Jay Scott

"The film as a whole, beautifully drawn and gracefully set into balletic motion, teaches a few welcome lessons regarding ecology and racial tolerance."

"A slow-moving but otherwise efficient Canadian B-movie that gives the audience what it came for: blood and guts"

"'Over The Edge' is a good, dangerous film, and it's good in part because it is dangerous - it puts you in touch with these kids' frustrations, and it allows you to feel the relief an explosion brings."

"A patchwork quilt of clashing colors, but it's cozy and warm"

"This omnibus of four tales is cheerful, campy, garish, ghoulish and gross. That means it's a success on its own unambitious B-movie terms."

"Sad to say, poor old Nightbreed fails even as failure - it's bad, but it's not memorably bad"

"The movie is less a sequel to the original, in fact, than it is a remake - a more energetic, more absurd and possibly more entertaining remake"

"A tough, effective, socially conscious melodrama in the old Warner Brothers tradition"

"Even when their material is not much more substantial than a punchline overheard in a playground, Cheech and Chong, in their routines together, make being funny look as effortless as Ella Fitzgerald makes singing sound"

"An uproarious and entirely successful attempt to examine the differences between the sexes by couching the examination in mythological terms. "

"Once you overlook the laborious contrivance of Jerry's background, Down and Out in Beverly Hills is a sharp, sweet comedy of affluent manners."

"'The Return of the Living Dead', a parody of George A. Romero's unforgettably frightening Night of the Living Dead, is not for everybody, but it's one of the funniest films of its kind ever made. "

"'The Black Hole' isn't mediocre or even bad - it's dreadful...[It] looks, sounds and feels like a careless, cynically manufactured B-movie. Uncle Walt must be spinning in his cryogenic vault"

"One of the best, funniest, most surprising and likeable American films of the year."

"'Stand and Deliver' honors its title; it's a good news movie in a bad news world. "

"What 'Death Hunt' is a piece of is neither entertaining nor educational"

"Despite some fine performances, what should be a crystalline epic is a sloppy and sentimental tale of family life. Sterling performances in a leaden script."

"At two hours and 43 minutes, Eastwood's Bird is a hypnotic, darkly photographed, loosely constructed marvel that avoids every cliche of the self-destructive-celebrity biography"

"One of the most interesting, one of the most rewarding and one of the funniest films of the year."

"t's too dumb for adults and too sophisticated for kids."