Top Ten of 1985
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1.  Shoah Dir. Claude Lanzmann. Documentary about the memories of Holocaust survivors A
2.  The Purple Rose of Cairo Dir. Woody Allen. With Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello A
3.  Ran Dir. Akira Kurosawa. With Tatsuya Nakadai, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada A–
4.  Lost in America Dir. Albert Brooks. With Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Garry Marshall A–
5.  A Time to Live and a Time to Die Dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien. With Shufen Xin, Mei-Feng A–
6.  Kiss of the Spider Woman Dir. Hector Babenco. With William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga B+
7.  Back to the Future Dir. Robert Zemeckis. With Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd B+
8.  Mask Dir. Peter Bogdanovich. With Eric Stoltz, Cher, Sam Elliott, Laura Dern B+
9.  The Official Story Dir. Luis Puenzo. With Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio B+
10. The Breakfast Club Dir. John Hughes. With Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez B+
 

Reviews from 1985
★ = Full-Length Review / © = Capsule-Length Review / ★  = Blog Review (New Window)
 
★   The Breakfast Club Dir. John Hughes. With Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez B+
★   Faces of Women Dir. Désiré Écaré. With Albertine N'guessan, Kouado Brou, Eugénie Cissé-Roland B
★   Kiss of the Spider Woman Dir. Hector Babenco. With William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga B+
★   Mask Dir. Peter Bogdanovich. With Eric Stoltz, Cher, Sam Elliott, Laura Dern B+
★   Prizzi's Honor Dir. John Huston. With Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, William Hickey C+
★   The Purple Rose of Cairo Dir. Woody Allen. With Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello A

More Grades from 1985
Unreviewed titles I have seen recently enough to grade
 
      The Return of the Soldier Dir. Alan Bridges. With Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Glenda Jackson C+
      The Trip to Bountiful Dir. Peter Masterson. With Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn C
 

Also from 1985
The memories are fading, but they're somewhere in my brain
 
Fetching
      L'Homme blessé Dir. Patrice Chéreau. With Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vittorio Mezzogiorno
      Sweet Dreams Dir. Karel Reisz. With Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgworth, John Goodman
 
Fair
      Brazil Dir. Terry Gilliam. With Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Robert De Niro
      The Color Purple Dir. Steven Spielberg. With Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Margaret Avery
      Runaway Train Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky. With Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca de Mornay
 
Feh
      Better Off Dead Dir. Savage Steve Holland. With John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers
      Cocoon Dir. Ron Howard. With Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Don Ameche, Steve Guttenberg
      Commando Dir. Mark L. Lester. With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Alyssa Milano
      Out of Africa Dir. Sydney Pollack. With Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer
      Tampopo Dir. Juzo Itami. With Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe
      Witness Dir. Peter Weir. With Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Danny Glover
 
Flotsam
      Agnes of God Dir. Norman Jewison. With Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly
      Clue Dir. Jonathan Lynn. With Tim Curry, Lesley Ann Warren, Martin Mull, Madeline Kahn

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