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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Superman is a pure delight, a wondrous combination of all the old-fashioned things we never really get tired of: adventure and romance, heroes and villains, earthshaking special effects, and -- you know what else? Wit.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jay Scott
Estimates of the movie's costs range between $35-and $70-million; whatever the price, it was not too much to pay. As gods go, Superman is one of the godliest; his movie is one of the best.
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Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Boasts a smart screenplay by Robert Benton and David and Leslie Newman, striking cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth (especially in the Smallville sequence), bright comic turns by Margot Kidder and Gene Hackman, and of course, that winning performance by Christopher Reeve in the title role. Believe a man can fly? You bet!
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Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson
If not the best superhero movie ever, it's definitely in the top 3. Reeve will forever be Superman to most of us.
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Variety
Magnify James Bond's extraordinary physical powers while curbing his sex drive and you have the essence of Superman, a wonderful, chuckling, preposterously exciting fantasy.
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88
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
There's no doubt that it's a flawed movie, but it's one of the most wonderfully entertaining flawed movies made.
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Washington Post
it's the simple, earth-bound quality of the film that makes this comic-book fantasy soar.
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Newsweek Jack Kroll
Superman turns out to be a surprisingly infectious entertainment, nicely balanced between warmth and wit, intimacy and impressive special effects, comic-strip fantasy and several elements that make the movie eminently eligible for Deep Thinking about rescue fantasies, cherubic messiahs and other pieces of popcorn metaphysics. [1 Jan 1979, p.46]
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The New York Times Vincent Canby
Superman is good, clean, simple-minded fun, though it's a movie whose limited appeal is built in.
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TV Guide
The film burdens itself with too many story lines and an overlong (though beautifully photographed) prologue, but things really get moving when Reeve takes the screen.
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