Production Company(ies)
Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Bill, Phillips
 
Distributor
Columbia Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Old Town Hall, Staines, Surrey, England, UK
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1983
 

 
Genre(s)
Biography
 
Keyword(s)
starring Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, directed by Richard Attenborough, written by John Briley, biography, nonviolent resistance, British rule, India, Lord Irwin, Viceroy, Judge Broomfield, Margaret Bourke-White, Gen Dyer, Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy, PG, Columbia Pictures, Dolby, Stereo, Surround, 35mm, Scope (2.35:1), box office performance, budget, reviewed by Andrew Robinson, Michael Blowen, Gary Arnold, Kathleen Carroll, Richard Schickel, Variety Staff, Mark Jackson, Mike Massie, Molly Haskell, Lawrence O’Toole, Susan Shapiro, Rick Chatenever, MPAA rating, produced by Richard Attenborough
 

Cast & Crew

Ben Kingsley

Candice Bergen

Edward Fox

John Gielgud

Trevor Howard

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Margaret Bourke-White

Gen. Dyer

Lord Irwin

Viceroy

Ben Kingsley – Mohandas K. Gandhi
Candice Bergen – Margaret Bourke-White
Edward Fox – Gen. Dyer
John Gielgud – Lord Irwin, Viceroy
Trevor Howard – Judge Broomfield
John Mills – Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy

 

Richard Attenborough

John Briley

NA

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Richard Attenborough
 
Writer(s)
John Briley
 
Producer(s)
NA

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 8 Oscars
35 wins & 21 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Best Achievement in Art Direction Winners, Oscar Best Achievement in Cinematography Winners, Oscar Best Achievement in Costume Design Winners, Oscar Best Achievement in Directing Winners, Oscar Best Achievement in Editing Winners, Oscar Best Picture Winners, Oscar Best Writing Winners, Oscar Nominees, Oscar Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Winners, Oscar Winners
 

Top Reviews

Andrew Robinson

Michael Blowen

Gary Arnold

Kathleen Carroll

Richard Schickel

Sight & Sound

Boston Globe

Washington Post

New York Daily News

TIME Magazine

GANDHI
  All Critics (62) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (53) | Rotten (9)
  The film is triumphantly not a deification, but it is necessarily a simplification, and suffers from some of those disadvantages… But the embattled spirit of respect for human dignity and the need for mutual tolerance flow clearly through the film.
 
  March 16, 2020
 
  Andrew Robinson
  Sight & Sound
  TOP CRITIC
  Although Gandhi may lack the depth of a more academic approach, it is an old-fashioned, inspirational ode to a man who dared to challenge military power with self-restraint and political cunning.
 
  April 26, 2018
 
  Michael Blowen
  Boston Globe
  TOP CRITIC
  Grievously doting and squeamishly evasive.
 
  May 6, 2017
 
  Gary Arnold
  Washington Post
  TOP CRITIC
  They simply do not build movies like this any more, which is a pity.
 
  February 17, 2015
 
  Kathleen Carroll
  New York Daily News
  TOP CRITIC
  In playing Gandhi, an actor must be less concerned with physical verisimilitude than with spiritual presence, and here Kingsley is nothing short of astonishing.
 
  February 24, 2010
 
  Richard Schickel
  TIME Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  Once in a long while a motion picture so eloquently expressive and technically exquisite comes along that one is tempted to hail it as being near perfect.
 
  January 29, 2008
 
  Variety Staff
  Variety
  TOP CRITIC
  “Gandhi” underlines the importance of nonviolent demonstration, especially in 2020 when America has been infiltrated by communist influences turning America’s masses into “useful idiots” by encouraging terrorism as the means to express desire for change.
 
  November 10, 2020 | Rating: 4.5
 
  Mark Jackson
  Epoch Times
  Kingsley’s performance is central to the film’s triumph – perhaps surpassing the rest of the technical and artistic values.
 
  September 6, 2020 | Rating: 7/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  This is a film that provokes healthy doubt even as it pays stirring obeisance to sainthood.
 
