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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2/5
North (1994) Jay Boyar A movie called North really out to have a better sense of direction than this one does.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The American President (1995) Jay Boyar The American President smiles wide and stands up for the Declaration of Independence -- or at least the "pursuit of happiness" part. Should you swallow it? If there's nothing better around, drink up.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Misery (1990) Jay Boyar Misery is one of the best movies made from a Stephen King story.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sure Thing (1985) Jay Boyar A wobbly sweet-natured comedy that's like It Happened One Night for the TV generation.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Breakout (1975) G.J. Fleming This realistic adventure offers more short-term pleasures than one might expect.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
French Connection II (1975) G.J. Fleming "French Connection II," though generally less exciting than its famous progenitor, has the happy distinction of being a sequel which isn't a letdown.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Christine (1983) Jay Boyar When the movie is hitting on all cylinders, it really races.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Big Top Pee-wee (1988) Jay Boyar The direction is by Randal Kleiser, who still has no clue about where to place his camera but who, with cinematographer Steven Poster, has come up with a bright storybook look for the movie.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
True Lies (1994) Jay Boyar Some of the movie's successfully funny ideas involve the Tasker marriage.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Abyss (1989) Jay Boyar Even during the slowest sections, the cast provides some engaging moments.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Terminator (1984) Jay Boyar If you're the sort of science-fiction fan who has trouble holding more than one idea in his or her head at a time, you're in luck.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (1987) Jay Boyar This movie may barely escape the exploitation category, but not the garbage classification.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Predator (1987) Jay Boyar It's a lumbering oaf of a film whose only positive function is to emphasize, by contrast, how well-put-together Aliens was. In fact, even the cloddish Rambo seems fairly adroit by comparison.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Dracula (1979) Sumner Rand What the picture sets out to do -- produce a lot of chills and thrills -- it does most successfully.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Desert Hearts (1985) Jay Boyar Like many films set in Reminiscence, Desert Hearts appears to be a labor of love -- and it may be intended as a mild political statement as well.
Posted Oct 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The Celluloid Closet (1995) Hal Boedeker With wit and insight, the documentary traces Hollywood's treatment of gay and lesbian characters. Despite a tough production code that once restricted homosexual material, gay characters slipped through in some classic films.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Tron (1982) Dean Johnson Beyond its admirably ambitious use of computer-created imagery, TRON, is frankly, boring.
Posted Oct 06, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Casper (1995) Jay Boyar The ectoplasmic special effects also are fun...After a while, however, you begin to realize that this movie is headed no place - and not very fast, either.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Hard Times (1975) G.J. Fleming The skillful little touches in acting and setting are what set "Hard Times" a notch above the ordinary.
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
To Sleep With Anger (1990) Jay Boyar The role of Harry is a doozy, and Danny Glover plays it for all it's worth.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Boogie Nights (1997) Jay Boyar Wahlberg plays the infantile Eddie with just the right proportions of earnestness and petulance. It's a brilliant performance.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) Jay Boyar At times, the film is too vicious to be a spoof. At other times, it's too affectionate to be satire. Whatever it is, it's very funny most of the time.
Posted Sep 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Darkman (1990) Jay Boyar It's a fairly inventive melodrama with an inventive visual design, swift pacing and convincing performances.
Posted Aug 25, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) Jay Boyar Pee-wee's Big Adventure is an appropriate and effective showcase for the talents of an original comedian whose appeal lies basically in his ability to appear smart and silly at the same time.
Posted Jul 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Waterworld (1995) Jay Boyar Whenever Hopper is on screen the movie's energy level lifts.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) Jay Boyar The movie as a whole is pretty much the same deal [as its title]. Fewer than half of its jokes are stale, roughly half are OK in a borderline-tasteless way, and the rest are half jokes.
Posted Jul 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) Jay Boyar "Naked Gun 33-1/3: The Final Insult" has as many gags as either of the first two films, if not more. But the pacing is much crispier in the new production, and virtually all the quips and pratfalls seem to belong in the same movie.
