Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope Reviews
What places it a sizable cut about the routine is its spectacular visual effects, the best since Stanley Kubrick's 2001.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
George Lucas, who made American Graffiti, has put together a sci-fi film that draws on any number of associations. Star Wars is both amazing and familiar.
The Nation
All in all, it is an outrageously successful, what will be called a "classic," compilation of nonsense, largely derived but thoroughly reconditioned.
Common Sense Media
Sci-fi action classic perfect for sharing with older kids.
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| Original Score: 4/5
EmanuelLevy.Com
Like it or not, Star Wars is a seminal movie that began a whole cycle of sci-fi works and also launched the careers of many actors and craftsmen.
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| Original Score: B+
Common Sense Media
First of a sci-fi phenomenon, #4 in the series.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema em Cena
Lucas consegue imprimir energia à direção e estabelece seus personagens como figuras imediatamente icônicas, mesmo que, aqui e ali, seus péssimos diálogos comprometam a experiência.
| Original Score: 4/5
Laramie Movie Scope
It is a sweeping epic with classical themes lifted from the teachings of Joseph Campbell, but it maintains strong central characters.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Decent Films Guide
It has shaped our imaginations, our inner worlds. The series may be over at last, but the Force will be with us always.
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| Original Score: A+
TIME Magazine
Top CriticA grand and glorious film that may well be the smash hit of 1977, and certainly is the best movie of the year so far.
ESplatter
On the basic level of simple entertainment it succeeds as well as any film ever has.
Film4
So, is this the best film of all time? Certainly not. But it definitely is one of the most enduring, and it's hard not to be seduced.
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| Original Score: 5/5
A magnificent film. George Lucas set out to make the biggest possible adventure fantasy out of his memories of serials and older action epics, and he succeeded brilliantly.
Has distinct limitations, but the current return to a cinema of spectacle and wonder is wholly encouraging.
TheMovieReport.com
Puts most recent 'epic' blockbuster mediocrities to shame.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Bullz-Eye.com
One of those few films that you can expect to find in almost anyone's collection.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Arizona Daily Star
Lucas' trilogy earned its place in eternity not for its mechanical precision, but for its intangible qualities of inspiration and wonder.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Movie Metropolis
...the key to the movie's success is its creation of a family of characters we can love and believe in.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
The movie, modeled after old-fashioned Westerns and Joseph Campbell's writings about mythology, also has a sweet innocence.
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| Original Score: 4/4
