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Adrian Martin

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The Sure Thing (1985) 84% 3.5/5 EDIT “There is not a single personal attribute on which the film does not make a humorous, systematic comparison between the two teenagers. ” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% 3/5 EDIT “Reiner visualises this story in its full, grotesque splendour.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Death Race 2000 (1975) 80% 3/5 EDIT “One can marvel endlessly at the ingenuity of the bargain-basement special effects and canny locations.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% 3/5 EDIT “A brave attempt at philosophical sci-fi.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Predator (1987) 64% 3/5 EDIT “Predator is no real contender for the great movies of 1987. But for anyone truly concerned with the forever mutating state of popular art, it is a minor revelation.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% 2/5 EDIT “Despite its occasional high-spirited humor and some fine performances (particularly from Wahlberg and Julianne Moore), Boogie Nights amounts to the dispiriting spectacle of low-life losers partying until they drop.” – The Age (Australia) Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Toy Story (1995) 100% EDIT “Toy Story overcame my resistance effortlessly, partly because it is so well crafted, and partly also because it embraces and exploits the "unreality" of this technique.” – The Age (Australia) Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Babe (1995) 98% 3/5 EDIT “Babe is not bland, but it is bizarre.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Barton Fink (1991) 90% 4/5 EDIT “The film has an anything-might-happen-next air and a faith in strange associative leaps that take the plot in unforeseen directions.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Fargo (1996) 94% 4/5 EDIT “I think the film is a very careful meditation on what moral position can be meaningfully, intelligently taken, in this mad, apocalyptic world of ours.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Fantastic Four (2005) 28% 2/5 EDIT “This is a strictly by-the-numbers superhero blockbuster.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Mouse Hunt (1997) 50% 3/5 EDIT “Debut feature director Gore Verbinski skilfully employs a high-energy, expressionistic style.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Spider-Man 2 (2004) 93% 3.5/5 EDIT “While revelling in such subterranean themes, Raimi’s, offbeat, cartoonish sensibility is also simultaneously able to capture a certain innocence long gone from blockbuster movie entertainment.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Spider-Man (2002) 90% 3.5/5 EDIT “What Spider-Man lacks in depth it more than makes up for in surface. Raimi has found his way back to the realm of the live-action cartoon, and he makes the most of his golden opportunity.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 Full Review The Gift (2000) 57% 2/5 EDIT “For too much of The Gift, Blanchett is required simply to be sullen or scared. Raimi unwisely withdraws any humour from her character and invests it in a string of daffy supporting players” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 Full Review For Love of the Game (1999) 47% 3.5/5 EDIT “Director Sam Raimi is a long way from the gleefully gory Evil Dead films that made his name in the '80s, but he grasps the most poetic elements of the sports genre with grace and élan.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 Full Review A Simple Plan (1998) 91% 3/5 EDIT “A Simple Plan is a modest, somewhat familiar film – at times it seems like Fargo (1995) without the cartoonish excess – but its execution is impressively effective.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 Full Review The Quick and the Dead (1995) 62% 3.5/5 EDIT “Raimi is one of those directors for whom the cinema is essentially a game, an exhibitionistic display. He has fun with the conclusion of each gunfight – who’s left standing, who’s been shot, who’s really dead or alive?” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Army of Darkness (1992) 68% 3/5 EDIT “Relocating Campbell and the nasty, invisible spirits who are his nemesis back in medieval times, the film is a riot of corny postures and camp lines.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 Full Review The Evil Dead (1981) 85% 3.5/5 EDIT “The Evil Dead is the ultimate movie-nerd success story, flagrantly amateurish and hand-made in many of its effects.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Village of the Damned (1995) 28% 1.5/5 EDIT “Carpenter tries to recreate the old B-movie feel in several respects – in the very subdued use of special effects, and the casting of actors such as Reeve, Alley and Mark Hamill in patently one-dimensional roles. His gamble fails badly.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 Full Review John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. (1996) 56% 3/5 EDIT “I won’t tell you how things end in Escape from L.A., but I will say that the sight of Pliskin, alone with his cigarette in the dark, is one of the most sublime moments of 1990s cinema.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen (2000) 88% 4.5/5 EDIT “Forget all the parodic jokes down the years about twisting heads and green vomit. The Exorcist is more startling and captivating now than ever before – and a shining example of how radical, on every level, a piece of popular entertainment can be.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Ghostbusters II (1989) 55% 1/5 EDIT “Comedy has rarely been this depressing.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Fright Night Part 2 (1988) 31% 2.5/5 EDIT “ The original Fright Night proposed an ingenious combination of vampire horror, teenage anxiety and self-reflexive comedy centered on a Deadly Earnest-type TV host. The sequel (energetically directed by Tommy Lee Wallace) re-uses these elements.” – Film Critic: Adrian Martin Jul 30, 2025 Full Review
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