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Lynden Barber

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Misery (1990) 87% EDIT “Misery is a turn-up, a spare tale drawing its effectiveness from suspenseful plotting and strong performances.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jan 21, 2026 Full Review White Fang (1991) 68% EDIT “The best the thing about White Fang is its splendid landscape photography.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Pacific Heights (1990) 52% EDIT “What really hampers Pacific Heights is a script too contrived to really convince.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jan 21, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% EDIT “Aaron Sorkin, who reportedly rewrote his successful play with much help from Reiner, has nevertheless delivered a tightly turned story which pulls an initially complex picture full of specialist jargon into focus at the exact rate the viewer demands.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) 77% EDIT “If it contains hokiness and cornpone, these are not served in portions so large they can't be swallowed, and there are at least enough quality ingredients to aid digestion.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 19, 2025 Full Review My Own Private Idaho (1991) 81% EDIT “A self-indulgent mess redeemed by moments of brilliance.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Turtle Beach (1992) EDIT “it would be nice to report that the film wasn't that bad after all, but it turns out to be a complete disaster, and on a number of levels.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% EDIT “Steven Spielberg has fashioned a piece of laboured New Age mush, an awkward cross between a rollicking children's entertainment and one of those fashionable Hollywood films about the redemption of a yuppie.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% EDIT “After starting as Sub-Aqua Aliens, the film lurches into Close Encounters of the Watery Kind; Cameron never manages to reconcile the two styles -- the tough and the naive.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Predator 2 (1990) 36% EDIT “Predator 2 is an ineptly made film, and a fairly vile one to boot.” – Sydney Morning Herald Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% EDIT “This film is more graphic than novel.” – Sydney Morning Herald Aug 27, 2025 Full Review Jungle Fever (1991) 81% EDIT “It's intelligent and thought-provoking, and occasionally it's brilliant -- a film that demands to be seen. But its flaws are loud ones, and its apparently separatist leanings are too dangerous to be allowed to pass unchallenged.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Life Is Sweet (1991) 94% EDIT “For all its flaws, Life is Sweet is another deeply personal work from Leigh, one which makes everyday banalities seem somehow a little, dare I say, sweeter.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jul 23, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) 77% EDIT “Slapstick, puns, silent film gags, surreal juxtapositions -- if they raise a smile, they're in. Yet the humour's air of effortlessness believes what is obviously months of intense planning and fine tuning. Timing is perfect throughout.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jul 23, 2025 Full Review DuckTales, the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) 66% EDIT “It's spoilt by a total lack of any sense of pacing -- the action moves at a breathless speed that never allows scenes the time to achieve any resonance.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Red Rock West (1993) 95% EDIT “Red Rock West is a cleverly plotted and very entertaining American independent that suffers just a little from looking as though it were factory-made for cult success.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jul 15, 2025 Full Review Jurassic Park (1993) 91% EDIT “After a string of movies in which he appeared to be going soft in the head, Spielberg has rediscovered the facility for suspense he displayed early in his career with Jaws.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jul 1, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (1993) 94% EDIT “The film left me cold, being so over-the-top that it couldn't possibly be taken at face value while lacking the wit needed to make for entertainment.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Do the Right Thing (1989) 92% EDIT “As soon as the credit sequence gets moving...you sense that Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing is going to be an extraordinary film.” – Sydney Morning Herald Mar 20, 2025 Full Review Aladdin (1992) 96% EDIT “There's so much in Aladdin that at least two viewings are probably needed to take it all in. You emerge from the cinema wondering what they slipped in that Coke you bought in the foyer.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Dick Tracy (1990) 63% EDIT “Bright, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 13, 2024 Full Review The Little Mermaid (1989) 92% EDIT “Not quite a return to classic form, then, but encouraging, nevertheless. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 13, 2024 Full Review Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 69% EDIT “It isn't scary or suspenseful at all. Coppola's telling is better thought of as a Dracula for the MTV generation, a series of diverting -- and often quite fabulous -- moments which ultimately add up to less than their sum.” – Sydney Morning Herald Sep 26, 2024 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (1991) 95% EDIT “Disney made big strides towards recapturing its classic form with the animated fairy tale The Little Mermaid a couple of years ago, but they let an insipid heroine almost spoil the effect. But Beauty and the Beast is unambiguously successful.” – Sydney Morning Herald Aug 5, 2024 Full Review Alien 3 (1992) 44% EDIT “Although there are moments when it's hard to shake the feeling we're watching a re-run of Ridley Scott's masterful first film, only with different sets, Alien 3 deserves credit for managing to produce shocks when they're least expected.” – Sydney Morning Herald Aug 5, 2024 Full Review
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