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Arthur Knight

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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 94% EDIT “It's all done with such a great spirit of high adventure and good humor that you don't even begin to count the corpses... The finale suggests that Ford's Indiana Jones character will soon be back with further adventures, and I'm all in favor of it.” – The Hollywood Reporter May 4, 2023 Full Review Tron (1982) 60% EDIT “Steven Lisberger, who both wrote and directed Tron, never lets the gadgetry make you forget that, primarily, he’s telling a story, and that it’s essentially a people movie. ” – The Hollywood Reporter Jul 10, 2022 Full Review Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) 51% EDIT “No mistake about it, Star Trek is a big movie - big in scope, big in spectacle and, most important, big in entertainment values.” – The Hollywood Reporter Dec 7, 2021 Full Review The Right Stuff (1983) 96% EDIT “Rarely has a film made a historic accomplishment seem so vivid and personal... It makes you wonder, quite suddenly, why there aren't more movies like this.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jan 29, 2019 Full Review The Big Chill (1983) 69% EDIT “What might have been a meaningful exploration of the changes wrought by 20 years of abrasive reality is diverted, essentially, into who's going to wind up sleeping with whom.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jan 29, 2019 Full Review The Deer Hunter (1978) 86% EDIT “To my mind, The Deer Hunter is a major achievement in American movies. And I fervently hope that the American public won't vote me wrong.” – The Hollywood Reporter Dec 18, 2018 Full Review The Brink's Job (1978) 70% EDIT “The Brink's Job comes off as a black comedy with a sour, misplaced sense of humor. Falk also seems misplaced...” – The Hollywood Reporter Dec 18, 2018 Full Review One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 93% EDIT “With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Forman takes his rightful place as one of our most creative young directors. His casting is inspired, his sense of milieu is assured, and he could probably wring Academy Award performances from a stone.” – The Hollywood Reporter Nov 19, 2018 Full Review Hooper (1978) 57% EDIT “With this film, Needham demonstrates conclusively that he is far more than simply a spirited action director, eliciting beautiful performances from every member of his large and carefully chosen cast.” – The Hollywood Reporter Aug 7, 2018 Full Review The Driver (1978) 79% EDIT “While we can readily identify these characters, we can't identify with them simply because Hill never bothers to tell us what makes them tick.” – The Hollywood Reporter Aug 7, 2018 Full Review The Candidate (1972) 89% EDIT “If this candidate doesn't prove to be a winner, I'll demand a recount.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jun 29, 2018 Full Review Caddyshack (1980) 73% EDIT “To attempt a critical evaluation of Orion's new Caddyshack is a little like describing the esthetic qualities of an outhouse.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jul 25, 2017 Full Review Escape From New York (1981) 85% EDIT “It has got an intriguing premise, an effective cast, and it has been expertly mounted.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jul 10, 2017 Full Review Annie Hall (1977) 97% EDIT “Woody Allen fans will buy it 100%. Never before has the diminutive comedian been so urbane, so open - so funny. And with lovely Diane Keaton as consort, it becomes well-nigh irresistible (especially if you find Keaton as well-nigh irresistible as I do).” – The Hollywood Reporter Apr 20, 2017 Full Review The Godfather (1972) 97% EDIT “This is a curious film. One comes to understand, even to condone, the activities of the Godfather and his clan.” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 15, 2017 Full Review Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) 90% EDIT “What Benton achieved with his screenplay he intensified with his direction. Each performance is a minor miracle of perfection - not only Hoffman's and Streep's, which dominate the picture, but each of the supporting roles as well.” – The Hollywood Reporter Dec 19, 2016 Full Review Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 91% EDIT “A film of incredible power and intensity. It is also, and ultimately, reassuring.” – The Hollywood Reporter Nov 15, 2016 Full Review Network (1976) 90% EDIT “No performance is less than brilliant, with Dunaway particularly effective in the film's showiest role. Holden, Finch and Duvall, as always, contribute bed-rock-solid performances.” – The Hollywood Reporter Sep 26, 2016 Full Review Rocky (1976) 93% EDIT “In addition to a heart-warming script, Stallone has created on the screen a character of enormous appeal and charm -- half-articulate but funny, gruff but good-hearted.” – The Hollywood Reporter Nov 24, 2015 Full Review Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 83% EDIT “Unfortunately, it conveys the sense that the machinery has already started to wear down, and the inventiveness to wear thin.” – The Hollywood Reporter Oct 3, 2015 Full Review All the President's Men (1976) 94% EDIT “While there's an undoubted fascination in all this, after a couple of hours it begins to wear thin.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jul 22, 2015 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% EDIT “Certainly, for the American cinema, it is the most epochal event since Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jul 6, 2015 Full Review Jaws (1975) 97% EDIT “Perhaps the most perfectly constructed horror story in our time.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jul 6, 2015 Full Review Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 93% EDIT “The Empire may not top Star Wars, but it certainly makes one look forward to whatever new surprises George Lucas and his band of cinematic wizards can conjure up for us.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jun 29, 2015 Full Review Ghostbusters (1984) 95% EDIT “The plotting may be primitive, but it's all carried off with far more style and finesse than one might expect from the creators of Animal House and Meatballs.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jun 16, 2015 Full Review
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