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Ron Base

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Stand by Me (1986) 88% EDIT “Reiner manages to take the cliches and find something new and often quite original in them.” – Toronto Star Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% EDIT “A series of clever, often very funny scenes; the good parts that never come together to form much of a whole. You get to the end of "Princess Bride" and discover something is missing -- a plot. But that's okay. Its absence is hardly noted. ” – Toronto Star Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Christine (1983) 72% EDIT “Carpenter has a terrific sense of the nuances of high school life and he gets lively performances from his cast that almost make you forget that just beneath the contrived reality needed for this movie lurks deep pools of silliness.” – Toronto Star Dec 17, 2025 Full Review The Terminator (1984) 90% EDIT “The action is fast and furious and executed with the ferocity of film-makers possessed of B-movie sensibilities, armed with A-movie budgets and a knowledge that, if anyone stops moving or bleeding, someone will have to start talking.” – Toronto Star Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Tron (1982) 60% EDIT “Fantasy, even the kind induced by technology, usually requires a stronger support system of common sense than the script for Tron can ever provide.” – Toronto Star Oct 6, 2025 Full Review This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 98% EDIT “The fun of Spinal Tap lies in Reiner's ability to let the audience in on the joke without ever being too obvious about it.” – Toronto Star Sep 9, 2025 Full Review The Return of the Living Dead (1985) 71% EDIT “Its grossness is so self-conscious, its comic sense so absurdist and lively, that the whole enterprise is very hard to resist.” – Toronto Star Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Superman II (1980) 88% EDIT “But what gives Superman a depth and believability lacking in other movies adapted from the comics, Popeye and Flash Gordon immediately come to mind, is the attention to character. ” – Toronto Star Jun 29, 2025 Full Review Return to Oz (1985) 59% EDIT “The special effects are mostly lacklustre, and the movie as a whole is oddly joyless, as though the making of it was a profoundly sad experience for everyone.” – Toronto Star Jun 20, 2025 Full Review Starman (1984) 83% EDIT “Starman is not the movie to send along on Voyager's next flight.” – Toronto Star May 13, 2025 Full Review Withnail and I (1987) 84% EDIT “Self-destruction has never been more articulate or refreshingly amusing.” – Toronto Star Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 91% EDIT “Extremes have been reached here. Blue Velvet, to put it plainly, is probably the weirdest most audacious English-language movie ever released into the American mainstream -- although it has not been so much released as let loose.” – Toronto Star Jan 22, 2025 Full Review Aliens (1986) 94% EDIT “Smartly conceived and executed, and it does contain its share of thrills and scares. But it is very much a sequel, and the element of surprise, the most invaluable of commodities in enterprises such as this, has been lost.” – Toronto Star Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Spaceballs (1987) 52% EDIT “One hates to think of Brooks being out of touch, but good grief... whatever would possess him to start spoofing Star Wars at this late date?” – Toronto Star Apr 12, 2024 Full Review Raging Bull (1980) 92% EDIT “What's surprising... is that Raging Bull's most lacerating scenes take place outside the ring. It's the first American movie I can recall that looks at the violent destructiveness of jealousy. ” – Toronto Star Oct 10, 2023 Full Review
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