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Mike McGrady

Mike McGrady's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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House (1985) 49% 1.5/4 EDIT “Although the unintentional laughs outnumber intentional ones by 10-1, the distributors have the nerve to describe "House" as a comedy.” – Newsday Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% 3.5/4 EDIT “Congratulations go to writers Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans, who have more than done justice to the original Stephen King novella, "The Body'; they have written a script that is both funny and touching.” – Newsday Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% 3/4 EDIT “The central performers generate enough electricity individually and together to almost compensate for mawkish moments.” – Newsday Dec 9, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% 2/4 EDIT “While the conflict between the established order and the new arrivals can be, and is, expressed through violence, it can also find expression in sexual terms as well. Both forms of expression are part of the film. ” – Newsday Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) 16% 2/4 EDIT “Gone is the lyrical quality of the original two films; gone is any feeling of magic; gone is any feeling of surprise. ” – Newsday Jul 2, 2025 Full Review Do the Right Thing (1989) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “...Spike Lee's sizzling study of racial hostilities is not meant to be another harmless little diversion. Intended to get strong reactions, it hits that target on the mark.” – Newsday Mar 20, 2025 Full Review Aliens (1986) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “Cameron is a master of machinery and weaponry, a technical wizard who replaces Scott's refinement with his own kind of muscularity... But with either film, you leave the theater drained, physically exhausted, well-rewarded for all your suffering.” – Newsday Jul 30, 2024 Full Review When Harry Met Sally... (1989) 90% 4/4 EDIT “Rob Reiner gives When Harry Met Sally its own comic life, its own solid identity. ” – Newsday Jul 9, 2024 Full Review Steel Magnolias (1989) 73% EDIT “While the script tends to grantee the tears, the cast ensures that some of the laughter will show through. ” – Newsday May 3, 2024 Full Review Postcards From the Edge (1990) 83% 4/4 EDIT “Writer Carrie Fisher and director Mike Nichols have conspired to keep the story crackling; and Nichols has never directed with greater economy, moving into and out of situations rapidly, using drama to set off humor the way velvet sets off jewelry.” – Newsday Apr 29, 2024 Full Review Spaceballs (1987) 52% 2.5/4 EDIT “One small step for mankind, one giant step for burlesque.” – Newsday Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Goodfellas (1990) 93% 4/4 EDIT “With all the talent in this movie, singling out a specific performer seems capricious, but let me take a stab at it. I will grant you that De Niro is perfection... But let me reserve my loudest applause for Pesci. ” – Newsday Oct 18, 2023 Full Review Batman (1989) 77% 3.5/4 EDIT “One of the most interesting comic-book movies ever made, a movie that vividly illustrates where most of the others have gone wrong. ” – Newsday Jul 25, 2023 Full Review The Color Purple (1985) 73% 2.5/4 EDIT “Highly charged subjects call out for the talents of a minimalist, but if Spielberg is anything, he's a maximalist. Time and time again, scenes that should have been ironic or quietly revealing or understated are given the Pow!-Bam!-Boom! treatment. ” – Newsday May 25, 2023 Full Review Out of Africa (1985) 62% 3.5/4 EDIT “Once again, Streep adds a third dimension to a two-dimensional medium; once again she brings humanity and intelligence to a remarkable portrait that must be added to what has become a gallery of such portraits. ” – Newsday May 25, 2023 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 84% 4/4 EDIT “Welcome back, Indiana! The daredevil archeologist... makes a blazingly successful return in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, a roller coaster of a movie that swoops from cliff to cave, from thrill to chill, from peril to laughter.” – Newsday Apr 25, 2023 Full Review Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) 89% EDIT “Requiem for a Heavyweight has been etched in acid, framed in uncompromising realism and comes to life with one of the year's finest dramatic performances. ” – Newsday Feb 10, 2023 Full Review Platoon (1986) 89% 4/4 EDIT “Platoon is brutal, vicious, surpassingly ugly -- in a word, realistic. It’s one of those movies that are hard to watch yet, impossible not to watch.” – Newsday Aug 23, 2022 Full Review Rain Man (1988) 88% 3.5/4 EDIT “Director Barry Levinson constantly finds an effective balance between what is funny and what is serious, making us realize they are often one and the same. ” – Newsday Aug 3, 2022 Full Review The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) 82% 3.5/4 EDIT “It may be Scorsese’s most courageous film, and it is technically superb, but it is at times heavy going.” – Newsday May 6, 2022 Full Review The Witches of Eastwick (1987) 67% 2.5/4 EDIT “Although The Witches of Eastwick has little to say, it says it with flashes of brilliance. It's one of those movies in which the parts are better than the whole.” – Newsday Apr 22, 2022 Full Review Poltergeist II (1986) 20% 2/4 EDIT “The original, in brief, was more original, but then horror fans have never been what you'd call an overly demanding lot.” – Newsday Nov 2, 2021 Full Review Enemies, a Love Story (1989) 89% 3.5/4 EDIT “Loosely constructed and at times enigmatic, but rich in characterization, texture, mood, tone and meaning.” – Newsday Aug 1, 2021 Full Review A Hard Day's Night (1964) 98% EDIT “[Hard Day's Night] adds up to a breathless, sometimes funny film maybe even worth a squeal or two.” – Newsday Jan 4, 2018 Full Review Back to the Future Part II (1989) 63% 2.5/4 EDIT “While the funny-bone is being gently tickled, the eye is constantly diverted. Unfortunately, and I find this true of every Zemeckis movie, neither the mind nor the heart is ever fully engaged.” – Newsday Oct 22, 2015 Full Review
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