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This concluding chapter in what has turned out to be the most delightful and conscientiously made series since Star Wars finds our intrepid explorers back in the Old West of 1885. Marty is trying to bend history around an inconvenient shooting in which it is preordained that Doc will die...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All Smiles | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

Glenn Kiser is also delightful as the aggrieved Prince of Denmark. In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Stoppard imparts a bit more method into Hamlet's madness than can be found in Shakespeare's text, and Kiser adds a devilish glitter to the part.

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Live On in Leverett House | 4/27/1990 | See Source »

All is not fun and games in The Frog Prince. Not every character lives happily ever after. Frequent allusions are made to a totalitarian government which closes the borders of the kingdom at night, and justice and execution there are arbitrary. But The Frog Prince never loses its delicate balance...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Telling Fairy Tales | 4/13/1990 | See Source »

I wobble mentally when thinking about this dispute. The idea of sociology without ideas, of a specialty without substance, has an amusing side to it. The presumption that exegesis is somehow soft in comparison to the rigorous and ruthless practice of the inhabitatants of William James is delightful. But it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Middle of the Squabble | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

Secretly watching these censorious rites, though not entirely comprehending them, is a little boy named Toto (played by a delightful discovery, Salvatore Cascio). For him, any moving image is the nearest available occasion for bliss. An indifferent altar boy to the priest, he is a passionate acolyte to the projectionist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Priest of the Movie Faith | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

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