Paul Attanasio
Paul Attanasio's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer when
published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Washington Post
| Publications: | Washington Post |
Movie Reviews Only
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| 94% | Re-Animator (1985) |
Re-Animator is splatter heaven. Based on the sci-fi novel by H.P. Lovecraft, Re-Animator's gore is exceeded only by its wit.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Sep 28, 2015
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| 36% | A View to a Kill (1985) |
It's not double-oh-seven anymore, but double-oh-seventy, the best argument yet for the mandatory retirement age.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Aug 21, 2015
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| 96% | Back to the Future (1985) |
Zemeckis and Gale have given the movie a core of feeling that makes real claims on us. For all its comedy, Back to the Future is about a kid coming to terms with his parents' inadequacies, a moment familiar to everyone, and the fulcrum in growing up.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jun 23, 2015
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| 33% | A Man And A Woman, 20 Years Later (1986) |
At his worst, Lelouch is extraordinarily awkward, shooting off in 12 different directions.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 15, 2008
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| 77% | 372 le Matin (Betty Blue) (37.2 Degrees in the Morning) (1986) |
If Dalle finds with remarkable clarity the one note that her role calls for -- the petulant volcano -- she can't support the existential weight Beineix wants to drop on her.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2002
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| 78% | Caravaggio (1986) |
I may be a dull fellow, but from the very beginning of Caravaggio, I hadn't the slightest idea as to what Jarman was up to.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 26% | The Golden Child (1986) |
A half-baked comedy without a heart.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 88% | Something Wild (1986) |
A load of fun.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 69% | An American Tail (1986) |
It may be that the truly American tale here is the spectacle of an artist squandering his awesome gifts on the way to becoming a Hollywood institution.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 94% | High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) (1963) |
High and Low illuminates its world with a wholeness and complexity you rarely see in film.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 81% | Children of a Lesser God (1986) |
This is romance the way Hollywood used to make it, with both conflict and tenderness, at times capturing the texture of the day-to-day, at times finding the lyrical moments when two lovers find that time stops.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 81% | Crimes of the Heart (1986) |
As Spacek, Lange and Keaton clamor for attention, "Crimes of the Heart" becomes less a movie than a three-ring circus, and ringmaster Beresford does little to direct your gaze.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 88% | Platoon (1986) |
The movie is beautifully written (by Stone), constructed with strong, clean lines, immaculately paced and regularly surprising.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 83% | Heartbreak Ridge (1986) |
A few Cubans with AK47s isn't exactly "The Guns of Navarone." At the end, you can't decide whether Eastwood and his platoon should get medals or merit badges.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 64% | Belizaire the Cajun (2011) |
This is an impressive debut film.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 44% | Three Amigos! (1986) |
The script of Three Amigos plays like it was slapped together by a few friends with a tape recorder enjoying a charming weekend at the beach.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 65% | The Mission (1986) |
"The Mission" is everything a movie should be -- magnificently produced, epic in scope, serious in theme -- everything, that is, but good.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 31% | Streets of Gold (1986) |
It's a wonder nobody had thought of casting Brandauer as a boxer before -- his work is so full of devilish feints and tricky, misleading expressions.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 14% | Soul Man (1986) |
The pity is, it isn't even outrageous.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 21% | No Mercy (1986) |
Count me among those who would be happy never to see another starring role for Gere, except maybe as Felix in a remake of The Odd Couple.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 100% | 'Round Midnight (1986) |
A lovingly gentle yet vibrant tribute to jazz, friendship and film itself, made by a director of consummate taste and precise imagination.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 33% | The Wraith (1986) |
There is all too little of the quietly charismatic Sheen and all too much of Cassavetes, who is a dead ringer for the young Hugh Hefner.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 90% | Little Shop of Horrors (1986) |
Screen writer and lyricist Howard Ashman has mastered the essence of '80s humor, recycling the old with a hip knowingness, all with a morbid, outrageous edge.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 0% | Firewalker (1986) |
Kitsch.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 88% | Radio Days (1987) |
You peel and peel away at it only to find, in the end, nothing. ‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 85% | Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) |
Here you don't see Coppola the camera wizard, you see Coppola the storyteller, the maker of fables. And by the end, you don't feel warmly just toward the movie, but toward the man behind it.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 90% | Down by Law (1986) |
It's not that the movie doesn't move fast enough, it's that while it dawdles, it doesn't give you enough to dwell on.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 85% | Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home (1986) |
Immensely pleasurable.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 50% | Outrageous Fortune (1987) |
Such rarefied screen writing calls for the peerless talents of Arthur Hiller, a director with the comic timing of a tax auditor.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 89% | Sid and Nancy (1986) |
The only thing that is sustained in Sid and Nancy is a tone of clinical disinterest that leaves you asking why Cox would want to make a movie about them.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 88% | Hoosiers (1986) |
The movie's enormous craftsmanship accumulates till you're actually seduced into believing all its Pepperidge Farm buncombe. That's quite an achievement.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 89% | The Color of Money (1986) |
Scorsese gets you inside the game in a way most sports movies never hint at.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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| 94% | Blue Velvet (1986) |
The movie doesn't progress or deepen, it just gets weirder, and to no good end.‐ Washington Post
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
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