  February 27, 2020
 
  Molly Haskell
  Vogue
  As a whole, Gandhi is never less than intelligent in dealing with the events and facts with which it chooses to deal, and there is never a boring moment.
 
  February 6, 2020
 
  Lawrence O’Toole
  Maclean’s Magazine
  Although he may look like the real thing, Ben Kingsley begins to sound like a computer reading fortune cookies.
 
  August 20, 2019
 
  Susan Shapiro
  Sojourner
  Few people will leave the theater unaffected, or unchanged.
 
  February 5, 2019
 
  Rick Chatenever
  Santa Cruz Sentinel…

 

Plot
In 1893, Mohandas K. Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian and traveling in a first class compartment. Gandhi realizes that the laws are biased against Indians and decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all Indians in South Africa. After numerous arrests and the unwanted attention of the world, the government finally relents by recognizing rights for Indians, though not for the native blacks of South Africa. After this victory, Gandhi is invited back to India, where he is now considered something of a national hero. He is urged to take up the fight for India’s independence from the British Empire. Gandhi agrees, and mounts a non-violent non-cooperation campaign of unprecedented scale, coordinating millions of Indians nationwide. There are some setbacks, such as violence against the protesters and Gandhi’s occasional imprisonment. Nevertheless, the campaign generates great attention, and Britain faces intense public pressure. Too weak from World War II to continue enforcing its will in India, Britain finally grants India’s independence. Indians celebrate this victory, but their troubles are far from over. Religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims erupt into nation-wide violence. Gandhi declares a hunger strike, saying he will not eat until the fighting stops. The fighting does stop eventually, but the country is divided. It is decided that the northwest area of India, and eastern part of India (current day Bangladesh), both places where Muslims are in the majority, will become a new country called Pakistan (West and East Pakistan respectively). It is hoped that by encouraging the Muslims to live in a separate country, violence will abate. Gandhi is opposed to the idea, and is even willing to allow Muhammad Ali Jinnah to become the first prime minister of India, but the Partition of India is carried out nevertheless. Gandhi spends his last days trying to bring about peace between both nations. He thereby angers many dissidents on both sides, one of whom finally gets close enough to assassinate him.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Ben Kingsley’s performance as Mohandas K. Gandhi is “nothing short of astonishing,” according to critic Richard Schickel.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
2.4.7. Films, France 3 Cinéma The Kennedy Marshall Company,
 
Distributor
NA
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
Los Angeles, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Not Rated
 
Year of Release
1983
 

 
Genre(s)
Documentary
 
Keyword(s)
documentary, punk culture, Los Angeles, music, X, Black Flag, Fear, Germs, Catholic Discipline, Alice Bag Band, Penelope Spheeris, directed by Penelope Spheeris, produced by Penelope Spheeris, written by Penelope Spheeris, reviewed by Nathan Rabin, reviewed by Michael Anthony, reviewed by Scott Cain, reviewed by Eleanor Ringel Cater, reviewed by Lynn Van Matre, reviewed by Joe Pollack, reviewed by Rick Chatenever, reviewed by Robert W Butler, reviewed by Cameron Cohick, reviewed by Terry Orme, reviewed by Stephen Hunter, reviewed by George Williams, genre, box office performance, budget, MPAA rating, Alice Bag, Claude Bessey, Don Bolles, Exene Cervenka, Philo Cramer, Darby Crash
 

Cast & Crew

Alice Bag

Claude Bessey

Don Bolles

Exene Cervenka

Philo Cramer

Alice Bag

Claude Bessey

Don Bolles

Exene Cervenka

Philo Cramer

Alice Bag – self
Claude Bessey – self
Don Bolles – self
Exene Cervenka – self
Philo Cramer – self
Darby Crash – self

 

Penelope Spheeris

Penelope Spheeris

Penelope Spheeris

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Penelope Spheeris
 
Writer(s)
Penelope Spheeris
 
Producer(s)
Penelope Spheeris

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
1 win
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Nathan Rabin

Michael Anthony

Scott Cain

Eleanor Ringel Cater

Lynn Van Matre

Globe and Mail

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Chicago Tribune

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
 All Critics (40) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (40)
 The film’s style is as brutal, stripped-down and purposefully devoid of frills as the music of its subjects.
 
