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Buffalo Courier-Express is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Jay Boyar.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Days of Heaven (1978) Jay Boyar Days of Heaven has got to be the quietest spectacular ever filmed. With the confidence of a black-belt fighter, it doesn't flex its muscles or flaunt its power.
Posted Aug 30, 2022  Edit critic review
The Deer Hunter (1978) Jay Boyar The actors are so natural, so real, so privately panic-stricken in the face of death, that their performances ride rough-shod over the technical situation and bring to it an intensity and vitality.
Posted Aug 30, 2022  Edit critic review
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) Jay Boyar It's tasteful in the best sense, the sense that implies modesty. You can't manage great art with this kind of restraint, but you can make an awfully good movie. And Benton has.
Posted Aug 04, 2022  Edit critic review
The Secret of NIMH (1982) Jay Boyar The dear Mrs. Brisby is just about the perfect heroine for a children's movie... For missing her shot at a great starring role, Minnie Mouse must be eating her little heart out.
Posted Nov 09, 2021  Edit critic review
1/5
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) Jay Boyar It's mindless, but it's well-paced.
Posted Sep 22, 2020  Edit critic review
3/5
Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982) Jay Boyar Suppose that you're intrigued by the special three-dimensional effects but totally repulsed by the movie's mindless carnage. Then you've got yourself a problem.
Posted Sep 22, 2020  Edit critic review
3/5
Young Doctors in Love (1982) Jay Boyar With its air of foolishness and total superficiality, neither the medical profession nor anything else is really being lampooned. It's just a bunch of jokes.
Posted Sep 21, 2020  Edit critic review
2/5
Swamp Thing (1982) Jay Boyar All things considered, Swamp Thing should never have crawled out from under its rock.
Posted Sep 21, 2020  Edit critic review
3/5
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) Jay Boyar This isn't a very engaging idea. Neither outrageous enough to be funny nor apt enough to be clever, it's a rickety hook to hang a movie on.
Posted Sep 21, 2020  Edit critic review
2/5
The World According to Garp (1982) Jay Boyar There is no doubt that what Hill has accomplished is titillating. But some very powerful emotions are trashed in this movie, and some tender sensibilities are trampled on.
Posted Sep 21, 2020  Edit critic review
3/5
Messidor (1979) Jay Boyar This movie about alienation is, finally, too alienated from itself and from the world surrounding it to work as a movie.
Posted Sep 21, 2020  Edit critic review
5/5
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Jay Boyar Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a clever, exciting movie that grabs you right from the start by involving you in the conflicts and aspirations of its characters.
Posted Sep 09, 2020  Edit critic review
2/5
Tron (1982) Jay Boyar Although Tron, with all its jazzy computer-generated imagery, is intermittently fascinating to look at, it's a pretty poor excuse for a movie.
Posted Sep 04, 2020  Edit critic review
3/5
Blade Runner (1982) Jay Boyar Everything, from the punkish clothing to the compact gadgetry, comments wittily on the present while also establishing a coherent future.
Posted Sep 04, 2020  Edit critic review
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