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Judy Stone

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The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) 96% 4/4 EDIT “The sadness of his tragic end is illuminated by all the evidence in this film that one man can make a difference.” – San Francisco Chronicle Dec 8, 2025 Full Review A Soldier's Story (1984) 91% 4/4 EDIT “Under Norman Jewison's direction, it is opened up to provide more of a feeling about the south in wartime, but Fuller's script retains his complex explorations of the men and their motivations.” – San Francisco Chronicle Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Razor's Edge (1984) 47% 1/4 EDIT “Murray turns in a mixed performance. He's fine when he relaxes and shows his appreciation for the humorous side of life, but he just looks shell-shocked when he is supposedly having a mystical experience.” – San Francisco Chronicle Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Places in the Heart (1984) 90% 4/4 EDIT “Director Robert Benton weaves the strands of his characters' lives in a memorable and moving fashion. It's extraordinary in its grace, beauty and suggestion of reconciliation and forgiveness.” – San Francisco Chronicle Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Journey Back to Oz (1974) 30% EDIT “Unfortunately, Liza's voice does not supply the vigor that made her mother so appealing.” – San Francisco Chronicle Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% EDIT “There is no question about the film's entertainment value, particularly by the personalities and performances.” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 13, 2025 Full Review Tron (1982) 60% 3/4 EDIT “It's a fascinating introduction to the artistic potential of computer simulation.” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 6, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% 4/4 EDIT “Brilliantly written and directed by Charles Burnett, it's the most believable cinematic slice of black life in years, rich with humor and the talent of an outstanding cast.” – San Francisco Chronicle Sep 25, 2025 Full Review High and Low (1963) 97% 4/4 EDIT “Mifune is marvelously complex as this tough-minded, perplexed man.” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 13, 2025 Full Review A Dry White Season (1989) 82% 4/4 EDIT “Director Euzhan Palcy has adapted Andre Brink's novel into a taut, passionate portrayal of the corrosive and murderous effects of apartheid.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jan 3, 2023 Full Review Thousand Pieces of Gold (1990) 88% 3/4 EDIT “The film has both epic sweep and a compelling human interest.” – San Francisco Chronicle Feb 15, 2022 Full Review 4/4 EDIT “The dry, witty tone is set by Hays, diabetic and a double amputee, whose refusal to sentimentalize or bemoan the past makes this a very moving experience.” – San Francisco Examiner Nov 11, 2021 Full Review Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) 93% 3/4 EDIT “There's plenty at tension, some humor and a lot of polish, but, finally, it isn't any more memorable than your last fill-up at the service station.” – San Francisco Examiner Nov 11, 2021 Full Review Smash Palace (1981) 100% 4/4 EDIT “Writer director Roger Donaldson traces the disintegration of their marriage with tense, compelling realism -- at least until the ambiguous final moment... Bruno Lawrence and Anna Jamison are first-rate.” – San Francisco Examiner Nov 11, 2021 Full Review Gregory's Girl (1981) 95% 4/4 EDIT “Forsyth's first major release from Scotland, starring a delightful teenaged beanpole named Gordon John Sinclair, is a charming study in the sweet awkwardness of adolescence.” – San Francisco Examiner Nov 11, 2021 Full Review Mephisto (1981) 76% 4/4 EDIT “It is an astonishing, discomfiting portrait of a type who places success above an else.” – San Francisco Examiner Nov 11, 2021 Full Review 2/4 EDIT “The avant-garde Japanese director, Shuji Terayama, who likes to marry Freud and Marx in a veil of surrealism, buries them both in this excessively solemn, exotic nonsense.” – San Francisco Examiner Nov 11, 2021 Full Review E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 99% 4/4 EDIT “It's a magically wonderful movie. Children and adults will love Steven Spielberg's film about a person from outer space, stranded on earth. It's humorous and marvelous all the way.” – San Francisco Examiner Nov 11, 2021 Full Review Diva (1981) 97% 4/4 EDIT “In his first feature-length film, director Jean-Jacques Beineix shows a fanciful, tongue-in-cheek talent for spoofing old mysteries, creating incongruously beautiful photographic images and mixing it all up with a touch of Zen. Delightfully original.” – San Francisco Examiner Nov 11, 2021 Full Review Das Boot (1981) 98% 3/4 EDIT “Director Wolfgang Petersen has rigorously discarded war movie clichés, both American and those of the Nazi regime, to show the very human fears and real courage of Germans who battled for, and lost, supremacy of the seas.” – San Francisco Examiner Nov 11, 2021 Full Review Author! Author! (1982) 50% 4/4 EDIT “A felicitously funny collaboration. New York to the core.” – San Francisco Examiner Nov 11, 2021 Full Review Annie (1982) 50% 2/4 EDIT “On stage, Annie had ebullience every step of the way. It's more like flatulence in this overblown, mechanical, big-bucks production with out any grace or charm in its musical numbers.” – San Francisco Examiner Nov 11, 2021 Full Review The Decalogue (1989) 100% EDIT “There is no question that Dekalog is the summit of Kieslowski's achievements.” – San Francisco Chronicle May 1, 2021 Full Review Caddyshack (1980) 73% 0/4 EDIT “Should have put the gopher to work on the script.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jul 28, 2020 Full Review Henry V (1945) 100% 4/4 EDIT “Henry V was Olivier's first Shakespearean film, and he directed it with brilliant imagination and elegance.” – San Francisco Chronicle Jan 1, 2000 Full Review
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