 May 8, 2021
 
 Nathan Rabin
 Globe and Mail
 TOP CRITIC
 Spheeris’s film does have Its funny moments.
 
 March 23, 2021
 
 Michael Anthony
 Minneapolis Star Tribune
 TOP CRITIC
 The musicians and their fans are both amusing and pathetic.
 
 March 23, 2021 | Rating: 3/5
 
 Scott Cain
 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
 TOP CRITIC
 Penelope Spheeris’ aptly and ironically titled documentary… is a disturbing, often hilarious, strangely exhilarating look at the punk rock scene in Los Angeles as it was during the first six months of 1980.
 
 March 23, 2021
 
 Eleanor Ringel Cater
 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
 TOP CRITIC
 Producer and director Penelope Spheeris… lets the bands and fans speak for themselves; and it is their message, rather than the music, that makes “Decline” so fascinating.
 
 March 23, 2021
 
 Lynn Van Matre
 Chicago Tribune
 TOP CRITIC
 I enjoyed the movie, but then, was luckier than most I got to see it with the volume turned way down.
 
 March 23, 2021
 
 Joe Pollack
 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
 TOP CRITIC
 Spheeris’ treatment goes out of its way to present a broad look at the subject that avoids easy generalizations in either direction.
 
 May 8, 2021
 
 Rick Chatenever
 Santa Cruz Sentinel
 Miss Spheeris has captured some harrowing and hilarious images with her camera and she shows a natural film maker’s instinct for editing, particularly in the way she crosscuts interview footage for humorous effect.
 
 March 24, 2021 | Rating: 3/4
 
 Robert W. Butler
 Kansas City Star
 What emerges is remarkable – not only a gripping documentary, but one of the funniest movies of the year.
 
 March 24, 2021
 
 Cameron Cohick
 South Florida Sun-Sentinel
 The Decline of Western Civilization is a crisply-edited, well-crafted documentary film which explores something which is often a topic of conversation, and also, that few people know much about.
 
 March 24, 2021
 
 Terry Orme
 Salt Lake Tribune
 [Penelope Spheeris] never preaches (the film has no narration; no pious experts are consulted; it’s pure testimony) and her message is the louder for it.
 
 March 23, 2021
 
 Stephen Hunter
 Baltimore Sun
 A primer on punk rock… Marvelous.
 
 March 23, 2021
 
 George Williams
 Sacramento Bee…

 

Plot
The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
The cast includes members of punk bands such as X, Black Flag, Fear, Germs, and Catholic Discipline.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Warner Bros.,
 
Distributor
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists
 
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Limited)
 
Filming Location(s)
Los Angeles, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
G
 
Year of Release
1982
 

 
Genre(s)
Fantasy
 
Keyword(s)
starring Elizabeth Hartman, Derek Jacobi, Dom DeLuise, Shannen Doherty, Edie McClurg, John Carradine, directed by Don Bluth, written by Don Bluth, Will Finn, Gary Goldman, John Pomeroy, produced by Gary Goldman, Don Bluth, fantasy, G rating, American animation, classical style, mature story, rapturous presentation, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Rita Kempley, Susie Eisenhuth, Neil Jillett, Derek Malcolm, Joe Pollack, Desmond Ryan, Jack Zink, Bruce R Miller, Peter Stack, John Stark, Terry Orme, George Williams
 

