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After nearly three decades, George Lucas has finished his culture-changing saga of a fallen father and the son who redeems him. The director seems as surprised as anyone at what he has done. He sat down with TIME's Richard Schickel, who has known him since shortly after the original Star Wars came out in 1977, to talk about how he works, his fear of failure and the sort of movies he really wants to make...
...Proft and Peter Torokvei, is a smart, no-nonsense movie that may actually teach its prime audience a valuable lesson: the best retort to an intolerable situation is not necessarily a food fight. Better results, and more fun, come from rubbing a few brains briskly together. --By Richard Schickel YEAR OF THE DRAGON...
...work is subtly alive to all the complexities of his character and his situation, and his path is strewn with good supporting actors. One cannot help offering a chortling cheer to a movie that throws demographic caution to the wind in order to celebrate geezer power. --By Richard Schickel...
...dour mom (Mary Steenburgen) into the holiday spirit. The child is given a guardian angel and Santa Claus as helpers, but the script lacks a clear narrative line, the supporting cast is woefully weak, and Director Borsos' touch is too heavy for the light fantastic. --By Richard Schickel...
...moviemakers' earnestness and self-importance. Full of sudden startlements and twists, the film is delighted by its own originality, its own shrewdly controlled outrageousness. If Busby Berkeley had ever made a movie about politics and illusion, it might have come out something like this infectious, sobering film. --By Richard Schickel DIM SUM: A LITTLE BIT OF HEART...