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Kevin Thomas

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The Sure Thing (1985) 84% EDIT “Lots of films have sweetness and humor, but The Sure Thing also has smarts. ” – Los Angeles Times Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Death Race 2000 (1975) 80% EDIT “All told this is a fine little action picture with big ideas.” – Los Angeles Times Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Christine (1983) 72% EDIT “"Christine" is a visual triumph, a wonder of skillful cinematic construction and expression.” – Los Angeles Times Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Journey Back to Oz (1974) 30% EDIT “"Journey Back to Oz" is a pleasant but hardly dazzling animated sequel.” – Los Angeles Times Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Predator 2 (1990) 36% EDIT “Virtually everything about the film is derivative but its makers can't be accused of cutting corners. No doubt about it, those who ask only for pure action will be getting their money's worth.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Night of the Living Dead (1990) 57% EDIT “While this "Night" hasn't the chilling, almost cinema-verite credibility of the original, it is certainly a well-sustained entertainment.” – Los Angeles Times Sep 17, 2025 Full Review Cooley High (1975) 83% EDIT “Schultz is a wonderfully spontaneous director, coaxing the best from his actors and possessed of a confident, easy grasp of film grammar.” – Los Angeles Times Aug 13, 2025 Full Review High and Low (1963) 97% EDIT “Structurally, High and Low, which is remarkable in many ways -- the camera work alone could serve as a primer in film technique -- is quite a departure for Kurosawa.” – Los Angeles Times Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Red Rock West (1993) 95% EDIT “Dahl and his co-writer brother, Rick, are endlessly imaginative in coming up with escalating plot twists and turns, but each convolution not only heightens suspense but also reveals character.” – Los Angeles Times Jul 11, 2025 Full Review Supergirl (1984) 19% EDIT “Writer David Odell's dialogue has lots of sparkle, and director Jeannot Szwarc never goes over the edge.” – Los Angeles Times Jun 27, 2025 Full Review Day of the Dead (1985) 61% EDIT “Once again, Romero tries for an apocalyptic vision, but it's drowned in a wretched excess of blood and guts.” – Los Angeles Times Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Night Moves (1975) 78% EDIT “"Night Moves" is a stunning, stylish detective mystery. ” – Los Angeles Times May 28, 2025 Full Review The Karate Kid (1984) 81% EDIT “Morita's portrait of such a man, in all its full richness and humor, is the film's significant and original contribution. ” – Los Angeles Times May 27, 2025 Full Review Fandango (1985) 70% EDIT “"Fandango" overreaches badly and sinks under a heavy weight of symbolism, bathos and sheer preposterousness that no amount of humor and incident can redeem. ” – Los Angeles Times May 17, 2025 Full Review C.H.U.D. (1984) 43% EDIT “"C.H.U.D." might have been more entertaining if its makers hadn't taken themselves as seriously as their message.” – Los Angeles Times May 9, 2025 Full Review The Stepford Wives (1975) 55% EDIT “Bryan Forbes lacks the panache and and sense of gleeful outage of a Roman Polanski needed to bring off the film's final far-out twist.” – Los Angeles Times May 2, 2025 Full Review Brannigan (1975) 48% EDIT “"Brannigan" has been written (by four hands) with an affectionate sense of fun yet genuine respect for the mythical figure that John Wayne has become.” – Los Angeles Times Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Supervixens (1975) 49% EDIT “A blue-collar surrealistic, Meyer used a camera as expressively as Hitchcock or Antonioni. In his adept hands a vast desert expanse becomes a moral landscape.” – Los Angeles Times Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Capone (1975) 32% EDIT “"Capone" boasts superior supporting performances, good period atmosphere, and rich, luminous camerawork. ” – Los Angeles Times Apr 8, 2025 Full Review Withnail and I (1987) 84% EDIT “A '60s joy ride about to tailspin into the sobering '70s. Emerging from the crosscurrents are as amusing a raft of characters as you could wish to behold.” – Los Angeles Times Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975) 53% EDIT “"Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins"... seems nothing more than a string of outtakes from other movies.” – Los Angeles Times Mar 11, 2025 Full Review The Yakuza (1974) 49% EDIT “Pollack is a generally good director of actors but lacks the strong auteur personality essential to carrying off so highfalutin a project as this. ” – Los Angeles Times Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Fire Festival (1985) 100% EDIT “So profoundly sensual is Yanagimachi’s vision that his bold sexual symbolism seems powerful rather than blatant. ” – Los Angeles Times Feb 13, 2025 Full Review Girls Town (1996) 81% EDIT “Girls Town is a serious film, even demanding in the complexity of its people and their relationships, yet it gets a steady stream of laughs. Truly, Girls Town... captures the human comedy.” – Los Angeles Times Sep 3, 2024 Full Review The Learning Curve (1999) 13% 2.5/5 EDIT “The Learning Curve may not offer anything new, but it has terrific vitality.” – Los Angeles Times May 29, 2024 Full Review
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