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Michael Wilmington

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The American President (1995) 90% 3/4 EDIT “Reiner gets at least half of what he wants: the comic-romantic part. When the movie focuses on the relationship between President Andrew Shepherd and lobbyist Sydney Wade, it's a funny, sparkling show.” – Chicago Tribune Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “Well-loved science fiction tale of the brainy extraterrestrial Klaatu who comes to earth. ” – Chicago Tribune Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Gaslight (1944) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “A quintessential '40s Hollywood romantic thriller: plush and excruciating.” – Chicago Tribune Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% EDIT “This is Cameron's best movie, alternating hellacious thrills with racy humor, unbuttoned sentimentality and a blissed-out fantasy epiphany.” – Los Angeles Times Dec 10, 2025 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% 2.5/4 EDIT “The movie's action scenes and spectacular last half hour show Cameron in his element.” – Chicago Tribune Dec 9, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (1987) 59% EDIT “It's for action movie fans with a taste for something off the beaten track -- but not too far.” – Los Angeles Times Nov 5, 2025 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% 3/4 EDIT “It's a mixed achievement, but mostly an admirable one. Graced with more than 100 well-chosen and juxtaposed film clips.” – Chicago Tribune Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% 3/4 EDIT “The film is an epic treatment of a childhood curio. It's also the kind of elaborate movie stunt you can't imagine someone really pulling off. But they do. And in some curious way, it works.” – Chicago Tribune Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% 4/4 EDIT “Boogie Nights is a hard-core movie with a soft, light-hearted center and an edge like a knife. Made by a brilliant new writer-director, Paul Thomas Anderson, it's a giddily trenchant drama and a weirdly engaging dark comedy.” – Chicago Tribune Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% EDIT “Despite its torrid pace, the movie never really loses its sense of fun.” – Los Angeles Times Aug 25, 2025 Full Review The Return of the Living Dead (1985) 71% EDIT “The movie's irreverence is actually refreshing; it's a tonic nastiness.” – Los Angeles Times Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) 78% EDIT “Burton has a real flair for comic horror and tension, an ability to dance right on that thin line between terror and hilarity.” – Los Angeles Times Jul 29, 2025 Full Review Waterworld (1995) 60% 3/4 EDIT “The scenery and effects are knockouts. There's a consistent vision here -- even though much of it seems borrowed. ” – Chicago Tribune Jul 28, 2025 Full Review The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) EDIT “This is thin stuff.” – Los Angeles Times Jul 16, 2025 Full Review A Free Soul (1931) EDIT “"Soul" is so shameless and phony, it's almost hypnotic.” – Los Angeles Times Jul 16, 2025 Full Review White Hunter, Black Heart (1990) 84% EDIT “The movie is well-written, acted and shot and deeply felt.” – Los Angeles Times Jul 16, 2025 Full Review Pump Up the Volume (1990) 80% EDIT “Trying to find a middle ground between Oliver Stone and John Hughes, it misses both.” – Los Angeles Times Jul 16, 2025 Full Review Red Rock West (1993) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “"Red Rock West" works inside seemingly small borders, but, within them, it moves almost faultlessly. ” – Chicago Tribune Jul 14, 2025 Full Review The Karate Kid Part II (1986) 49% EDIT “Macchio and Tamlyn Tomita are a good couple, and Kove, Kamekona and Okumoto hissable villains, but it's Morita who gives you something sweet and rare. ” – Los Angeles Times May 27, 2025 Full Review C.H.U.D. (1984) 43% EDIT “However tawdry and inexcusable the whole project... the director, writer and actors have still managed to cram a certain amount of intelligence and humor into the plotholes.” – L.A. Weekly May 11, 2025 Full Review The Breakfast Club (1985) 87% EDIT “The movie is too crafty for its own good; its mixed ambitions often self-destruct... That doesn't mean that, in many ways, it's not a good movie, or that Hughes and his collaborators don't show a lot of talent and intelligence.” – Los Angeles Times Feb 14, 2025 Full Review Mulan (1998) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Highly accomplished, slick as a whistle and sometimes dazzlingly entertaining, this new Disney animated feature is a modernized version of a Chinese legend.” – Chicago Tribune Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Hercules (1997) 83% 3.5/4 EDIT “Packed with Olympian delights and Herculean feats of animation, snapping with live-wire wit and wisecracks, Hercules is one of the funniest and most purely entertaining of all the recent Disney cartoon features.” – Chicago Tribune Dec 18, 2024 Full Review The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) 80% 3.5/4 EDIT “Except for Toy Story, Disney's hasn't really made a first-class scary movie -- on the level of Dumbo, Bambi or Pinocchio -- during its recent renaissance. The Hunchback of Notre Dame comes close, ringing the bells for adults if not their kids.” – Chicago Tribune Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Pocahontas (1995) 59% 3/4 EDIT “If Pocahontas had appeared before The Little Mermaid, it would have seemed like a revelation.” – Chicago Tribune Dec 17, 2024 Full Review
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