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Paul Attanasio

Paul Attanasio's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Stand by Me (1986) 88% EDIT “As directed by Rob Reiner, "Stand by Me" has a quality of seriousness, and of relaxation, that you hardly ever see in movies made about kids.” – Washington Post Jan 12, 2026 Full Review Day of the Dead (1985) 61% EDIT “"Day of the Dead" is plenty gross, but there's nothing scary about it.” – Washington Post Aug 21, 2025 Full Review Explorers (1985) 49% EDIT “What's so bludgeoningly dull about "Explorers" is the way it's so completely trapped in other movies and TV shows.” – Washington Post Jul 8, 2025 Full Review The Color Purple (1985) 73% EDIT “[Steven Spielberg's] technical gifts are peerless -- on a par with Hitchcock's -- but in 12 years of making movies, his sensibility hasn't deepened a whit. The Color Purple shows no real progress.” – Washington Post May 25, 2023 Full Review Confessions of a Congressman (1978) 67% EDIT “It doesn't build to a climax, it dribbles there.” – Washington Post Aug 17, 2022 Full Review Poltergeist II (1986) 20% EDIT “There are movies that make you want to mince words, and then there's Poltergeist II: The Other Side, a movie so ineffably bad, you can't even find the words to mince.” – Washington Post Nov 3, 2021 Full Review The River (1984) 27% EDIT “Rydell shoots the movie as if it had been commissioned by the Department of Agriculture. His scenes have such brute intentionality, they never come to life -- they're instant, airless cliches.” – Washington Post Apr 17, 2020 Full Review A Love in Germany (1983) 55% EDIT “Why great directors occasionally deliver an outrageous clunker is anyone's guess, but here's another one for the books -- A Love in Germany, Andrzej Wajda's meditation on the banality of evil, with the emphasis on banality.” – Washington Post Mar 24, 2020 Full Review Out of Africa (1985) 62% EDIT “This may be the silliest serious movie since Reds. When you finally get the heck out of Africa, it's not a second too soon.” – Washington Post Jan 29, 2020 Full Review A Chorus Line (1985) 48% EDIT “A Chorus Line is a kind of 'Murphy's Law: The Motion Picture' -- everything that can go wrong does.” – Washington Post Mar 7, 2019 Full Review Rocky IV (1985) 39% EDIT “Say what you like about the original Rocky, at least it was about something -- a sweet pug up against the system, and in love with a dowd. Rocky IV appears to be an epic about Sylvester Stallone's penchant for self-abuse.” – Washington Post Dec 3, 2018 Full Review Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) 77% EDIT “"Down and Out,"... is a failed fish-out-of-water story.” – Washington Post Jan 4, 2018 Full Review The Breakfast Club (1985) 87% EDIT “Taking place almost entirely in one room, "The Breakfast Club" is the kind of movie -- and the kind of play -- that's hardly seen anymore. And good riddance.” – Washington Post Jan 4, 2018 Full Review Pretty in Pink (1986) 76% EDIT “... in the end "Pretty in Pink" is as fraudulent as the junk it's supposed to transcend.” – Washington Post Jan 4, 2018 Full Review The Razor's Edge (1984) 47% EDIT “An adaptation of the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, this longtime pet project of Murray's will only disappoint his many fans.” – Washington Post Jan 4, 2018 Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% EDIT “... this is an astonishingly polished and nuanced first film. It deserves to be celebrated, not quibbled with.” – Washington Post Jan 4, 2018 Full Review Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984) 29% EDIT “Such aggressive photography could lend John Candy the grace of Gregory Hines.” – Washington Post Jan 4, 2018 Full Review The Flamingo Kid (1984) 86% EDIT “The movie has an engaging surface, but it's all surface -- it's like watching an outsize TV.” – Washington Post Jan 4, 2018 Full Review Manhunter (1986) 90% EDIT “... "Manhunter" is a gory and gorgeous cop thriller...” – Washington Post Jan 4, 2018 Full Review The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) 96% EDIT “... an unremarkable documentary about the San Francisco politico...” – Washington Post Jan 4, 2018 Full Review Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) 80% EDIT “It's comic books in a Cuisinart, all costumes and cute monikers and no story, a sort of case history of just what's wrong with sequelitis.” – Washington Post Jan 4, 2018 Full Review Vision Quest (1985) 63% EDIT “That's the problem with all of "Vision Quest" -- when the movie ends with Louden narrating off-screen his "live for today" philosophy, it's plausible in his mouth, a joke for adults.” – Washington Post Jan 4, 2018 Full Review Witness (1985) 94% EDIT “What saves "Witness" is its cast, and Weir's artistry in orchestrating and modulating their performances.” – Washington Post Jan 4, 2018 Full Review Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 86% EDIT “The movie's four hours long, but no one had the time to write a single real character.” – Washington Post Jan 4, 2018 Full Review The Killing Fields (1984) 91% EDIT “... a visually arresting epic guaranteed to capture the hearts and minds of its audience.” – Washington Post Jan 4, 2018 Full Review
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