Critic Reviews
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Variety Staff, Variety
The humans are little more than dress-extras for the mechanics.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
What's confusing yet ultimately illuminating is the way his gremlins function as a free-floating metaphor, suggesting at separate junctures everything from teenagers to blacks to various Freudian suppressions.
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Dante is perhaps the first filmmaker since Frank Tashlin to base his style on the formal free-for-all of animated cartoons; he is also utterly heartless.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
At the level of Serious Film Criticism, it's a meditation on the myths in our movies: Christmas, families, monsters, retail stores, movies, boogeymen. At the level of Pop Moviegoing, it's a sophisticated, witty B movie.
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
Gremlins is far more interested in showing off its knowledge of movie lore and making random jokes than in providing consistent entertainment.
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Cast
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Zach Galliganas Billy -
Hoyt Axtonas Rand Peltzer -
Frances Lee McCainas Lynn Peltzer
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Phoebe Catesas Kate -
Polly Hollidayas Mrs. Deagle -
Scott Bradyas Sheriff




