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Jack Kroll

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The American President (1995) 90% EDIT “Director Rob Reiner has a fine smooth touch, Douglas is charismatic, Bening is scrumptious -- you want to put all these dream politicos in a doggy bag and take them home. To our home, the White House.” – Newsweek Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Babe (1995) 98% EDIT “Babe is an ancient genre, the beast story updated with animatronics, computerized effects and voice-dubbing by some good actors,...Director Chris Noonan is clearly having fun...Babe is a loining experience.” – Newsweek Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Return to Oz (1985) 59% EDIT “Murch's approach has its own somber integrity, which can sink into the pedestrian and rise into the magical.” – Newsweek Jun 20, 2025 Full Review One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 93% EDIT “Most of the characters are thinned out... But Forman directs his players superbly, and Louise Fletcher as the nurse turns impassive coolness into a destructive force. ” – Newsweek Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% EDIT “Seeking the sources of our alienation in the explosively random energies of the eighteenth century, Kubrick has created an epic of esthetic self-indulgence, beautiful but empty. He needs to come back to earth from the outer spaces of past and future.” – Newsweek Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 96% EDIT “Electric but erratic...” – Newsweek Apr 7, 2024 Full Review Alien (1979) 93% EDIT “Alien will scare the peanuts right out of your M&M's. It was about time someone made a science-fiction thriller that thrills... and just boils everything down to the pure, ravishingly vulgar essence of fright. ” – Newsweek Nov 16, 2023 Full Review Raging Bull (1980) 92% EDIT “There is appalling violence in Raging Bull, but as in Greek tragedy the violence is the thunderbolt of shock of a total apprehension of the humanity of its characters. ” – Newsweek Oct 11, 2023 Full Review Taxi Driver (1976) 89% EDIT “Scorsese and cinematographer Michael Chapman create a funky, overripe New York that's like a nightmare Travis can never stop dreaming... But first and last Taxi Driver belongs to Robert De Niro, the most remarkable young actor of the American screen. ” – Newsweek Oct 6, 2023 Full Review Thelma & Louise (1991) 87% EDIT “Once Thelma & Louise gets into second gear, it churns up terrific momentum, and the writing and direction fuse into a genuine pop myth about two women who discover themselves through the good old American ways of cars and criminality. ” – Newsweek Mar 2, 2023 Full Review The Big Lebowski (1998) 79% EDIT “Move over, Hudsucker Proxy, here comes The Big Lebowski. ” – Newsweek Jan 21, 2023 Full Review The Deer Hunter (1978) 86% EDIT “The Deer Hunter is a film of great courage and overwhelming emotional power, a fiercely loving embrace of life in a death-ridden time. And it places the director-writer-producer, 37-year-old Michael Cimino, right at the center of our film culture.” – Newsweek Aug 30, 2022 Full Review Gandhi (1982) 89% EDIT “Gandhi is a popular movie in the best sense. It deals with a subject of great importance and it does this with a mixture of high intelligence and immediate emotional impact. ” – Newsweek Jul 19, 2022 Full Review Chariots of Fire (1981) 84% EDIT “Directing his first feature, Hugh Hudson has come up with a rare film that will surprise you with its beauty and magnificence of spirit. ” – Newsweek Jul 18, 2022 Full Review Excalibur (1981) 73% EDIT “Excalibur is brilliant but ponderous, sincere but overwrought -- a medieval Star Wars foundering somewhere between play and prophecy.” – Newsweek Jan 3, 2022 Full Review Autumn Sonata (1978) 85% EDIT “Bergman restores Ingrid Bergman to her proper place as one of the finest of screen actresses, teaming her with the superb Liv Ullmann in a pairing that simply must not be missed.” – Newsweek Nov 3, 2021 Full Review Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993) 17% EDIT “There are just too many half-cooked ingredients in this utopian stew of a movie.” – Newsweek Jan 18, 2013 Full Review Disclosure (1994) 58% EDIT “In this world of Information Highway sophistication and virtual-reality marvels, the pivotal plot points are all rickety coincidences: an overheard conversation, a fortuitous phone call.” – Newsweek Jan 18, 2013 Full Review The Usual Suspects (1995) 87% EDIT “For many true movie fiends, noir is the key American movie type, and the most fun when it's done right. The Usual Suspects is done right.” – Newsweek Jan 18, 2013 Full Review Shadows and Fog (1992) 54% EDIT “Shadows and Fog is Woody Allen's first mystery movie. The mystery: what caused this total breakdown of a unique artist?” – Newsweek Jan 18, 2013 Full Review Strange Days (1995) 71% EDIT “Director Kathryn Bigelow comes closer than any other filmmaker to turning movies into a virtual reality trip.” – Newsweek Jan 18, 2013 Full Review City Hall (1996) 60% EDIT “Its chief pleasure is the acting of the big cast, notably Pacino. At 55, he has a haggard, life-wrestling beauty and a street eloquence that has more innocence than De Niro and more sincerity than Nicholson.” – Newsweek Jan 18, 2013 Full Review Kansas City (1996) 59% EDIT “Altman loves to explode movie genres, and his script, co-written with Frank Barhydt, fuses the classic '30s screwball comedy and crime film.” – Newsweek Jan 18, 2013 Full Review Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% EDIT “This friendliness is the key emotion in this clean, clever, entertaining movie by a gifted and developing artist. It's a feeling that crackles in the sensational special effects.” – Newsweek Jul 7, 2010 Full Review 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) 30% EDIT “Here's a one-word review of 1492: hubris.” – Newsweek Oct 18, 2008 Full Review
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