Cinema: The Year's Best

ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN. Redford-Hoffman as Woodward-Bernstein break the Watergate story in Alan J. Pakula's superbly atmospheric, intelligently controlled film that manages at once to be raffish, slightly paranoiac and politically acute.

BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS. Robert Altman's shaggy dog meditation on celebrity and how it befuddles its victims. The ending is flawed, but Paul Newman (as the title showman) and a fine supporting cast make the journey to it highly rewarding.

CARRIE. The banal and the supernatural frighteningly, yet touchingly, juxtaposed in Director Brian De Palma's tale of how the high school...

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