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- 63Chicago TribuneGene SiskelChicago TribuneGene SiskelA mixed bag of four short films done in the style of famous '60s TV show. Two work; two don't. [July 22, 1983]
- 60Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrThe first two are total stinkers, but things pick up with Joe Dante's creepy, claustrophobic, and very funny study of a brattish kid who lives in a cartoon universe, and come slamming home with George Miller's final sketch about a paranoid airline passenger.
- 60Time Out LondonTime Out LondonUltimately it's left to Mad Max wizard Miller to steal the show with an extraordinary remake of Richard Matheson's story about an airline passenger who spies a demon noshing the starboard engine.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe beauty of Twilight Zone -- The Movie is the same as the secret of the TV series: It takes ordinary people in ordinary situations and then (can you hear Rod Serling?) zaps them with "next stop -- the Twilight Zone!"
- 50TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineBased on the popular television series, Twilight Zone--The Movie is a frightfully lopsided omnibus that begins with two wretched episodes by John Landis and Steven Spielberg and finishes with an engrossing pair by Joe Dante and George Miller.
- 40TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard Corliss"Wanna see something really scary?" asks Guest Star Dan Aykroyd at film's end. The Miller and Dante episodes are. So is the epic waste that informs much of this movie. [20 June 1983, p.73]
- 30The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyThe film, which opens today at the Sutton and other theaters, is composed of a prologue, written for the movie, plus four separate stories, each of them either based directly on a script from the television series or suggested by one. A lot of money and several lives might have been saved if the producers had just rereleased the original programs.
- 12Boston GlobeBoston GlobeThe original tv series was sometimes frightening, sometimes enlightening, and sometimes a bit too allegorical, but it was almost always entertaining. Serling gave us more in 25 minutes than Spielberg & Co. give us in nearly two hours. [24 Jun 1983, p.1]