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RoboCop 2 (1990) 31% EDIT “Nothing redeems Robocop 2, a deadly and surprisingly cheap-looking mess.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 11, 2026 Full Review Jerry Maguire (1996) 86% EDIT “It's a terrifically alert movie, hip to the way people feel about one another from moment to moment, and therefore it's completely absorbing when not much is happening dramatically.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 10, 2026 Full Review James and the Giant Peach (1996) 91% EDIT “James flags slightly when it lands in New York, but this is still a charming entertainment with a freer and bolder visual style than anything Disney has done in years.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Victor/Victoria (1982) 85% EDIT “It's tolerant, even affectionate, towards gays, but it doesn't have anything like the wit or style needed for a film about the homosexual cabarets of Paris. For all its attentiveness to gay themes, the movie is just too straight. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 8, 2026 Full Review The Howling (1981) 76% EDIT “The Howling doesn't sustain the good, trashy erotic bravura of its best scenes -- it becomes just another fur-brained horror film.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Mar 18, 2026 Full Review RoboCop (1987) 84% EDIT “See RoboCop if you want a few jolts and some wonderful gags about machines longing to be men, but don't be surprised if you have a depressed, ashy taste in your mouth afterward.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Sense and Sensibility (1995) 97% EDIT “Thompson and Lee get the relationship between the two suffering sisters right, the play of strength and weakness, candor and concealment -- sense and sensibility merging in each sister, until both Marianne and Elinor become complete human beings.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 26, 2026 Full Review The Postman (1994) 92% EDIT “The English director Michael Radford, working in Italian, keeps the tone light and charming and on the whole rather chaste. In a noisy season, it's easy to be lulled by such enchanting episodes as Mario's poetry-rich courtship of a sultry island beauty.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 22, 2026 Full Review Pretty in Pink (1986) 75% EDIT “Molly Ringwald makes every minute count emotionally. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 13, 2026 Full Review Misery (1990) 86% EDIT “The director, Rob Reiner, keeps the story as funny as possible, but after a while the conventional side of the horror plot takes over.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 5, 2026 Full Review North (1994) 12% EDIT “Rob Reiner's disastrously unfunny North features TV-sketch gags devoted to a TV-sketch idea.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The American President (1995) 90% EDIT “They seem to be trying for soulful Capraesque fable. The trouble is, you can't do Capra by calculation. Either you have something like his warmth and charm or you don't, and Sorkin and Reiner are too knowing.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% EDIT “Stand by Me, from first shot to last, the work of a genuine film artist.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 13, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% EDIT “I enjoy courtroom drama, and so I relished this movie, which offers military men in court, but I'm baffled by the talk of A Few Good Men as a classic.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Sure Thing (1985) 84% EDIT “Reiner has a gift. Along with Ron Howard, he could be that rare thing -- a comedy director with a naturally romantic temperament. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 8, 2026 Full Review When Harry Met Sally... (1989) 90% EDIT “In this society, someone with a strong idea of how people should behave is a rarity, but, like all rule makers, Ephron arouses a spirit of revolt.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% EDIT “Spielberg appears to have lost his sense of timing. Hook has physical movement without physical excitement. At times I thought I was stuck in Disneyland's Jungle Cruise, complete with rubber apes and wraparound vines.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 19, 2025 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% EDIT “Cameron is a man who puts the metal on the screen. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 9, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 75% EDIT “One of the most doggedly humorless adventure films in years and the narrative is a water-soaked mess.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 90% EDIT “Terminator 2 is among the most exciting spectacles ever made.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Dracula (1979) 63% EDIT “This howling dog of a movie is often incoherent... the movie is cheesy on a grand scale.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 23, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% EDIT “Apart from the masterly Roshan Seth and Saeed Jaffrey, I particularly enjoyed Shirley Anne Field as Nasser's grateful mistress and also, as Johnny, Daniel Day Lewis. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Tron (1982) 60% EDIT “As narrative Tron is dismal, but the animation is so entertaining that you don't much feel like returning to the real world.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 6, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% EDIT “Much of Boogie Nights is funny and touching, and even rather sweet. It's a good but not great movie -- a movie conceived realistically, without falsifying glamour, but without great insight or excitement either.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Waterworld (1995) 61% EDIT “Not a catastrophe, but grim and monotonous. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 28, 2025 Full Review
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