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Gary Susman

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The American President (1995) 90% EDIT “As an ensemble, these actors strike wonderful sparks. Their infectious energy suggests that public servants work so hard not because they're noble but because they've fallen in love with their jobs.” – Boston Phoenix Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 91% EDIT “T2 retains most of the assets of T1: writer/director James Cameron's Wagnerian take on the action genre, a plot that doesn't insult your intelligence...great stunts and special effects, and a role uniquely suited to its star's limited acting ability.” – Boston Phoenix Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% EDIT “Closet is impressive for the comprehensiveness of its decade-by-decade survey. ” – Boston Phoenix Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% EDIT “Screenwriters Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver and director Brad Silberling are all TV veterans and film rookies; none of them is as creative as Tim Burton, yet they’ve overloaded the movie with detail that will leave kids in the dust. ” – Boston Phoenix Oct 3, 2025 Full Review DuckTales, the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) 66% EDIT “This theme-park ride-to-be plunders such Spielberg thrill machines as Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T.” – Boston Phoenix Jul 17, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (1993) 94% EDIT “Lee's twists on the well-worn false-marriage premise makes for an ideal farce.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Aladdin (1992) 96% EDIT “The Disney team may not have polished Aladdin to their usual sheen, but they haven't embalmed it, either. There's plenty of magic and surprise left in the old lamp.” – Boston Phoenix Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (1991) 95% EDIT “The genius of this movie is that it makes Belle the active heroine, and the Beast the passive love object that must be saved. ” – Boston Phoenix Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Planet of the Apes (2001) 42% EDIT “Anyone expecting director Tim Burton's trademark visionary otherworldliness will be disappointed by the standard action fare of this big-budget remake.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 30, 2024 Full Review When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) 68% EDIT “As the Greens’ trying-to-be-strong elder daughter, nine-year-old Tina Majorino is a revelation.” – Boston Phoenix Sep 1, 2023 Full Review Addams Family Values (1993) 76% EDIT “One hopes to see Ricci rewarded with a little Oscar, perhaps with its head chopped off. ” – Boston Phoenix Sep 21, 2022 Full Review Back to the Future Part II (1989) 63% EDIT “This sequel doesn't just borrow plot ideas and gags from the first movie; it outright lifts entire sequences.” – Boston Phoenix Jan 25, 2022 Full Review Striptease (1996) 11% EDIT “Striptease is not a disaster like that other expensive ecdysiast extravaganza, Showgirls, though if it were, it might at least have some redeeming camp awfulness to enliven its otherwise dull mediocrity.” – Boston Phoenix Jun 18, 2014 Full Review Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) 86% 3/4 EDIT “For all its gorgeous freakishness, the movie is even more about love and friendship than the first one was.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 15, 2013 Full Review Salt (2010) 62% 2.5/4 EDIT “If there's not much suspense in the plotting, at least there's plenty in wondering how Lara Croft -- oops, Evelyn Salt -- will get out of one impossibly tight scrape after another.” – Boston Phoenix Jul 21, 2010 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% EDIT “Comparisons are invidious, but inescapable: Boogie Nights is the most stunningly accomplished, attention-grabbing movie by a sophomore director since Pulp Fiction.” – Boston Phoenix Jul 6, 2010 Full Review Casino Royale (2006) 94% 3/4 EDIT “Every era gets the James Bond it deserves. Ours gets a Bond who's strong and forceful but also reckless and arrogant, who blunders into tricky situations in Third World countries and makes a bloody mess of things.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 23, 2009 Full Review X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) 56% 3/4 EDIT “Yes, Ratner's music-video attention span and inability to linger on a shot ... blunts the impact of some of [the] big emotional moments. Nonetheless, he liked Singer's films as much as you did, and he hasn't tried to fix what ain't broke.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 23, 2009 Full Review Night Watch (2004) 59% EDIT “Night Watch is a completely synthetic yet thoroughly original movie.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 23, 2009 Full Review Miami Vice (2006) 47% 3/4 EDIT “The woozy, disorienting, fever-dream ambiance that's a Mann trademark is as much a character as the cops and robbers, all of them playing with shifting identities and uncertain loyalties.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 23, 2009 Full Review The Ringer (2005) 40% B- EDIT “Knoxville's willingness to go to any length to humiliate himself for a laugh actually serves his guilt-ridden character, but the movie's real stars are the Special Olympians, who aren't trying to be inspirational or even likable, just funny.” – Entertainment Weekly Dec 27, 2005 Full Review War of the Worlds (2005) 76% 2.5/4 EDIT “War of the Worlds ends too abruptly, running out of juice just as the aliens do. Even on summer popcorn terms, it's a tepid finish to a movie that, for its first hour or so, taps so expertly into our fears.” – Boston Phoenix Jul 5, 2005 Full Review Intolerable Cruelty (2003) 76% EDIT “The Coens are setting themselves up again for the charge of misanthropy, but their cynicism here is so pure that, at least as embodied by Clooney and Zeta-Jones, it comes off as a kind of romantic ideal.” – Boston Phoenix Oct 11, 2003 Full Review Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) 24% EDIT “The preposterous plot line does give De Bont an excuse to send Jolie flying in a handful of heartstopping stunt sequences. But she's her own special effect, as protean, mercurial, and dangerous as any piece of wirework or CGI.” – Boston Phoenix Aug 9, 2003 Full Review The Matrix Reloaded (2003) 74% EDIT “The Matrix was, hands down, the best cyberpunk/kung fu/techno-pagan/Christian-allegory action film ever made. The Matrix Reloaded is the second best.” – Boston Phoenix Jul 2, 2003 Full Review
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