the other…

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