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Christine (1983) 72% EDIT “Based on a Stephen King novel and directed by shock specialist John Carpenter, who brings little verve to the predictable plot except for some carefully crafted scenes of teen-age life that recall his earlier ''Halloween.'' ” – Christian Science Monitor Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Waterworld (1995) 60% EDIT “Rambunctious, exhausting, entertaining.” – Christian Science Monitor Jul 28, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% EDIT “There's a lot of laughter to be found between the merely crude moments.” – Christian Science Monitor Jul 24, 2025 Full Review The Gold Rush (1925) 98% EDIT “[Charles Chaplin] believes in providing a variety of mood as well as of action. In The Gold Rush he prys each spectator out of his customary mental rut and gives him a delicious emotional bath.” – Christian Science Monitor Jun 24, 2025 Full Review Dirty Work (1998) 21% 2/4 EDIT “Crass, juvenile, ribald.” – Christian Science Monitor May 15, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible (1996) 67% 2/4 EDIT “Some of the suspense set-pieces are impressive, but the picture would pack a greater wallop if it were stitched together more tightly and consistently. ” – Christian Science Monitor May 3, 2025 Full Review National Velvet (1944) 98% EDIT “There has never been such an elaborate horse race on stage or screen as that presented in this picture. It has expansive setting, long sustained suspense, a multitude of incidents, and the well simulated excitement of the great crowd of onlookers.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Captain January (1924) 79% EDIT “Baby Peggy just runs away with the honors in her newest picture. For the first time she has been given the right environment for her histrionics. No antics, capers, cutie tricks now.” – Christian Science Monitor Dec 21, 2023 Full Review Eve's Bayou (1997) 83% 2/4 EDIT “The movie deserves enormous credit for paying serious attention to the family lives of black people... In the end, however, the story is too contrived and melodramatic to reach its full potential. ” – Christian Science Monitor Jan 10, 2023 Full Review The Lady Eve (1941) 99% EDIT “As he has shown before, Mr. Sturges knows how to use all sorts of film potentials in telling his story... Both Mr. Fonda and Miss Stanwyck have helped him to make a hilarious bit of nonsense. ” – Christian Science Monitor Dec 28, 2022 Full Review The Maltese Falcon (1941) 99% EDIT “It is brutal and hard-bitten, a grim and ironic but absorbing thriller.” – Christian Science Monitor Nov 10, 2022 Full Review Tess (1979) 81% EDIT “Mr. Polanski's version seems rather stolid, though he sticks firmly to Hardy's moving tale of a lass whose love life carries her to a tragic fate. Yet it's sensitively directed, in its own conservative way, and luminously photographed.” – Christian Science Monitor Jun 17, 2022 Full Review Lake Placid (1999) 47% 1/4 EDIT “Stay away unless you enjoy gross- out violence, and stay even farther away if you're an animal lover, since some of the most grisly attacks are aimed at cows who just want to chew their cuds in peace.” – Christian Science Monitor Jul 9, 2019 Full Review Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 75% 2/4 EDIT “The humor is as rude and crude as the characters, but the picture certainly isn't lacking in energy.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Tango (1998) 68% 3/4 EDIT “The plot and dialogue are far less engaging than in [director Carlos] Saura's best work, but the dance sequences are exuberantly performed and radiantly filmed.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Saving Private Ryan (1998) 94% 3/4 EDIT “The story raises hard moral questions relating to the relative value of human lives and the overwhelming debt that may be felt by those who benefit when others sacrifice.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Analyze This (1999) 70% 3/4 EDIT “The screenplay offers some hearty laughs if you can stand bursts of violence and language as foul as a Mafioso's business agenda.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 21, 2019 Full Review 200 Cigarettes (1999) 30% .5/4 EDIT “Silly, plotless, slow.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Life Is Beautiful (1997) 80% 4/4 EDIT “Exceptional, well-crafted, uplifting.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Elizabeth (1998) 83% 3/4 EDIT “Acted and directed with great energy and imagination.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Children of Heaven (1997) 83% 4/4 EDIT “This modestly produced family drama has all the poignancy and humor associated with today's vibrant Iranian film industry.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Dancemaker (1998) 92% 3/4 EDIT “A splendidly entertaining visit with the world's greatest modern-dance choreographer and members of his brilliant troupe, focusing on the hardships as well as the rewards of their highly exacting profession.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 21, 2019 Full Review The Harmonists (1998) 81% 3/4 EDIT “Like the Harmonists in their shows, this neatly assembled German production serves up a beguiling blend of humor, sentiment, and nostalgia.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 21, 2019 Full Review The School of Flesh (1998) 68% 2/4 EDIT “This rather perfunctory French drama never quite catches fire.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Devil's Island (1997) 2/4 EDIT “Ambitious but uneven.” – Christian Science Monitor Mar 21, 2019 Full Review
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