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Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Love Actually (2003) 65% EDIT “Love Actually isn't in love with anyone except itself: it's like watching a practised lounge lizard go through his repertoire.” – The Spectator Nov 5, 2019 Full Review The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) 80% EDIT “A better title for the film would have been Beauty and the Beast, but Disney's already done that -- which may be why Alan Menken's score sounds like warmed over off-cuts from its predecessor.” – The Spectator Mar 11, 2019 Full Review The Cable Guy (1996) 57% EDIT “As a supposed summer blockbuster, this is a very eccentric film: The Cable Guy mocks its star as a pathetic jerk and comes close to telling its audience that we are, too.” – The Spectator Mar 11, 2019 Full Review The English Patient (1996) 86% EDIT “Whenever the movie's design seems too elaborate, too remote, it's the rare detail of these performances that redeems it.” – The Spectator Feb 21, 2019 Full Review Sleepless in Seattle (1993) 75% EDIT “The emotional weight of the drama rests on Hanks, and you appreciate how skilfully Ephron structures the film so that the two principals are bound by song and sentiment rather than physical proximity.” – The Spectator Jan 25, 2019 Full Review Chicago (2002) 87% EDIT “Chicago is supposed to be cynical about showbiz, not embarrassed by it. Oh, well. There'll be another film musical along around 2008.” – The Spectator Feb 28, 2018 Full Review How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) 50% EDIT “The director, Ron Howard, is a grand old heartwarmer (Cocoon, etc.) but the heart of this picture is dead.” – The Spectator Feb 3, 2018 Full Review 8 Mile (2002) 76% EDIT “Outside the rap slams, either the acting or the persona is a bit joyless.” – The Spectator Feb 3, 2018 Full Review Hotel Rwanda (2004) 91% EDIT “Remarkably, the director Terry George and his co-writer Keir Pearson have pulled it off, rooting the big picture of anonymous murder in one small precise close-up.” – The Spectator Feb 3, 2018 Full Review Enduring Love (2004) 58% EDIT “The whole film ... is not thrilling or moving; it is interesting, which is fine by me but will not make it a huge success.” – The Spectator Feb 3, 2018 Full Review The Village (2004) 43% EDIT “This director is a young dog who needs some new tricks.” – The Spectator Feb 3, 2018 Full Review Mystic River (2003) 89% EDIT “One of its best qualities is that it's dark but not depressing.” – The Spectator Feb 3, 2018 Full Review Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005) 40% EDIT “There's an easy confidence about the project.” – The Spectator Feb 3, 2018 Full Review Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) 44% EDIT “The quaintly hand-painted cityscapes of Syracuse are pretty. It would be nice if there was something going on in the foreground.” – The Spectator Feb 3, 2018 Full Review Brother Bear (2003) 38% EDIT “Rough rule of thumb: the more an animated movie drones on about the Great Spirit, the less likely it is to have any great spirit.” – The Spectator Feb 3, 2018 Full Review Bright Young Things (2003) 65% EDIT “What's good about the movie is the lesser known up-and-corners who play the bright young things themselves, especially the appellatorily appropriate Fenella Woolgar as Agatha” – The Spectator Feb 3, 2018 Full Review Confidence (2003) 68% EDIT “It's the obsession with style that kills this movie. Not that having an obsession with it is the same as having it.” – The Spectator Feb 3, 2018 Full Review National Treasure (2004) 47% EDIT “It is ... for all its moments a quintessential Bruckheimer project: a big movie that at its core is just too small.” – The Spectator Feb 3, 2018 Full Review The Day After Tomorrow (2004) 45% EDIT “As a disaster [movie] ... it's oddly reassuring.” – The Spectator Feb 3, 2018 Full Review A Mighty Wind (2003) 87% EDIT “Aside from Miss Lynch, there are two very sweet performances, by Levy and O'Hara as Mitch and Mickey.” – The Spectator Feb 3, 2018 Full Review Sahara (2005) 37% EDIT “To get a franchise going, you need your own style, and this movie hasn't an original thought on anything.” – The Spectator Feb 3, 2018 Full Review Death Wish (1974) 66% EDIT “Death Wish is a remarkable social artefact, a valuable record of the day before yesterday - 1974 - when New York and many other American cities seemed in large part ungovernable.” – The Spectator Feb 2, 2018 Full Review Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) 79% EDIT “The film is excessively, parochially British at its periphery, yet insufficiently so at its core.” – The Spectator Feb 2, 2018 Full Review Flight of the Phoenix (2004) 30% EDIT “John Moore decided the time was ripe for a new Phoenix, so he sawed the old movie in two, rewrote one half and tries to get it to take off.” – The Spectator Feb 2, 2018 Full Review The In-Laws (2003) 33% EDIT “Fleming and co. were working from a version that had clicked very well in 1979, and such interest as posterity has in this new take will be in its usefulness as a masterclass in how not to remake a movie.” – The Spectator Feb 2, 2018 Full Review
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