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Copley News Service is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): David Elliott.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
North (1994) David Elliott The story is a rush of disjointed whimsies, expensively staged, with the rhythm of elephants falling into a pit of taffy.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
A Few Good Men (1992) David Elliott Watching "A Few Good Men" is like strolling into an elegant showroom, finding a beautiful car, stroking its polished skin, enjoying the deluxe interior -- and then looking under the hood to find there's no motor.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
When Harry Met Sally... (1989) David Elliott Reiner's smart affection for people is the pilot light that warms it, along with the stars' great charm.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Someone to Watch Over Me (1987) David Elliott Gilded with Architectural Digest style touches, Ridley Scott's film is a plush, rather dawdling revamp of "Laura."
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
The Princess Bride (1987) David Elliott Reiner has a lot of light grace, and the film has a floating good spirit.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Stand by Me (1986) David Elliott [It] holds us because of the fresh, natural, often funny work by the young stars.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) David Elliott Bates is a classic movie gargoyle.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Manhunter (1986) David Elliott Mann's approach is preening and full of nightmarish portents that never clarify the rushed, confusing plot.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Ghostbusters II (1989) David Elliott The cast is crack with hipness.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Fly (1986) David Elliott "The Fly" is adroit.
Posted Dec 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Hellraiser (1987) David Elliott If you like strong terror and visceral weirdness, you've found your movie.
Posted Dec 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Midnight Run (1988) David Elliott "Midnight Run" doesn't open new doors, but it opens old ones to find fresh amusements.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Big Trouble in Little China (1986) David Elliott The movie is an assault and battery job, and exhausting to watch.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
1/4
Village of the Damned (1995) David Elliott Like the original, this movie doesn't have quite enough story.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
The Sender (1982) David Elliott The Sender can be subtle. Images are woven in soft webs of light, the music doesn't mug the moods, and the actors seldom become gargoyles.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Die Hard (1988) David Elliott It's stupid yet engrossingly directed for jolts by John McTiernan.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Die Hard 2 (1990) David Elliott An almost entirely unbelievable action stampede.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) David Elliott A thin, silly story is just a connecting rod between burst of special effects.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Gremlins (1984) David Elliott "Gremlins" is often a gas, yet it's also long, indulgent and almost crushingly synthetic.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) David Elliott Assembled from past hits the movie is all derivative blatancy.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (1987) David Elliott Schwarzenegger doesn't get enough action. The action he gets is often cheaply staged, deflating the manly magic of cunning, lethal expertise that has made him a star.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator (1987) David Elliott The gore is grim, yet the only meaningful criticism of the film, given the fact that such entertainment will be made as long as boys become men (and men remain boys), is that it runs too long.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator 2 (1990) David Elliott Danny Glover brings glints of humane acting... Though edited for whopper impact, much of the mayhem is confusing.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
From Beyond (1986) David Elliott The tone is cold, compulsive, remotely aloof from story values or characterization.
Posted Oct 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Re-Animator (1985) David Elliott The humor is Gross Guignol, amusing in lines like "Don't expect it to tango. It has a broken back," yet not so much fun in the mounting mess of carnage.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
To Sleep With Anger (1990) David Elliott Though it has an excellent cast and devoted direction, the movie largely rides on Glover's broad shoulders.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Night of the Living Dead (1990) David Elliott The movie provides some good old-fashioned, peek-through-your-fingers entertainment.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Wedding Banquet (1993) David Elliott This is "bold" confessional comedy.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Supergirl (1984) David Elliott "Supergirl" has a "let's party" tempo, but those on screen are obviously having more fun than we are.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) David Elliott Director Tim Burton has a light, sure knack for visual wit, and his compositions trigger the fun in situations.
Posted Jul 30, 2025  Edit critic review
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) David Elliott Too many gags land as mortar-lobbed duds.
Posted Jul 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Red Rock West (1993) David Elliott A smartly clicking plot machine that gives real pleasure, as put together by director John Dahl.
Posted Jul 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Explorers (1985) David Elliott When bored by basic exposition, Dante dawdles and doodles. In "Explorers," he takes forever to wind up his pitch, and though he throws it with great spin, it takes another forever to cross the plate.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) David Elliott The anti-nuclear message becomes perfunctory, and the film's drive becomes hectic; Furie just seems eager to get it over with.
Posted Jul 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Day of the Dead (1985) David Elliott Romero creates a paranoid fortress atmosphere that is strong, but he loads it with such pitiful acting and ponderous plotting.
Posted Jun 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Return to Oz (1985) David Elliott The sets, effects and atmosphere of wide-eyed fantasy are done just right, with humor and dash.
Posted Jun 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Starman (1984) David Elliott "Starman" doesn't rise to its full potential for wit and wonder. Yet it's often a delightful movie.
Posted May 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Mission: Impossible (1996) David Elliott Enjoyable, fleet-fingered nonsense, less in debt to the "fabled" tv show than to some Hitchcock thrillers and to the Bond movies.
Posted May 13, 2025  Edit critic review
C.H.U.D. (1984) David Elliott This movie is S.C.U.Z. -- a Sluggish Cliched Upchuck Zero.
Posted May 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Beetlejuice (1988) David Elliott Beetlejuice has Michael Keaton's funniest acting... yet the movie fails to match him.
Posted Aug 16, 2024  Edit critic review
Postcards From the Edge (1990) David Elliott Postcards From the Edge has a soft edge, and scenes like postcards from some private party -- we feel half-invited, half-ignored.
Posted Apr 29, 2024  Edit critic review
Spaceballs (1987) David Elliott That opening of the new Mel Brooks comedy is a pleaser. Brooks offers some other fine moments. yet he commits a real show-biz mistake. His best stuff is nearly alt in the first 20 minutes. After that, he is struggling.
Posted Apr 12, 2024  Edit critic review
Pulp Fiction (1994) David Elliott A mischievous, violent, smashingly stylized rebuke to all the crime thrillers that ever sported a fig leaf of Redeeming Value.
Posted Feb 29, 2024  Edit critic review
Home Alone (1990) David Elliott Macaulay Culkin, all of 10 wisecracking years old, single-handedly rescues this John Hughes script from the abyss.
Posted Nov 28, 2023  Edit critic review
3/4
An American Tail (1986) David Elliott The secondary figures, including villainous Warren T. Rat, are often splendid. So are the storm scene, fire effects and the Statue of Liberty episodes.
Posted May 18, 2023  Edit critic review
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) David Elliott As summer movies go, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a real heat wave. Steven Spielberg tries to out-dash his Raiders of the Lost Ark, and he does. You may feel elated, or just exhausted.
Posted Apr 17, 2023  Edit critic review
Thelma & Louise (1991) David Elliott [A] blazingly fresh feminist comedy.
Posted Feb 28, 2023  Edit critic review
Dances With Wolves (1990) David Elliott [Kevin Costner] is winning too much puff press for "risking" his stardom. Washed in John Barry's symphonic syrup (close your eyes and you see Out of Africa), the film basks in the comfy, 1-2-3 storytelling that once ruled Hollywood.
Posted Nov 08, 2022  Edit critic review
Platoon (1986) David Elliott Ragged though it is, Platoon has a certain painful majesty.
Posted Aug 23, 2022  Edit critic review
Rain Man (1988) David Elliott Director Barry Levinson lays on beautiful backdrops and glib needlings of junk culture, yet his vaunted "feel" for people goes trite. The result is not maudlin, just dull.
Posted Aug 04, 2022  Edit critic review
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