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- Oct 26, 1985
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42nd Street (NR)
This 1933 film is the best known of the Warner Brothers Depression-era musicals, though it doesn't compare in dash and extravagance to later entries in the cycle. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (G)
The first of the Charles Schneer-Ray Harryhausen fantasy films, made in 1958. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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A Nos Amours
A 15-year-old French girl (Sandrine Bonnaire, extraordinary) finds refuge from her troubled family in a series of casual sexual encounters. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (NR)
Bud and Lou as two delivery men with an oblong package for Frankenstein's castle. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes
An engaging 1971 parody of Victorian horror films by Robert Fuest, the director responsible for the earnestly absurd TV series The Avengers. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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“About Last Night . . . ”
Adapting David Mamet's play Sexual Perversity in Chicago, screenwriters Tim Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue have done an admirable job of turning an unfilmable piece into a polished commercial product (1986), yet so much of the flavor of the original has been lost that you wonder why they bothered with the Mamet in the first place. more...
- Apr 25, 1985
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Absence of Malice
The invective against the press and the First Amendment contained in Sydney Pollack's 1981 film is probably its least objectionable aspect: the picture has a smug, demoralizing sense of pervasive corruption, putting forward the Paul Newman character (a businessman libeled by reporter Sally Field) as the last good and true human being in the United States. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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The Absent Minded Professor
Fred MacMurray and flubber. more...
- Aug 23, 1985
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Ace in the Hole
Billy Wilder being bitter, without Billy Wilder being funny. more...
- Apr 12, 1985
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Across the Pacific
John Huston's sort-of sequel to The Maltese Falcon, with Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, and Sydney Greenstreet together again in an equally obscure plot, involving Nazi spies in Panama. more...
- Mar 8, 1985
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Adam's Rib
George Cukor's gracious 1949 comedy about a lady lawyer (Katharine Hepburn) married to a district attorney (Spencer Tracy) and what happens when they find themselves on opposite sides of a shooting trial. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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L'addition
This French import plays like the dumbo version of Bresson's L'argent: a young actor (Richard Berry) is sent to prison for coming to the aid of a beautiful shoplifter (Victoria Abril), incurs the wrath of a psychotic guard (Richard Bohringer), has his sentence quadrupled, and is forced into the killing of a sadistic fellow inmate. more...
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