Vanessa Letts

Vanessa Letts's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
The Spectator
Publications:
The Spectator
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93% | Strictly Ballroom (1992) |
A delight. - The Spectator
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| Posted Aug 30, 2018
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93% | Husbands and Wives (1992) |
Fractured and slight. - The Spectator
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| Posted Aug 30, 2018
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No Score Yet | The Pleasure Principle (1991) |
I began to scour the film for any kind of intellectual motivation whatsoever. There was none. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 25, 2018
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7% | Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) |
I laughed occasionally, but in pain. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 25, 2018
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54% | Final Analysis (1992) |
Concluded on a level of humdrum normality which made everything that preceded it seem stupider than ever. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 25, 2018
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56% | Homo Faber (Voyager) (1991) |
The whole thing came over as the worst kind of middle-aged fantasy. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 25, 2018
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71% | The Adjuster (1992) |
Is it thought provoking? No. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 25, 2018
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81% | The Mambo Kings (1992) |
It is always maddening watching musical 'geniuses' in the cinema when their visibly incompetent efforts bear no relation to what you hear. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 25, 2018
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45% | Ruby (1992) |
I have to admit that I was so completely in sympathy with Aiello right from the start that I paid no attention to the moral and aesthetic shortcomings of the film as a whole. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 25, 2018
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67% | Death in Brunswick (Nothing to Lose) (1990) |
[A] Coke-and-popcorn black comedy. I quite liked it. Quite. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 25, 2018
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100% | Close to Eden (Urga) (Territory of Love) (1991) |
It was only in the second half... that the film seemed to lift off of its own accord, and I realised I was watching something exceptional. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 25, 2018
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30% | Toys (1992) |
No child I know would benefit from seeing this work, and certainly no adult. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 25, 2018
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89% | Malcolm X (1992) |
There is too much of a painting-by-numbers, biopic feel to the way the story is unfolded for us. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 25, 2018
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44% | Used People (1992) |
Has the feel of a film which has been created, with the help of lifestyle questionnaires... [and] for all that, the end product is chilling rather than romantic. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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No Score Yet | Silent Touch (1992) |
It's awful. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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77% | Into the West (1993) |
The pathos is powerful too, and one wonders why cinema managers don't sell packets of handkerchiefs along-side all the chocolate and ice-creams. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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47% | The Last Boy Scout (1991) |
Violent, chauvinist and funny, and I enjoyed it tremendously. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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82% | La Double Vie de Véronique (The Double Life of Veronique) (1991) |
Things became too self-referential to stomach. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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60% | Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) |
The idea of going round casually shooting the people who make life boring appeals to me. For this reason alone I get great satisfaction out of the Lethal Weapon formula. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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33% | Johnny Suede (1991) |
Has Odour-Eater hauteur. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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35% | The Lawnmower Man (1992) |
Gratuitously offensive. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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42% | Straight Talk (1992) |
Listening to all her callers didn't do the trick for me. I left the cinema feeling more depressed than ever. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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78% | A League of Their Own (1992) |
It is gentle, weepy and mostly inoffensive, with an ending which celebrates old people. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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73% | Patriot Games (1992) |
The film is too fancy and not sufficiently harsh. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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96% | Unforgiven (1992) |
The film has a kind of wise knowingness which may well mislead some people into thinking that its main aim is to debunk the western. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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91% | Simple Men (1992) |
Hal Hartley's formula is to tease us with what appears to be a succession of crazy red herring but, defying all credibility and charming us at the same time. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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68% | Peter's Friends (1992) |
Anyone else who is going to require a bit of preparatory jollying up should probably avoid this production. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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79% | Sneakers (1992) |
The movie would probably swing along fine as an out-and-out spoof or a serious thriller, but instead it lacks force in either direction. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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74% | Sister Act (1992) |
The film trundles along, full of holy-poky, mayhem and one-liners. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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53% | Single White Female (1992) |
What can the point of this possibly be when even the thrill of being afraid is denied us? - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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69% | Naked Lunch (1991) |
I yearned for something more disgusting to occur. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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88% | Until the End of the World (Bis ans Ende der Welt) (1992) |
The film is funny, and the story has all the logic -- or illogic -- of a dream. It never aspires to anything more concrete. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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17% | Boxing Helena (1993) |
Instead of the grotesque sexual humiliation of Kim Basinger we were all hoping for, we get schoolgirl surrealism. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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63% | Savage Nights (Les Nuits Fauves) (1992) |
The film has a degree of candour and integrity which is exceptional in an industry which ordinarily relies on teamwork. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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92% | Lorenzo's Oil (1992) |
It is as if we are being jollied along and made to realize, in case we weren't capable of getting there by ourselves, 'this is terribly sad', and, 'this is tremendously uplifting.' - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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79% | Under Siege (1992) |
The story, ridiculous and formulaic though it is, is told with a certain wit and panache. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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65% | The Public Eye (1992) |
The film's visual rhythm is a key reflection of its story, so that neither the lush beauty nor the arresting squalor is gratuitous. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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78% | Damage (1992) |
The worst thing about Damages is David Hare's screenplay. It is constructed mostly out of embarrassingly meaningful looks. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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82% | Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country (1991) |
I hate to sound like a populist, but Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is the most enjoyable film I have seen this year. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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90% | Barton Fink (1991) |
It was like a witty and stylish description of a dripping tap or a damp sock. Dripping taps and damp socks are all very well, I thought to myself at the end of the film, but when it comes to the crunch, who gives a fink? - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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30% | Nowhere to Run (1993) |
The plot is a succession of flimsy excuses for dressing Van Damme up and stripping him down again. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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24% | Passenger 57 (1992) |
It is a disaster... and the film is in no way thrilling. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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88% | Light Sleeper (1992) |
The plot and characterization came across as an adolescent fantasy which had entirely missed its mark. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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32% | 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) |
The film doesn't, as it should have done, make any profound attempt to examine the split between good and evil within Christopher Columbus himself. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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74% | Man Bites Dog (1992) |
The sheer kitsch of the characters and settings prevents a real-life audience from ever having to feel genuinely implicated. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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67% | Hero (1992) |
The cast is reduced to acting out a series of adjectives. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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8% | Body of Evidence (1992) |
The only people who could possible hope actually to enjoy this film would be... those sad types who derive pleasure from feeling cross. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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70% | The Prince of Tides (1991) |
The main problem with Prince of Tides, however, is not the acting or the direction, but the source material... it reeks of bad novel. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 24, 2018
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56% | Swing Kids (1993) |
Despite the film's overall ridiculousness, however, the choreography and music by Cab Calloway and Django Reinhardt is brilliant. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 23, 2018
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49% | The Vanishing (1993) |
American scriptwriters have run out of ideas. - The Spectator
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| Posted Jul 23, 2018
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