HARDCORE (1979) – Review by Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael reviews Paul Schrader's "Hardcore"
HALLOWEEN (1978) – Review by Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael reviews John Carpenter's "Halloween"
BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY: POTENCY – Review by Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael reviews Oliver Stone's 'Born on the Fourth of July' (1989). Published in The New Yorker, January 22, 1990
DEAD POETS SOCIETY: STONEWORK – Review by Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael's review of 'Dead Poets Society' (1989) by Peter Weir
BLADE RUNNER (1982) – Reviewed by Norman Spinrad [Starlog]
Blade Runner (1982), reviewed by Norman Spinrad for Starlog magazine, November 1982 Issue
BATMAN (1989) – Review by Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael reviews Tim Burton's Batman. Publishe in The New Yorker, July 10, 1989
BLUE VELVET (1986) – Review by Tracy Biga [Film Quarterly]
by Tracy Biga Much of the humor in David Lynch’s reworked fifties crime thriller/horror/gothic film Blue Velvet comes from mundane statements which, when filtered by his personal vision, appear weird, but still oddly familiar, just as the opening shots of flowers against a white picket fence and a waving fireman [...]
THE GODFATHER (1972) – Review by Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin reviews Francis Ford Coppola's 'The Godfather'. Published in Boston After Dark, 1972 March 28
LAST TANGO IN PARIS – Review by Pauline Kael
The following review, one of the most renowned in the history of film criticism, appeared in The New Yorker magazine on October 28, 1972
BLUE VELVET: OUT THERE AND IN HERE – Review by Pauline Kael
by Pauline Kael “Maybe I’m sick, but I want to see that again.” —Overheard after a showing of Blue Velvet. When you come out of the theatre after seeing David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, you certainly know that you've seen something. You wouldn’t mistake frames from Blue Velvet for frames from [...]