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Eleanor O'Sullivan

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Film Critic, Democrat and Chronicle

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Pretty in Pink (1986) 75% EDIT “Molly Ringwald has a likable, offbeat quality, and she's sweet as all get out in Pretty in Pink, but she isn't accomplished or intriguing enough to make this movie about a poor girl who makes good amount to much more than an adolescent. ” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Feb 13, 2026 Full Review Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) 96% 4/4 EDIT “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a lot more fun than most romantic dramas churned out by Hollywood, and it's far brainier than your usual fisticuffs flick. It's like getting two gems for the price of one rhinestone. ” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Feb 11, 2026 Full Review The American President (1995) 90% 3/4 EDIT “Being Capraesque is hardly a bad thing, but The American President is a self-conscious copy of same. It survives, even thrives now and then, by being charming and by having a terrific leading man.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Misery (1990) 86% 3/4 EDIT “In director Rob Reiner's hands, and with a witty, darkly comic script by William Goldman, "Misery" becomes a tour de force for Kathy Bates; she's amazing as the wacko Annie.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jan 21, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is everything the hype says: grand in scale, massive in emotional pitch, and towering in technical achievement.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% EDIT “The performances are marvelous.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “I can't think of a recent movie that so definitively etched itself into your brain and heart and would not let go, but it is not for the easily disturbed or violence-phobic. ” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 91% 3/4 EDIT “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring succeeds because it has good bones, created by Tolkien, that are honored by the filmmakers. It is unapologetic about celebrating mysticism, romanticism, spiritualism and heroism. ” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% EDIT “Short of being just plain lousy, there's nothing worse about a movie than when it tries too hard. The Princess Bride, Rob Reiner's new movie, is too dear and cute for its own good and rarely as funny as it intends. ” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% 3/4 EDIT “Director Rob Reiner...has a deft handle on the ins and outs of making courtroom drama pulsate; his movie is almost always absorbing...” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% 2.5/4 EDIT “Hook flies, but it sure doesn't soar. Maybe there's a lesson here, something about profligate spending not being able to buy you greatness.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Big Top Pee-wee (1988) 30% EDIT “The bizarre circus folks give "Big Top Pee-wee" an intriguing dark edge but provide insufficient contrast to Pee-wee.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Dec 11, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 75% 2.5/4 EDIT “"The Abyss" is Cameron's first personable film; he never lets the swirling events and special effects, played out underwater, overcome the nuts and bolts of his story.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Dec 10, 2025 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% 2/4 EDIT “At two hours and 21 minutes, the barrage of blasts, killings, crashes and fires grows numbing. ” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Predator (1987) 64% EDIT “"Predator" may be a re-tread, but it's a gruesomely effective one.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Oct 30, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% EDIT “Laundrette is a lucid, uncompromising look at how certain people live, but some audiences may find it unpalatable because of its universal relevance. The washing machine metaphor is apt: Many of us spin along, our control largely in other’s hands.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Oct 10, 2025 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% 3/4 EDIT “Celluloid Closet reminds us of how quantum a leap filmmakers made from the balting, self-conscious "Making Love" (1982) to the Vibrant and risky "Parting Glances" (1986) and "Go Fish" (1994)” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% 1.5/4 EDIT “It's a cute comedy with animation for kids, but with naughty double-entendres that adults will find choice, as well as drama with Freudian overtones about father-daughter love and...a somber tract on love and loss...” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Oct 1, 2025 Full Review Spider-Man (2002) 90% 3/4 EDIT “It's good. In fact, it's very good. And there is one obvious reason why: Spider-Man has a ton of heart.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% EDIT “It's true that Anderson's movie does not have the satisfying smoothness of [Short Cuts]. But it does feel right in capturing the aimlessness of young people who are not blessed with beauty, intelligence or good luck. ” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Night of the Living Dead (1990) 57% EDIT “In clean, bright and, for heaven's sake, warm color, it just doesn't deliver.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Sep 17, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% EDIT “David Zucker, directing, is on a roll that but for a bare few minutes toward the end, never flags.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jul 24, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) 77% 3/4 EDIT “Most men suffering from the Peter Pan syndrome make you cringe. With Zucker and Proft, you're thankful they won't grow up.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Explorers (1985) 48% EDIT “The soapy finish doesn't alter the fact the most of the "Explorers" trip is well worth the ride.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Superman Returns (2006) 72% 4/5 EDIT “Video-age audiences won't find the visual bombardment off-putting, and Superman fans will probably be happy just having a big screen Superman back. Still, the narrative cohesion of Christopher Reeve era Superman is missing, in favor of extravaganza.” – Asbury Park Press (NJ) Jul 7, 2025 Full Review
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