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Rick Chatenever

Rick Chatenever's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Misery (1990) 87% EDIT “It takes a while to build, and to find its rhythm, but by the end the movie has the audience in its clutches, screaming -- in both fear and fun -- at its roller coaster ride through the emotions.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% EDIT “Funny, touching, tightly-directed and richly evocative.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% EDIT “It's a film full of surprises. While it's not quite as great as the child within is secretly hoping, it is far more enthralling than the jaded adult expects it to be.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Big Top Pee-wee (1988) 30% EDIT “It's semi-enjoyable, but hardly the greatest show on earth.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Dec 14, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 75% EDIT “Calling it abysmal is a little unfair ... but it does come up all wet.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Dec 9, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (1987) 59% EDIT “Packed in between the muscles, the chainsaw duels, the gratuitous sadism and the assorted explosions, comes a genuinely intelligent, if cynical, script.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Dracula (1979) 64% EDIT “Under the direction of John Badham, "Dracula's" combination of strong acting, innovative and convincing special effects, music by John Williams and script by W.D. Richter all come together to create just the right mood of eerie foreboding.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Oct 23, 2025 Full Review From Beyond (1986) 74% EDIT “Director Stuart Gordon once again has his way with an H.P. Lovecraft story, coming up with results that are enough to make you sick.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Oct 20, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% EDIT “For the culturally curious, too, it offers glimpses of a little world that might easily be overlooked in the great scheme of things. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Oct 10, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% EDIT “For all the success the cast achieves putting real people up there on the screen, filmmaker Burnett has his problems knowing quite what to do with them.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Sep 25, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% EDIT “"The Naked Gun" is silly and frivolous -- and thoroughly entertaining.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Superman: The Movie (1978) 87% EDIT “The special effects that make the man fly make the film fly as well, and besides an all-star cast, Superman also features unexpected wit in its comic book-inspired script.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Superman II (1980) 88% EDIT “Viewers may get the impression that they've seen most of this Super stuff before in "Part I," but that seems to detract only slightly from the way this film brings Superman back into our lives with humor, power and all the hope that fantasy can provide.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Jun 28, 2025 Full Review Supergirl (1984) 19% EDIT “Director Jeannot Szwarc is barely in control of this tale.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Jun 27, 2025 Full Review The Karate Kid Part II (1986) 49% EDIT “Avildsen wisely indulges himself in the warmth of his characters, maintaining a refreshing modesty as tier respective romances blossom. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel May 28, 2025 Full Review The Karate Kid (1984) 81% EDIT “Its moral contest may be oversimplified, and its sentiments perhaps overstated -- but Avildsen has still crated a fine alternative to mindless teenage fodder at the movies. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel May 27, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 93% EDIT “Rather than a unified story, The Empire Strikes Back is more a loosely tied episodic string of "good parts" -- as in, "oh, here comes the good part -- oh, here comes another one!"” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Do the Right Thing (1989) 92% EDIT “Spike may have thought he was doing the right thing...But this movie makes a wrong turn on the way to greatness, coming up with a big mind and sense-numbing blur in the place its soul was when it started.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Mar 20, 2025 Full Review Back to School (1986) 81% EDIT “"Back to School" will never be mistaken for great cinema but it has no trouble qualifying as very good comedy, getting laughs from the beginning and sustaining them all the way through.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Feb 27, 2025 Full Review The Little Mermaid (1989) 92% EDIT “It looks like classic Disney, almost at its best. But its world view is fresh, free of some of Uncle Walt's underlying biases. And the songs, by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, turn the whole thing into a delightful musical experience.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Dec 13, 2024 Full Review Apocalypse Now (1979) 91% EDIT “The film is overwhelming in its scope, and powerful in its minor details. But its central concern winds up buried under Coppola's demonstration of his own abilities. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Sep 22, 2024 Full Review Beetlejuice (1988) 83% EDIT “The entire concept of this project is obscure and esoteric, making no effort to explain itself to audiences who haven't gotten their PhD's in the classics yet. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Aug 22, 2024 Full Review Aliens (1986) 94% EDIT “Defying the conventional Hollywood wisdom where sequels are concerned, this one actually manages to better the first one. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Jul 30, 2024 Full Review When Harry Met Sally... (1989) 90% EDIT “It succeeds admirably -- not only making you laugh but also providing a sweet romantic refuge. It makes you want to believe in romance again, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Jul 11, 2024 Full Review Steel Magnolias (1989) 73% EDIT “The problem here is that in taking the play off the stage, director Ross and company dropped Magnolias' heart and soul, badly damaging them in the process. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel May 3, 2024 Full Review
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