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Even the oldest movies were new once. With the RT Archives, we're digging through newspapers and magazines from the past to find out what the critics said about classic movies -- before they were classics. What did the critics say about your favorites when they were brand new? Take a deep dive into the RT Archives and find out.

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  • Pauline Kael

    Pauline Kael

    Pauline Kael was a prolific film critic at The New Yorker from 1967-1991, whose legacy lives on for her sharp wit, pioneering spirit, and prickly sensibility.

  • Dan DiNicola

    Dan DiNicola

    Dan DiNicola was an Emmy Award winning journalist whose versatility as a reporter, former school teacher, and most notably a film critic garnered him respect, acclaim, and notoriety as a daring voice for the arts.

  • Curve

    Curve

    Curve was a lesbian magazine created by Franco Stevens in 1991 and originally called Deneuve. Its first issue sold out in just six days, evidence of the need for and lack of lesbian media in the ’90s. Curve covered everything in pop culture and lesbian life, from politics and civil rights to music, books, movies, television, and style.

  • Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald)

    Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald)

    Originally published as the Exhibitors Herald for Chicago-based exhibitors, this trade ran from 1915 to 1973. By 1930, many acquisitions and mergers expanded the publication nationally – it was renamed as the Motion Picture Herald, with the entire American film industry as its audience. Founder Martin Quigley served as a voice of reason and wariness within the film industry throughout his years at the helm of this mighty influential paper.

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Recently Added Archive Reviews

  • High and Low

    High and Low (1963)

    From the opening frame (literally) to the last, Kurosawa never makes the smallest misstep nor permits it in anyone else. Every camera angle, every composition, every cut, every performance, is -- as far as I can see -- brilliantly right.

    Stanley Kauffman, The New Republic (November 23, 1963)

  • Toy Story

    Toy Story (1995)

    More fun than Christmas mornings and birthday presents and winning a prize and making a friend, more fun than parking for free and falling in love and flying to Paris, more fun than anything you can think of is Toy Story.

    Judy Gerstel, Toronto Star (November 24, 1995)

  • Darkman

    Darkman (1990)

    Darkman" is big, stupid and wonderful -- an absurd, grand-scale adventure and a vicious comedy rolled into one nasty, unpleasant, hard-to-resist mess.

    Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle (August 24, 1990)

  • Requiem for a Dream

    Requiem for a Dream (2000)

    Aronofsky uses just about every cinematic trick possible to portray the horrors of addiction...The result is an unrelentingly dark vision that's as hard to watch as it is impossible to walk away from.

    Chris Kaltenbach, Baltimore Sun (November 10, 2000)