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Joanna Connors

Joanna Connors's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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North (1994) 12% EDIT “Written by a former "Saturday Night Live" staff writer, it is little more than a series of sketches, most of them as smug and lame as any current "SNL" bit.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jan 24, 2026 Full Review The American President (1995) 90% EDIT “This movie is as much a tribute to seamless, mainstream, middle-of-the-road Hollywood moviemaking as it is to Capra. Here is that rare big-budget movie where all the money has gone to buy major stars, lavish sets, and an army of hairstylists. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Misery (1990) 87% EDIT “Lacking both a sense of escalating tension and a sense of comic relief, the movie feels inert.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 94% A EDIT “Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King upends all trilogy expectations. It is a spectacular movie, the best of the three, offering both a grand, fight-to-the-death climax and an intimate, emotional summing up of the J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy classic.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jan 14, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 95% B EDIT “It's a filmmaking feat, all right. But huge and accomplished as The Two Towers is, it fails to delight the way the first film did.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 91% A EDIT “I'll leave it to others to report on how faithfully Jackson has stuck to Tolkien's novel; frankly, my dears, I don't give a damn. What I do know is that he has made a grand movie-movie. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jan 13, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% EDIT “Aaron Sorkin should get down on the his knees for hourly and thank the gods for Jack Nicholson. He should throw in Demi Moore and Kevin Bacon and Keifer Sutherland and Kevin Pollack occasionally. Tom Cruise, too, I guess. Rob Reiner, definitely.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% EDIT “The star personalities, the money, the effects and especially the sets overwhelm Spielberg's fragile magic. The magic appears, but only fleetingly, like fairy dust thrown on a two-ton gorilla that will never, ever fly. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% EDIT “Cameron lacks originality and vision, but his craft as a director is to pump up the conventions of the action-adventure genre, to make them more intense than anybody else makes them.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 10, 2025 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% EDIT “As troubling as Cameron's military-hardware celebration is, far more troubling is his treatment of his heroine. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 91% EDIT “The sequel maintains the nihilistic humor of the first...but it never gets the soul. It isn't the characters; it is about how much Cameron and his special effects team can cook up in explosions, car crashes, shoot-outs and fights.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% EDIT “See it, and you will never, ever, look at Ben Hur in quite the same way again.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% EDIT “Most of the movie lives up to the spirit of its own afterlife - as, of course, a fun-house ride.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Oct 1, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% EDIT “A sprawling, exuberant movie with a rather odd but grand dream of its own: It aims to be nothing less than the Nashville of the '70s porno scene... If you're going to dream, you might as well dream big, and Boogie Nights very nearly pulls it off.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Spider-Man (2002) 90% A EDIT “Spider-Man is us On the outside, we might be buff and super-confident, swinging as effortlessly through our days as Spider-Man through the city. But underneath it all, we're all protecting that poop, secret Inner Dork that is the real us. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 24, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% EDIT “"To Sleep With Anger" is one of those rare movies that is genuinely mysterious.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Night of the Living Dead (1990) 57% EDIT “The new version not only retains the original's claustrophobic, dreadful tone, but despite the color, it's often subtler in its horror effects.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 17, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% EDIT “You sense Raimi struggling to keep up the funny stuff, and the movie inevitably devolves into a tedium of pyrotechnics, stunts and fake blood. Still, "Darkman" is often amusing.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Aug 25, 2025 Full Review Requiem for a Dream (2000) 80% EDIT “..."Requiem" is both deeply, deeply depressing and - oddly - exhilarating.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Braveheart (1995) 76% EDIT “[Mel Gibson] looks as though he's ready to play the Lalapalooza Festival, not a Scottish rebel. Despite all this, he remains a riveting screen presence, the star power the movie needs to give the violence meaning and heart.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Aug 7, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% 3/4 EDIT “Most of "The Naked Gun" is pure silliness, but there's so much happening, that you don't have time to contemplate it. You just gobble it like cotton candy and instantly forget it.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jul 24, 2025 Full Review DuckTales, the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) 66% EDIT “The movie won't disappoint fans of the TV show, but it won't surprise them either.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Red Rock West (1993) 95% EDIT “Dahl's actors pick right up on his aim to have fun with this B-movie material, but not to mock it.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jul 15, 2025 Full Review Jurassic Park (1993) 91% EDIT “Why did these seasoned pros, working with seemingly unlimited sums of money, plow into production with an unpolished script? It's absolutely baffling.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jul 1, 2025 Full Review Jurassic Park III (2001) 49% B EDIT “Johnston makes liberal use of the horror-movie shock cut. Macy is amusing. Payne and the other writers come up with a few good laughs. It lasts 92 minutes.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jun 25, 2025 Full Review
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