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Jay Scott

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Days of Heaven (1978) 93% EDIT “One does not, then, like this movie, and it does not ask to be liked, any more than The New Yorker's short stories request applause, but one appreciates it with the partially objective, partially self-conscious response one brings to abstract painting.” – Globe and Mail Feb 4, 2026 Full Review My Bloody Valentine (1981) 39% EDIT “On its own second-hand level the product is moderately efficient.” – Globe and Mail Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Misery (1990) 87% EDIT “It does what it desires to do - it suspensefully squeezes the sweat out of the pores - but the salty stench it leaves behind in the persona of Annie Wilkes is a residue that transcends its intentions. ” – Globe and Mail Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% EDIT “Stand By Me is not a "masterpiece," but it is an evocative and cheerily amusing movie.” – Globe and Mail Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Sure Thing (1985) 84% EDIT “Depressing...” – Globe and Mail Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% EDIT “The Princess Bride itself is somewhat less than wondrous. Good it is, but less than very, very good it also is, and it cannot be called, not even by the stretch of an imagination as rubbery as the imagination of William of Goldman, a work of magic. ” – Globe and Mail Jan 7, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% 1/4 EDIT “Until now, Reiner's films have at least been notable for energy, vulgar though that energy may have been in many cases. Why, then, would he want to take on this snoozer?” – Globe and Mail Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% 3/4 EDIT “Spielberg does to us precisely what he does to Peter Banning -- he engineers a return to our childhoods, to experiences both pleasurable and painful. ” – Globe and Mail Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Christine (1983) 72% EDIT “[Christine] loses compression toward the end and the grumpy old thing finally sputters to a stall -- gets flattened, poops out.” – Globe and Mail Dec 15, 2025 Full Review The Wiz (1978) 38% EDIT “Lumet blows the illusions in a film whose success is predicated on illusion. ” – Globe and Mail Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Predator 2 (1990) 36% EDIT “Predator 2 has everything going for it that a bad movie needs if it is to be dismissed with a quip. But this is too ugly to be funny about.” – Globe and Mail Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Dracula (1979) 63% EDIT “Langella has a mid-Atlantic accent and a presence that draws the camera to him like a black hole draws light.” – Globe and Mail Oct 21, 2025 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% EDIT “A valuable if spotty summary of silver screen homosexuality, covert and overt. ” – Globe and Mail Oct 10, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% EDIT “Kureishi and company don't offer solutions to the problems they depict, but they do present them as they have not been presented before, and that in itself is the beginning of change. ” – Globe and Mail Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Dune (1984) 36% EDIT “Never in Dune does Lynch encourage the audience to identify with the characters.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Starman (1984) 83% EDIT “The couple's chemistry not only covers the storytelling holes, it compensates for a distracting sub-plot dealing melodramatically with the military and the government.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Explorers (1985) 48% EDIT “It's worked out with the style and ingenuity of an indolent slug, making its way across a slab of hot concrete in hell.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Supergirl (1984) 19% EDIT “Supergirl is made by people who can make a woman fly halfway around the world and can't get a plot to walk around the block.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review The Return of the Living Dead (1985) 71% EDIT “It's one of the funniest films of its kind ever made.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review C.H.U.D. (1984) 43% EDIT “CHUD, a low-budget exploitation item, is scary, but only because bottomless incompetence can be truly terrifying. ” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review The Jigsaw Man (1984) 39% EDIT “The Jigsaw Man seems little more than an excuse to let Caine, George and Olivier exercise their craft while director Terence Young gets high on imitating Hitchcock.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% EDIT “The picture escalates into absurdity and the last half hour, essentially a chase sequence, is marred by surprisingly cheesy special effects.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Return to Oz (1985) 59% EDIT “The one merciful aspect of Return to Oz is that it's not a musical.” – Globe and Mail Oct 2, 2025 Full Review Tron (1982) 60% EDIT “It's a got momentum and it's got marvels, but it's without heart; it's a visionary technological achievement without vision.” – Globe and Mail Oct 1, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% EDIT “To Sleep With Anger is a dream of euphoric objectivity.” – Globe and Mail Sep 23, 2025 Full Review
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