Cast & Crew

Elizabeth Hartman

Derek Jacobi

Dom DeLuise

Shannen Doherty

Edie McClurg

Mrs. Brisby

Nicodemus

Jeremy

Teresa

Miss Right

Elizabeth Hartman – Mrs. Brisby – Voice
Derek Jacobi – Nicodemus – Voice
Dom DeLuise – Jeremy – Voice
Shannen Doherty – Teresa – Voice
Edie McClurg – Miss Right – Voice
John Carradine – Great Owl – Voice

 

Don Bluth

Don Bluth

Gary Goldman

Don Bluth

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Don Bluth
 
Writer(s)
Don Bluth, Will Finn, Gary Goldman, John Pomeroy
 
Producer(s)
Gary Goldman, Don Bluth

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
1 win & 2 nominations
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Rita Kempley

Susie Eisenhuth

Neil Jillett

Derek Malcolm

Joe Pollack

Washington Post

Sydney Morning Herald

The Age (Australia)

Guardian

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

THE SECRET OF NIMH
  All Critics (67) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (5)
  Sadly, The Secret of NIMH is beautiful but unbalanced: The animators gambled when they should have gamboled.
 
  November 11, 2021
 
  Rita Kempley
  Washington Post
  TOP CRITIC
  Parents wistful for the world of mystery and magic fondly remembered from the best of the Disney cartoon features should hasten along to this rather endearing fantasy.
 
  November 11, 2021 | Rating: 3/4
 
  Susie Eisenhuth
  Sydney Morning Herald
  TOP CRITIC
  This American full-length animated cartoon lives up to its publicity as a return to the meticulous artwork and storybook charm of the golden days of Disney.
 
  November 11, 2021
 
  Neil Jillett
  The Age (Australia)
  TOP CRITIC
  It is a highly competent piece of work, well organized, sometimes imaginative and beautifully detailed.
 
  November 11, 2021
 
  Derek Malcolm
  Guardian
  TOP CRITIC
  The animation is excellent, but I wonder about the overall tone of the film. It ends happily, but along the way there is so much reference to illness, tragedy, grief, pain and other depressing subjects that it bothered me.
 
  November 11, 2021
 
  Joe Pollack
  St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  TOP CRITIC
  A sumptuous celebration of the animator’s art… If it were not for E.T., this would easily be the best children’s film released this year.
 
  November 11, 2021 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Desmond Ryan
  Philadelphia Inquirer
  TOP CRITIC
  The Secret of NIMH does not dazzle so much as glow. It is a reverent, literate family tale that is a tribute to the art of storytelling as well as the process of animation.
 
  November 11, 2021
 
  Jack Zink
  South Florida Sun-Sentinel
  Combining the best of the past with technical advances of the present, NIMH vividly recalls the days when animation was considered an art form.
 
  November 11, 2021
 
  Bruce R. Miller
  Sioux City Journal
  The film carries us to a wonderful, sometimes scary, underworld of colorful animal characters. Grating cynics need not apply.
 
  November 11, 2021 | Rating: 3/4
 
  Peter Stack
  San Francisco Examiner
  If you’ve given up on good old-fashioned animated movies, the kind Disney used to do so well, cheer up. The Secret of NIMH is quite wonderful, alive with dramatic conflicts, colorful characters, pretty music and sophisticated animation.
 
  November 11, 2021 | Rating: 3/4
 
  John Stark
  San Francisco Examiner
  Every scene in The Secret of NIMH is a moving masterpiece.
 
  November 11, 2021
 
  Terry Orme
  Salt Lake Tribune
  Walt Disney would certainly be proud of The Secret of NIMH.
 
