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www.cinema-scene.com - : François Truffaut once wrote, ''A perfectly ordinary movie with energy can turn out to be better cinema that a film with 'intelligent' intentions listlessly executed.'' That statement seems especially true with the early blockbuster work of Steven Spielberg, who even gave Truffaut a small role in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. With the likes of Jaws, Close Encounters, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spielberg has proven that making reviving a sanguine story with a highly talented storytelling style can create magic. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is an out-of-body experience, a movie of glorious imagination and breakneck speed that grabs you in the first shot, hurtles you through a series of incredible adventures, and deposits you back in reality two hours later -- breathless, dizzy, wrung-out, and with a silly grin on your face. This movie celebrates the stories we spent our adolescence searching for in the pulp adventure magazines, in the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, in comics -- even in the movies. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is a wonderful movie. The good news for exhibitors is that it's also one of those rollercoaster-like movies that people will be lining up for again and again. And because word of mouth should be the best since ''Star Wars'' and ''Rocky,'' and since critics and the general media have been giving the adventure more attention than a publicist ever could hope for, splashy advertising shouldn't be too necessary. more...
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