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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

1984

Steven Spielberg

Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri ...

7.4

112,600

Adventure. Action Set in 1935, a professor, archaeologist, and legendary hero by the name of Indiana Jones is back in action in his newest adventure. But this time he teams up with a night club singer named Wilhelmina "Willie" Scott and a twelve-year-old boy named Short Round. They end up in an Indian small distressed village, where the people believe that evil spirits have taken all their children away after a sacred precious stone was stolen! They also ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Spielberg is such a talented director it’s a shame to see him lose all sense of subtlety and nuance (...) [It] come as a letdown after 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'."	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"One of the most relentlessly nonstop action pictures ever made (...) It's a roller-coaster ride, a visual extravaganza, a technical triumph, and a whole lot of fun (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"It's an unfortunate measure of how the film works that this opening sequence is the best, funniest, most efficient one in the movie."	NEU
United States	Eric Henderson Slant	"'Temple of Doom' doesn’t so much pay tribute to the serial adventures of yore as it does embody them (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"'Temple' is for barbarians, a brutal disappointment for easy Indy's fans (...) It's fun at both ends. But it's also mean-spirited and corrupt at its core."	NEU
United States	Kathleen Carroll New York Daily News	"All in all, Spielberg has come up with another rousing piece of entertainment."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"The film holds up better than the lighter 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' (...) The movie doesn't fall just a little short - it falls considerably short (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Richard Corliss Time	"The new film is more an embellishment than an improvement on the snazzy 'Raiders'."	NEU
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"The sustained furore of humour, visual panache and headlong momentum makes for dazzling cinema. All of which makes it possibly Spielberg's most underrated film."	POS
United Kingdom	Patrick Gibbs Telegraph	"With the action nonstop there is no time for mere acting, much less for a coherent plot."	NEG

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