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Jeff Simon

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My Bloody Valentine (1981) 39% EDIT “There's no reason for it except a great deal of bloody, incoherent murder and gory comedy.” – Buffalo News Jan 29, 2026 Full Review North (1994) 12% 2.5/5 EDIT “It may appeal to those under 12, but everyone else is going to have a tough time quelling impatience.” – Buffalo News Jan 24, 2026 Full Review The American President (1995) 90% 4.5/5 EDIT “[The] script has the brilliant patina of plausibility unless you examine it a little... Hang all that stuff. Who cares? Reality is a few blocks down the road in a much tougher neighborhood. This is fantasyland, and it works out just fine.” – Buffalo News Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “Your jaw drops at the massive and wild spectacle in front of you and your brain bursts with admiration for the craft and audacity of it. As for your heart, that's another matter.” – Buffalo News Jan 14, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 91% 4/4 EDIT “The adventure is grand, the company is a tonic and the vistas and sights from beginning to end are glorious. A rather wonderful movie, as people will find out in massive droves very soon.” – Buffalo News Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Sure Thing (1985) 84% EDIT “The Sure Thing is a sure thing of a movie. But as this movie knows, when you've experienced the real thing, a sure thing ins't enough.” – Buffalo News Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% EDIT “Just when you get all uneasy about all the amiable silliness, low-pressure cleverness and narrative confection, someone like Billy Crystal will come along... You just can't remain suspicious anymore. Why fight it? You have to try too hard to resist it.” – Buffalo News Jan 7, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% 3.5/5 EDIT “...Rob Reiner's extravagantly ballyhooed "A Few Good Men" has one thing that movies are supposed to be all about - first rate actors flinging vivid, well-crafted , transparently theatrical words all over the place.” – Buffalo News Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% 4/5 EDIT “For all of its subversive wit and sentimental poignancy, it's clear evidence that Spielberg's Fantasy Fountain of Youth is beginning to run a wee bit dry.” – Buffalo News Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Christine (1983) 72% EDIT “It's a movie so stupendously moronic that's almost lovable.” – Buffalo News Dec 16, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% EDIT “It's a big, occasionally exciting, visually arresting mess.” – Buffalo News Dec 10, 2025 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% 3.5/4 EDIT “You can't be unaffected by the awesome technological display of it all. You never doubt for a second that it's a winner and that it's all for you.” – Buffalo News Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 91% 4/5 EDIT “...the movie is everything that its fans could have wanted - a big, bashing, boisterous action spectacle merrily devoted to the demolition of property and mortification of the flesh.” – Buffalo News Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Wiz (1978) 38% EDIT “What's wrong with "The Wiz" is that it's just as often laughable as it is happy and funny.” – Buffalo News Nov 18, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (1987) 59% EDIT “"The Running Man" is terrific.” – Buffalo News Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Predator (1987) 64% EDIT “...a Schwarzenegger film of spectacular stupidity for two-thirds of way. In the final third, it's spectacular.” – Buffalo News Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Dracula (1979) 64% EDIT “This "Dracula" has some effective moments in the last half-hour, but up to then it's a mock-Victorian mess with intermittently sumptuous photography by Gilbert Taylor.” – Buffalo News Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) 93% EDIT “The images, the feral angst of Kinski, the canals of Delft where it was filmed and the atmosphere remain to haunt until the startling and truly terrifying finale.” – Buffalo News Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% EDIT “[It's] offset by a humorlessness that is absolute. ” – Buffalo News Oct 12, 2025 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% 4.5/5 EDIT “You're going to learn important things from Celluloid Closet -- about the hunger of gays to see some on-screen representation of gay life, even if it's a bad one; about the way homosexuals in the film world have encoded their experiences for straights. ” – Buffalo News Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Tron (1982) 60% EDIT “Yes, "Tron" needed better music, sharper acting and well-limned dialogue. But what there is, is a feast for the hungry and avid imagination. ” – Buffalo News Oct 5, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% 3.5/5 EDIT “It's very familiarly and comfortably in Spielberg's quasi-religious mode, but altogether tender and convincing in its whimsy. ” – Buffalo News Sep 29, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% 4.5/5 EDIT “Boogie Nights is the film, I think, that will define 1997. It's not only that good but it's that audacious and that brilliant about the most difficult and most commanding subject that we know these days -- sex.” – Buffalo News Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Spider-Man (2002) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “It's the triumph of the movie Spider-Man that they cast Tobey Maguire in the lead.” – Buffalo News Sep 24, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% 3.5/5 EDIT “Burnett isn't exactly a proficient director but he knows things about American black life most white American directors just don't know and makes rare and uncommonly sly jokes about them.” – Buffalo News Sep 23, 2025 Full Review
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