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Adam Mars-Jones

Adam Mars-Jones's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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North (1994) 12% EDIT “Elijah Wood is very good.” – Independent (UK) Jan 24, 2026 Full Review The American President (1995) 90% EDIT “Bening has the ability to let us see one mood or emotion rising through another. Her animation is captivating, but also intelligently nuanced. ” – Independent (UK) Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% EDIT “Rob Reiner's direction of a mainly young cast is confident, and the film has some small pleasures to offer. But the whole projects seems too calculated.” – Independent (UK) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Running Man (1987) 59% EDIT “The throw-away sadism is decidedly unpleasant.” – Independent (UK) Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% EDIT “Casper...is most of the time a patchwork of movie references and echoes. The special effects are very intricate,...and at first it seems rather a novelty that Casper himself has texture.” – Independent (UK) Sep 30, 2025 Full Review Night of the Living Dead (1990) 57% EDIT “The new version is competent but pointless -- emptied of the original's social comment, it becomes a straight siege piece.” – Independent (UK) Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Toy Story (1995) 100% EDIT “John Lasseter's greatest achievement is not that he has produced a movie that is clever, but that, using such cumbersome technology, he has produced a movie that is very enjoyable. ” – Independent (UK) Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% EDIT “It's a daisy-chain of brilliant ideas unable to sustain the tension of a feature-length story.” – Independent (UK) Aug 27, 2025 Full Review Babe (1995) 98% EDIT “Babe is, in its way, a perfect Christmas film, funny and almost too touching.” – Independent (UK) Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Waterworld (1995) 60% EDIT “What the mind remembers of the film is simply water, and everything else -- the action, the romance, the pseudo-green politics, the strenuous special effects -- amounts to words written on water. ” – Independent (UK) Jul 28, 2025 Full Review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 57% EDIT “There is something self-defeating about the world's most successful film-maker competing so tirelessly with himself.” – Independent (UK) Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Withnail and I (1987) 84% EDIT “If all of it was as funny as the best of it, the film would be a remarkable achievement. Even as it is, it deserves an audience, and recognition for Richard E. Grant as an outstanding comic actor.” – Independent (UK) Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 91% EDIT “David Lynch's Blue Velvet is a sustained exercise in disorientation, and if it is not exactly the masterpiece he will make someday (if only to balance the fiasco of Dune), it is certainly startling and full of extraordinary touches.” – Independent (UK) Jan 22, 2025 Full Review The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) 80% EDIT “The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a mild disappointment; not a disaster but a definite falling off from the studio's series of recent triumphs, running from Beauty and the Beast in 1991.” – Independent (UK) Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Scream (1996) 78% EDIT “Craven does a better job exploring -- and exploding -- stereotypes.” – Independent (UK) Oct 12, 2024 Full Review Twister (1996) 68% EDIT “The film tries to keep a straight face about the terrible damage done by tornadoes, the need t give people more warning, but joy in mayhem is just too strong.” – Independent (UK) Jul 16, 2024 Full Review When Harry Met Sally... (1989) 90% EDIT “Nora Ephron's screenplay, consistently funny and charming, is her best work by far. ” – Independent (UK) Jul 9, 2024 Full Review The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 89% EDIT “The sad thing is that The Shawshank Redemption, a so-so film, would have made a terrific little movie. A pacier project would have given us less time to notice sentimentalities.” – Independent (UK) Mar 4, 2024 Full Review Heat (1995) 84% EDIT “Perhaps a film nearly three hours long needs more tonal variety, and perhaps a film whose genre is the thriller shouldn't indulge in so much atmosphere if the result is to neutralise excitement in advance.” – Independent (UK) Dec 19, 2023 Full Review Lone Star (1996) 91% EDIT “Lone Star never quite lives up, in its storytelling, to its incidental observations. ” – Independent (UK) Aug 23, 2023 Full Review Batman (1989) 77% EDIT “The film occupies a sort of limbo, belonging to the genre of fantasy but excluded from its pleasures, equally cut off from childhood and maturity, and frustrating rather than rewarding any surrender from an audience.” – Independent (UK) Jul 25, 2023 Full Review The Color Purple (1985) 73% EDIT “Spielberg substitutes as the climax of his film a celebration of culture for the book’s celebration of nature... It’s a brave rhetorical solution to the narrative weakness of a book whose attraction was always its flesh and not its bone structure.” – New Statesman May 25, 2023 Full Review Heavenly Creatures (1994) 95% EDIT “A striking addition to the cinema of folie à deux. ” – Independent (UK) May 16, 2023 Full Review Radio Days (1987) 92% EDIT “There is still the feeling, despite the pleasures that Radio Days delivers, that Allen's new films now differ, not as cities differ, but as one suburb differs from the next.” – Independent (UK) Mar 29, 2023 Full Review Groundhog Day (1993) 94% EDIT “Even at its most negligible, Harold Ramis' film is intensely cinematic, not because he is some kind of genius director -- he's not -- but because in the end it's down to film language whether the hero is in hell or in heaven. ” – Independent (UK) Dec 21, 2022 Full Review
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