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North (1994) Katrine Ames North shows just how short Hollywood can get on ideas.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The American President (1995) Jack Kroll Director Rob Reiner has a fine smooth touch, Douglas is charismatic, Bening is scrumptious -- you want to put all these dream politicos in a doggy bag and take them home. To our home, the White House.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Bite the Bullet (1975) Paul D. Zimmerman Brooks stretches his story with meaningless two-horse sprints that seems senseless in an endurance contest and lots of deadend incident.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Out of the Past (1947) Newsweek Staff The cast has been well chosen for the rugged work at hand, and Mitchum is particularly effective.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
The Princess Bride (1987) David Ansen A fable like this demands a visual style as rich as a Häagen-Dazs sundae -- not indifferent cinematography and actors with their makeup showing. Still, if the Princess Bride fails to carry you away to enchantment, it's booby-trapped with sneaky wit.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
True Lies (1994) David Ansen Schwarzenegger seems especially comfy in True Lies; Cameron gets the best out of him by never pushing him beyond his limits.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Billie Melissa Its sincerity, heart, and belief in a better world are inspiring, and Grande and Erivo deliver the message flawlessly, bringing us into their warm embrace to comfort and inspire.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) Billie Melissa Ramsay shines a light and lets it burn bright for the women who have all, at some point, uttered Grace's words: "I'm right here, you just can't see me."
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Is This Thing On? (2025) Billie Melissa [It] reminds us that there is a possibility to restore the relationships we feel slipping through our fingers if we meet our friends and family where they're at, and allow them to flourish in new ways, as well as giving ourselves the same grace.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Billie Melissa The tale of The Creature is as urgent now as it was when it was first conceived, and thank goodness we have a heart as big as Guillermo del Toro's to breathe new life into it and make the story digestible for a new generation.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Roofman (2025) Billie Melissa Cianfrance's Roofman finds the perfect balance between suspense, heart, and pure entertainment, making it one of the most enjoyable watches of 2025.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Boogie Nights (1997) David Ansen One of those breakthrough movies that leaves no doubt you are in the presence of a natural-born filmmaker. Like Spielberg's Sugarland Express or Scorsese's Mean Streets, Anderson's mesmerizing movie announces the arrival of a major career.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Cooley High (1975) Margo Jefferson It is a smart, very affecting movie.
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Babe (1995) Jack Kroll Babe is an ancient genre, the beast story updated with animatronics, computerized effects and voice-dubbing by some good actors,...Director Chris Noonan is clearly having fun...Babe is a loining experience.
Posted Jul 30, 2025  Edit critic review
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) B.J. Sigesmund The main problem, however, is the script, which has a few scares but little smarts.
Posted Jul 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Explorers (1985) David Ansen The early stuff is aimed at the kids, the payoff can be properly savored only by adults, the finale is limp.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Billie Melissa Much of Gunn's film feels like a sequel, like we needed something before this one to complete the whole picture.
Posted Jul 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Billie Melissa It's fantastical, romantic, awe-inspiring, but most of all... fun.
Posted Jun 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman II (1980) David Ansen Whether bumping into doors as that bumbling preppie Clark Kent, or fielding tossed cars on the streets of Metropolis, Reeve's bashful gallantry is thoroughly winning.
Posted Jun 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Return to Oz (1985) Jack Kroll Murch's approach has its own somber integrity, which can sink into the pedestrian and rise into the magical.
Posted Jun 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Rollerball (1975) Arthur Cooper The ideas of conformism and corporate statism, intended to be Big Themes, would fit cozily on the 21-inch television screen, offending neither sponsors nor fans of Archie Bunker.
Posted Jun 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Night Moves (1975) Paul D. Zimmerman The movie just vanishes, loose ends and all, in the pit of its own black vision.
Posted May 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Stepford Wives (1975) Paul D. Zimmerman Director Bryan Forbes photographs the victims of Stepford in the most romantic way.
Posted May 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Funny Lady (1975) Charles Michener This Chapter II of the Fanny Brice story delivers only second-hand roses left over from Chapter I.
Posted Apr 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Sinners (2025) Billie Melissa Coogler's Sinners is the best film of the year so far.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Rancho Deluxe (1975) Paul D. Zimmerman "Rancho Deluxe" is a quirky, inventive portrait of the no longer wild West.
Posted Mar 27, 2025  Edit critic review
At Long Last Love (1975) Charles Michener It is an amusing enough remembrance of Hollywood things past, conjured up of an almost ingenuous spirit that, happily, has nothing to do with either nostalgia or camp.
Posted Mar 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Tommy (1975) Charles Michener Russell has fused a Kaleidoscope of images that pulsate with the incredible precision of a rock drumbeat in visual counterpoint to the music.
