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Jerry Maguire (1996) 86% EDIT “Again and again, as you watch Jerry fight several kinds of loserdom that seem ever ready to devour him, you're aware of watching ground that's been gone over before, but not with as much freshness and point as Crowe brings to it.” – Boston Globe Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Waiting for Guffman (1996) 91% 2.5/4 EDIT “Manic desperation is the fuel that powers Waiting for Guffman, and the smart ensemble sees that its tank is full. ” – Boston Globe Mar 10, 2026 Full Review RoboCop 2 (1990) 31% EDIT “With all those big pieces of metal crashing around, "RoboCop 2" plays like a junkyard gone nutzoid.” – Boston Globe Mar 10, 2026 Full Review RoboCop (1987) 84% EDIT “It's an apocalyptic law-and-order revenge movie distinguished by a dark irony that lifts it beyond the usual raw-meat-for-breakfast, righteous, bonecrusher flick.” – Boston Globe Mar 4, 2026 Full Review Sense and Sensibility (1995) 97% EDIT “Lee's supreme achievement -- and Thompson's -- is to maintain the tension between the extremes of the title and its world of economic imperatives.” – Boston Globe Feb 26, 2026 Full Review The Postman (1994) 92% EDIT “The Postman is more sentimental than profound, more anecdotal than dramatic, but it's sympathetic, and its bittersweet energies won't leave you indifferent. ” – Boston Globe Feb 22, 2026 Full Review Pretty in Pink (1986) 75% EDIT “It's not free of plastic, especially at the end, but it has more depth and genuine feeling than the earlier [Hughs] films.” – Boston Globe Feb 13, 2026 Full Review House (1985) 49% EDIT “Any present-day mortgage is more terrifying than "House."” – Boston Globe Jan 30, 2026 Full Review North (1994) 12% EDIT “The failure of "North" is a failure of tone -- and a virtual nonexistence of story.” – Boston Globe Jan 23, 2026 Full Review The American President (1995) 90% EDIT “There isn't, in fact, a politician in the land who couldn't profit from this hugely satisfying film's lessons in shrewd mainstreaming. ” – Boston Globe Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Misery (1990) 86% EDIT “Two scenes in "Misery" are shockingly brutal. But many more are wickedly amusing - especially the ones stemming from the fact that no small part of the writer's torture is the way his deranged muse uses language.” – Boston Globe Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% EDIT “"Stand By Me" is one of those rare films with an emotional richness that matches its cinematographic richness.” – Boston Globe Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Sure Thing (1985) 84% EDIT “The Sure Thing is a delight. ” – Boston Globe Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% EDIT “Despite a certain kind of flatness, it's the kind of movie that parents will relish taking their children to on the grounds that they themselves will also be entertained. ” – Boston Globe Jan 7, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% EDIT “..."A Few Good Men" may settle for safe boundaries, but within those boundaries, it's difficult to imagine more powerful, impassioned work.” – Boston Globe Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% EDIT “Mostly, it's benign spectacle in which the actors keep yielding the camera to some expensive playground or other. Hook is neither wistful nor primal. It's film's most expensive wind-up toy. ” – Boston Globe Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Christine (1983) 72% EDIT “Carpenter expertly picks up on the velvety darkness that De Palma exploited so potently in "Carrie."” – Boston Globe Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Big Top Pee-wee (1988) 30% EDIT “The film sorely misses all the neat gadgets that sustained the Rube Goldberg-like charm of the first outing.” – Boston Globe Dec 11, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 75% EDIT “It doesn't reach the rarefied level of imaginativeness to which it aspires, and it reminds us that Cameron's interest lies more in the story's high-tech and sci-fi elements than in character.” – Boston Globe Dec 10, 2025 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% EDIT “There are a few laughs and a few dangling-by-a-thread thrills, but not enough of either.” – Boston Globe Dec 9, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (1987) 59% EDIT “Fast out of the gate, "The Running Man" slows to a walk.” – Boston Globe Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Predator (1987) 64% EDIT “The problem with "Predator" is it just isn't a very good movie. The attempts at characterization are crude, the shards of humor that have effectively punctuated previous Schwarzenegger outings don't work.” – Boston Globe Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Re-Animator (1985) 89% EDIT “A genre standout, its future as a midnight staple for the strong-of-stomach seems assured.” – Boston Globe Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% EDIT “It's a Reno where metaphor thrives -- hearts as deserts, love as a gamble, roads and rail-road tracks as emblems of transience, cloudbursts and showers as burst dams of sexuality. ” – Boston Globe Oct 12, 2025 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% 3.5/5 EDIT “One of the surprising things about this entertaining and informative documentary about movies and homosexuality is how much was right there in plain view. ” – Boston Globe Oct 8, 2025 Full Review
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