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Eleanor O'Sullivan

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Biography:

Film Critic, Democrat and Chronicle

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The American President (1995) 90% 3/4 EDIT “Being Capraesque is hardly a bad thing, but The American President is a self-conscious copy of same. It survives, even thrives now and then, by being charming and by having a terrific leading man.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Misery (1990) 87% 3/4 EDIT “In director Rob Reiner's hands, and with a witty, darkly comic script by William Goldman, "Misery" becomes a tour de force for Kathy Bates; she's amazing as the wacko Annie.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jan 21, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is everything the hype says: grand in scale, massive in emotional pitch, and towering in technical achievement.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% EDIT “The performances are marvelous.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “I can't think of a recent movie that so definitively etched itself into your brain and heart and would not let go, but it is not for the easily disturbed or violence-phobic. ” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 91% 3/4 EDIT “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring succeeds because it has good bones, created by Tolkien, that are honored by the filmmakers. It is unapologetic about celebrating mysticism, romanticism, spiritualism and heroism. ” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% EDIT “Short of being just plain lousy, there's nothing worse about a movie than when it tries too hard. The Princess Bride, Rob Reiner's new movie, is too dear and cute for its own good and rarely as funny as it intends. ” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% 3/4 EDIT “Director Rob Reiner...has a deft handle on the ins and outs of making courtroom drama pulsate; his movie is almost always absorbing...” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% 2.5/4 EDIT “Hook flies, but it sure doesn't soar. Maybe there's a lesson here, something about profligate spending not being able to buy you greatness.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Big Top Pee-wee (1988) 31% EDIT “The bizarre circus folks give "Big Top Pee-wee" an intriguing dark edge but provide insufficient contrast to Pee-wee.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Dec 11, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% 2.5/4 EDIT “"The Abyss" is Cameron's first personable film; he never lets the swirling events and special effects, played out underwater, overcome the nuts and bolts of his story.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Dec 10, 2025 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% 2/4 EDIT “At two hours and 21 minutes, the barrage of blasts, killings, crashes and fires grows numbing. ” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Predator (1987) 64% EDIT “"Predator" may be a re-tread, but it's a gruesomely effective one.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Oct 30, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% EDIT “Laundrette is a lucid, uncompromising look at how certain people live, but some audiences may find it unpalatable because of its universal relevance. The washing machine metaphor is apt: Many of us spin along, our control largely in other’s hands.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Oct 10, 2025 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% 3/4 EDIT “Celluloid Closet reminds us of how quantum a leap filmmakers made from the balting, self-conscious "Making Love" (1982) to the Vibrant and risky "Parting Glances" (1986) and "Go Fish" (1994)” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% 1.5/4 EDIT “It's a cute comedy with animation for kids, but with naughty double-entendres that adults will find choice, as well as drama with Freudian overtones about father-daughter love and...a somber tract on love and loss...” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Oct 1, 2025 Full Review Spider-Man (2002) 90% 3/4 EDIT “It's good. In fact, it's very good. And there is one obvious reason why: Spider-Man has a ton of heart.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% EDIT “It's true that Anderson's movie does not have the satisfying smoothness of [Short Cuts]. But it does feel right in capturing the aimlessness of young people who are not blessed with beauty, intelligence or good luck. ” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Night of the Living Dead (1990) 57% EDIT “In clean, bright and, for heaven's sake, warm color, it just doesn't deliver.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Sep 17, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% EDIT “David Zucker, directing, is on a roll that but for a bare few minutes toward the end, never flags.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jul 24, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) 77% 3/4 EDIT “Most men suffering from the Peter Pan syndrome make you cringe. With Zucker and Proft, you're thankful they won't grow up.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Explorers (1985) 49% EDIT “The soapy finish doesn't alter the fact the most of the "Explorers" trip is well worth the ride.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Superman Returns (2006) 72% 4/5 EDIT “Video-age audiences won't find the visual bombardment off-putting, and Superman fans will probably be happy just having a big screen Superman back. Still, the narrative cohesion of Christopher Reeve era Superman is missing, in favor of extravaganza.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jul 7, 2025 Full Review Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) 16% EDIT “Our hero contends with a galaxy of problems, including a new foe named Nuclear Man and a script sorely in need of Kryptonian vitality. ” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jul 2, 2025 Full Review Jurassic Park (1993) 91% 3/4 EDIT “He's back. And they're back, too. For the first time since E.T., Steven Spielberg hits almost all the right notes in his violent roller coaster entertainment Jurassic Park, a theme park movie with a mean but funny twist.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jul 1, 2025 Full Review
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