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Bill Morrison

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A Few Good Men (1992) 85% 3/4 EDIT “Based on the Broadway play and obviously another hit for director Rob Reiner, "A Few Good Men" is not a great film, but a good enough film considering the formula.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% 2.5/4 EDIT “A sprawling mess that ultimately fails to engage our emotions. It's Lord of the Flies as screwball silliness, the Errol Flynn swashbucklers as giggling comedy.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Dracula (1979) 64% EDIT “This "Dracula" mixes dream-like images with stomach-turning gore. One grows drunk on masterful shots blending matte drawings, studio shots and location footage into a beautiful whole.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% 3/4 EDIT “Though the variation on the old theme leads to a certain amount of predictability, it works well because of the director's touch, the sure and telling way that she films this screen adaptation of the Jane Rule Novel. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Oct 12, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% 4/5 EDIT “No stars and a film designed expressly for English audiences. My Beautiful Laundrette is very much a contemporary English film, a telling look at the economic nightmares and racial tensions that plague that tight little island. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Superman: The Movie (1978) 87% EDIT “Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a bird -- a turkey.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) 16% 1.5/4 EDIT “Hackman's still a joy, but the time has come to give this series the ax.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jul 2, 2025 Full Review Superman II (1980) 88% EDIT “"Superman II" - the rare sequel that actually improves the original - moves right to the heart of the matter. This exhilarating entertainment scores a cinematic bull's-eye.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jun 29, 2025 Full Review Return to Oz (1985) 59% 3/4 EDIT “I was enchanted by the film in much the same way that I was enchanted by the "Star Wars" movie created by George Lucas.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jun 18, 2025 Full Review Night Moves (1975) 78% EDIT “It's a film that leaves you feeling empty. It was mean to. Happy endings are not part of the detective formula.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) May 28, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% EDIT “So realistic is this imaginary world on a galaxy far, far away, it could have been filmed on location in space. It's mindless entertainment to be sure, but entertainment for people sick to death of directors who contemplate their navels and call it art.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Apr 22, 2025 Full Review 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 90% EDIT “"2001" takes our vision beyond the overwhelming problems of now. Kubrick, as is his want, takes us visually and emotionally and intellectually farther than even his genius might have promised.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Apr 9, 2025 Full Review At Long Last Love (1975) 22% EDIT “The truth is that Cole has been reduced to an ember. The tunes are shabbily treated and sound like Muzak.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Mar 25, 2025 Full Review The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) 51% EDIT “The comedy becomes an ordeal unrelieved by genuinely funny flights of madness.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Mar 7, 2025 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% EDIT “Robert Altman's Nashville ranks among the finest hours on the American screen. It's a work so epic, so exhilarating and engrossing that it can be compared to Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Feb 27, 2025 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% EDIT “Barry Lyndon is a most frustrating film, yet that frustration is perhaps small price to pay for so beautiful a work. Each shot is a visual masterwork. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% EDIT “"Shampoo" is a portrait done primarily in black. It's too serious to be funny, but it has elements pointing up the drama that are among the funniest scenes in recent memory.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Feb 10, 2025 Full Review Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 69% 1/4 EDIT “The film is a lemon, a pain in the neck, a bloody bore.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Sep 26, 2024 Full Review Apocalypse Now (1979) 91% EDIT “It's the blackest of all comedies, the most terrifying of all war films. It's the $30 million cinema opera that the director-writer promised. And it leaves first degree burns on the psyche.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Sep 23, 2024 Full Review Jaws (1975) 97% EDIT “The protagonists would be nothing more than cardboard (nothing more needed, actually) if it were not for the polished playing of the three stars. Nobody, like the shark, bites off more than he can chew.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jul 2, 2024 Full Review Little Women (1994) 92% 4/5 EDIT “This whole film is magic. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 96% EDIT “What starts as a very funny movie -- on the order of a realistic escapade involving the Keystone Kops -- evolves into a very sobering drama.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Apr 10, 2024 Full Review Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 91% EDIT “The special effects are so breathtaking that one is almost blinded to the fact that this is really a genre film blown up to epic proportions.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Apr 3, 2024 Full Review Chinatown (1974) 98% EDIT “This is a complex and richly detailed work and, like the Bogart films before it, one that is best when you savor the moment. It works magnificently if you accept Polanski's innate sense of low-keyed pace and shocking surprise.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Mar 8, 2024 Full Review Little Big Man (1970) 91% EDIT “Director Arthur Penn has stylishly spun one entertaining sequence after another, varying tempo and mood as the subject demands, and stringing it all together with a quietly comic performance by Dustin Hoffman. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Nov 10, 2023 Full Review
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