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Review of Asylum (1972)

By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 23 Oct 1997

I hope to God that Patrick McGrath's novel Asylum, about a bunch of repressed Brits manipulating the stuffing out of one another in a 1950s…

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Review of The Omega Man (1971)

By Howard Thompson (56) for The New York Times (9,847) on 22 Oct 1997

Peppered with some sharp, even amusing dialogue, the story temporarily shelves the heavy allegory and slips into good, slam-bang suspense…

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Review of Scream (1996)

By Leonard Klady (141) for Variety (12,700) on 21 Oct 1997

Though the material is more intelligent than the norm and has an unusual third-act twist, it also employs some very clunky stereotypes…

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Review of The Getaway (1994)

By Rene Rodriguez (1,781) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 21 Oct 1997

An utterly pointless remake of Sam Peckinpah's hair-raising road movie…

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Review of Jade (1995)

By Janet Maslin (949) for The New York Times (9,847) on 20 Oct 1997

Though the combination of Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri and David Caruso promised Jade some fire, it winds up with no more spark than…

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Review of Crash (1996)

By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 20 Oct 1997

The filmmaking here is so glacially paced (the final script was only 62 pages for a 100-minute film) and enervating that boredom is the most…

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Review of They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)

By Pauline Kael (368) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 19 Oct 1997

The acting is strident and overblown, the narrative technique gimmicky and obvious, and the implication that the competitors' situation is…

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Review of The Long Goodbye (1973)

By Judith Crist (13) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 19 Oct 1997

Altman gracefully kisses off the private-eye form in soft, mellow color and volatile images; the cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond is responsible…

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Review of Brazil (1985)

By Adam Smith (163) for Empire (3,446) on 18 Oct 1997

Gilliam's dystopian epic remains among his best, blending his trademark visual inventiveness with a vicious brand of social satire…

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Review of Spellbound (1945)

By Merle Bertrand (62) for Film Threat (5,156) on 17 Oct 1997

Draws an unspoken parallel with, of all things, beauty pageants, complete with unnaturally driven kids and nervously supportive parents desperately…

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Review of A Family Thing (1996)

By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 17 Oct 1997

The film's premise is totally implausible yet great performances, directing and script allow us to transcend the concept of believability and…

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Review of The Long Riders (1980)

By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Oct 1997

The Long Riders takes more than a few cues from John Ford, favoring laconic characters whose projected confidence masks an inability to vocalize…

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Review of Dragnet (1987)

By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 15 Oct 1997

If the movie has a weakness, it's an over-reliance on Bond-style car chases and mass action scenes, which take away from the much richer and…

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Review of Year of the Dragon (1985)

By Pauline Kael (368) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 15 Oct 1997

Director Michael Cimino turned YEAR OF THE DRAGON, an engrossing novel by Robert Daley, into a confused, overlong, preachy, and at times downright…

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Review of Double Impact (1991)

By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 14 Oct 1997

The film is filled to dazzling with the vitreous and the translucent; the flaw running down the window of a Polish train seems, in some mystifying…

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Review of The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

By Robert Horton (590) for Film.com (1,892) on 14 Oct 1997

Enormously entertaining and surprisingly touching…

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Review of Ri¢hie Ri¢h (1994)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 13 Oct 1997

While the filmmakers haven't bothered to come up with a novel approach to very familiar material, the final product is a reasonably entertaining…

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Review of The Princess Bride (1987)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 12 Oct 1997

Though not as visually impressive as comparable Terry Gilliam fare such as Jabberwocky, the verbal wit is fast and abundant (abetted with cameos…

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Review of Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)

By Vincent Canby (762) for The New York Times (9,847) on 12 Oct 1997

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is the most barren comedy I've seen in years, maybe ever…

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Review of Dr. Giggles (1992)

By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Oct 1997

A prodigious achievement that conveys the fabric of modern American life, aspirations and incidentally, sports, in close-up and at length,…

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