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Saturday Night Fever (1977) Rank 4 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Saturday Night Fever (1977) a score of 3.3592 out of 4

based on (12) reviews

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Dragan Antulov

Few films managed to capture the spirit of its times as thoroughly and successfully as SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER did. The film features reminders of many 1970s popular culture icons like the images of Bruce Lee, Al Pacino and Farrah Fawcett in Tony Manero's ...read the complete Saturday Night Fever movie review at Dragan Antulov

Ted Prigge

John Travolta, fresh off of "Kotter" and "Carrie," in the role that made him a superstar (and also spawned a stupid sequel I have yet to see), plays Tony Manero, a kind of dim Brooklynite who works in a paint store during the week, and on Saturday ...read the complete Saturday Night Fever movie review at Ted Prigge

EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)

John Badham's film (his best to date), a zeitgeist picture that captures the disco subculture of the 1970s like no other work, features a star-making performance from John Travolta who dominates every frame. ...read the complete Saturday Night Fever movie review at EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)

Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

Each night I ask the stars up above:Why must I be a teen-ager in love? -- Dion and the Belmonts"Saturday Night Fever" is an especially hard-edged case and a very good movie. It's about a ...read the complete Saturday Night Fever movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

DVDActive (Malcolm Campbell)

What we have here is a movie that is stuck in its own time bubble. Quite possibly the majority of the purchases will be from those that saw it in the cinema all those years ago. This is a shame, as even I was able to appreciate how good this movie ...read the complete Saturday Night Fever movie review at DVDActive (Malcolm Campbell)

Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)

It's the movie that made John Travolta (Grease, Two of a Kind) a superstar, and a quintessential film of the 1970s. Unfairly maligned by some, possibly because of its association with one of the most reviled forms of popular music ever created, Disco, thi ...read the complete Saturday Night Fever movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)

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