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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Ace in the Hole (1951) Helen Bower Over the entire movie is the magical perfection of Wilder's way with a story... Ace in the Hole is bad news that should sell.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
6/10
Crossroads (1986) Catharine Rambeau There are too many elements here.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
My Bloody Valentine (1981) Jack Mathews There are some passing attempts at subtle comic relief, but most of the yuks are inadvertent.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
North (1994) Frank Bruni Whatever direction "North" travels, it traffics primarily in tired jokes and strained social commentary.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
7/10
Misery (1990) Kathy Huffhines The movie works because of its wonderfully festering psychic material.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The American President (1995) Terry Lawson This would be a far better country if the soulful Martin Sheen really were its chief of staff, and Michael J. Fox has finally been given a film role that recognizes the qualities that made him a major television star.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Freep Staff It doesn't for in for too-fantastic effects or dreaming up peculiar-looking creatures.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Bite the Bullet (1975) Susan Stark Despite its extra length and its marked tendency to be smug, it is a generally entertaining movie that comes along just as fans of the Western have reason to despair that Westerns will ever be entertaining again.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Bite the Bullet (1975) Lisa Maue With so many characters, be prepared to jump from one to another and to experience several story lines with frequent cutaways.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
8/10
Stand by Me (1986) Catharine Rambeau Everything about "Stand by Me" -- its sound track, its landscape, even its hilarious vomiting scene -- is wonderful stuff, and Reiner's touching, elegiac adult film about children is obviously a labor of love.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Gaslight (1944) Len G. Shaw It is the dead-pan viciousness of Boyer and Miss Bergman's restrained study of mental dissolution that make Gaslight one of the most compelling melodramas that can be recalled.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
A Place in the Sun (1951) Helen Bower "A Place in the Sun" will claim its place in the sun of Hollywood achievement as an adult picture expertly treated in every department.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Out of the Past (1947) Helen Bower The story is hard to follow and not much worth the effort.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Alice in Wonderland (1951) Helen Bower All this makes for comedy and an agreeable lightness to match such delicacy and charm as that of the picture's floral sequence and the underwater ballet of the Little Oysters.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
7/10
The Sure Thing (1985) Gary Graff So yeah, The Sure Thing is a sure thing. Smooth, compassionate and honest, it's every bit as engaging as the opening scene.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
6/10
The Princess Bride (1987) Kathy Huffhines I have enormous admiration for Reiner's urge to try this movie at all. Unlike most Hollywood sword-and-sorcery films, Reiner's film insists on creating a fairy tale simply through its story and English setting, not through mechanical special effects.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
A Few Good Men (1992) Judy Gerstel Despite some formula plotting, the filmmakers do manage to make a smart, entertaining movie with their adroit, if somewhat shallow, exploration of character, milieu, morality and jurisprudence.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
6/10
When Harry Met Sally... (1989) Kathy Huffhines Attempts a fresh, honest look at relationships in the '80s.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) Clarke Wales The picture is distinguished by remarkable performances.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
7/10
Hook (1991) Judy Gerstel Spielberg's latest attempt to commit his boyishness to the screen is likely to entertain kids. And there are worse things to fault a movie for, in the grand scheme of Hollywood crimes and misdemeanors, than rabid narcissism.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
4/10
Christine (1983) Catharine Rambeau The action's utterly predictable.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
5/10
Big Top Pee-wee (1988) Kathy Huffhines What you get is a film that's as flat as the prairie and as peculiar as a pack of Piccalapoopola.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
8/10
The Abyss (1989) Kathy Huffhines It's all eye-popping, bite-your-nails stuff.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
True Lies (1994) Frank Bruni The last twenty minutes of True Lies are like nothing you've ever seen in a movie before. If you can make it that far, you're in for an exhilarating spectacle.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
9/10
A Soldier's Story (1984) Catharine Rambeau Powerful, upbeat entertainment despite a serious message. Howard Rollins is splendid.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
5/10
The Razor's Edge (1984) Catharine Rambeau Comedian Bill Murray's first attempt at dramatic acting has serious flaws.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
9/10
Places in the Heart (1984) Catharine Rambeau John Malkovich gives an Academy Award-caliber performance, and a fine cast make this an extraordinary film experience.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
8/10
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1981) Catharine Rambeau A weird, enchanting, utterly original movie.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4/10
Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984) Catharine Rambeau Paul McCartney's first movie in 14 years has no passion, no energy, no electricity.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
7/10
Firstborn (1984) Catharine Rambeau A bit too violent; otherwise, there's plenty of truthful moments in this sad-eyed look at life in the '80s.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
8/10
Country (1984) Catharine Rambeau This beautifully photographed film is occasionally undermined by dramatic overkill and an excess of rhetoric, but a fine cast and a serious story make it worth seeing.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
8/10
Choose Me (1984) Catharine Rambeau A quirky, sexy, extremely intense and occasionally hilarious slice of low-life.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4/10
Body Double (1984) Catharine Rambeau Brian De Palma's much-heralded film is much ado about not very much, a good idea that opens strong and goes wrong within minutes.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
7/10
American Dreamer (1984) Catharine Rambeau Jobeth Williams and Tom Conti make a dandy duo in this action-adventure-fantasy-romance souffle.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
8/10
All of Me (1984) Catharine Rambeau It's a spiritual marriage made in heaven -- funny, sexy and loving.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
2/10
The Terminator (1984) Catharine Rambeau Violent, implausible and dumb.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
A Christmas Carol (1984) Mike Duffy Directed with great care and good humor by Clive Donner, the film is as rich and satisfying as can be.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Journey Back to Oz (1974) Bettelou Peterson It had little charm and the music was poor.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
The Wiz (1978) Susan Stark It offers the kind of big, brassy spectacle we don't get much at the movies any more.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
5/10
Predator 2 (1990) Mike Dembs This thriller delivers the goods and turns out to be better than the original.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
1/4
Predator 2 (1990) Susan Stark The formula for this disappointing sequel to 1987's Predator: Subtract Arnold Schwarzenegger and suspense, then add high-intensity gore, sensationalistic glimpses of urban rot and silly allegory.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Predator (1987) Elvis Mitchell If "Predator" weren't so impersonal - it does have one poetic scene of carnage in which the alien destroys sections of the jungle at night - it would be more frightening, and funnier.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Helen Bower In spite of all its diffusion, [the film] can be commended for the acting of the late James Dean...with magnified sorrow the public may see what personality, charm and force were lost to the future in young Dean's fatal car crash.
Posted Oct 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Dracula (1979) Michael Clark Although some may find it too flamboyantly directed for its literate script, this "Dracula" definitely has its virtues.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Born Yesterday (1950) Helen Bower Garson Kanin's stage play has had to be expanded to fill the requirements with a feature movie. This has cost something in tightness and sock. But something has been acquired in visible impact of American greatness.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
8/10
Desert Hearts (1985) Catharine Rambeau Desert hearts is joyous and outrageous -- an original with a beat all its own.
Posted Oct 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Stephen King's It (1990) Jim McFarlin It's so good, it's a fright.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Celluloid Closet (1995) Terry Lawson Closet pays proper respect to the groundbreaking films of the '60s and early '70s.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
6/10
Tron (1982) Jack Mathews "Tron" may cause a sensory overload.
Posted Oct 06, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Casper (1995) Frank Bruni After a perfectly respectable first half, [the film] begins to unravel, trying too hard to hit too many predetermined notes.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
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