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Kenneth Turan

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True Lies (1994) 77% EDIT “Perhaps Cameron, whose earlier films were noted for their strong women, simply lost his bearings in this new genre and miscalculated his effects, but the results are not pleasant to watch. ” – Los Angeles Times Dec 10, 2025 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% EDIT “Because of the questions it raises and the evidence it provides, The Celluloid Closet remains of compelling interest. ” – Los Angeles Times Oct 8, 2025 Full Review This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 98% EDIT “"This Is Spinal Tap" is still hilarious.” – Los Angeles Times Sep 4, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) 77% EDIT “Now that Zucker has turned himself into an institution and this style of humor into a lifetime sinecure, the "Look, Ma, no hands" exuberance that made the original Airplane! so refreshing has totally gone by the boards.” – Los Angeles Times Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% EDIT “If there was a Force that looked after and protected this film, it was a remains the power of George Lucas' vision, his intuitive understanding of the forms of popular moviemaking. ” – Los Angeles Times Apr 22, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (1993) 94% EDIT “As poignant and pointed as it is funny (and it is very funny), it dresses up familiar forms with modern twists and ends up an assured and amusing comedy of manners.” – Los Angeles Times Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (1991) 95% EDIT “Howard Ashman, the film's brilliantly lyricist, died of AIDS last March... While certain types of cleverness are exclusionary, Ashman's is the opposite, effortless effervescent and totally welcoming. We are going to miss his work. In fact, we already do. ” – Los Angeles Times Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 69% EDIT “No matter what else you do with it, a Dracula that cannot manage to be more scary than silly is as pitilessly doomed as that elegant old Transylvanian himself.” – Los Angeles Times Sep 26, 2024 Full Review The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 89% EDIT “Its message of hope and friendship comes premixed with a sizable dollop of unappetizing violence, intended to convince audiences that what they're watching isn't a big glob of cotton candy after all.” – Los Angeles Times Mar 4, 2024 Full Review Pulp Fiction (1994) 92% EDIT “The result, especially in the scenes involving Bruce Willis as a nervy boxer, can be long patches of dialogue that must have tickled Tarantino but will not necessarily resonate for anyone else.” – Los Angeles Times Feb 29, 2024 Full Review Quiz Show (1994) 97% EDIT “Fiennes' ability to project the pain behind a well-mannered facade, to turn intellectual and emotional agony into a real and living thing, is devastating. Impressive as the film is... Quiz Show would have been a very different experience without him.” – Los Angeles Times Feb 13, 2024 Full Review The Last of the Mohicans (1992) 88% EDIT “As for Daniel Day-Lewis, he proves once again that he is one of those chameleons who can play absolutely anything with complete conviction. ” – Los Angeles Times Dec 15, 2023 Full Review Fearless (1993) 86% EDIT “Hamstrung by a key miscalculation and an unfortunate loss of nerve, it achieves a good deal but falls short of its own aspirations.” – Los Angeles Times Dec 3, 2023 Full Review Raging Bull (1980) 92% EDIT “An intensely personal piece of work made to exacting specifications by a team of perfectionists. The result is like the man it portrays -- undeniably powerful and distinctive but not especially pleasant, an inspirer of awe but not affection.” – New West/California Oct 11, 2023 Full Review Taxi Driver (1976) 89% EDIT “De Niro's work retains so much strength and integrity you soon forget who the man is and who he became. This is classic, burn-a-hole-in-the-screen acting, defining the dislocated homicidal loner for all time. ” – Los Angeles Times Oct 5, 2023 Full Review Traffic (2000) 93% EDIT “Yet another indication of how accomplished a filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has become.” – Los Angeles Times Sep 8, 2023 Full Review When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) 68% EDIT “The Greens’ predicament doesn’t move you as much as the quality of the acting makes you think it would. As crisis mounts on crisis, the wires of manipulation become too visible and you start to feel uncomfortably like an emotional dartboard.” – Los Angeles Times Sep 1, 2023 Full Review Moscow on the Hudson (1984) 74% EDIT “Mazursky seems to be turning on comedy...” – New West/California Aug 22, 2023 Full Review Hard-Boiled (1992) 92% EDIT “Woo manages to imbue all this mass destruction with an air that is almost whimsical. ” – Los Angeles Times Jul 27, 2023 Full Review Patriot Games (1992) 72% EDIT “A perfectly adequate action thriller that neither disappoints nor exhilarates. If it doesn't exactly crackle with energy, it lets off a good buzz now and again, and depending on your mood, it may seem churlish to ask for more than that.” – Los Angeles Times Jun 6, 2023 Full Review The Color Purple (1985) 73% EDIT “Spielberg and first-time screenwriter Menno Meyjes have taken [Alice Walker's] strong, sometimes angry book and sanitized it into an obvious, sentimental fairy tale.” – New West/California May 25, 2023 Full Review Heavenly Creatures (1994) 95% EDIT “Peter Jackson... has nervily translated the Parker-Hulme case into film terms, and an adventurous, accomplished piece of business, burning with cinematic energy, it turns out to be.” – Los Angeles Times May 16, 2023 Full Review Farewell My Concubine (1993) 90% EDIT “An unhurried journey on the great tide of modern Chinese history, this gorgeous, intoxicating epic is confident enough of its visual and narrative power not to rush the telling.” – Los Angeles Times May 9, 2023 Full Review Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 94% EDIT “[Ford's] is the most pleasing kind of hero, simultaneously wised up and aw shucks, someone who treats the whole picture as a sly joke he is sharing with the audience... This feeling of freshness is the one thing Raiders could use a bit more of.” – New West/California May 3, 2023 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) 77% EDIT “It may sound exhilarating, but it is nothing more than exhausting; the sounds coming from theaters will not be those of glee but rather pitiful cries of "Enough already, I surrender."” – New West/California Apr 17, 2023 Full Review
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