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Bob Campbell

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Gladiator (2000) 80% 3/4 EDIT “There's more show than substance, more noise than music, more circus than bread. Romans would understand. ” – Newark Star-Ledger Feb 18, 2026 Full Review Chocolat (2000) 64% 2.5/4 EDIT “You don't even have to chew it, you can gum it. Or just let it melt in your eyes. Chocolat is middle-class magic realism, comfort food with a Continental label. ” – Newark Star-Ledger Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) 96% 4/4 EDIT “Enchantment has returned. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is sophisticated romantic entertainment on an enlightened filmic plane.” – Newark Star-Ledger Feb 11, 2026 Full Review House (1985) 49% EDIT “"House" goes out of control -- it's like watching a magician eaten by his rabbits.” – Arizona Daily Star Feb 2, 2026 Full Review North (1994) 12% 1/4 EDIT “Movie people like to describe failure as "a learning experience." Rob Reiner's "North" should be worth a Ph.D. at least.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 24, 2026 Full Review The American President (1995) 90% 3/4 EDIT “The story may seem simple, but the filmmakers' showbiz sophistication shouldn't be underestimated. ” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “The director has achieved something elemental. By this point his three-part epic has moved off the screen and is projecting itself in our unconscious.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 13, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% 3/4 EDIT “This is effective entertainment in a tradition about as old and rigid as the Marine Corps code.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% 3/4 EDIT “Hook will entertain the easygoing, but others may feel more like Peter Banning as that smile is being wrenched onto his face.” – Newark Star-Ledger Dec 19, 2025 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% 3/4 EDIT “As a comedy about marital misunderstandings and middle-aged blues, True Lies is Manhattan Murder Mystery with special effects in place of wisecracks.” – Newark Star-Ledger Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Its breakneck chase scenes and slambang shock effects leave an audience feeling like road kill.” – Newark Star-Ledger Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% C EDIT “Despite a few spiffy optical effects and a chase through a funhouse-like secret laboratory, the movie never comes to life - or afterlife.” – Newhouse News Service Sep 29, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% 3.5/4 EDIT “Paul Thomas Anderson's high-velocity comedy-drama is overloaded, overdone and overambitious. But the approach is true to the volatile subject and makes a rousing relief from so many cautious, small-minded American movies of late.” – Newark Star-Ledger Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Toy Story (1995) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “More than merely a dazzling technical breakthrough, this comic fable is an exuberant family charmer.” – Newhouse News Service Sep 10, 2025 Full Review The Return of the Living Dead (1985) 71% EDIT “Cannibal zombies are amusing up to a point, but after the first hundred or so their charm wears thin.” – Arizona Daily Star Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Waterworld (1995) 60% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's madly watchable and utterly uninvolving. ” – Newhouse News Service Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Red Rock West (1993) 95% 3/4 EDIT “There's nothing new in "Red Rock West," but the cliches have been juggled with aplomb.” – Newhouse News Service Jul 15, 2025 Full Review I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) 47% 1.5/4 EDIT “It's the audience that finds itself on the hook. ” – Newhouse News Service Jul 15, 2025 Full Review Jurassic Park (1993) 91% 3.5/4 EDIT “Jurassic Park is a technological marvel but not a fantasy classic. There's little shimmer of imagination or mystery. Fortunately, the flat characters are played by charismatic actors. ” – Newhouse News Service Jul 1, 2025 Full Review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 57% 2.5/4 EDIT “A half-dozen jolting moments and suspense showpieces are scattered over [the runtime], like cocktails doled out at a stingy party. Easygoing action audiences will be satisfied, but Spielberg shouldn't be.” – Newhouse News Service Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Jurassic Park III (2001) 49% 3/4 EDIT “This go-round is fast-paced, good-looking and packed with big-ticket monsters. ” – Newhouse News Service Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Apollo 13 (1995) 94% 4/4 EDIT “Overcoming most of the inherent limitations of docudrama, Howard has launched a rousing entertainment that resonates with provocative questions about our national identity.” – Newhouse News Service Jun 24, 2025 Full Review Return to Oz (1985) 59% EDIT “"Return to Oz" is a strange and somber fable, fascinating for its refusal to be what anyone might expect.” – Arizona Daily Star Jun 17, 2025 Full Review Dirty Work (1998) 21% EDIT “For all the strained contortions of plot and motive, the movies gives us no reason to like its heroes.” – Newhouse News Service May 15, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible (1996) 67% 2.5/4 EDIT “There's always enough going on to hold your attention. "Mission: Impossible" leaves you feeling vaguely entertained even if you can't be sure why.” – Newhouse News Service May 6, 2025 Full Review
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