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Patrick Goldstein

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Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984) 22% EDIT “From beginning to end, "Broad Street" is little more than an idle pop star's daydream, with McCartney playing the character we know all too much about -- himself.” – Los Angeles Times Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Terminator (1984) 90% EDIT “This ominous fantasy will prick up your ears -- it has the unsettling air of a scare story that doesn't just send a shiver down your spine, but deftly collides with your imagination.” – Los Angeles Times Dec 8, 2025 Full Review From Beyond (1986) 74% EDIT “"Re-Animator" is a hard act to follow, but Gordon only falls a notch short here, creating some genuinely gruesome thrills as well as an unsettling current of sexual hysteria.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 20, 2025 Full Review The Legend of Billie Jean (1985) 39% EDIT “The film makers may have envisioned Billie Jean as some sort of free-spirited Joan of Arc, but spirit is just one of the many key ingredients missing from this jumbled teen-age fable, enough to try the patience of -- ahem -- a saint.” – Los Angeles Times Nov 17, 2023 Full Review Deadly Friend (1986) 19% EDIT “There are plenty of shocks, and even a tinge of sadness, in this nifty little thriller, but not enough razor-edge electricity.” – Los Angeles Times Dec 9, 2022 Full Review From the Hip (1987) 30% EDIT “It's such an embarrassingly lame comedy that you could easily imagine some mischievous attorney filing suit -- for defamation of the entire profession.” – Los Angeles Times Sep 25, 2021 Full Review Crimes of Passion (1984) 50% EDIT “Turner acts if she's auditioning for some loopy Mae West impersonation contest. Eyes wide and nostrils flaring, she looks like a doe caught in the glare of a hunter's headlights. Perkins is her perfect body double.” – Los Angeles Times Jun 23, 2021 Full Review Sex Ed (2014) 64% EDIT “"Sex Ed" is a likable little comedy that features such a well-conceived and portrayed main character it makes up for the film's slender concept and leaps in logic.” – Los Angeles Times Nov 7, 2014 Full Review Dangerously Close (1986) 10% EDIT “Dangerously Close is more than just a stylish shocker. It captures the ugly underside of a new teen-age obsession, forcing us to marvel at its ferocity and shudder at its possible consequences.” – Los Angeles Times Jul 15, 2014 Full Review Pretty in Pink (1986) 75% EDIT “These kids have a bumpy ride, but this is one film that identifies with their passions instead of indulging them, giving us a perfect back-seat view of kids out cruising, not for kicks but for a hard-earned sense of pride.” – Los Angeles Times Jun 9, 2014 Full Review American Anthem (1986) 0% EDIT “It's a pretty ridiculous story, and screenwriters Evan Archerd and Jeff Benjamin never figure out a way to generate any real suspense, drama or inspiration.” – Los Angeles Times May 5, 2014 Full Review Three Amigos! (1986) 45% EDIT “[Three Amigos is] a goofy delight. It's like a cross between a big-budget Three Stooges movie and a Hope-Crosby road picture, with dozens of old cowpoke gags thrown in to spice up the brew.” – Los Angeles Times Apr 25, 2014 Full Review Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) 83% EDIT “What should've been a joyful romp turns into a stale, sour-edged celebration of the New Conformist, an affluent, technology-addled cherub without a rebellious whim in his brain.” – Los Angeles Times Apr 23, 2014 Full Review The Fly (1986) 94% EDIT “What makes The Fly such a stunning piece of obsessive film making is the way Cronenberg deftly allows us to identify with his monstrous creation.” – Los Angeles Times Aug 4, 2013 Full Review
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