Posted Mar 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Opus (2025) Billie Melissa It's got a lot going for it, both in style and substance, and 103 minutes of genre-defying thrills that refuse to pigeonhole itself, both through style and content, is not to be sniffed at for a feature debut.
Posted Mar 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) Paul D. Zimmerman The action is essentially mechanical, since none of the events proceeds from character.
Posted Mar 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Picture This (2025) Billie Melissa Picture This makes the most out of what it is. There are beautiful relationships built between the cast that make it an enjoyable and light watch, even if there's more that could've been done to elevate it just that little bit higher.
Posted Mar 06, 2025  Edit critic review
The Yakuza (1974) Paul D. Zimmerman Imagine The Big Sleep shot in the back alleys of Tokyo and you have something of the muddled mood of The Yakuza, a cultural cross-breed that is neither sushi nor Southern fried chicken.
Posted Mar 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) Paul D. Zimmerman The Great Waldo Pepper lifts off on what appears to be a flight of pure, light-hearted adventure and almost immediately runs into rough weather.
Posted Mar 03, 2025  Edit critic review
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Jack Kroll Most of the characters are thinned out... But Forman directs his players superbly, and Louise Fletcher as the nurse turns impassive coolness into a destructive force.
Posted Feb 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Barry Lyndon (1975) Jack Kroll Seeking the sources of our alienation in the explosively random energies of the eighteenth century, Kubrick has created an epic of esthetic self-indulgence, beautiful but empty. He needs to come back to earth from the outer spaces of past and future.
Posted Feb 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025) Billie Melissa Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy feels like meeting with old friends: warm, cozy, and filled with hysterical laughter.
Posted Feb 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) Billie Melissa While it's not as unrestricted and original as a filmmaker like Jenkins is capable of, Mufasa: The Lion King has enough woven in there that will serve families this holiday season, even if it may not resonate with all of Jenkins' usual audience.
Posted Dec 17, 2024  Edit critic review
Only Yesterday (1933) Newsweek Staff If such absurdities can be passed over, the film is an effective effort to wring tears from the customers.
Posted Apr 23, 2024  Edit critic review
The Mad Miss Manton (1938) Newsweek Staff [Barbara Stanwyck] and a posse of bird-witted debutantes have a lot of fun playing bloodhounds in search of a missing corpse and ganging up on a defenseless newspaper editor.
Posted Apr 22, 2024  Edit critic review
The Caine Mutiny (1954) Newsweek Staff Bogart plays, on the screen, the scenes that are only talked about in Nolan’s stage trial, and in playing- the more definitive version of Queeg he achieves a remarkably detailed and sensitive performance.
Posted Apr 19, 2024  Edit critic review
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Newsweek Staff Another of those relaxed, delightful whimsies which the British seem to be able to compound out of a slightly off-beat idea, a true eye for character, and a liberal lacing of the national humor.
Posted Apr 18, 2024  Edit critic review
White Heat (1949) Newsweek Staff It wasn’t quite so likely that White Heat would turn out to be as surcharged with excitement as the gangster films of the early ’30s and that Cagney’s realization of a psychopathic killer would surpass in realism and intensity anything he has ever done.
Posted Apr 15, 2024  Edit critic review
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976) Janet Maslin This is nothing if not a crowd-pleaser, thanks to a witty if scrambled screenplay.
Posted Apr 11, 2024  Edit critic review
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Jack Kroll Electric but erratic...
Posted Apr 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Spaceballs (1987) David Ansen If Spaceballs lurches erratically from gut laugh to groaner, perhaps it’s because the Star Wars movies aren’t the most fertile soil for a feature-length sendup... [Still,] when Spaceballs connects, you remember why Brooks was once comedy’s MVP.
Posted Apr 04, 2024  Edit critic review
The Big Heat (1953) Newsweek Staff Most of the film’s characterizations are sensibly written and played, and there is a highly effective performance by Gloria Grahame as a gangster’s moll who doesn’t deserve the terrible things that happen to her.
Posted Mar 28, 2024  Edit critic review
National Velvet (1944) Newsweek Staff All the performances are right, and Rooney, playing with rare restraint, sensibly allows young Miss Taylor to steal the picture.
Posted Mar 26, 2024  Edit critic review
The Searchers (1956) Newsweek Staff Despite scene after scene of frustrated pursuit... Ford never ignores the great cinematic necessity, pace.
Posted Mar 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Westward the Women (1951) Newsweek Staff It is no distortion of history to demonstrate that the American woman comes through with a magnificent display of resourcefulness and courage, but there isn't much leeway in all this action for the gentler art of acting.
Posted Mar 02, 2024  Edit critic review
Love and Death (1975) Paul D. Zimmerman It sparkles with an unremitting succession of terrific moments, if not the soaring, sustained stretches of Sleeper.
Posted Jan 19, 2024  Edit critic review
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