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John Griffin

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 95% 4.5/5 EDIT “For a movie without a beginning or end, The Two Towers is a near-total triumph. ” – Montreal Gazette Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Put simply, The Fellowship of the Ring is the rare movie that matches the power of our literary imaginations. As fairy tale, action adventure, vision quest, parable and act of pure mythological recreation, it towers over anything since [Star Wars].” – Montreal Gazette Jan 13, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% EDIT “Rob Reiner's holiday offering is the kind of old-fashioned military courtroom drama Hollywood just doesn't make any more. It's driven by a strong story, big stars, fine performances and enough gold braid for a Third World dictatorship.” – Montreal Gazette Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% 3/5 EDIT “Get right down to it, and this is a sentimental $60-to-$90-million plug for having kids. But at least it's fun to watch. ” – Montreal Gazette Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% 2/5 EDIT “The Abyss bogs down in a mush-brained love match, thoroughly unbelievable developments, howlingly cliched dialogue, and the bizarre introduction of lovable all-wise aliens doing their best to save mankind from itself.” – Montreal Gazette Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% 2/5 EDIT “The computer-generated special effects are wonderful enough in an ephemeral sort of way, but they, ahem, pale after a while.” – Montreal Gazette Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Reynolds is given a chance to redefine his career as the avuncular, dignified, debonair Jack and he seizes it with an authority that anchors the huge cast and this entire film. Moore is equal to her challenge as well.” – Montreal Gazette Sep 24, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% EDIT “It's a slow-starter, but a charmer.” – Montreal Gazette Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Requiem for a Dream (2000) 80% 3.5/5 EDIT “Ghoulish in a way David Cronenberg would understand, and as rationally controlled in its fever, Requiem is not a movie to watch but to experience.” – Montreal Gazette Aug 22, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “The same media-fried minds that put Airplane! on a synapse-snapping collision course with your laugh glands are back, and they're funnier and more twisted than ever. ” – Montreal Gazette Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Red Rock West (1993) 95% 3/5 EDIT “Red Rock West isn't perfect... But it looks sharp, sounds great, features the usual solid performances from the under-appreciated Cage and Walsh, and a trademark maniacal spin by Hopper.” – Montreal Gazette Jul 15, 2025 Full Review Superman Returns (2006) 72% 4/5 EDIT “A dead ringer for Reeve, and the square-jawed comic-book original, [Brandon Routh] gives our hero more depth and resonance than the genre has seen since the Spider-Man series and Batman Begins.” – Montreal Gazette Jul 7, 2025 Full Review Jurassic Park (1993) 91% 3/5 EDIT “Jurassic Park is E.T. with attitude. It's King Kong meets Alien. It's T-Rex-R-Us. It's a special-effects free-for-all, and proof that the technicians have finally taken over that particular asylum we call the movies.” – Montreal Gazette Jul 1, 2025 Full Review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 57% 3/5 EDIT “Some nifty effects and pithy dialogue aside, this is a manipulator that works every part of your body but your brain. As such, it's summer box-office fare that might have been created in a lab.” – Montreal Gazette Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Apollo 13 (1995) 94% 3.5/5 EDIT “Disaster is interesting. Strength and ingenuity in adversity is inspiring. And Apollo 13 is both.” – Montreal Gazette Jun 24, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible III (2006) 73% 3.5/5 EDIT “M:I:III now plays out as only a hugely expensive, carefully crafted and cleverly constructed, effects-driven plaything can.” – Montreal Gazette May 21, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible (1996) 67% 2.5/5 EDIT “Mission: Impossible is a technological marvel.” – Montreal Gazette May 6, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) 62% 2/5 EDIT “Attack of the Clones is a victim of its own creative overkill.” – Montreal Gazette Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) 79% 3/5 EDIT “Mortal flaws in dialogue and the direction of real human beings will hardly be noticed amid the death-defying digital mayhem, media hype and sweet fan nostalgia for the greatest movie franchise of all time. ” – Montreal Gazette Apr 18, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) 54% 3.5/5 EDIT “...The Phantom Menace is as much mindless fun as you'll find in the megaplex this summer. Just try not to think. It's so much better that way.” – Montreal Gazette Apr 16, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (1993) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Lee is a natural entertainer, and he has surrounded himself with tremendously sympathetic characters.” – Montreal Gazette Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Do the Right Thing (1989) 92% 4/5 EDIT “...if the director's own ambiguities seem infuriating...it's because we're finally being offered a glimpse of what it may be like to be black in the mean streets of New York.” – Montreal Gazette Mar 18, 2025 Full Review Cold Comfort Farm (1995) 82% EDIT “Cold Comfort evolves effortlessly into a "romp," a "lark," and a tonic for the world-weary. ” – Ottawa Citizen Feb 13, 2025 Full Review Scream 2 (1997) 83% EDIT “The master of sly contemporary slasher movies returns with a thriller that manages to out-frighten, out-funny and out-reference the original. ” – Montreal Gazette Feb 6, 2025 Full Review Scream (1996) 78% 3/5 EDIT “Though hardly recommended for the queasy, Scream is easily as smart as anything else passing for mainstream entertainment these days. ” – Montreal Gazette Oct 15, 2024 Full Review
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