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They Live
A homeless drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.
26 April 1931, New York City, New York, USA
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
1941, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
19 July 1957, USA
22 July 1944, Hollywood, California, USA
10 April 1961, Hollywood, California, USA
4 October 1938, USA
6 March 1948, Kern County, California, USA
23 June 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 March 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 June 1955, Inglewood, California, USA
30 September 1952
April 26, 2016
With Carpenter's clear, widescreen direction and his skill and enthusiasm at their highest peak, this is a masterpiece.
February 07, 2015
Cheesy fun from the 1980s.
June 04, 2007
A fantastically subversive film, a nifty little confection pitting us vs them, the haves vs the have-nots.
December 01, 2013
Behold the message as articulated by John Carpenter's sublime sci-fi opus: "I'm giving you a choice: Either put on these glasses, or start eating that trashcan."
February 17, 2017
Carpenter's primary objective was to make a tough action flick, which he does; it fits snugly into his filmography's subset of urban mayhem movies (alongside 'Escape from New York,' 'Assault on Precinct 13,' and parts of 'Big Trouble in Little China').
February 19, 2014
Carpenter should stick to what he's good at-scaring folks-and leave the political satire to Spitting Image.
August 06, 2013
John Carpenter's They Live has cult favorite written all over it, and part of the reason is the way it regenerates the cheap, juicy, surprisingly potent sci-fi of the 1950s.
November 10, 2015
Campy, satirical classic has lots of violence, profanity.
June 04, 2007
All in all, an entertaining (if ideologically incoherent) response to the valorization of greed in our midst.
October 10, 2012
They Live is the looniest movie of the season and also one of the most engaging.
August 06, 2013
As a movie, They Live is lethargic. As election propaganda, it's terrific.
October 10, 2012
The joke is in the material; the idea itself is funny and daring. And some time soon, They Live suggests, with grim, knowing wink, the joke may be on us.