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      Rating T-Meter Title | Year Review
      3/4
      An American Tail (1986) The secondary figures, including villainous Warren T. Rat, are often splendid. So are the storm scene, fire effects and the Statue of Liberty episodes. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted May 18, 2023
      Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) As summer movies go, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a real heat wave. Steven Spielberg tries to out-dash his Raiders of the Lost Ark, and he does. You may feel elated, or just exhausted. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Apr 17, 2023
      Thelma & Louise (1991) [A] blazingly fresh feminist comedy. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Feb 28, 2023
      Dances With Wolves (1990) [Kevin Costner] is winning too much puff press for "risking" his stardom. Washed in John Barry's symphonic syrup (close your eyes and you see Out of Africa), the film basks in the comfy, 1-2-3 storytelling that once ruled Hollywood. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Nov 08, 2022
      Platoon (1986) Ragged though it is, Platoon has a certain painful majesty. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Aug 23, 2022
      Rain Man (1988) Director Barry Levinson lays on beautiful backdrops and glib needlings of junk culture, yet his vaunted "feel" for people goes trite. The result is not maudlin, just dull. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Aug 04, 2022
      The Last Emperor (1987) This curious epic gives us a slice of history unlike any other; it has a mysterious weight and a refreshing lack of moralizing. The ending is a miracle of poetic concision. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Aug 01, 2022
      Chattanooga Choo Choo (1984) Chattanooga Choo Choo is no ordinary bad film. We're talking serious suffering at the movies. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Mar 07, 2022
      3/4
      Stand by Me (1986) "Stand by Me" stirs memories, especially if you've been a boy, especially if (like me), you were a '50s kid whose old pals have grown up and drifted apart. - San Diego Union-Tribune
      Read More | Posted Aug 23, 2021
      One Crazy Summer (1986) One Crazy Summer is mostly another "wacky" frolic for the late-summer teen market. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Aug 17, 2021
      Bolero (1984) Alas, Bo will never, never be an actress. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Mar 31, 2020
      The Slugger's Wife (1985) This is the most nakedly calculated film Simon has written (which is really saying something), and also the least funny. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2019
      Beverly Hills Cop (1984) It has a creamy surface and junky insides. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Jul 19, 2019
      2010 (1984) Hyams directed, produced, scripted, even supervised photography, but his dossier is not that of a masterbuilder. He's a sturdy craftsman who gets all the gears moving in tight rhythm. His film is impressive but not elating. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Jul 19, 2019
      Phar Lap (1983) The film is richly acted... And it's as well paced as a good race by director Simon Wincer. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Jul 19, 2019
      Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) Mazursky taps and carbonates a rich source Boudu Saved From Drowning, Rene Fauchois' play that became a classic 1931 movie directed by Jean Renoir. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Jul 19, 2019
      Tightrope (1984) On an action fan's gut level, I like Eastwood. There's no other star who can pull off tense, John Wayneish moments so well. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Jul 19, 2019
      Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) From its whip 'em up music to its doggy cliches, the movie is a rubbish pile. Even the vaunted action scenes... don't show fresh verve or tactical flair. They're just stunts with big price tags. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Jul 19, 2019
      Dune (1984) Inside Dune is a good freak show struggling to get out (and failing). - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Jul 19, 2019
      Weird Science (1985) Weird Science has a laser-line to the hopes and fears of teen-age boys. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Jul 19, 2019
      Band of the Hand (1986) Dumb movies are with us always, but it isn't every week that we have a Band of the Hand. Flawlessly false, it breaks into the elite of the super-stupid. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Jul 19, 2019
      Torchlight (1984) [Ian McShane] is irrepressibly slimy and entertaining. Not since Malcolm McDowell played a creep Nazi (in a movie I have otherwise managed to forget) has a villain done such solo salvage work on his scenes in a terrible film. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Jul 19, 2019
      The Sure Thing (1985) The Sure Thing is one of those movies that start to fade right after you've seen it, but while you're watching there's pleasure to be had in its craft. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Jul 19, 2019
      Solarbabies (1986) Solarbabies is baked in the cliche oven, and then iced with derivations. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Jul 19, 2019
      The Cotton Club (1984) This movie would have been ruined by good taste. It is spendthrift on every level but logic, and at times inane, yet a smashing entertainment. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Feb 22, 2019
