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See No Evil, Hear No Evil
(1989)
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Ron Wolfe
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[See No Evil, Hear No Evil] starts with just the two jokes of Pryor's blindness and Wilder's deafness. Then, it narrows to the one joke of Wilder being Pryor's eyes, Pryor being Wilder's ears. After awhile, it limps along in repetition.
Posted Mar 27, 2019
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
(1992)
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Brad Phelps
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The result is a complete incompleteness, a smorgasbord of mixed metaphors. It isn't seriously funny or funnily serious. It's seriously confusing.
Posted Mar 25, 2019
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Edward Scissorhands
(1990)
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Ron Wolfe
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A bittersweet fable with a satiric edge.
Posted Oct 30, 2018
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UHF
(1989)
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Ron Wolfe
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UHF is a reference to the faltering television station that "Weird Al" Yankovic's character is trying to salvage with a line-up of weird shows. But the letters in the title of this filmed-in-Tulsa comedy could also mean Unlikely Homemade Fun.
Posted Oct 30, 2018
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Pink Cadillac
(1989)
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Ron Wolfe
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Pink Cadillac is a vehicle that never does pick up much speed. The reason could be that it is hauling too heavy a load of the usual bad guys for Eastwood to knock down.
Posted Oct 30, 2018
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Dead Again
(1991)
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Ron Wolfe
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The story finally twists and turns its way beyond the outer limits of probability, but Dead Again zings with a sheer joy in the process of movie-making, and with a respect for the genre that Hitchcock established.
Posted Oct 30, 2018
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She-Devil
(1989)
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Ron Wolfe
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Can Streep play comedy? O' my!
Posted Oct 30, 2018
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Who's Harry Crumb?
(1989)
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Ron Wolfe
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Candy is a talented man who should be getting better parts in the movies.
Posted Oct 30, 2018
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
(1990)
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Ron Wolfe
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The Bonfire of the Vanities is a false alarm, all smoke and not enough fire to toast a marshmallow.
Posted Oct 30, 2018
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Brightness
(1987)
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Ron Wolfe
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[It's] the kind of foreign movie that defies a rating system of "good" or "poor." It could be a film of high interest for the right audience, but most people aren't going to find much reason to stay awake for this hour and 45 minutes of spell-casting.
Posted Oct 30, 2018
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Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
(1990)
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Ron Wolfe
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The chainsaw is a marvel that starts on the first pull every time. The rest of Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III is a rough-hewn movie that doesn't always work so well, but it has its moments strictly for an audience of horror hounds.
Posted Oct 30, 2018
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The Masque of the Red Death
(1990)
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Ron Wolfe
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Masque of the Red Death" is a Halloween treat that comes wrapped in a crinkly foil of nostalgia for horror movie fans.
Posted Oct 30, 2018
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Almost an Angel
(1990)
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Ron Wolfe
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Almost an Angel is almost a movie, but it could have been an episode of TV's Highway to Heaven just as well.
Posted Oct 30, 2018
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Let's Get Lost
(1988)
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Ron Wolfe
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Let's Get Lost is a film as sweet, seductive and heartbreaking as the sound of Chet Baker's trumpet -- the story of a man for whom music came easy, but life came hard.
Posted Oct 30, 2018
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
(1977)
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David Jones
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Star Wars is exhilarating entertainment. It probably is the best family film to come along for a decade. I wonder what would have been its top competition as best family film in a decade.
Posted Jun 03, 2018
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Awakenings
(1990)
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Brad Phelps
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Director Penny Marshall carefully underplays the movie's tone of spiritual triumph.
Posted Feb 17, 2018
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
(1991)
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Brad Phelps
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Costner must be judged by the Wimp Factor.
Posted Feb 17, 2018
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Dances With Wolves
(1990)
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Ron Wolfe
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Dances With Wolves is flat-out the year's best movie to date.
Posted Feb 17, 2018
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Blaze
(1989)
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Ron Wolfe
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Maybe Blaze is too pure, and the governor too outrageous to be true. But Shelton works their story into a romantic tall tale as beguiling as the spin of the lady's tassels.
Posted Jun 08, 2016
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JFK
(1991)
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Brad Phelps
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JFK undeniably is well crafted and exhilarating. But it comes equipped with the biggest movie caveat emptor on record -- the historical context is Stone's and Stone's alone.
Posted Jul 28, 2015
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Back to the Future Part II
(1989)
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Ron Wolfe
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A dismal and mean-spirited sequel to one of the best movies of the 1980s.
Posted Jun 24, 2015
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Cry Baby
(1990)
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Ron Wolfe
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It has a great score of obscure '50s rock and doo-wop. It has the candy-colored look of a '50s musical. What it doesn't have is a moment of anything that seems remotely real.
Posted Jan 21, 2015
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Repentance
(1984)
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Diana Nelson Jones
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It signifies a Soviet Union coming to terms with its past.
Posted Aug 26, 2014
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Boyz N the Hood
(1991)
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Brad Phelps
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Singleton's movie mixes frail hope and overwhelming despair, a search for a corner of sanity in a mad world.
Posted Jul 07, 2010
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Unforgiven
(1992)
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James D. Watts Jr.
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It's a long, hard ride, but it's worth getting to the trail's end.
Posted Dec 06, 2003
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Major League
(1989)
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Ron Wolfe
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Major League smacks a solid base hit when the players decide their best revenge against the team's owner would be to win the American League pennant. It doubles when these guys begin to come together as a real team.
Posted Aug 02, 2002
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Total Recall
(1990)
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Ron Wolfe
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Total Recall won't leave you with a lot to remember, but this science fiction shoot-'em-up is as good a way as any to forget about life's cares on a summer day.
Posted Aug 28, 2001
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