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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...
...Says Schickel: "The studio has a lot riding on TRON, and so does everybody-inside the movie business and out-who remembers the sense of the visionary possibilities of film you got from the great days of Disney, and wishes somebody would make pictures like those again...
...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...