Home
About OFCS
Member Profiles
Schedule
Forum
Awards
OFCS Blog
O.F.C.S. Members:
Sign In
O.F.C.S. Members
Movie Overview
Cast
Roddy Piper
Keith David
Meg Foster
Director
John Carpenter
MPAA Rating
R
They Live (1988)
REVIEWS
NEWS
INTERVIEWS
OTHER
(1 - 10) of 10
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
Page
1
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
(1 - 10) of 10
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
Page
1
Reviews database provided by
Rotten Tomatoes
and the
Movie Review Query Engine
All articles and reviews on this website © the respective authors.
All other content © The Online Film Critics Society (0.15)