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Hal Hinson

Agrees with the Tomatometer 68% of the time.

Publications:: Anchorage Press , Washington Post
Critics' Group:: New York Film Critics Circle

Total Reviews:: 882

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	20%	Mister Frost ()	" Thousands of actors have played Lucifer, but none has ever given him this particular charismatic brand of idiosyncratic loopiness." — Washington Post Posted Dec 27, 2011
	77%	The Birdcage (1996)	" If The Birdcage isn't exactly the Mike Nichols-Elaine May movie of our dreams, it does manage to transform what was formerly a campy bit of French fluff into one of the loopiest, most hysterical family-values movies ever made." — Washington Post Posted May 27, 2011
—	——	Deadly Currents (1994)	— Washington Post Posted Apr 4, 2011
—	——	Storia di ragazzi e di ragazze (The Story of Boys and Girls) ()	— Washington Post Posted Apr 4, 2011
—	——	Gorod Zero, (Zero City), (City Zero) (1990)	— Washington Post Posted Apr 4, 2011
—	——	Los Dos Mundos de Angelita (The Two Worlds of Angelita) (1982)	— Washington Post Posted Apr 4, 2011
	64%	From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)	" A tired, humorless pastiche of various exploitation genres that is not the least bit imaginative in its campy deconstruction of conventions." — Washington Post Posted Nov 18, 2008
	93%	James and the Giant Peach (1996)	" The latest in an impressive string of first-rate movies for kids." — Washington Post Posted Sep 3, 2008
	95%	Richard III (1995)	" In a shamelessly entertaining display of acting brilliance, McKellen 'plays' the demon's good arm as if it were a Stradivarius, executing one showy stunt after another." — Washington Post Posted Feb 27, 2008
	96%	Let's Get Lost (1989)	" Weber is working here out of a highly specialized interest, and what he means to say about his subject comes to us through layers of ambivalence." — Washington Post Posted Jun 13, 2007
	28%	Barb Wire (1996)	" The movie carries its cyberpunk variation right through to the end, and usually with enough wit and craziness to freshen the mix. Then, there is Pamela, whose tight, disciplined performance deserves more respect than it will almost certainly get." — Washington Post Posted Apr 27, 2007
	83%	Emma (1996)	" Suddenly you remember how merciless and cutting Austen's satire can be, even in the brutal '90s." — Washington Post Posted Aug 19, 2006
	80%	Casino (1995)	" Scorsese may be flailing here, but Scorsese flailing is more formidable than most directors at the top of their form." — Washington Post Posted Aug 9, 2006
	71%	Ambavi Suramis tsikhitsa (The Legend of the Suram Fortress) (1986)	" It's impossible to watch even a few feet of film by Paradjanov without acknowledging his mastery of the medium and the originality of his vision." — Washington Post Posted Jul 7, 2005
—	——	Plot Against Harry (1991)	— Washington Post Posted May 14, 2005
—	——	Crazy Love (1987)	— Washington Post Posted Dec 18, 2004
—	75%	True Love (1989)	— Washington Post Posted Sep 4, 2004
—	——	Michelangelo - Self-Portrait (1989)	— Washington Post Posted Jan 22, 2004
—	——	Thank You & Goodnight (1995)	— Washington Post Posted Oct 16, 2003
—	——	Speed Zone (1989)	— Washington Post Posted Aug 14, 2003
	71%	Alas for Me (Helas pour moi) (2003)	" No one else makes films so alive with ideas or executed with as much daring, beauty or humor." — Washington Post Posted Jul 31, 2003
—	——	Wisecracks (1993)	— Washington Post Posted May 28, 2003
	95%	Mala Noche (Bad Night) (2007)	" This is a knockout debut." — Washington Post Posted May 24, 2003
—	——	Sidewalk Stories (1989)	— Washington Post Posted May 24, 2003
—	——	Favor, the Watch and the Very Big Fish (1992)	— Washington Post Posted May 24, 2003
—	17%	Chattahoochee (1989)	— Washington Post Posted May 24, 2003
—	——	Good Woman of Bangkok ()	— Washington Post Posted May 21, 2003
—	——	Chameleon Street (1991)	— Washington Post Posted May 5, 2003
	98%	Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) (2004)	" A glorious romantic confection unlike any other in movie history." — Washington Post Posted Mar 31, 2003
—	82%	Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988)	— Washington Post Posted Mar 7, 2003
	77%	Denise Calls Up (1996)	" Salwen has captured and properly identified a very particular modern American species. His emergence as a filmmaker is a true event." — Washington Post Posted Oct 16, 2002
	100%	Alice (Neco z Alenky) (1988)	" It takes us back to a time in the history of movies when audiences responded to the images on screen with a combination of awe and fear, when in submitting to them, we felt as if we were submitting to a spell." — Washington Post Posted Aug 20, 2002
—	——	Frosh: Nine Months in a Freshman Dorm ()	— Washington Post Posted Jul 26, 2002
—	88%	Mindwalk (1990)	— Washington Post Posted May 7, 2002
—	75%	Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1995)	— Washington Post Posted Apr 16, 2002
—	——	The Baby of Mâcon (1993)	— Washington Post Posted Apr 4, 2002
—	——	Ariel (1988)	— Washington Post Posted Mar 6, 2002
—	86%	Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990)	— Washington Post Posted Feb 21, 2002
4.5/5	93%	Dead Man Walking (1995)	" An intelligent, balanced, devastating movie." — Washington Post Posted Jan 31, 2002
	20%	Tom and Jerry - The Movie (1992)	" The whole movie appears to have been run through a homogenizer." — Washington Post Posted Jan 31, 2002
—	0%	Once Upon a Crime (1991)	— Washington Post Posted Jan 22, 2002
—	100%	May Fools (Milou En Mai) (1989)	— Washington Post Posted Jan 22, 2002
	90%	The Little Mermaid 3D (1989)	" Even at its highest points, it cannot claim a place next to even the least of the great Disney classics." — Washington Post Posted Jan 22, 2002
	14%	Fled (1996)	" On the whole, Baldwin seems pretty dim for a renowned cyber-anarchist. Also, he simply isn't in the same class of actor as Tony Curtis. Or Laurence Fishburne, who swaggers through this mess with his usual suave manliness." — Washington Post Posted Jan 22, 2002
	61%	Mission: Impossible (1996)	" Humorless, charmless and flat." — Washington Post Posted Jan 18, 2002
	12%	Crocodile Dundee II (1988)	" "'Crocodile' Dundee II" is about as laid-back a movie as you're ever likely to nap through. The actors take forever to recite their lines, and scenes unfold as if the filmmakers had rented the screen by the month." — Washington Post Posted Jan 16, 2002
—	20%	Wild West (1993)	— Washington Post Posted Jan 16, 2002
	8%	The Opposite Sex And How To Live With Them (1993)	" Everything in this feebly written (by screenwriter Noah Stern), blandly staged (by director Matthew Meshekoff) film seems to have been recycled from some earlier movie or television show." — Washington Post Posted Nov 17, 2001
—	100%	Stolen Children (Il Ladro di bambini) (1992)	— Washington Post Posted Nov 16, 2001

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