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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Legend (1985) Mitch Potter The film borrows cliche after mythological cliche in building-block fashion. But with the visual precision of director Ridley Scott, the 90-minute trek of familiar folklore provides a pleasantly generic reading of those cliches.
Posted Apr 18, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
RoboCop 3 (1993) Randall King The action sequences are dull, the gallows humor is barely worthy of The Addams Family, and the satirical thrust is weak.
Posted Apr 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
James and the Giant Peach (1996) Randall King The animation here may be superb. But it doesn't take a grownup to realize that the narrative of this fantasy is a mess.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Victor/Victoria (1982) Morley Walker It ends up dissappointing on every level.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Grease 2 (1982) Morley Walker Grease 2 is like a high school football game in which some pranksters sneak in halfway through and deflate the ball.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Stand by Me (1986) Morley Walker Stand by Me is superior stuff.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop (1987) John Danakas The stabs it takes at the more corrupt elements of society are lethal.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Waiting for Guffman (1996) Randall King The comedy misses at least as often as it hits. But if you go in with an appreciation for the sher guts of working without a scripted net, you'll find Waiting is worth it.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 2 (1990) Randall King Despite some redeemingly funny bits, Robocop 2 is sadly empty -- a mere shell of his former self.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Othello (1995) Randall King Parker must be praised, not only for eliciting uniformly strong performances from his cast, but for staying faithful to the play.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Sense and Sensibility (1995) Randall King If it seems predictable that critics tend to fawn all over movies like Sense and Sensibility, bear with us. Sense and Sensibility is, after all, a piece of supreme elegance.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Bride of Re-Animator (1990) Randall King Perversely funny, but not as inspired as the original.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Muppet Treasure Island (1996) Randall King Although it offers a few cute gags, Muppet Treasure Island should probably follow Cutthroat Island down to Davy Jones' Multiplex.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The American President (1995) Randall King A snappy, sharply written romantic comedy, The American President makes valiant efforts not to venture into fantasyland.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Randall King It's an effective thriller and it has a meaningful subtext.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Hook (1991) Randall King The Academy may as well send Oscars to the production designers right now and get it out of the way.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
True Lies (1994) Randall King True Lies is another Cameron hybrid with the most unlikely of parents: James Bond and Lucy Ricardo. It is a combination of domestic comedy and big, big action.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Randall King After taking a wobbly step with The Abyss, Cameron can now confidently assume his rightful place as the best action genre director around. And of course Arnold is at his very best when he's playing a robot.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator 2 (1990) Randall King Assuming we don't ask too many questions, we're supposed to sit back and enjoy the massacre. But in fact, the massacre is tedious.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
To Sleep With Anger (1990) Randall King While slow and stylistically spartan, To Sleep With Anger pointedly presents a series of dichotomies within the family.
Posted Sep 25, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Spider-Man (2002) Bruce Kirkland Simmons boldly steals scenes as the cigar-chomping, bombastic boss of the city's much-racking newspaper, The Daily Bugle.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Boogie Nights (1997) Randall King Twenty-seven-year-old director Paul Thomas Anderson is strutting his stuff behind the camera as self-consciously as the disco dancers in front of it. Forgive him. The bottom line is that Anderson really can dance.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Hard Eight (1996) Randall King The reason Hard Eight is so appealing is that it veers sharply from most conventional Hollywood fare -- and most unconventional Hollywood fare for that matter... You simply don't know where it's going to go until it gets there.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Night of the Living Dead (1990) Randall King It straddles between offensiveness and good taste and as a result it has no impact, little humor, and no soul.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Darkman (1990) Randall King Darkman is far closer to the spirit of the comic book form than either Batman or Dick Tracy. And as a matter of fact, it's a better movie than both of them.
Posted Aug 25, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Dirty Work (1998) Randall King It's a mean little comedy.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Wedding Banquet (1993) Randall King The Wedding Banquet deftly walks a line between eastern and western audience by sticking with a gently sardonic tone.
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
American Psycho (2000) Randall King Bale, an actor who is male-model-handsome enough to epitomize Bateman's cold surface glamour, is also smart enough to understand that the character he's playing is not just a monster, but a loser.
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Mission: Impossible (1996) Randall King This is a big, empty thrill machine.
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Red Rock West (1993) Randall King While an amusing little waste-o'-time, this film by writer-director John Dahl never really takes off. Any style and wit is subdued, as is Cage, who might as well be sleepwalking through this part.
Posted Jul 15, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Pulp Fiction (1994) Bruce Kirkland When dialogue is as distinctive as It is here the actors make the most of it.
Posted Feb 28, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Gladiator (2000) Randall King By emphasizing big battles and spilled blood, Scott banks on the hope the movie audience will be no more discerning than the Colosseum's screaming mob.
Posted Feb 22, 2015  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Louis B. Hobson Turns out you really can get too much of a good thing. Or even a good ring. Make no mistake about it, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a very good thing.
Posted Dec 17, 2003  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Bruce Kirkland In terms of its visual and aural splendour, it is even better and bigger in scale than the first film.
Posted Dec 18, 2002  Edit critic review
3/5
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) Bruce Kirkland A better movie than the clumsy Phantom Menace.
Posted May 16, 2002  Edit critic review
5/5
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Bruce Kirkland With breathtaking verve, stylish visuals and dazzling special effects, and finally with robust performances from a huge ensemble, the three-hour, live-action epic sweeps audiences into the fantastical world of Middle-earth.
Posted Dec 19, 2001  Edit critic review
Jurassic Park III (2001) Jim Slotek The latest summer dino-fest pales next to the maligned sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
Posted Jul 18, 2001  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Chocolat (2000) Bruce Kirkland A charming experience full of delightful surprises.
Posted Jan 05, 2001  Edit critic review
5/5
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Bruce Kirkland An epic that soars onto the screen with both majesty and gung-ho Hollywood enthusiasm.
Posted Dec 08, 2000  Edit critic review
Boys and Girls (2000) Randall King [The stars] are navel-gazing bores.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
Nurse Betty (2000) Randall King It's Zellweger's movie, and her charm proves to be just the right prescription to balance LaBute's astringent style.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) Randall King Bringing the cartoon characters into the real world requires a wild imagination. Credit scriptwriter Kenneth Lonergan for having it.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
The Whole Nine Yards (2000) Randall King Peet emerges as one of the most delightful female characters in the film.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
What Planet Are You From? (2000) Randall King Nichols' film is distinctive from his other sex comedies in that it aims lower than the brain.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
Angela's Ashes (1999) Randall King Admirably performed.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
28 Days (2000) Randall King Bullock also covers herself with gratuitous comedy and predictable drama to prevent audiences from seeing the naked truth of addiction.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
Gossip (2000) Bruce Kirkland Gossip is just unbelievable.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
Three Kings (1999) Randall King It's gutsy stuff, disturbing but funny and strangely captivating.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
Where the Money Is (2000) Randall King The heist sequence is an almost mellow affair, and the sexual content is likewise unlikely to induce any heart attacks among Newman's age demographic.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
Keeping the Faith (2000) Randall King The film fleshes out the jokey premise with rather elaborate character development.
Posted Jan 01, 2000  Edit critic review
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