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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2/4
Legend (1985) John Dodd Legend is a live action, fantasy-adventure that sometimes looks like a parody of classic Disney animated films. If only it were. These guys are serious, dead serious.
Posted Apr 17, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Hard Eight (1996) Marc Horton It's a much more difficult thing to treat characters like this with the respect that everyone deserves. The dialogue is sharp, too, but it's Anderson's choice of Reno as his location that also helps raise the level in this film.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Fargo (1996) Marc Horton The dialogue is as good as it can get, funny because it is so accurate and true -- and as ordinary as the chat we have with the neighbor as we shovel the sidewalk.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Sense and Sensibility (1995) Marc Horton Sense and Sensibility is Austen at her greatest and movie-making at its best. It has it all: passion, humor, wit, great performances and a story that touches the heart.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) Barry Westgate Mostly, it is broad and shallow; a pedestrian and low-brow parade of situation designed to simple cash in on the appeal left over from the earlier film.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) Helen Metella The sumptuous sets may distract some viewers from the skimpy, mostly unfunny script, but the characters never catch up... Hudsucker Proxy is to snappy cinema what an assembly line is to personalized service.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Hook (1991) Marc Horton It is as clear an example of American cinematic know-how, lush extravagance, culture and cultural imperialism as you're ever likely to see.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Brazil (1985) John Dodd In its scope and imagination and bizarre, twisted humor it goes beyond anything Monty Python ever did. While the movie is certainly not to everyone's taste, it is something of a comic masterpiece, a movie for mature (and therefore warped) sensibilities.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Apocalypse Now (1979) John Dodd The deeper it goes, the shallower it becomes. The realistic becomes the theatrical. The emotions of the viewer rebel and the remaining traumatic focus is shattered. For all its flaws, Apocalypse Now remains an amazing triumph.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Stephen King's It (1990) Michael Cunliffe It is a frightening movie, filled with wonderfully horrifying special effects.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Stephen King's It (1990) Bob Remington Some of IT works and some of it doesn't.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Christine (1983) John Dodd Like most Carpenter movies, the buildup to the exciting bits is slow and obvious.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
RoboCop 2 (1990) Marc Horton Kershner's mayhem seems to lack any point at all.
Posted Apr 11, 2026  Edit critic review
0/4
RoboCop 3 (1993) Marc Horton RoboCop, the law enforcement officer with only half a brain, has now been rendered completely witless.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Jerry Maguire (1996) Marc Horton We're talking about an old-fashioned romantic movie ... Crowe, however, sets his boy-meets-girl story in the high-pressure, self-centred world of professional sports, and it's a fascinating, sometimes funny, place to be.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
James and the Giant Peach (1996) Marc Horton Director Henry Selick retains the dark creepiness of the original and has loads of fun while doing it.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Victor/Victoria (1982) John Dodd The best performance of Victor,Victoria comes from Lesley Ann Warren who plays Norma... came across so vivedly that Edwards expanded her part.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Stand by Me (1986) John Dood Stand by Me looks like a hit -- on paper. Too bad films are made of other substances.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
RoboCop (1987) Marc Horton Verhoeven proves that Europeans can direct action films, and yes, they can handle North American technology, too.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Muppet Movie (1979) John Dodd The Muppet Movie...is flawed by too much emphases on second-rate, lackluster songs and a middle section without much action or laughs... Yet there's too much intelligence, wit and amiability in this movie for it to drag for long.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Vanishing Point (1971) Barry Westgate What screenwriter Guillermo Cain thinks is a coherent movie is simply no place for grownups. Or any kind of person who thinks.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bad News Bears (1976) Barry Westgate What is loses going around the bases, it makes up for in the dugout, so to speak.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Fido (2006) Katherine Monk It's a colourful and clever recreation of genre that comes at just the right moment, as society looks deep into the rancid maw of death and rediscovers the value of life.
Posted Jun 13, 2007  Edit critic review
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