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David Denby

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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) 76% 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) 91% EDIT “Terminator 2 is among the most exciting spectacles ever made.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Dracula (1979) 64% 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) 60% EDIT “Not a catastrophe, but grim and monotonous. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 28, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% EDIT “Random spoofers, easily distracted, ZAZ are too devoted to silliness to mount even a sustained parody of movies.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 24, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) 77% EDIT “Many things in the movie are funny, but I found myself wearing down fast at this picture, just as I have at the earlier production of ""metteur en scène" Zucker.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Red Rock West (1993) 95% EDIT “Red Rock West is lean and unpretentiously artful. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 16, 2025 Full Review Superman III (1983) 31% EDIT “Tedious, labored, and feeble beyond belief.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Superman: The Movie (1978) 87% EDIT “A rather pleasant, if bewilderingly fragmented, $40-million divertissement. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Jurassic Park (1993) 91% EDIT “In its mixture of excitement, wit, and fear, Jurassic Park comes close to Jaws, though the calculation involved in Spielberg's recent big-machine approach to moviemaking can be depressing.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 1, 2025 Full Review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 57% EDIT “The Lost World hasn't quite been pulled together. It's a visually exhilirating movie, but in all the other ways that matter, it's inert.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Supergirl (1984) 19% EDIT “The movie has terrible schlocky effects -- red whirlpools and flying plastic -- but it's consistently funny.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jun 28, 2025 Full Review Apollo 13 (1995) 94% EDIT “The movie is very straight, very square stuff, but stirring and satisfying. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Starman (1984) 83% EDIT “The plot of the movie isn't very fresh... But Bridges keeps trying things out, and everything he does is funny or touching.” – New York Magazine/Vulture May 13, 2025 Full Review
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