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Desson Thomson

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To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% EDIT “Glover takes his part about as far as it can go but, though Burnett uncovers some fascinating aspects of rural folklore, the story's a longwinded affair full of conventional plot turns.” – Washington Post Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Night of the Living Dead (1990) 57% EDIT “Why did it have to be remade?” – Washington Post Sep 18, 2025 Full Review This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 98% EDIT “There are so many great moments in this movie.” – Washington Post Sep 4, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% EDIT “If this gagfest fires the occasional blank, that's the structural problem of expanding a half-hour format to feature length. But "Gun" is hit-or-miss yuk for yuk's sake, with one-liners to spare.” – Washington Post Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible II (2000) 58% EDIT “Even crashing cars turn majestic pirouettes for Woo. And like a kid-maestro with the biggest computer joystick in the world, Woo clicks overtime.” – Washington Post May 8, 2025 Full Review Pulp Fiction (1994) 92% EDIT “Brilliant and brutal, funny and exhilarating, jaw-droppingly cruel and disarmingly sweet.” – Washington Post Mar 1, 2024 Full Review Lone Star (1996) 91% EDIT “It might be overstating things to declare that entertainment values have finally been introduced to a Sayles picture. But this time, at least, you can appreciate his film without having to work too hard.” – Washington Post Sep 6, 2023 Full Review La Haine (1995) 96% EDIT “A sense of horrible fate hangs menacingly over the movie. You wait in an uncomfortable limbo for the thing to eventually go off. In this suspense-filled state, you also drink in the richly layered details.” – Washington Post Jul 19, 2023 Full Review The Big Lebowski (1998) 79% EDIT “With their inspired, absurdist taste for weird, peculiar Americana, the Coens have defined and mastered their own bizarre subgenre. No one does it like them and, it almost goes without saying, no one does it better. ” – Washington Post Jan 24, 2023 Full Review Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) 92% EDIT “In Devil, folks like Easy Rawlins have long since learned to roll with the racial punches. It's precisely that kind of offhand profundity that makes the movie so memorable. Franklin's picture is effortlessly wise beneath its entertaining surface.” – Washington Post Oct 27, 2021 Full Review Twister (1996) 68% EDIT “The hackneyed chatter and half-baked personal histories are enough to make you scream into the wind.” – Washington Post May 7, 2021 Full Review The Apple (1998) 85% EDIT “There is nothing more haunting than the faces of those two girls, two angels who were kept in hell for more than a decade and have emerged, blinking into the light.” – Washington Post Mar 31, 2021 Full Review Edge of Seventeen (1998) 79% EDIT “Writer Todd Stephens and director David Moreton give us the inside scoop, live and direct, from Eric's heart.” – Washington Post May 28, 2020 Full Review Committed (2000) 43% EDIT “The performers, including the very weird Casey Affleck and Goran Visnjic do their best to charm. But they're merely covering up for the movie's dramatic emptiness.” – Washington Post Apr 30, 2020 Full Review Prefontaine (1997) 54% EDIT “The story is not so much told as reported.” – Washington Post Mar 24, 2020 Full Review The Straight Story (1999) 95% EDIT “David Lynch's movie - the finest he has made since "Blue Velvet" - is serenely bereft of postmodern cynicism.” – Washington Post Mar 18, 2020 Full Review The Way of the Gun (2000) 46% EDIT “Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie, who wrote The Usual Suspects, has made a film that I admire more than I love, whose ending makes me recoil emotionally, even as I recommend the thing.” – Washington Post Jun 18, 2019 Full Review Immortal Beloved (1994) 57% EDIT “For all the story's illicit passion, creative reveries, detective-like investigation and twist ending, Immortal Beloved is episodically slow and surprisingly flat.” – Washington Post May 24, 2019 Full Review Don Juan DeMarco (1995) 70% EDIT “The movie, written and directed by Jeremy Leven, may not be one for the ages, but it's a pleasant, involving experience that intermixes fairy-tale romance with modern, deadpan comedy.” – Washington Post Mar 4, 2019 Full Review My Life (1993) 42% EDIT “This is the kind of bittersweet, dire-affliction performance that always bowls over the Motion Picture Academy voters. But this time, assuming they nominate the picture, even they will be right.” – Washington Post Mar 4, 2019 Full Review Ghetto (2002) 81% EDIT “A touching documentary about Jewish flight to China.” – Washington Post Jan 29, 2019 Full Review The Cable Guy (1996) 57% EDIT “To watch Carrey leering with joy at the prospect of making respectable people guess dirty words, and Broderick trying to avoid the whole thing, is to enjoy their best comic synergy.” – Washington Post Dec 12, 2018 Full Review Dead Man (1995) 69% EDIT “Both Blake's journey and composer Neil Young's spare, electric guitar score seem endlessly circular; and people are always asking Blake for tobacco.” – Washington Post Nov 9, 2018 Full Review The Portrait of a Lady (1996) 48% EDIT “Portrait feels like an elegant party, full of attractive people, beautiful finery and tremendous music (from Wojiech Kilar), yet no excitement. And no matter how many times you revisit the place, it never gets better.” – Washington Post Oct 27, 2018 Full Review Trial and Error (1997) 50% EDIT “Ever since "Something Wild," Daniels has perfected his gift for looking increasingly beaten down. He's a perfect foil for Richards's wilder shenanigans.” – Washington Post Oct 25, 2018 Full Review
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