In the Dark Reviews

Is 1985’s “Back to the Future” one of the greatest movies ever made?

Opinions vary, but science says “yes,” and the city of Shelton agrees, because it’s running the sci-fi classic as the final installment of this summer’s free-admission “Movies in the Park” series, starting between 8:30-8:45 p.m. on Friday, in Kneeland Park.

The 1970s and the 1980s produced scores of excellent films, but what the recent passing of William Friedkin, who directed 1971’s “The French Connection” and 1973’s “The Exorcist,” reminded me was that ’70s films breathed deeply from the atmosphere of their scenes, whereas...