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Rob Salem

Rob Salem's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Toronto Star TV critic.

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Movies TV Shows
North (1994) 12% 3/5 EDIT “Director Rob Reiner is all over the place, scrambling to find the right tone, but never quite succeeding. At least, not for long.” – Toronto Star Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The Sure Thing (1985) 84% EDIT “It's often very wordy, especially Cusack's speeches, but even when there's too much of it, the dialogue is sharp and funny. ” – Toronto Star Jan 8, 2026 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% 5/5 EDIT “It is both epic and intimate, light-hearted yet explosively action-packed, a relentlessly inventive mix of high adventure and romantic comedy. ” – Toronto Star Dec 10, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (1987) 59% EDIT “While it may not be the best Arnold movie, it is certainly the funniest. The screenplay is a hoot, crammed with silly cartoon characters and hilarious throw-away one-liners.” – Toronto Star Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Predator (1987) 64% EDIT “...though erratically paced and more than a little gore-happy, the flick is more fun than a barrel of heat-seeking mortar shells.” – Toronto Star Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Mortal Kombat (1995) 44% 4/5 EDIT “Let's just say that Mortal Kombat is "way cool" (something I am rarely inclined to do) and leave it at that.” – Toronto Star Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Babe (1995) 98% 3/5 EDIT “Although I somehow managed to miss Gordy,...I do have it on fairly good authority that, as talking pig movies go, Babe is by far the better of the two. Mind you, I'm not quite sure what that means. Better acting? Better tasting?” – Toronto Star Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) 66% 4/5 EDIT “...for good or ill, Frank Drebin is back on track - or rather, off track - ridiculous pratfalls, elaborate stunts, atrocious puns and ludicrous one-liners intact. ” – Toronto Star Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Supergirl (1984) 19% EDIT “Newcomer Slater makes a fetching super-heroine... But she is overpowered by a dumb script, hammy co-stars, and the inept direction of Jeannot Szwarc.” – Toronto Star Jun 27, 2025 Full Review Fandango (1985) 70% EDIT “Reynolds knows his way around a camera and handles even the simplest scenes with an inventive flair. Alas, the same cannot be said of his screenwriting abilities.” – Toronto Star May 19, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible (1996) 67% 4/5 EDIT “Rest assured, the new movie Mission: Impossible does contain the requisite number of big-screen thrills, even if it does cram most of them into two or three mid-movie action sequences.” – Toronto Star May 6, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 83% EDIT “No matter what preconceptions, plot projections, hopes, dreams and (gasp!) scepticism you bring to the theatre with you, I can guarantee you will walk out completely satisfied, and with a silly grin on your face.” – Toronto Star Apr 25, 2025 Full Review The Breakfast Club (1985) 87% EDIT “Hughes is clearly of the impression that he knows a lot about kids and the way they think. He is, for the most part, mistaken... Yet this is a movie well worth seeing, if only for the performances, which are without exception excellent.” – Toronto Star Feb 14, 2025 Full Review The Lion King (1994) 92% 4/5 EDIT “The unique matching of voice to visual makes each of the characters sing, in the figurative as well as the literal sense. ” – Toronto Star Dec 19, 2024 Full Review Pocahontas (1995) 59% 2/5 EDIT “Even if Disney's Pocahontas can be considered a failure in almost every significant respect -- and, regrettably, it can -- it is only in relation to their own, impossibly high standards. ” – Toronto Star Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Beetlejuice (1988) 83% EDIT “Once Beetlejuice gets moving, with its wonky characters and its unbelievably strange special effect, the most unorthodox storyline is the most normal thing about it. ” – Toronto Star Aug 21, 2024 Full Review Alien 3 (1992) 44% EDIT “Not only is Alien 3 less than the sum of its parts, its parts don't add up to a cohesive whole. Hell, they don't even add up to parts.” – Toronto Star Aug 5, 2024 Full Review Twister (1996) 68% 4/5 EDIT “The story, the script and the characters are as inconsequential as a mild spring breeze -- but the special effects will blow you away.” – Toronto Star Jul 16, 2024 Full Review The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 89% 4/5 EDIT “It is the best prison movie since Papillon. And the best Stephen King adaptation since Stand By Me.” – Toronto Star Mar 1, 2024 Full Review Pulp Fiction (1994) 92% 5/5 EDIT “It is everything you have heard, and many things you haven't. Audacious, outrageous, indulgent, extreme. Mischievously brutal. Giddily visceral. Wildly enthusiastic. More fun than a barrel of monkeys. Mad, bad and dangerous to know.” – Toronto Star Feb 28, 2024 Full Review Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 92% 5/5 EDIT “It would be hard to imagine a more perfect marriage of personalities, sensibilities and talents than that which has been assembled here.” – Toronto Star Feb 28, 2024 Full Review Heat (1995) 84% 4/5 EDIT “We are being asked to spend inordinate amounts of our time sitting through a single movie... Be that as it may, and much as I hate to encourage this sort of thing, I cannot come up with a single second of Heat that I could have done without.” – Toronto Star Dec 20, 2023 Full Review Broken City (2013) 26% 1/4 EDIT “Did these people - or even these people's people - not bother to read the script first?” – Toronto Star Jan 20, 2013 Full Review Monsters, Inc. (2001) 96% 3/4 EDIT “The movie itself stands up well, even from an adult, two-dimensional perspective.” – Toronto Star Dec 18, 2012 Full Review Sushi Girl (2012) 57% 2/4 EDIT “We can't all be Quentin Tarantino, but that doesn't stop some people from trying.” – Toronto Star Dec 6, 2012 Full Review
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