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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
The Abyss (1989) Joyce J. Persico Ed Harris mixes anger and frustration with an earthy humanity that serves him well.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Joyce J. Persico From its spirited female lead to its spectacular special effects and Schwarzenegger's appealing blend of menace and self-deprecation, "T2" is a film for people who like movies with action, a smidgen of heart and a great deal of Schwarzenegger.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Casper (1995) Bob Campbell Despite a few spiffy optical effects and a chase through a funhouse-like secret laboratory, the movie never comes to life - or afterlife.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Toy Story (1995) Bob Campbell More than merely a dazzling technical breakthrough, this comic fable is an exuberant family charmer.
Posted Sep 10, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Waterworld (1995) Bob Campbell It's madly watchable and utterly uninvolving.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Red Rock West (1993) Bob Campbell There's nothing new in "Red Rock West," but the cliches have been juggled with aplomb.
Posted Jul 15, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) Bob Campbell It's the audience that finds itself on the hook.
Posted Jul 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Jurassic Park (1993) Bob Campbell Jurassic Park is a technological marvel but not a fantasy classic. There's little shimmer of imagination or mystery. Fortunately, the flat characters are played by charismatic actors.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) Bob Campbell A half-dozen jolting moments and suspense showpieces are scattered over [the runtime], like cocktails doled out at a stingy party. Easygoing action audiences will be satisfied, but Spielberg shouldn't be.
Posted Jun 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Jurassic Park III (2001) Bob Campbell This go-round is fast-paced, good-looking and packed with big-ticket monsters.
Posted Jun 25, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Apollo 13 (1995) Bob Campbell Overcoming most of the inherent limitations of docudrama, Howard has launched a rousing entertainment that resonates with provocative questions about our national identity.
Posted Jun 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Child's Play (1988) Richard Freedman A shabby little shocker designed to scare people still zonked out from ingesting too much stale candy corn left over from their kid's Halloween haul.
Posted Jun 05, 2025  Edit critic review
The Karate Kid Part II (1986) Richard Freedman Macchio and Morita are as appealing as before, and as a youth movie, The Karate Kid: Part II has the rare merit these days of being unsadistic -- it actually preaches non-violence -- and unexploitative.
Posted May 27, 2025  Edit critic review
The Karate Kid (1984) Richard Freedman Above all, The Karate Kid understands there's nothing more fascinating to watch than the learning process, which it deftly substitutes for the usual meaningless chops and socks, grunts and groans, that fill most kung-fu movies.
Posted May 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Dirty Work (1998) Bob Campbell For all the strained contortions of plot and motive, the movies gives us no reason to like its heroes.
Posted May 15, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Mission: Impossible (1996) Bob Campbell There's always enough going on to hold your attention. "Mission: Impossible" leaves you feeling vaguely entertained even if you can't be sure why.
Posted May 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984) Bob Wisehart The Ewok Adventure isn't as much of a fully realized fantasy world as it is a by-the-numbers exercise in special effects.
Posted Apr 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) Richard Freedman The most expensive of the series so far, and boasting the largest number of special effects, Return of the Jedi nevertheless shows a great imaginative weariness.
Posted Apr 25, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) Henry Cabot Beck At best a sad reminder of how good the other two films are.
Posted Apr 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Richard Freedman It seems to end only because its creator, George Lucas, has run out of film stock. But it has the compensating virtues of more complex relationships between its characters and even more dazzling special effects than the original.
Posted Apr 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Henry Cabot Beck What really distinguishes The Empire Strikes Back from the other two films is the pacing and the attention to character.
Posted Apr 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) Bob Campbell What I liked and still like is its gleeful raid on movie history, its blithe jumbling of pop myths and its sheer exuberant energy... What bored me then and bores me now is the New Age gobbledygook.
Posted Apr 22, 2025  Edit critic review
The Wedding Banquet (1993) Bob Campbell The result is delicious entertainment, crammed with fresh and likable characters.
Posted Apr 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Withnail and I (1987) Richard Freedman It is consistently witty on the highest level, both as a wry valedictory of the '60s, and -- more universally -- as a very funny, very moving farewell to youth at any time. See it at all costs.
Posted Apr 04, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
A Goofy Movie (1995) Bob Campbell In all, "A Goofy Movie" feels like a half-hour or 50-minute TV special padded to feature length. But even the padding is comfortable.
Posted Apr 01, 2025  Edit critic review
At Long Last Love (1975) Frances Taylor "At Long Last Love" is a weak film by director Peter Bogdanovich, from whom movie audiences expect a great deal more than this ode to Cybill Shepherd... her acting and the story are both unsatisfactory.
Posted Mar 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Tommy (1975) Frances Taylor Despite fine performances by Ann Margret and Oliver Reed, "Tommy" doesn't entertain.
Posted Mar 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Do the Right Thing (1989) Richard Freedman It's too long, too self-indulgent, and often sociologically confused, but it still delivers the real emotional goods.
