Back to the Future

Movie • 1985

8.5

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    Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.

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Roger Ebert

"Back to the Future" is even more hopeful: It argues that you can travel back in time to the years when your parents were teenagers and straighten them out right at the moment when they need help the most.

rogerebert.com/reviews/back-to-the-future-1985

The Hollywood Reporter

The movie isn’t just fun. It’s fun at the speed of light, a whiz-bang time-travel adventure likely to result in some decidedly high-octane box-office dollars.

hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/back-future-review-1985-movie-801103/#!

Los Angeles Times

"It’s big, cartoonish and empty, with an interesting premise that is underdeveloped and overproduced."

latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-archive-back-to-future-review-19850703-story.html

TIME

But Back to the Future goes further: this white ’80s teenager must teach black ’50s musicians the finer points of rock ‘n’ roll.

time.com/3928368/review-1985-back-to-the-future/

BBC

It's undeniably formulaic but so outstandingly executed that it vindicates the formula.

bbc.co.uk/films/2000/10/05/back_to_the_future_1985_review.shtml

IMDb

'Back To The Future' is one of the most enjoyable time-travelling classics. It's over 23 years old and it still hasn't gotten old.

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widescreenings.com

'Back to the Future' reminds us of one of filmdom’s greatest messages: We’re all meant for our time. But it espouses at least two other themes. Both cannot be correct.

widescreenings.com/back-future-analysis-review.html

uproxx.com

Critics called it “terrific,” “witty,” “giddy,” “imaginative,” “clever,” “wildly pleasurable.”

uproxx.com/hitfix/back-to-the-future-what-the-critics-said-in-1985/

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