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Review of Light of Day (1987)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 13 May 1995

For the most part, American movies concern the middle class, console the poor and celebrate the rich, and Schrader tried to pay blue-collar…

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Review of Army of Darkness (1992)

By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 10 May 1995

No matter what your opinion is of the movie, you're unlikely to be bored…

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Review of Inside Moves (1980)

By Gary Arnold (279) for Washington Post (9,851) on 08 May 1995

As an attempt to cash in on the inspirational-underdog-sports-movie model popularized a few years earlier by Rocky, Inside Moves is rather…

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Review of Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

By Hal Hinson (447) for Washington Post (9,851) on 01 May 1995

Ultimately, Davies' choices have a powerful cumulative effect. In the latter section, he achieves a transporting poignancy of feeling…

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Review of 3 Ninjas (1992)

By Hal Hinson (447) for Washington Post (9,851) on 18 Apr 1995

3 Ninjas, Touchstone Pictures' latest attempt to fill the idle summer hours of our nation's youth, is a Frankenstein of a movie, an unhappy…

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Review of Batman (1989)

By Hal Hinson (447) for Washington Post (9,851) on 12 Apr 1995

The movie fixes you in its gravitational pull. It's an enveloping, walk-in vision... As rich and satisfying a movie as you're likely to see all year…

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Review of The Little Rascals (1994)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 26 Mar 1995

Both director and co-writer of Rascals redux, Spheeris coaxes artless performances from the picture's engaging ensemble of half-pint players…

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Review of Alice (1990)

By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 21 Mar 1995

At its best the movie displays a vital playfulness…

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Review of The New Kids (1985)

By Desson Howe (75) for Washington Post (9,851) on 20 Mar 1995

Director Brooks masterfully interconnects this human triangle with the breakneck world of broadcasting -- the professional frenzy behind the…

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Review of American Flyers (1985)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 11 Mar 1995

There are two, maybe three, good gags in National Lampoon's Vacation, which otherwise is poorly paced, sloppily put together, and full of inept,…

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Review of Vincent & Theo (1990)

By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 21 Feb 1995

Vincent & Theo is more than art appreciation, it is a treasure in its own right, unframed and arcing in the projector's light…

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Review of Guncrazy (1992)

By Hal Hinson (447) for Washington Post (9,851) on 15 Feb 1995

Davis's sensibility is much more fully developed, more authentic and much less self-consciously referential than the Coens' was at the same…

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Review of The Thin Man (1934)

By Hal Hinson (447) for Washington Post (9,851) on 13 Feb 1995

As Nick and Nora Charles, William Powell and Myrna Loy function as the most sophisticated, insolent, and healthy married couple on-screen…

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Review of Pirates (1986)

By Paul Attanasio (217) for Washington Post (9,851) on 09 Feb 1995

There hasn't been a pirate movie in a long time, and after Roman Polanski's Pirates, there may not be another one for a very long time…

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Review of Quiz Show (1994)

By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 08 Feb 1995

As taut, sleek and guiltily comfortable as the classic Chrysler automobile we see at the beginning, Quiz Show is built for entertaining road…

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Review of A Good Man in Africa (1994)

By Hal Hinson (447) for Washington Post (9,851) on 21 Dec 1994

With its widely acclaimed source material and a cast of distinguished actors, A Good Man in Africa held the possibility of being a welcome…

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Review of Wild at Heart (1990)

By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 05 Dec 1994

The movie's initial intensity is so great, it consumes itself…

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Review of Breaking Away (1979)

By Judith Martin (39) for Washington Post (9,851) on 28 Nov 1994

Scripted by Steve Tesich, it's Yates' best film since The Friends of Eddie Coyle and displays the kind of unsentimental optimism that went…

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Review of The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

By Desson Howe (75) for Washington Post (9,851) on 25 Nov 1994

Temptation is visually and aurally stupendous. But the most obvious strength in this commendably bold project is Willem Dafoe's performance as Jesus…

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Review of The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)

By Gary Arnold (279) for Washington Post (9,851) on 14 Nov 1994

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again is content to deepen the rut left four years ago by its predecessor, The Apple Dumpling Gang, one of the…

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