Posted Mar 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Hennessy (1975) Frances Taylor Lots of excitement is built into the story but the movie comes close to failing because it uses stock characters and dialogue that seems to be mouthed and pieces from old movies that actually dealt with the rebellions.
Posted Feb 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Nashville (1975) Frances Taylor Nashville ignores the broad feeling of participation that country music lovers have. They don't worship their favorite musicians as perfect beings but they also don't see them as cold, calculating people who just happen to make a product called music.
Posted Feb 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Hard Times (1975) Frances Taylor Bronson is fine, Coburn is great as a promoter while Jill Ireland is touching as a lonely woman.
Posted Feb 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Barry Lyndon (1975) Frances Taylor Gorgeous scenery, costumes and luscious photography. But it's hard to care what happens to the hero, and this Stanley Kubrick movie is more than three hours long.
Posted Feb 25, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Scream 3 (2000) Bob Campbell By merging the Scream survivors with Hollywood actors impersonating them in a B-movie re-enactment, Scream 3 achieves double-edged idiocy,
Posted Feb 20, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
The Breakfast Club (1985) Richard Freedman The disappointing thing about this wry but feeble adolescent comedy by John Hughes, who gave us last year's uproarious Sixteen Candles, is that it's more of a play than a movie, and more of a psychodrama than a play.
Posted Feb 14, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
The Lion King (1994) Bob Campbell The touching songs by Elton John and lyricist Time Rice have been wrapped in soaring, African-style orchestrations by Hans Zimmer.
Posted Dec 19, 2024  Edit critic review
Hercules (1997) Bob Campbell Hercules, the latest Disney megatoon, may not deserve a place atop animation's Olympus, but it's entitled to a choice picnic site on the lower slopes.
Posted Dec 18, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) Bob Campbell In all, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Disney's 34th fully-animated feature, is so pictorially glorious, musically ravishing and emotionally gripping that its failures of balance, organization and narrative smoothness rarely matter.
Posted Dec 18, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Pocahontas (1995) Bob Campbell The wonders of Pocahontas are as grave and muted as its color scheme. There are lulls along the trail... Families will find that the high-minded Pocahontas offers plenty of rewards, but the gold is less shiny and obvious than the typical Disney yield.
Posted Dec 17, 2024  Edit critic review
4/4
Aladdin (1992) Bob Campbell Aladdin is such a high-flying magic carpet that it's probably unwise to tug at its stray threads.
Posted Dec 16, 2024  Edit critic review
Beauty and the Beast (1991) Bob Campbell Gorgeous, romantic and enthralling, the new film instantly claims its place on the top shelf of Disney classics.
Posted Dec 16, 2024  Edit critic review
8/10
The Rescuers Down Under (1990) Richard Freedman By far the richest holiday treat for toddlers.
Posted Dec 15, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Little Mermaid (1989) Stefan Janis The songs of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken... are marvelous and memorable. Their reggae song "Under the Sea" is quite fantastic.
Posted Dec 13, 2024  Edit critic review
Scream (1996) Henry Cabot Beck What's terrific about the film is that it manages to parody the form and terrify the audience at the same time, introducing laughter and screaming simultaneously.
Posted Oct 15, 2024  Edit critic review
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Bob Campbell Francis Ford Coppola hasn't quite brought Bram Stoker's Dracula back to life, but he's given him one of the gaudiest funerals in film history. Coppola's sexed-up, shoot-the-works shocker is an orgy of wicked delights and a feast of filmmaking riches.
Posted Sep 26, 2024  Edit critic review
Apocalypse Now (1979) Richard Freedman It's the most ballyhooed movie since Gone With the Wind, and it's a much better one. If it has flaws they are the flaws of a romantic genius with the courage and tormented drive to transcend his limitations. It is, in short, a masterpiece.
Posted Sep 22, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Alien Resurrection (1997) Bob Campbell For all the bursts of glistening slime and multicolored blood, director Jean-Pierre Jeunet honors the grotesquely voluptuous Alien tradition. The horror possesses a certain sensuous grandeur.
Posted Aug 07, 2024  Edit critic review
2/4
Twister (1996) Bob Campbell What spins around in noisy circles for hour after hour and has a vacuum at its center? Answer: Twister. Let's not even bring up the movie's discussions of "suck zones."
Posted Jul 12, 2024  Edit critic review
2/4
Planet of the Apes (2001) Bob Campbell The core problem seems to be that Burton and his collaborators started off without much faith or real interest in the material, just a few bright ideas and the impulse to toy with a pop classic.
Posted Apr 30, 2024  Edit critic review
Postcards From the Edge (1990) Bob Campbell Like any Mike Nichols movie, Postcards is a masterpiece of craft. But Nichols is a Broadway baby who shies away from complex and painful feelings.
Posted Apr 29, 2024  Edit critic review
Little Women (1994) Bob Campbell 1994's edition of Little Women is a gentle, affecting and intelligent adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's enduring novel.
Posted Apr 11, 2024  Edit critic review
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