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One of the most influential of all teen films, American Graffiti is a funny, nostalgic, and bittersweet look at a group of recent high school grads' last days of innocence.
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The movie is a comic poem which celebrates the past but also catalogues its textures with telling precision. American Graffiti looks like no other movie, an achievement which is always the best measure of a truly gifted director. August 1, 2017 | Full Review…
The movie is a comic poem which celebrates the past but also catalogues its textures with telling precision. American Graffiti looks like no other movie, an achievement which is always the best measure of a truly gifted director.
Alan R. Howard
This superb and singular film catches not only the charm and tribal energy of the teen-age 1950s but also the listlessness and the resignation that underscored it all like an incessant bass line in one of the rock-'n'-roll songs of the period. July 7, 2014 | Full Review…
This superb and singular film catches not only the charm and tribal energy of the teen-age 1950s but also the listlessness and the resignation that underscored it all like an incessant bass line in one of the rock-'n'-roll songs of the period.
Jay Cocks
There is brilliant interplaying and underplaying, of script, performers and direction which will raise howls of laughter from audiences, yet never descends on the screen to overdone mugging, pratfall and other heavy-handed devices normally employed. June 27, 2007 | Full Review…
There is brilliant interplaying and underplaying, of script, performers and direction which will raise howls of laughter from audiences, yet never descends on the screen to overdone mugging, pratfall and other heavy-handed devices normally employed.
A.D. Murphy
A brilliant work of popular art, it redefined nostalgia as a marketable commodity and established a new narrative style, with locale replacing plot, that has since been imitated to the point of ineffectiveness. June 27, 2007 | Full Review…
A brilliant work of popular art, it redefined nostalgia as a marketable commodity and established a new narrative style, with locale replacing plot, that has since been imitated to the point of ineffectiveness.
Dave Kehr
The film that launched a thousand careers. June 24, 2006 | Full Review…
The film that launched a thousand careers.
Geoff Andrew
American Graffiti acts almost as a milestone to show us how far (and in many cases how tragically) we have come. October 23, 2004 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
American Graffiti acts almost as a milestone to show us how far (and in many cases how tragically) we have come.
Roger Ebert
George Lucas has directed with a remarkably firm but unostentatious hand, two virtues equally rare in a young film maker. July 23, 2020 | Full Review…
George Lucas has directed with a remarkably firm but unostentatious hand, two virtues equally rare in a young film maker.
John Simon
Without unnecessary nudging or underlining, Lucas beautifully establishes his characters as both enslaved to the image of themselves which the media have given them and permanently in need of its company. March 27, 2020 | Full Review…
Without unnecessary nudging or underlining, Lucas beautifully establishes his characters as both enslaved to the image of themselves which the media have given them and permanently in need of its company.
Jan Dawson
Stop reading this and go out and see it! October 2, 2019 | Full Review…
Stop reading this and go out and see it!
Bernard Drew
... the music-filled picture still holds up nearly a half-century later. August 24, 2018 | Full Review…
... the music-filled picture still holds up nearly a half-century later.
Danielle Solzman
...it transports you to 1962, to a moment in American history in which all you had to worry about was your car, your music and your friends... [Full review in Spanish] June 5, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
...it transports you to 1962, to a moment in American history in which all you had to worry about was your car, your music and your friends... [Full review in Spanish]
Sebastian Zavala Kahn
Maybe the best film about teenagers ever made. September 11, 2014 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…
Maybe the best film about teenagers ever made.
Tim Brayton
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