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Sheila Benson

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:: Film Scouts , L.A. Weekly , Los Angeles Times , Parallax View , Seattle Weekly

Total Reviews:: 25

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
1.5/5	5%	Cocktail (1988)	" The pairing of old-hand Brown and young-hand Cruise may have been meant to remind us of Cruise and Paul Newman; if so, think of this as The Color of Counterfeit Money." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 21, 2013
4.5/5	100%	My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)	" It's Daniel Day Lewis, taut, intelligent, erotic, who is an emerging star." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 13, 2013
3.5/5	91%	Scandal (1989)	" The film holds because of the brilliance of Hurt and the fascination of Whalley-Kilmer, as well as the sly, tongue-in-cheek viciousness of Bridget Fonda's Mandy Rice-Davies." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 8, 2013
4/5	82%	Wish You Were Here (Too Much) (1987)	" Wish You Were Here may always be thought of as the movie that first gave us Emily Lloyd. Or as David Leland's first directing achievement." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 8, 2013
1/5	81%	Crimes of the Heart (1986)	" It is excruciating: a combination of Beth Henley's insistently eccentric screenplay, Bruce Beresford's frenzied direction and the sight of three singular talents on an acting roller coaster with no one riding the brakes." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 11, 2013
1.5/5	70%	Batman (1989)	" Is it interesting? Fitfully. Is it fun? Not much, Gotham City fans, not much." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 10, 2013
2/5	15%	Baby - Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)	" Baby's faintly reptilian eyes are dead. And with them dies a lot of our belief." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 26, 2013
4/5	72%	Dirty Dancing (1987)	" Smart and funny, touching and unabashedly sensual." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 25, 2013
4/5	86%	Eight Men Out (1988)	" It's a period re-created with a whoosh of energy and a redeeming vein of irony." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 20, 2013
4/5	97%	Bull Durham (1988)	" [Shelton is] uncanny at putting us inside his players' heads when they're on the mound or up at bat, running their private litanies of encouragement and subversion to psych themselves up." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 11, 2013
4/5	80%	Dances With Wolves (1990)	" Dances With Wolves is a clear-eyed vision. Authentic as an Edward Curtis photograph, lyrical as a George Catlin oil or a Karl Bodmer landscape, this is a film with a pure ring to it." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 22, 2013
4/5	92%	The Last Emperor (1987)	" As coolly lavish an epic as we may ever see." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 22, 2013
4.5/5	95%	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)	" Hopkins' performance may be the film's bravura showpiece, but Foster's goes the whole distance, steadfast, controlled, heartbreakingly insightful, a fine addition to her gallery of characterizations." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 22, 2013
4/5	88%	Rain Man (1988)	" What no one can argue is that Rain Man is Cruise's quantum leap, so that it can be said unblushingly that he holds his own with the masterly Hoffman." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 20, 2013
4.5/5	88%	Platoon (1986)	" This is movie-making with a zealot's fervor." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 19, 2013
2/5	86%	A Dry White Season (1989)	" It's filled with obvious, earnest performances--Marlon Brando's ironic and subtle one is the only exception--and unresonant writing." — Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 7, 2012
2/5	83%	State of Grace (1990)	" Every indulgence, including a two hour and 14 minute running time, is on display." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 3, 2012
3.5/5	94%	Sweet Dreams (1985)	" Lange and Harris, dangerously well-matched, give us lovers whom only success could sunder." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 3, 2012
4/5	92%	Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark) (1988)	" Streep and Neill are the film's perfectly matched thoroughbreds. But the film is neither a double star turn nor the best kind of courtroom drama; it is a sort of epic mosaic of national character." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 19, 2011
2/5	65%	Ironweed (1987)	" The film becomes becalmed and confusing; it lacks the novel's great unwavering trajectory." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 19, 2011
4/5	96%	The Big Easy (1987)	" Eventually the film's suspense underpinnings take over its personal story, yet that tension Quaid and Barkin generate still holds. Soldily fine as actors they're also a great pair, like two golden athletes." — Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 5, 2011
	88%	Tell Them Who You Are (2005)	" That the two can come to any understanding at all is one of the film's miracles, since -- professional competitiveness aside -- their past is a minefield of unexpressed resentment." — Seattle Weekly Posted Oct 13, 2005
	72%	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)	" Sky Captain is full of such nice, deft touches." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 16, 2004
—	72%	Shallow Grave (1995)	— Film Scouts Posted Apr 17, 2002

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