  November 11, 2021
 
  George Williams
  Sacramento Bee…

 

Plot
Mrs. Brisby, a widowed mouse, lives in a cinder block with her children on the Fitzgibbon farm. She is preparing to move her family out of the field they live in as plowing time approaches, however her son Timothy has fallen ill, and moving him could prove fatal. Mrs. Brisby visits The Great Owl, a wise creature who advises her to visit a mysterious group of rats who live beneath a rose bush on the farm. Upon visiting the rats, Brisby meets Nicodemus, the wise and mystical leader of the rats, and Justin, a friendly rat who immediately becomes attached to Mrs. Brisby. While there, she learns that her late husband, Mr. Jonathon Brisby, along with the rats, was a part of a series of experiments at a place known only as N.I.M.H. (revealed earlier in the story as the National Institute of Mental Health). The experiments performed on the mice and rats there boosted their intelligence, allowing them to read without being taught and to understand things such as complex mechanics and electricity. The rats and Mr. Brisby escaped from N.I.M.H. and came to live on the Fitzgibbon farm. The rats created a home for themselves under Mrs. Fitzgibbon’s rose bush, creating an elaborate habitation of beautiful chambers, elevators, and Christmas lights. However, the rats are unhappy in their dependence on the humans, who they are stealing electricity from, and have concocted a plan to leave the farm and live independently. Because of her husband’s prior relationship with the rats, they agree to help Mrs. Brisby move her home out of the path of the plow. However, the evil Jenner and his unwilling accomplice Sullivan, who wish to remain beneath the rose bush, yet plot to kill Nicodemus during the move.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
The Secret of NIMH features an all-star voice cast including Elizabeth Hartman, Derek Jacobi, Dom DeLuise, Shannen Doherty, Edie McClurg, and John Carradine.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, Bayerischer Rundfunk ARTE
 
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Sidi Bouhlel, Tozeur, Tunisia
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1981
 

 
Genre(s)
Adventure/Action
 
Keyword(s)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Adventure, Action, PG, Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone, directed by Steven Spielberg, written by George Lucas, Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz, produced by Robert Watts, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Kathleen Carroll, Patrick Gibbs, Richard Corliss, James Berardinelli, Eric Henderson, Todd McCarthy, Brian Eggert, Matt Brunson, Mike Massie, Joshua Starnes, Danielle Solzman, audience score, gem, kidnapped young boys, East Indian village, night club singer, 12-year old boy, vintage form, ingenious adventure spectacle, Hollywood’s finest filmmaking teams, dark, mean-spiritedness, racism, sexism, jingoism, serials, macabre tale, tonal miscues, clumsy love story, memorable parts
 

Cast & Crew

Harrison Ford

Kate Capshaw

Ke Huy Quan

Amrish Puri

Roshan Seth

Dr. Henry ‘Indiana’ Jones

Jr

Wilhelmina ‘Willie’ Scott

Short Round

Mola Ram

Harrison Ford – Dr. Henry ‘Indiana’ Jones, Jr.
Kate Capshaw – Wilhelmina ‘Willie’ Scott
Ke Huy Quan – Short Round
Amrish Puri – Mola Ram
Roshan Seth – Chattar Lal
Philip Stone – Captain Blumburtt

 

Steven Spielberg

George Lucas

Robert Watts

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Steven Spielberg
 
Writer(s)
George Lucas, Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz
 
Producer(s)
Robert Watts

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 4 Oscars
38 wins & 24 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Best Achievement in Visual Effects Winners, Oscar Nominees, Oscar Winners
 

Top Reviews

Kathleen Carroll

Patrick Gibbs

Richard Corliss

James Berardinelli

Eric Henderson

New York Daily News

Daily Telegraph (UK)

TIME Magazine

ReelViews

Slant Magazine

INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
  All Critics (69) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (58) | Rotten (11)
  Spielberg has come up with another rousing piece of entertainment.
 
  June 24, 2015
 
  Kathleen Carroll
  New York Daily News
  TOP CRITIC
  With the action nonstop there is no time for mere acting, much less for a coherent plot.
 
  December 26, 2013
 
  Patrick Gibbs
  Daily Telegraph (UK)
  TOP CRITIC
  Again you will savor the Indiana Jones schizophrenia: by day a bow-tied, bespectacled archaeologist; by night a resourceful swaggerer, whom Ford brings to life as a modern blend of Bogie and the Duke, with just a glint of misfit psychopathy in his eyes.
 
