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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9634312" data-attributes="member: 18">I'm not trying to be rude, but you're asking for something pretty unreasonable, and you seem to think it's trivial.For someone to find out the actual reviews from the actual time would require literally hours of serious research, by a competent researcher, with proper access to a library of newspapers from 1990, which generally costs money (and may require going to an actual library or the like). There is no "archival reviews" site, and Googling for even 30 seconds would show that.The best you can do, for free, is look on Wikipedia, where some research will already have been done (albeit it often opens with a modern RT/Metacritic score which is often hugely different to the reception at the time), and is usually reasonable accurate, in the "Reception" section.From there we find this, which is undated but I suspect at least near-contemporary (though who knows?) - <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200511234539/https://criticstop10.com/best-movies-of-1990/" target="_blank">Best Movies of 1990 - CriticsTop10</a>Seems like critics involved in this voted Goodfellas the #1 movie of 1990, and Dances with Wolves the #2 movie.[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dances_With_Wolves#Reception[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodfellas#Reception[/URL]EDIT - If I seem a little miffed, it's because I used to work as a researcher, and people thinking gigantic tasks are trivial was something I encountered a fair bit. But when you're working as one, you at least have access to the tools to potentially do something like this.</blockquote>

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