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Ted Mahar Oregonian 6 days ago If any notion is dispelled, it should be that they don't make movies like they used to. Sometimes they do, and sometimes they make them better today than they did then. Rocky may be one of those times. Go to Full Review Rocky (1976) 95% 69%

Ted Mahar Oregonian Nov 3, 2026 As you may know, Stallone considers these movies autobiography Whatever they are, he got the formula right on this one, a simple story told directly and briskly. But let's hope that, now that he's gotten it right, he'll leave it alone. Go to Full Review Rocky III (1982) 66% 74%

Ted Mahar Oregonian Nov 2, 2026 This is a strong film, and De Palma has made it so. Go to Full Review Carrie (1976) 82% 77%

Shawn Levy Oregonian Oct 31, 2026 3.5/4 Even if you've been reading and watching Shakespeare since your school days, you've never seen anything like this wondrous Romeo and Juliet. Go to Full Review William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) 79% 77%

Ted Mahar Oregonian Oct 20, 2026 4/4 A riveting, harrowing film. Go to Full Review Full Metal Jacket (1987) 84% 94%

Ted Mahar Oregonian Oct 19, 2026 At last, Kubrick has been able to work on the literal level with the theme that has been implied or depicted symbolically previously: a father murderously attacking a son... Kubrick treats it like a present that is finally fully unwrapped. Go to Full Review The Shining (1980) 75% 90%

Ted Mahar Oregonian Oct 18, 2026 It is a work of cold brilliance, with emphasis on the cold and on the brilliance as well. Go to Full Review A Clockwork Orange (1971) 83% 93%

George H. Bell Oregonian Oct 16, 2026 It embodies both high and low comedy, irony, satire, suspense, sex, drama, and plain old cliff-hanging action. Put simply, this one is loaded. Go to Full Review Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 97% 94%

Bob Walters Oregonian Oct 16, 2026 The book was written with subtlety and humor and was in many respects a satire. Script-writer Nabokov and director Kubrick, fortunately, have carried these same characteristics to film, and it sometimes is very funny indeed. Go to Full Review Lolita (1962) 83% 84%

Penny Termaat Oregonian Oct 13, 2026 It goes to prove, at any rate, that the old story of freedom at all cost, is forever a good theme for any story. Go to Full Review Spartacus (1960) 90% 87%

Herbert L. Larson Oregonian Oct 13, 2026 The trial is a real shocker. Go to Full Review Paths of Glory (1957) 96% 95%

Ted Mahar Oregonian Oct 6, 2026 0/4 "Friday the 13th Part VII" is indistinguishable from the others. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) 20% 37%

Ted Mahar Oregonian Oct 3, 2026 In its lowest of low-level ways, "Friday the 13th, Part VI" may evoke the old is-the-glass-half-full-or-half-empty debate, never a thrilling experience. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) 38% 53%

Ted Mahar Oregonian Sep 30, 2026 Despite the "Part 2" of the title, it's the same movie with different actors and a slight twist in the villain. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) 27% 48%

Ted Mahar Oregonian Sep 28, 2026 0/4 Monotonous, surprisingly tedious and so predictable that it's ritualistic. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) 7% 27%

Ted Mahar Oregonian Sep 23, 2026 "Crocodile Dundee" is an amiable, constantly amusing lope through two different culture nudges. Go to Full Review Crocodile Dundee (1986) 87% 59%

Ted Mahar Oregonian Sep 21, 2026 This might be an enjoyable scary movie for kids who haven't seen any of the films from which "Friday" was cribbed, but even a fairly inexperienced viewer is likely to find it an acceptably acted story without a single surprise. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th (1980) 49% 60%

Ted Mahar Oregonian Sep 20, 2026 The NBC version drifts slowly through the story. Go to Full Review Carrie (2002) 32% 49%

Ted Mahar Oregonian Sep 17, 2026 The movie is in many respects not "Part III" but a fairly faithful remake of "Part II." Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part III (1982) 17% 42%

Ted Mahar Oregonian Sep 14, 2026 "Friday the 13th, Part V: A New Beginning" is, astoundingly, the best yet in this bloody, daffy series. Don't make too much of that. It's not unlike specifying a particular critter as the cutest slug in the garden. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985) 11% 26%