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100Plays like an anthology of the best parts from all the Saturday matinee serials ever made.
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100Has all the right ingredients: a smart script, a likable hero, a dash of romance, more than a touch of comedy, and a lot of fast-paced action.
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90Ford's performance is an underrated but remarkable achievement; he succeeds in fully embodying a comic-book style hero without ever descending into camp.
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100Harrison Ford gave one of his most memorable performances as Indiana Jones, a dashing Saturday matinee idol for the modern age.
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100One of the most deliriously funny, ingenious and stylish American adventure movies ever made.
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100Spielberg has deftly veiled proceedings in a sense of mystical wonder that makes it all the more easy for viewers to suspend disbelief and settle back for the fun.
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90Finds the right balance between reverence and wit.
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30Travels fast and straight down a linear plot, and the ceaseless rush quickly becomes monotonous.
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100An adventure film that plays like an old-time 12-part serial that you see all at once, instead of Saturday-to-Saturday. It's a modern "Thief of Baghdad." It's the kind of movie that first got you excited about movies when you were a kid. (Translation for today's children: It's better than anything on TV.) [12 June 1981]
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100Steven Spielberg turns the pure adventure of Saturday afternoon serials into a solidly entertaining spectacle.
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100Spielberg can never top this. Period.
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