Posted Jul 22, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
DuckTales, the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) Jay Boyar The movie is a collection of badly executed action sequences, hackneyed characters and joyless ideas.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) Jay Boyar Ironically, then, the new horror flick's main selling point is also its major drawback.
Posted Jul 15, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Red Rock West (1993) Jay Boyar It's terrifically clever: The many accidents and coincidences on which the tale hangs come off as wonderfully witty. So does the dialogue.
Posted Jul 14, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Explorers (1985) Jay Boyar Despite its reasonably good production values, Explorers is basically a junky movie with a lot of cheap laughs and flashy effects.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Superman III (1983) Jay Boyar The results are as surprising and charming as a vacation in the bottled city of Kandor.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Superman: The Movie (1978) Dean Johnson Superman is fun -- from the spectacular flying sequences and the daring action scenes to the treatment of the Superman clichés and fresh wit. Actually, the surprise of it all is that Superman is frequently crisply funny.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) Jay Boyar Like the original, the sequel is uneven, sometimes moving in fits and starts. But the new film never really loses its momentum, and its big set pieces deliver.
Posted Jun 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Superman II (1980) Dean Johnson Reeve and Kidder, however, are fine at the Cary Grant-Irene Dunne screwball-comedy turn; there's certainly no one else you could image playing their roles.
Posted Jun 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Supergirl (1984) Jay Boyar Supergirl isn't awful, just disappointing. It succeeds in small ways.
Posted Jun 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Rollerball (1975) Noel Holston "Rollerball" is a triumph of craft over content. Although the movie is simplistically philosophically, it is nevertheless an overwhelming visual experience.
Posted Jun 05, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Karate Kid Part II (1986) Jay Boyar What's most surprising -- and most awkward -- about Kid II is how peripheral the Kid is to the narrative, and how difficult his place in it is to justify.
Posted May 27, 2025  Edit critic review
The Karate Kid (1984) Jay Boyar The Karate Kid is even paced like a TV show.
Posted May 27, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Starman (1984) Jay Boyar The adventure-story structure keeps things moving briskly while Carpenter and his crew provide numerous delights along the way.
Posted May 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Mission: Impossible (1996) Jay Boyar Although the film is watchable, and at times, even borderline entertaining, it has its share of problems. Mainly, the filmmakers seem to have had trouble deciding just what kind of movie they were making.
Posted May 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984) Noel Holston The Ewok Adventure's human characters never establish themselves as anything more than cute to look at.
Posted Apr 28, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) Jay Boyar It's here! Not grand, perhaps, but good. Make that darn good. I can't imagine many movies worth three years of anticipation, but Return of the Jedi is worth the wait you may endure in the line to the theater.
Posted Apr 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Funny Lady (1975) G.J. Fleming "Funny Lady" is a not-too-surprising disappointment.
Posted Apr 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Dean Johnson It would be hard to top the exhilarating surprise of the original... On the other hand, three years have brought advances in special effects wizardry -- and the glories of the "Empire" visuals, executed in stunning detail, are awesome.
Posted Apr 23, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Jay Boyar In staging "Empire," Kershner was always careful to showcase Vader's creepy power and malignant majesty.
Posted Apr 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) Dean Johnson If a sequel is ever made, Lucas (or whoever might take the reins from him) has to feature C-3PO and R2-D2, as charming a pair of buddies as we've ever seen.
Posted Apr 22, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
The Wedding Banquet (1993) Jay Boyar In The Wedding Banquet, the texture is so very rich that, about three-quarters of the way through, the movie inevitably turns serious. But somehow this deepens that comedy rather than spoiling it.
Posted Apr 15, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Withnail and I (1987) Jay Boyar Grant, who also has worked in Britain on TV and stage, brilliantly suggests his character's profound disappointment, without letting it become maudlin or distancing.
Posted Apr 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) G.J. Fleming Anyone really serious about the idealistic glories of Camelot is well advised to steer clear of Monty Python; anyone interested in some laughs will be pleased by this silly and often clever farce.
Posted Apr 01, 2025  Edit critic review
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