  January 13, 2010
 
  Richard Corliss
  TIME Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  It’s not the darker turn that makes The Temple of Doom uncomfortable at times; it’s its mean-spiritedness.
 
  June 10, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/4
 
  James Berardinelli
  ReelViews
  TOP CRITIC
  The reality is that this is the film that comes closest to reflecting the racism, sexism and jingoism that fuelled most of the serials that originally sparked Spielberg and George Lucas’s impressionable young imaginations.
 
  May 21, 2008 | Rating: 3/4
 
  Eric Henderson
  Slant Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  Pic comes on like a sledgehammer, and there’s even a taste of vulgarity and senseless excess not apparent in Raiders.
 
  May 5, 2008
 
  Todd McCarthy
  Variety
  TOP CRITIC
  The risks taken on Temple of Doom, though initially disparaged, delivered an incomparable escapist yarn nonetheless.
 
  March 21, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Brian Eggert
  Deep Focus Review
  Easily the most underrated film in the franchise, with its dark tone working perfectly in the context of its often macabre tale.
 
  June 19, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Matt Brunson
  Film Frenzy
  The film as a whole feels like an insignificant episode in Indy’s life, instead of an influential chapter in the evolution of the action genre.
 
  September 6, 2020 | Rating: 5/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  Speaks to a bravery to experiment which Temple of Doom embraced one last time.
 
  June 24, 2020 | Rating: 7/10
 
  Joshua Starnes
  VitalThrills.com
  Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom may have some impressive features but it’s nowhere near as classic as Raiders or the Last Crusade.
 
  May 25, 2020 | Rating: 3/5
 
  Danielle Solzman
  Solzy at the Movies
  Some tonal miscues and a clumsy love story can’t derail action this good, this breath-taking.
 
  September 18, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Christian Toto
  HollywoodInToto.com…

 

Plot
The year is 1936. An archeology professor named Indiana Jones is venturing in the jungles of South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap but miraculously escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The Ark of the Covenant, which can hold the key to human existence. Jones has to venture to vast places such as Nepal and Egypt to find this artifact. However, he will have to fight his enemy Rene Belloq and a band of Nazis in order to reach it.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
No goofy or funny or odd comments were found on Fresh Kernels about the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Mandeville Films, Walt Disney Pictures,
 
Distributor
IFC Films
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
La Cañada High School – 4463 Oak Grove Dr, La Cañada Flintridge, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
R
 
Year of Release
1981
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama
 
Keyword(s)
Graduation, Romanian, drama, Cristian Mungiu, Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Rares Andrici, Lia Bugnar, Malina Manovici, Vlad Ivanov, produced by Cristian Mungiu, written by Cristian Mungiu, morality, societal decay, corruption, dictatorship, scholarship, British university, R rating, box office gross, IFC Films, stereo sound, surround sound, critic reviews, David Stratton, Kate Taylor, Peter Howell, Ty Burr, Sara Michelle Fetters, Michael Sragow, Dustin Chang, Richard Propes, Cate Marquis, Nick Evan-Cook, Michael McNeely, Joel Mayward, audience reviews, naturalistic style, long takes, no score, Romanian society, exasperating incidents, honest man, methodical man
 

Cast & Crew

Adrian Titieni

Maria-Victoria Dragus

Rares Andrici

Lia Bugnar

Malina Manovici

Romeo

Eliza

Marius

Magda

Sandra

Adrian Titieni – Romeo
Maria-Victoria Dragus – Eliza
Rares Andrici – Marius
Lia Bugnar – Magda
Malina Manovici – Sandra
Vlad Ivanov – Chief Inspector

 

Cristian Mungiu

Cristian Mungiu

Cristian Mungiu

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Cristian Mungiu
 
Writer(s)
Cristian Mungiu
 
Producer(s)
Cristian Mungiu

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

David Stratton

Kate Taylor

Peter Howell

Ty Burr

Sara Michelle Fetters

The Australian

Globe and Mail

Toronto Star

Boston Globe

Film Comment Magazine

GRADUATION
  All Critics (139) | Top Critics (48) | Fresh (132) | Rotten (7)
  By shining a spotlight on the everyday corruption and dirty dealing, Mungiu enables us to understand just why his homeland is struggling to escape from the weight of the dictatorship that ruined it and betrayed its people for so many years.
 
