Raiders of the Lost Ark is a movie so well-made and confident it didn’t need to have a sequel, but we’re sure glad it did.

Full Review | Jan 3, 2024

One of the all-time greats. Harrison Ford is perfection-plus as Indiana Jones, so iconic a character that the AFI cited him as the second greatest movie hero of all time (just under Atticus Finch and just above James Bond).

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 7, 2023

Raiders of the Lost Ark is still the ideal mold for action movies for the generation that followed.

Full Review | Jul 3, 2023

From the moment we meet the iconic adventurer all the way to its glorious finale, it remains one of the most fun times one could have at the movies. One only wishes modern action-adventure films had one iota of the craft and creativity of this one.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jun 29, 2023

To get to the point immediately, Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the most deliriously funny, ingenious and stylish American adventure movies ever made.

Full Review | May 4, 2023

[Raiders of the Lost Ark] grabs you in the first shot, hurtles you through a series of incredible adventures, and deposits you back in reality two hours later -- breathless, dizzy, wrung-out, and with a silly grin on your face.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 4, 2023

A glorious mixture of spectacular, fast-paced action and sly humor.

Full Review | May 4, 2023

There was the almost exhausting excitement of the film itself. And at the same time a second emotion, a rush of gratitude which almost brought tears for the contagious joy and -- not to be corny about this -- the strength of the film's positive vision.

Full Review | May 4, 2023

Raiders is the most fun to hit the screen since movies came in chapters. Reportedly, there are further adventures of Indiana Jones in the works. Let's hope so. Something this good deserves To Be Continued.

Full Review | May 4, 2023

It is, in short, a reminder of the very reason we go to movies. With its larger-than-life, wide screen images, the rich stereo sound, films such as Raiders of the Lost Ark are what will save the movie theater business from the video invasion.

Full Review | May 4, 2023

It is a transcendent blend of heroic exploits, cliffhangers and chases distilled with nostalgia and wit from the pulp thrillers, comic books and Republic serials of the World War II era.

Full Review | May 4, 2023

It's all done with such a great spirit of high adventure and good humor that you don't even begin to count the corpses... The finale suggests that Ford's Indiana Jones character will soon be back with further adventures, and I'm all in favor of it.

Full Review | May 4, 2023

Yes, it's as entertaining as you have heard. Maybe more so. Raiders of the Lost Ark is, in fact, about as entertaining as a commercial movie can be.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 4, 2023

After watching just the first five minutes of Raiders of the Lost Ark, you’re hooked. You’re held captive in a action-packed world of adventure and romance and you can’t turn away because the thrills keep coming faster and faster, bigger and better.

Full Review | May 4, 2023

Harrison Ford, who was Han Solo in Lucas' Star Wars, plays Jones in a hat and a generally unshaven condition that makes him look a great deal like the late Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca.

Full Review | May 4, 2023

To say the Raiders of the Lost Ark is action-packed is to understate the case. There is hardly a scene that does not take your breath away.

Full Review | May 4, 2023

Raiders is as snappy as the crack of a whip, as daring as a leap over a snake-infested ravine, as rowdy as a fistfight in a grimy bar in Nepal, and as much fun as you could ever want in a film.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 4, 2023

[Raiders of the Lost Ark] is destined for some kind of popcorn immortality. Rare in this world of one-shot communication, it makes one want to see it again and again. Without question, it's the best film of the summer.

Full Review | May 4, 2023

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a heady mixture of high adventure, street-smart humor and hardboiled romance in the midst of nonstop lethal battles between the forces of -- yes -- good and evil.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 4, 2023

John Williams, who wrote the atmospheric musical backgrounds for Star Wars and Empire, has succeeded again for Raiders.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 4, 2023