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Jay Boyar Buffalo Courier-Express Aug 30, 2022 Days of Heaven has got to be the quietest spectacular ever filmed. With the confidence of a black-belt fighter, it doesn't flex its muscles or flaunt its power. Go to Full Review Days of Heaven (1978) 93% 89%

Jay Boyar Buffalo Courier-Express Aug 30, 2022 The actors are so natural, so real, so privately panic-stricken in the face of death, that their performances ride rough-shod over the technical situation and bring to it an intensity and vitality. Go to Full Review The Deer Hunter (1978) 86% 91%

Jay Boyar Buffalo Courier-Express Aug 4, 2022 It's tasteful in the best sense, the sense that implies modesty. You can't manage great art with this kind of restraint, but you can make an awfully good movie. And Benton has. Go to Full Review Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) 90% 89%

Jay Boyar Buffalo Courier-Express Nov 9, 2021 The dear Mrs. Brisby is just about the perfect heroine for a children's movie... For missing her shot at a great starring role, Minnie Mouse must be eating her little heart out. Go to Full Review The Secret of NIMH (1982) 93% 85%

Jay Boyar Buffalo Courier-Express Sep 22, 2020 1/5 It's mindless, but it's well-paced. Go to Full Review Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) 78% 80%

Jay Boyar Buffalo Courier-Express Sep 22, 2020 3/5 Suppose that you're intrigued by the special three-dimensional effects but totally repulsed by the movie's mindless carnage. Then you've got yourself a problem. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part III (1982) 17% 42%

Jay Boyar Buffalo Courier-Express Sep 21, 2020 3/5 With its air of foolishness and total superficiality, neither the medical profession nor anything else is really being lampooned. It's just a bunch of jokes. Go to Full Review Young Doctors in Love (1982) 35% 34%

Jay Boyar Buffalo Courier-Express Sep 21, 2020 2/5 All things considered, Swamp Thing should never have crawled out from under its rock. Go to Full Review Swamp Thing (1982) 62% 41%

Jay Boyar Buffalo Courier-Express Sep 21, 2020 3/5 This isn't a very engaging idea. Neither outrageous enough to be funny nor apt enough to be clever, it's a rickety hook to hang a movie on. Go to Full Review The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) 50% 68%

Jay Boyar Buffalo Courier-Express Sep 21, 2020 2/5 There is no doubt that what Hill has accomplished is titillating. But some very powerful emotions are trashed in this movie, and some tender sensibilities are trampled on. Go to Full Review The World According to Garp (1982) 71% 78%

Jay Boyar Buffalo Courier-Express Sep 21, 2020 3/5 This movie about alienation is, finally, too alienated from itself and from the world surrounding it to work as a movie. Go to Full Review Messidor (1979) - - - -

Jay Boyar Buffalo Courier-Express Sep 9, 2020 5/5 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a clever, exciting movie that grabs you right from the start by involving you in the conflicts and aspirations of its characters. Go to Full Review Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) 87% 90%

Jay Boyar Buffalo Courier-Express Sep 4, 2020 2/5 Although Tron, with all its jazzy computer-generated imagery, is intermittently fascinating to look at, it's a pretty poor excuse for a movie. Go to Full Review Tron (1982) 61% 67%

Jay Boyar Buffalo Courier-Express Sep 4, 2020 3/5 Everything, from the punkish clothing to the compact gadgetry, comments wittily on the present while also establishing a coherent future. Go to Full Review Blade Runner (1982) 89% 91%