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...Batman. His effort is not dishonorable, but what it needs, and doesn't have, is a Joker in the deck-some antic human antimatter to give it the giddy lift of perversity that a bunch of impersonal explosions, no matter how well managed, can't supply. -By Richard Schickel...
...recall not songs or clothes but values we have largely mislaid. Look on the faces of the elder Braddocks when they realize they don't have enough fried bologna to feed their kids, and you'll understand true despair-and the bravery it takes to overcome it. -By Richard Schickel...
...Iron Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to be experiencing a few problems as California's Governor [May 2]. It might cheer him to read an excerpt from Richard Schickel's Jan. 24, 1977, review of Pumping Iron, the documentary that helped make Schwarzenegger a household name...
...very first issue of TIME, in March 1923, had film reviews. It called Charlie Chaplin "gorgeously funny." Much has changed about the movies since then, but great films have always got the magazine's attention. Here, from film critics Richard Schickel and Richard Corliss, is the best film of each decade since TIME began...
...saying. What we can say is that if you can stomach its bursts of violence (and some unpersuasive tosh about the drug world being the dominant culture of our day), Layer Cake is a treat--especially if your taste in desserts is devil's food. --By Richard Schickel...