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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
9/10
The American President (1995) Jack Garner It's the best Frank Capra movie since, well, Frank Capra.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Bite the Bullet (1975) Bernard Drew It all made me so sleepy, I cannot even recall who won.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Stand by Me (1986) Marshall Fine For the first time in a long time, a movie offers a portrait of kids that is neither demeaning nor dumb. It shows a clear memory for thrill and pain of those awkward, wonderful years.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Stand by Me (1986) William Wolf Reiner and script authors Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans have come up with a dandy, richly entertaining movie.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Sure Thing (1985) William Wolf It looks as if the movies may have an authentic new comedy voice.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
When Harry Met Sally... (1989) Marshall Fine Reiner, working with a strong cast and an even stronger script (by Nora Ephron) blends sweetness and satire in this telling and truthful film that is both entertaining and painfully honest.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Christine (1983) Tom Jacobs It's a thriller about a killer car, and it's every bit as idiotic as that premise would suggest.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Christine (1983) Marshall Fine The film is entertaining in a flashy, high-speed way. But it skimps on its assets.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Big Top Pee-wee (1988) Jack Garner There is nothing as innovative in all of the new film as the set design for the breakfast scene in the opening 10 minutes of the first feature.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
True Lies (1994) Marshall Fine True Lies is James Bond with a home life. And therein lies its greatest strength.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Marshall Fine "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" isn't just best film of the summer; it is the standard by which action films of the future will be judged.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
1/4
The Terminator (1984) William Wolf As awful as the movie is, it probably will earn considerable money at the box office because there's an audience for Schwarzenegger and such orgies of destruction.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
A Christmas Carol (1984) Bill Hayden The two-hour period piece emerges as a visually grand, emotionally rewarding, intellectually involving tale of hope and redemption liberally laced with irony and genuine humor.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
The Wiz (1978) Bernard Drew The film on the whole lacks a unified style.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Predator 2 (1990) Susan Wloszczyna Having Glover speak dialogue along the lines of "What the ----?" is like serving caviar on spam. The whole cast is better than "Predator 2" deserves.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
From Beyond (1986) Marshall Fine Gordon is obviously having a wonderful time imagining this gruesome folic. He invests it with such energy that you're swept away by the sheer, breathless pace of it all.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
From Beyond (1986) William Wolf After a while "From Beyond" just becomes overkill, more revolting than scary or funny.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Re-Animator (1985) William Wolf "Re-Animator" is stylish mayhem.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) William Wolf Powerful, complex, and entertaining movie making, with a cannily chosen cast that could scarily be better.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
9/10
The Celluloid Closet (1995) Marshall Fine The film traces the way gay images secretly found its way into mainstream films until, finally in the 1960s and beyond, gay themes could be dealt with openly.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Casper (1995) Jack Garner Unfortunately, [the ghosts] are the only elements in "Casper" that gives the film a ghost of a chance at success. It's human error that mars this ghostly family comedy.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Casper (1995) Marshall Fine Sure to delight children, it will, at best, hold adults' attention by virtue of its state-of-the-art computer-generated effects.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Hard Times (1975) Bernard Drew The sad period has been used exploitively to relate the story.
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
To Sleep With Anger (1990) Marshall Fine Burnett's move-making is often clumsy and stilted.
Posted Sep 23, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Darkman (1990) Mike Cidoni Raimi displays a rare, delicious duality: a respect for what today's action-genre fans apparently crave, and an even deeper respect for movies of yesteryear.
Posted Aug 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Pumpkinhead (1988) Karen Knutson The laughs came because the film is so dumbfoundingly predictable, from the very first minute.
Posted Aug 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
High and Low (1963) Mike Clark Just to prove he could do any kind of film, Akira Kurosawa adapted Ed McBain's "King's Ransom"; the result is my favorite detective movie ever.
Posted Aug 13, 2025  Edit critic review
The Return of the Living Dead (1985) William Wolf O'Bannon's spoof is only a pale imitation of the genre.
Posted Aug 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) Marshall Fine The blend of fantasy and surrealism gives everything a larger-than-life quality, like viewing the world through child's eyes.
Posted Jul 30, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) William Wolf Herman's nerd quickly grows tiresome. And the situations created for him by screenwriters Phil Hartman, Paul Reubens, and Michael Varhol lack wit.
Posted Jul 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Waterworld (1995) Jack Garner A derivative summer action film of modest accomplishment.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) Jack Garner The Zuckers and Abrahams are the masters of revved-up slapstick, clever cliche crunching, silly sight gags and double entendres.
Posted Jul 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) Mike Clark "Airplane!" creators Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker may spoof cliches, but this often uproarious elaboration on ABC's short-lived 1982 series never stoops to the trite.
Posted Jul 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Babe (1995) Jack Garner Thanks to clever filmmaking, impressive animal training, life-like animatronic stand-ins, and digital manipulation of mouths (to match dialogue) the animals contribute one of the best ensemble performances of the year.
Posted Jul 23, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) Marshall Fine Verbal, slapstick, silly, sophisticated, vulgar, refined: There's a joke for every taste in The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear.
Posted Jul 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) Marshall Fine High camp, low slapstick, gross-out humor, sophisticated satire: This movie has it all.
Posted Jul 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
DuckTales, the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) Marshall Fine The story moves quickly and imaginatively through the out-of-kilter world of Scrooge McDuck and the altered reality the genie creates.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Explorers (1985) William Wolf It smacks too much of the sort of packaging that strains to tap into a heavily targeted market.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman: The Movie (1978) Bernard Drew After two years in the making, at a rumored cost of $40 million, Superman has at last flown in to roost at your local theater and despite a magic moment here and there, its wings are leaden, its spirit earthbound.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman III (1983) Bernard Drew Sad to say, but the wild imagination and fun which made Superman and even more particularly Superman II such joys to watch are missing in Superman III.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) Susan Stark The entire enterprise seems tired, almost dispirited.
Posted Jul 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman II (1980) Bernard Drew I didn't think "Superman" was all that wonderful, but let it be said that as sequels go, "Superman II" is a damned good one.
Posted Jun 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Supergirl (1984) William Wolf The production is slick, the requisite special effects are there, the know-how is evident, but the movie just won't fly.
Posted Jun 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Day of the Dead (1985) William Wolf I've never been a particular fan of Romero's violent indulgences before, but "Day of the Dead" has such a wickedly perverse sense of humor that it is hilarious. The more gruesome it becomes, the funnier it gets.
Posted Jun 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Return to Oz (1985) William Wolf It is mostly senselessly scary.
Posted Jun 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Rollerball (1975) Bernard Drew It falls flat on its opulent face.
Posted Jun 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Night Moves (1975) Bernard Drew Penn is a sufficiently good director to keep you from being bored even when you don't know what he's doing and where he's going.
Posted May 28, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
The Karate Kid Part III (1989) Matt Roush Part III would seem to be the one story that audiences least needed or desired to see told once more.
Posted May 28, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
The Karate Kid Part II (1986) William Wolf The sequel, whether in combat or in conversation, lacks the original's spirit.
Posted May 27, 2025  Edit critic review
The Karate Kid (1984) William Wolf The Karate Kid bids to be a great favorite of young audiences this summer, and adults can share the fun if they don't mind corn husking.
Posted May 27, 2025  Edit critic review
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