      The Bear (1984) The Bear hawks the oldest line in sports films, telling us in various ways that Bryant was a "maker of men." We can believe it, and even admire it, because Busey brings out Bryant's courtly grace, his instinctual decency. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Feb 22, 2019
      City Heat (1984) Imagine The Sting without charm, and you have a fix on City Heat. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Feb 22, 2019
      The Evil That Men Do (1984) The Evil That Men Do is an efficient C.B. machine. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Feb 22, 2019
      Under the Volcano (1984) There are nips of beauty and terror, but the movie starts small and then shrinks. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Jan 30, 2019
      National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) It must have been fun for the film's makers to work in London, Paris, Rome and Southern Germany, but their fun didn't get exported to us. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Jan 30, 2019
      Lost in America (1985) With co-writer Monica Johnson, his collaborator on Real Life and Modern Romance, Brooks has scripted the perfect outing for his gifts. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Jan 30, 2019
      Ran (1985) This film is the visual epic of the year, and one of the few really great movies of the 80s. - Copley News Service
      Read More | Posted Jan 30, 2019
      The Stone Boy (1984) This film is sincere, earnest and irritating. - Gannett News Service
      Read More | Posted Jan 30, 2019
      3/5
      Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) Maturing performances are a bonus, but the show's the thing, and by now it seems much richer than any theme park that could ever be made from it. - San Diego Reader
      Read More | Posted Nov 14, 2016
      3/5
      Waste Land (2010) With Walker and cinematographer Dudu Miranda, Muniz has a hawk's eye for the weird beauty of bulldozed hillocks of trash and the catador faces that he chose to star in photographic portraits. - San Diego Reader
      Read More | Posted Nov 14, 2016
      2/5
      Wild Target (2010) A few tart, amusing lines echo the fabled Kind Hearts and Coronets, yet this British movie based on a French farce falls into morbid silliness. - San Diego Reader
      Read More | Posted Nov 14, 2016
      2/5
      Kings of Pastry (2009) The makers are left, finally, a few cookies short. - San Diego Reader
      Read More | Posted Nov 14, 2016
      Prometheus (2012) The story is a lurching carnival of budget blasts. - San Diego Reader
      Read More | Posted Nov 09, 2016
      2/4
      Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) Devout fans will have to go. For the rest of us, the best rewards of this show were long ago, in a galaxy that now seems far, far away. - San Diego Union-Tribune
      Read More | Posted Nov 16, 2015
      3/5
      Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) Strong effects, good design, and an exciting use of nature help to empower Stewart and Theron, who inject a rich, double dose of feminism. - San Diego Reader
      Read More | Posted Oct 06, 2015
      3/4
      Crime After Crime (2011) Despite its plodding tactics, the movie is an alarming witness. - San Diego Reader
      Read More | Posted Jun 25, 2015
      2/4
      Children of Men (2006) Here is your post-holiday depression pill: Children of Men. Not to relieve depression. To cause it. - San Diego Union-Tribune
      Read More | Posted Apr 01, 2015
      4/5
      The King's Speech (2010) The film is richly rooted, with splendid trappings, including pea-soup fogs. For all the pomp and protocol, it's an intimate story about a scared man who must find his voice if he is to rise, in regal stature, above his epaulets. - San Diego Reader
      Read More | Posted Feb 20, 2015
      4/5
      The Artist (2011) Through it all, Dujardin has great dignity, is hugely likeable, and pulls off touches of comic poignancy not far from Chaplin's. - San Diego Reader
      Read More | Posted Feb 17, 2015
      3/4
      Carnage (2011) The acting marathon is adroitly blocked and paced by Polanski and impeccably shot by Pawel Edelman. - San Diego Reader
      Read More | Posted Feb 04, 2015
      The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) It's very pretty (plus a song that is like a gumdrop melting in your ear). Girls may enjoy the sweet, rather wistful story more than most boys. - San Diego Reader
      Read More | Posted Dec 08, 2014
      4/4
      Howl's Moving Castle (2004) Like Tiepolo, Miyazaki is a winged artist who flies in his own space, taking gravity with him. He can put us into a childish stupor of anticipation, then satisfaction. His vision is so free that it captivates. - San Diego Union-Tribune
      Read More | Posted Dec 08, 2014
      3/5
      Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) The grand finish, if not always inspired, feels necessary. In a sustained, imaginative way, this is the best of any movie series. - San Diego Reader
      Read More | Posted Nov 18, 2014
      4/4
      Moneyball (2011) Brad Pitt is at the top of his own game as Beane. Cocky and often nonchalant, he is gnawed by doubts that he tries to cover by grabbing a snack or pitching a grin. - San Diego Reader
      Read More | Posted May 06, 2014
      Underclassman (2005) The finish, a rush of climaxes, can make you feel zoned at 3 a.m., trying to decide between TV and the wallpaper. - San Diego Union-Tribune
      Read More | Posted Jun 10, 2013
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