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Matinee
Directed by
Joe Dante
PG
1993
1h 39m
Comedy
,
Drama
6.9
93%
63%
6.6
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The teenage son of a navy sailor newly stationed in Key West gets some excitement with his friends when a small-time film producer comes to town to premiere a kitschy horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Matinee Ratings & Reviews
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Love. Laugh. Shriek. Cry. Make every second count. Most of all, live. The life lessons Dante was imparting 30 years ago are as vital now as they ever were then, making Matinee a modern classic ripe for rediscovery.
Midwest Film Journal
Nick Rogers
"Matinee" is a fun time. But when you couple such a resolutely uncommercial idea with a filmmaker whose résumé illustrated clear disinterest in compromising his idiosyncratic paranoia, you might wish the film leaned a little harder into its nuclear wind.
KDHX (St. Louis)
Diane Carson
Throughout Matinee, director Dante delivers this retro 60s world in a thoroughly entertaining, brisk 99 minutes.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
John Goodman is delightful in this sweetly amusing '60s-era comedy... Despite some incoherence in the plot, the film is genuinely charming and generous with its humor.
Deep Focus Review
Brian Eggert
When Woolsey loses himself in one of his many speeches about the power of movies, the importance of escape, and the joy it brings him to realize these notions for his audience, we sense this is exactly how Dante feels, and that joy is instantly catching.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The glory of Dante's comedy in this movie and others-as aided and abetted by his usual production team, producer Michael Finnell, cinematographer John Hora, and screenwriter Charlie Haas-is that it suggests poetic parallels without insisting on them.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
One of director Joe Dante's finest achievements.
Gone With The Twins
Mike Massie
Executed without passion, with faulty pacing, and predicaments that are too dull even for a family-friendly movie.
FanboyNation.com
Sean Mulvihill
Matinee is such an earnest film lacking in cynicism about the gimmickry of old that its warmth is infectious.
The Young Folks
Gary Shannon
[Dante's] delirium is both hilariously absurd and terrifyingly convincing.
Under the Radar
Austin Trunick
Released in 1993, Matinee - a loving tribute to the z-grade, drive-in monster pics of the '50s and '60s, as viewed nostalgically through the eyes of children - isn't the sort of film you'd see come out of a major studio that often.
Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
A wonderful message about the power of the horror director, and what treasures they can bestow on their audiences.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Uproarious comedy that film buffs should love.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A delightful comedy and one of the most charming movies in a long time.
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