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Hal Lipper

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Misery (1990) 87% 3/5 EDIT “Misery's plotline is fairly thin. Yet, the performances, the comedic elements in Goldman's script and Reiner's direction generate the requisite suspense with a minimum of flourish.” – Tampa Bay Times Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% 4/5 EDIT “What Stand By Me lacks in subtlety, it make up with feeling. The strong, honest emotions coupled with long-buried memories makes this film a satisfying experience.” – Tampa Bay Times Jan 14, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% 3/5 EDIT “A Few Good Men has a whole cast of good men - and one good woman - and it's this ensemble that makes director Rob Reiner's conventional courtroom drama so enthralling. ” – Tampa Bay Times Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% 4/5 EDIT “A magical motion picture that can whisk viewers from reality to fantasy, and back again, with the greatest of ease. ” – Tampa Bay Times Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% 2/5 EDIT “It is too calculated, too sprawling and emotionally bare when characters interact. Hook has dozens of sterling cameos, but only a few wondrous shared moments.” – Tampa Bay Times Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Christine (1983) 72% EDIT “It's an extremely well-crafted thriller, but it never manages to shift into third gear.” – Tampa Bay Times Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Big Top Pee-wee (1988) 31% 2/5 EDIT “Gone are Pee-wee's innocence, his rouged cheeks, his glossy lips and a good deal of the twisted tongue-in-cheek humor that made Pee-wee's Big Adventure so appealing.” – Tampa Bay Times Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Terminator 2: Judgment Day is louder, flashier and deeper than its predecessor. But no better. What it gains in power and technical prowess it loses through its gargantuan size. Terminator 2 lumbers while the first movie sprints.” – Tampa Bay Times Dec 9, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (1987) 59% 3/5 EDIT “While The Running Man feels rushed and never lives up to its promise -- except in terms of its body count -- it has enough style and action to satisfy most B-movie buffs.” – Tampa Bay Times Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Predator (1987) 64% 2/5 EDIT “Although the genre may be new and its special effects impressive, Predator's story is predictable summer fare.” – Tampa Bay Times Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% 3/5 EDIT “Deitch demonstrates enough style and sense of character to turn Desert Hearts into a satisfying, though flawed, romance. Her frankness concerning homosexuality is to be lauded. ” – Tampa Bay Times Oct 13, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% 2/4 EDIT “While My Beautiful Laundrette is involving and compassionate, it doesn't take enough chances. ” – Tampa Bay Times Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% 1/5 EDIT “Neeson overacts, trying to suppress his Irish accent and compensate for the bandages shrouding his face.” – Tampa Bay Times Aug 25, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% 3/5 EDIT “Director David Zucker loses a bit of pacing around the seventh-inning stretch, but The Naked Gun is more consistently funny than anything he, his brother and best friend Abrahams have put together since 1980's Airplane!” – Tampa Bay Times Jul 24, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) 77% 2/5 EDIT “Too often, The Naked Gun 2½ is deja vu. It's practically the same live-action cartoon as the original.” – Tampa Bay Times Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Day of the Dead (1985) 61% 1/5 EDIT “It lacks the apocalyptic humor and satirical flourishes of Dawn of the Dead.” – Tampa Bay Times Jun 25, 2025 Full Review The Karate Kid Part II (1986) 49% 3/5 EDIT “The Karate Kid II is a better picture than its title indicated. It has warmth, intelligence and a sense of human relationships. ” – Tampa Bay Times May 28, 2025 Full Review Withnail and I (1987) 84% 2/5 EDIT “One of those pictures that manages to be consistently amusing and grating at the same time.” – Tampa Bay Times Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Do the Right Thing (1989) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing is the most poignant, disturbing and frighteningly real film about race relations ever made by a black American film maker.” – Tampa Bay Times Mar 21, 2025 Full Review Back to School (1986) 81% 2/5 EDIT “Back to School is not a great movie. It's simple-minded and simplistic.” – Tampa Bay Times Feb 27, 2025 Full Review Aladdin (1992) 96% 4/5 EDIT “With the hilarious, bounds-breaking animated fairy tale Aladdin, Walt Disney proves once again that the best movies can be drawn. ” – Tampa Bay Times Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (1991) 95% 5/5 EDIT “Their growth, Menken and Ashman's score and the humor that buoys this handsomely realized creation makes Beauty and the Beast the most satisfying animated movie Disney has ever made.” – Tampa Bay Times Dec 16, 2024 Full Review The Prince and the Pauper (1990) 76% 3/5 EDIT “The featurette is drawn in classic Disney style, but makes great use of perspective.” – Tampa Bay Times Dec 15, 2024 Full Review The Rescuers Down Under (1990) 85% 2/5 EDIT “While the first half of... The Rescuers Down Under is breathtakingly magnificent, the second half is lower than a sloth.” – Tampa Bay Times Dec 15, 2024 Full Review The Little Mermaid (1989) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Close your eyes and listen a moment. Something extraordinary is taking place... The Little Mermaid is a small step for animation, a giant leap for movie scoring. ” – Tampa Bay Times Dec 13, 2024 Full Review
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