Word: schickel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story on TRON-and on the Disney studios that produced it- was written by TIME Contributor Richard Schickel. A film critic for 17 years, Schickel is also the author of 16 books, including an authoritative, independent study of Walt Disney and his organization, entitled The Disney Version...
...domineering dramatically and something of an exercise in abstract art. The weird lad down the block, the one who is always fooling around with his chemistry set, will love The Thing. The rest of the neighborhood is likely to find it more of a squeamer than a screamer. - Richard Schickel...
...world, suspenseful but, despite all the rocket fire, essentially innocent. Firefox the movie is, on balance, rather like Firefox the plane; it is at its best a clean, well-designed, fast-moving machine, at once practical, fanciful and capable of stunt flights that verge on the ecstatic . - By Richard Schickel...
...meanings here; no big laughs, for that matter, either. Instead, there is a mild, but admirably stubborn singularity. Gregory's Girl does not offer anything as thick as slice life, just slivers of it, cut thin as smoked Scotch salmon. And tasting just as sweet . - By Richard Schickel...
...take a decent pride. One leaves the film neither hugely thrilled nor greatly awed, but with a pleasant sense of having caught up with old friends and found them to be just fine, pretty much the way one hoped they would turn out in later life. -By Richard Schickel...