70s

Sex, '70s style Sex, '70s style

Swingers, short skirts, blowup dolls and big hearts: "Love American Style" taught a generation of kids about sex. So how does it look now that we're all grown up?
By Amy Reiter Mar 11, 2008

  • "The Beat That My Heart Skipped"

    This remake of a '70s film about a violent thug with a tender soul bristles with life and energy.
    By Stephanie Zacharek July 1, 2005

  • Disco inferno

    Forget tacky polyester and the cheesy Village People. It's time to recognize the gender-bending, fabulous music movement of the '70s for the revolution that it was.
    By Stephanie Zacharek June 8, 2005

  • "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy"

    The '70s-era leisure suits and noisy polyester shirts aren't the only thing that's funny about this Will Ferrell flick.
    By Stephanie Zacharek July 9, 2004

  • "Blow"

    A cocksure Johnny Depp swaggers through a sleazy, glamorous head trip about the '70s and '80s drug trade.
    By Stephanie Zacharek April 6, 2001

  • Live through this Saturday night

    Courtney Love's directorial debut -- in glorious plaid! Patenstein? Count Patula? The Wolfpat? Pollsters say Buchanan's more trick than treat.
    By Amy Reiter October 29, 1999

  • Arabian knights

    "West Beirut" director Ziad Douieri talks about growing up in the crossfire of a raging civil war and raging hormones.
    By Cynthia Joyce September 9, 1999

  • "Detroit Rock City"

    Shout it out loud: You'll be in sweet pain after a retro glimpse at four kids smoking through the '70s heyday of Kiss.
    By Stephanie Zacharek August 13, 1999

  • "Dick"

    A flinty little comedy gives the Nixon years another turn.
    By Stephanie Zacharek August 4, 1999

  • Bowery boys

    A new Ramones anthology catches America's beloved punks sniffing glue and chewing rock 'n' roll bubble gum.
    By Ira Robbins July 20, 1999

  • The Thin Red Line

    The big dead one: What was supposed to be Terrence Malick's long-awaited comeback is instead a cliched, self-indulgent throwback to the '70s. Reviewed by Charles Taylor
    By Charles Taylor January 8, 1999

  • The Hi-Lo Country

    The boredom trilogy: The scenery chews itself in 'The Hi-Lo Country,' director Stephen Frears' laconic throwback to '70s Westerns.
    By Charles Taylor January 4, 1999

  • The glam that fell to earth

    Todd Haynes' opulent ode to the glam-rock era may be 50 percent polyester, but it's full of heart.
    By Stephanie Zacharek November 6, 1998

  • Nomad's land

    Slums of Beverly Hills' is a gritty, nostalgic trip through the wrong side of 90210.
    By Mary Elizabeth Williams August 28, 1998

  • Seeing past the "Endless Summer"

    Mark Athitakis reviews the Beach Boys' 'Endless Harmony,' which spotlights the classic vocal group's underrated later history.
    By Mark Athitakis August 27, 1998

  • Studio 54, where are you?

    Instead of offering a comic portrait of '70s excess, '54' is a '90s-style morality tale.
    By Charles Taylor July 30, 1998
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