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Movie Overview
Cast
• Roddy Piper
• Keith David
• Meg Foster
Director
• John Carpenter
MPAA Rating
R
They Live (1988)

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OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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4.5/5
"Piper is easily the star of the show, making They Live Carpenter's best film -- I don't care what you say."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

3/4
"Probably one of the most subversive films to have come out of Hollywood in decades, They Live is a welcome return to form by legendary cult film director John Carpenter."  Sci-Fi Movie Page  James O'Ehley

3.5/5
"An engaging and compelling minor sci-fi flick."  Netflix  James Rocchi

6/8
"In spite of the fact that there was only about thirty minutes worth of story here, it is a good story."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Mark R. Leeper

3/4
"All the powerful, rich people are from another planet, while the working-class and the sycophantic are humans. Guess it was the only way Carpenter could make sense of the greed of the ’80s."  Movie Habit  Marty Mapes

"I suppose if a "dumb" movie can prompt so much thought, even to disagree with its premise, then it's time well spent watching "bad" movies."  Cold Fusion Video Reviews  Nathan Shumate

"The loopiest, and coolest, entry in the director’s canon."  Lessons of Darkness  Nick Schager

"The film’s portrayal of capitalism is so wittingly sharp that I applaud the film. Securing my praise is the film’s brilliant ending: it is a brief and harrowingly comedic few minutes."  Not Coming to a Theater Near You  Rumsey Taylor

"Posits aliens not as intergalactic warlords or rapacious monsters, but as the ultimate force in asset stripping and insider trading"  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Shane Burridge

3.5/4
"great cult flick"  sbs.is  Stefan Birgir Stefansson
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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