  June 9, 2017 | Rating: 4/5
 
  David Stratton
  The Australian
  TOP CRITIC
  The cinematography, the dialogue and the performances, especially Adrian Titieni’s as an earnest and anxious Mr. Fix-It, are impressively naturalistic.
 
  June 2, 2017 | Rating: 3/4
 
  Kate Taylor
  Globe and Mail
  TOP CRITIC
  It’s … insistent that life is a series of complex decisions, with fate intruding, and the path’s never clear.
 
  June 1, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Peter Howell
  Toronto Star
  TOP CRITIC
  It feels like nothing’s happening until you realize everything is, right before your eyes.
 
  June 1, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Ty Burr
  Boston Globe
  TOP CRITIC
  [Graduation] is a masterfully composed effort that is instantly fascinating, moving towards its emotionally hushed conclusion with breathless, if still unhurried, intensity.
 
  May 12, 2017 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Sara Michelle Fetters
  MovieFreak.com
  TOP CRITIC
  Mastering a movie equivalent of a detached first-person point of view, Mungiu unearths hidden depths in the supporting characters while creating a three-dimensional portrait of Romeo as a man who no longer lives in quiet desperation.
 
  May 5, 2017
 
  Michael Sragow
  Film Comment Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  Bacalaureat draws Romeo’s dilemma as a father, as a man, as a Romanian really well. It’s an amazingly scripted film that contains all the nuances of the sticky human existence.
 
  February 14, 2021
 
  Dustin Chang
  Floating World
  A remarkable film.
 
  September 9, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4.0
 
  Richard Propes
  TheIndependentCritic.com
  For those with the patience, GRADUATION does have something to say.
 
  May 1, 2019
 
  Cate Marquis
  We Are Movie Geeks
  An intelligent, elegant, morally ambiguous, and quite frankly brilliant tale of corruption and questioning whether it can ever be justified.
 
  March 5, 2019 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Nick Evan-Cook
  One Room With A View
  The times in which emotion breaks through (as it certainly did in 4 months) are the times you should be sure you are paying attention.
 
  February 21, 2019
 
  Michael McNeely
  The Hindu Business Line
  Graduation resists easy resolutions or satisfying conclusions. It’s a cinematic moral conundrum, raising numerous questions and answering very few of them.
 
  November 13, 2018 | Rating: 4.5/5
 
  Joel Mayward
  Cinemayward…

 

Plot
After a high school track runner, named Laura, suddenly dies from a heart attack after finishing a 30-second 200-meter race, a killer wearing a sweat suit and a fencing mask begins killing off her friends on the school track team one by one. The suspects include the track coach Michaels, Laura’s sister Anne who arrives in town for the funeral, the creepy school principal Mr. Guglione, and Laura’s strange boyfriend Kevin.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
NA
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique Films,
 
Distributor
Walt Disney
 
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Wide)
 
Filming Location(s)
Hardangerjøkulen Glacier, Finse, Norway
 
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG for sci-fi action violence
 
Year of Release
1980
 

 
Genre(s)
Adventure/Action
 
Keyword(s)
starring Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, directed by J.J Abrams, written by Lawrence Kasdan, J.J Abrams, Michael Arndt, Adventure, Action, Fantasy, PG-13, Kathleen Kennedy, J.J Abrams, Bryan Burk, box office gross $123 million, reviewed by Melissa R
 

Cast & Crew

Harrison Ford

Mark Hamill

Carrie Fisher

Adam Driver

Daisy Ridley

Han Solo

Luke Skywalker

Leia

Kylo Ren

Rey

Harrison Ford – Han Solo
Mark Hamill – Luke Skywalker
Carrie Fisher – Leia
Adam Driver – Kylo Ren
Daisy Ridley – Rey
John Boyega – Finn

