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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3/4
The American President (1995) Stephen Hunter Politics aside, The American President is a delightful romantic comedy in which boy president meets girl... But it's so hard to put the politics aside because the movie doesn't want to put the politics aside.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Misery (1990) Stephen Hunter Quite an amusing, nasty little piece of work.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
Misery (1990) Lou Cedrone Reiner does avoid most of the cliches of the genre, but some of them are in there, and the movies has more than its share of inconsistencies.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The Princess Bride (1987) Lou Cedrone An almost constant delight.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sure Thing (1985) Lou Cedrone "The Sure Thing" is a delight throughout.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Donald Kirkley The picture opens a new field, that of well-written, carefully produced science-fiction.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Bite the Bullet (1975) Lou Cedrone It is long. That's the problem. It runs 2 hours and 11 minutes and needn't. Two hours or less would have made a better film, but it is interesting enough as is, once the show is on the road.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Bite the Bullet (1975) R.H. Gardner "Bite the Bullet" is too long, with a tendency to wander from its central plot-line; but its classic story of struggle and hope amounts to good escapist fare.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Stand by Me (1986) Stephen Hunter The story is painfully clumsy as it labors to insert various props and symbols.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
Stand by Me (1986) Lou Cedrone The kids are all stand-up comics... They all talk like budding Woody Allens. You do begin to wonder who is writing their material.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Gaslight (1944) Donald Kirkley This is one of those rare cases in which a motion picture displays a marked superiority over the play which served as model.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
A Place in the Sun (1951) Donald Kirkley The story is told very well indeed, under the brilliant direction of George Stevens, with appropriate settings and the help of an extraordinary fine cast.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Out of the Past (1947) Baltimore Sun Staff The pace of the film lags at times, and the plot sometimes gets too involved, at the expense of suspense.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Alice in Wonderland (1951) Donald Kirkley The film has all the virtues of a better-class musicartoon, carried to feature length, and this means that it is far more entertaining and worthwhile than the average screen play.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Alice in Wonderland (1951) Patrick Skene Catling The difference between Lewis Carroll's stories and Walt Disney's adaptation is the difference between a soap bubble -- iridescent, light and delicate -- and a jester's gaudy bladder.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sure Thing (1985) Stephen Hunter Reiner never forces things. He's got the same sense of understood humor in the brilliant This is Spinal Tap.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
The Princess Bride (1987) Stephen Hunter The first half is much better than the second, by which time Reiner and Goldman's hip-facetious style and fondness for in-jokes has worn quite thin.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
A Few Good Men (1992) Stephen Hunter It's everything a movie should be, except thought-provoking. Sit back and enjoy the ride; just don't expect to get anywhere.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) Gilbert Kanour The acting is so natural that most of it, certainly, doesn't seem to stem from Hollywood.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) Donald Kirkley It is unique, intensely patriotic and absorbing.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Death Race 2000 (1975) R.H. Gardner "Death Race 2000" is a grimly amusing satire.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Christine (1983) Stephen Hunter It zips along so efficiently, fueled primarily by excellent performances and witty visual flourishes, that one never stops to analyze just how patently absurd the premise is.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Christine (1983) Lou Cedrone This is a pretty silly movie.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Big Top Pee-wee (1988) Lou Cedrone It isn't as funny as the first, but it does have a few laughs. Unfortunately, they are rather late in arriving.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Big Top Pee-wee (1988) Stephen Hunter In strictly dramatic terms, the movie gets less funny as it proceeds, and particularly the climatic circus performance really doesn't deliver the crescendo needed to close out the film, which seems to end with less oomph than it needs.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Lou Cedrone It has its share of hardware, but once the basics have been established, the movie swims along, giving us crisis after crisis, one as spectacular as the other.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Abyss (1989) Stephen Hunter The three principals are dynamic.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
True Lies (1994) Stephen Hunter The movie is literally relentless in its hold on certain parts of your anatomy... but I defy you to deny its power.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Stephen Hunter Resonant and sweet, as well as thunderously violent, "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" is terrific.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
The Terminator (1984) Stephen Hunter The Terminator is as violent as a cockfight, but of its sleazy kind, it's terrific, a new trashclassic.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
A Christmas Carol (1984) Bill Carter This is all Dickens and all good. The scenes are wonderfully realized, the dialogue letter perfect.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Hearts of the West (1975) R.H. Gardner Jeff Bridges is, as always, engaging.
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Peeper (1975) Lou Cedrone The plot becomes sillier by the minute, but I did like the way Caine played the detective, and I did like the pace of the film.
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Peeper (1975) R.H. Gardner The movie adds up to little more than a conglomeration of frantically unfolded scenes, trying vainly to find some reason for their existence.
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
The Wiz (1978) R.H. Gardner Despite the energetic performances, the magic created by gorgeous settings in Panvavision and Technicolor and the stimulating soundtrack in stereo, the thing drags.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Wiz (1978) Lou Cedrone "Wiz" is big and splashy. It is also lifeless at times, a bit of a yawn.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Running Man (1987) Stephen Hunter Cheesy and mindless as it is, it's so remorselessly zippy that it's a pretty good time.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (1987) Lou Cedrone A movie that uses a very familiar theme but does something very special with it.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Predator 2 (1990) Lou Cedrone The move is fast, intense and exciting until the finale.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Predator 2 (1990) Stephen Hunter It's thoroughly professional, it knows what it wants to do, and without a lot of hemming and hawing, it does it.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Predator (1987) Baltimore Sun Staff "Predator" moves faster than a comet, contains some of the most spectacular battle footage you will see this year and is accompanied by a musical score that keeps you awake if the action doesn't.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Dracula (1979) R.H. Gardner The difference between the film and the stage production is so great as to make one want to cry.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Dracula (1979) Lou Cedrone Langella and director John Badham have given the vampire legend something special. Call it style.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
From Beyond (1986) Stephen Hunter Gordon works out his premise in leaden, uncompelling ways.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
0/4
From Beyond (1986) Lou Cedrone I didn't care how it ended.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Re-Animator (1985) Stephen Hunter It's a mordant, witty, outrageous gross-out, an exercise in what might be called viscera slapstick. In other words, you either have to get with it or get out of it.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Re-Animator (1985) Lou Cedrone "Re-Animator" is probably one of the most repugnant movies ever made.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Born Yesterday (1950) Donald Kirkley As funny and delightful as was the stage play.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Desert Hearts (1985) Stephen Hunter Desert Hearts is well acted, and it sports a beautiful soundtrack of late-'50s music, but its curious ambivalence toward the subject it pretends to study is extremely irritating.
Posted Oct 12, 2025  Edit critic review
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) Stephen Hunter It's stunning how much passion and deceit can be generated from such a banal venue as a laundrette. But what is fascinating about the film is the clarity by which director Stephen Frears keeps track of the plots and counterplots.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
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