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Pat Graham

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From Beyond (1986) 74% EDIT “The gross-out sliminess and sexual acting out are supposed to provide a purgative release, but all Gordon does is gawk at the excess for what seems like forever.” – Chicago Reader Oct 20, 2025 Full Review The Easy Life (1962) 92% EDIT “The cynicism is thoroughgoing and more than a little heartless, but the styling, with its astute balancing of commerce and modernist understanding, is resolutely assured. ” – Chicago Reader Sep 28, 2022 Full Review The Witches of Eastwick (1987) 67% EDIT “It’s all very entertaining and very superficial (and Nicholson’s stops-out hamming is equal parts of both), more than a carnival of set pieces but something less than a fully realized film. ” – Chicago Reader Apr 21, 2022 Full Review Adventures in Babysitting (1987) 73% EDIT “None of it adds up to anything consequential.” – Chicago Reader Jun 26, 2021 Full Review Heartbreak Ridge (1986) 66% EDIT “The whole film seems ideologically forced and out of place, an attempt to resurrect the retentive virtues of Ford and Hawks without the cultural context that gave them expressive strength.” – Chicago Reader Aug 6, 2020 Full Review La Bamba (1987) 83% EDIT “The actors are mostly appealing and Valens's 50s hits (dubbed in by Los Lobos) are given their energetic due.” – Chicago Reader Mar 24, 2020 Full Review Hello, Dolly! (1969) 43% EDIT “Gene Kelly directed, a long way from Terpsichore apparently, though not, alas, from the Thanksgiving turkey.” – Chicago Reader Mar 26, 2019 Full Review Over the Top (1987) 32% EDIT “The way to a kid's heart is through his daddy's biceps, though this big daddy looks more like terminal Dada.” – Chicago Reader Feb 28, 2019 Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 91% EDIT “The film casts its spell in countless odd ways, in the archetype-leaning imagery, eccentric tableau styling, and moth-in-candle-flame attraction to the subconscious twilight.” – Chicago Reader Nov 14, 2014 Full Review Low Blow (1986) EDIT “Man's deadliest weapon is his fists? Maybe, but watching this 1984 actioner could put you in a coma.” – Chicago Reader Jun 19, 2014 Full Review The Color of Pomegranates (1969) 94% EDIT “It's a strange, visionary work, highly formal and not easy of access, but compelling in a way that's almost impossible to describe.” – Chicago Reader May 21, 2014 Full Review Jaws the Revenge (1987) 2% EDIT “Sargent's enough of an action vet to grind out a watchable sequel, but too much of a TV hack to turn the arbitrary dramatics into anything but synthetic pulp.” – Chicago Reader Apr 30, 2014 Full Review Three Amigos! (1986) 45% EDIT “On the whole there's not a lot of flesh on these cynically haphazard bones.” – Chicago Reader Apr 25, 2014 Full Review Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987) 7% EDIT “This one's on automatic pilot all the way.” – Chicago Reader May 21, 2013 Full Review Kitty Foyle (1940) 75% EDIT “Sam Wood, the El Supremo of Hollywood hackdom, squired this one to glory.” – Chicago Reader Jan 31, 2012 Full Review Project X (1987) 74% EDIT “Plenty of strikes against this--moronic story line, obligatory animal mugging, more "awwwww" opportunities than any film since 3 Men and a Cradle--but it's still one of the most accomplished pulp fantasies in a while.” – Chicago Reader Oct 26, 2011 Full Review Little Shop of Horrors (1986) 91% EDIT “The best moments in this 1987 release belong to Dr. Steve Martin as a dentist with a professional yen for pain.” – Chicago Reader May 25, 2011 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% EDIT “Reiner seems lost in his own cinematic wilderness -- button-down careful, almost afraid to move” – Chicago Reader Mar 28, 2011 Full Review Children of a Lesser God (1986) 81% EDIT “Hurt seems to be bucking for at least two Oscar nominations here: one for his performance, the other for best echo effects by an interpreter of signed speech.” – Chicago Reader Mar 16, 2011 Full Review Spaceballs (1987) 52% EDIT “The film's low-tech styling is roughly the cardboard inversion of the cinematic machines it parodies, and Brooks seems less inclined than usual to push the overkill urges too far.” – Chicago Reader Jan 18, 2011 Full Review Yellow Earth (1984) 100% EDIT “The film broke definitively with Chinese studio tradition and introduced a new sense of ambiguity in the relation between political ideology and praxis.” – Chicago Reader Aug 23, 2010 Full Review Creepshow 2 (1987) 36% EDIT “George Romero contributes the screenplay this time, basing it on some tastefully selected Stephen King morsels.” – Chicago Reader Jul 12, 2010 Full Review Babe: Pig in the City (1998) 67% EDIT “It's George Miller's masterpiece, maybe even the best commercial film of 1998.” – Chicago Reader Jan 29, 2010 Full Review The Killing of Sister George (1968) 59% EDIT “Robert Aldrich's "daring" 1968 mating of lesbianism and commerce was, as I recall, considered pretty tame even then; lord knows what it looks like today.” – Chicago Reader Apr 24, 2009 Full Review The Living Daylights (1987) 73% EDIT “Expect the expected.” – Chicago Reader Oct 13, 2008 Full Review
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