 

J.J. Abrams

Lawrence Kasdan

Kathleen Kennedy

J.J. Abrams

Bryan Burk

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
J.J. Abrams
 
Writer(s)
Lawrence Kasdan, J.J. Abrams, Michael Arndt
 
Producer(s)
Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 1 Oscar
25 wins & 20 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
 

Top Reviews

Melissa Ruggieri

Sara Michelle Fetters

Max Weiss

Jason Bailey

Richard Brody

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

MovieFreak.com

Baltimore Magazine

Flavorwire

New Yorker

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
  All Critics (448) | Top Critics (87) | Fresh (415) | Rotten (33)
  It’s both nostalgic and fresh, a tender homage to, especially, the initial Star Wars (“Episode IV: A New Hope”), as well as a bridge to help those of us stuck in the splendor of Hoth edge into the future.
 
  August 7, 2018
 
  Melissa Ruggieri
  Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  TOP CRITIC
  Star Wars: The Force Awakens gives new life to a franchise of hope, resilience, courage and family that’s been missing from theatres for far too long.
 
  August 16, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Sara Michelle Fetters
  MovieFreak.com
  TOP CRITIC
  Star Wars: The Force Awakens honors the series and takes it in exciting new directions. Both The Millennium Falcon and millennials, it would seem, are in good hands.
 
  June 10, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Max Weiss
  Baltimore Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  ‘The Force Awakens’ does what the original films did well – and is also its own, thrilling thing.
 
  April 27, 2016
 
  Jason Bailey
  Flavorwire
  TOP CRITIC
  Despite the copious servings of tragic threats and good feelings, the production sinks under the weight of its emotional calculation.
 
  January 4, 2016
 
  Richard Brody
  New Yorker
  TOP CRITIC
  It all comes together nicely as the actors breathe vulnerability, fallibility and personality into their roles, with Daisy Ridley being quite the commanding presence. My favourite, hands down, is the cute and rotund droid BB-8.
 
  January 1, 2016
 
  Udita Jhunjhunwala
  Scroll.in
  TOP CRITIC
  Everything feels familiar but new to a most satisfying degree.
 
  April 23, 2022 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Brian Eggert
  Deep Focus Review
  I cried, I laughed, and as the film concluded I couldnt help but smile knowing that J.J. had done what many were terrified he couldnt do, he brought Star Wars back to life.
 
  February 18, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
 
  David Gonzalez
  Reel Talk Inc.
  The Force Awakens loves the original trilogy so much its sometimes a little afraid to leave its side, but for what it needed, and continues, to accomplish, it’s a hard movie to really poke holes in, even if they’re evidently there.
 
  February 11, 2022
 
  Cory Woodroof
  615 Film
  Episode VII will serve as an excellent letter of introduction so that the new generations who have not watched Star Wars are interested in the saga and approach the previous episodes with a new vision [Full review in Spanish]
 
  January 2, 2022 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Luis Bond
  Globovision
  With all the heart and soul of the series we love, it’s undoubtedly set to be a favorite for the years to come.
 
  October 9, 2021 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Therese Lacson
  Nerdophiles
  Whatever the story, rest assured Abrams will ensure that the force is as strong as ever before.
 
  September 29, 2021
 
  Nikki Baughan
  AWFJ Women on Film…

 

Plot
Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and Chewbacca face attack by the Imperial forces and its AT-AT walkers on the ice planet Hoth. While Han and Leia escape in the Millennium Falcon, Luke travels to Dagobah in search of Yoda. Only with the Jedi Master’s help will Luke survive when the Dark Side of the Force beckons him into the ultimate duel with Darth Vader.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
The Fresh Kernels critic consensus for Star Wars: The Force Awakens says that it successfully recalls the series’ former glory while injecting it with renewed energy, and is packed with action and populated by both familiar faces and fresh blood.
 

 
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