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RoboCop 3 (1993) Betsy Sherman Fred Dekker keeps the pacing moving with lots of cool vehicle chases and explosions, but RoboCop, whose function has been reduced to mayhem and bad one-liners, gets Robo-Lost in the shuffle.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
1/4
Reminders of Him (2026) Odie Henderson If the movie gods are remotely merciful, this horrible adaptation of a 2022 Colleen Hoover novel will top my 10 worst list of 2026.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Waiting for Guffman (1996) Jay Carr Manic desperation is the fuel that powers Waiting for Guffman, and the smart ensemble sees that its tank is full.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 2 (1990) Jay Carr With all those big pieces of metal crashing around, "RoboCop 2" plays like a junkyard gone nutzoid.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Hoppers (2026) Odie Henderson Visually, “Hoppers” is a step down from what we expect from Pixar. Unlike its best movies, there really isn’t anything to set this film apart from any other animation company’s work.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Phantom Lady (1944) John W. Riley Phantom Lady is guaranteed to make your hair stand on end and to scare the living lights out of you.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Anastasia (1956) Marjory Adams While the play from which the film was made has been most successful all over this country, the film will undoubtedly top the stage drama in popularity. It has grandeur, elegance and thrilling performances.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
THE BRIDE! (2026) Odie Henderson Individual parts of “The Bride!” work, but as a whole, the critic in me found it confusing and irritating.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) Marjory Adams "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is a prettily-colored, naughtily-plotted, gayly-acted comedy in which Audrey Hepburn shows she is quite as able a satirist as she is a serious dramatic star.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop (1987) Jay Carr It's an apocalyptic law-and-order revenge movie distinguished by a dark irony that lifts it beyond the usual raw-meat-for-breakfast, righteous, bonecrusher flick.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Odie Henderson It works well as a documentary, and I can’t deny that Presley gave 110 percent to his audience at every show. That in itself is impressive. (If you’re a fan, add an extra star to my rating.)
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
K-Pops! (2024) Odie Henderson “Adorable” is not an adjective I’ve often applied to a movie, but “K-Pops!” earns it. It will play well on the big screen, and make you forget about your troubles for two hours.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Undercard (2025) Odie Henderson It’s the kind of movie my 2.5-star rating was invented for; that is, a movie that’s interesting enough to put me on the ropes for several rounds before dropping its hands and getting knocked out.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Sense and Sensibility (1995) Jay Carr Lee's supreme achievement -- and Thompson's -- is to maintain the tension between the extremes of the title and its world of economic imperatives.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bluff (2026) Glenn Kenny Chopra Jonas performs the female pirate version of “having it all” quite credibly; she’s the highlight of this chaotic enterprise.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
Sun Ra: Do the Impossible (2024) Chris Vognar He gave every indication that he believed everything he put forth, from the Earth to the stars. Hucksters and con men are of little interest. But Sun Ra, as this film amply shows, was endlessly fascinating.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
The Postman (1994) Jay Carr The Postman is more sentimental than profound, more anecdotal than dramatic, but it's sympathetic, and its bittersweet energies won't leave you indifferent.
Posted Feb 22, 2026  Edit critic review
THX 1138 (1971) Kevin Kelly While some of it is confusing even the confusion comes to be a visual-vocal metaphor for Lucas' cold new world.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/4
How to Make a Killing (2026) Odie Henderson How to Make a Killing prefers to scold our bloodlust with a judgmental tone, sending us out on a hypocritical and unsatisfying note.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
Midwinter Break (2026) Odie Henderson Ciarán Hinds and Lesley Manville are at the top of their acting game in Midwinter Break... Unfortunately, they can't save this slow-moving dissolution-of-a-marriage drama that plays like a travelogue for Amsterdam and an ad for religious devotion.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
The Muppet Show (2026) Matt Juul “The Muppet Show” is zany and wholesome, and above all, brings genuine heart along with the humor, rather than succumbing to cynicism like so much of comedy today.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Pretty in Pink (1986) Jay Carr It's not free of plastic, especially at the end, but it has more depth and genuine feeling than the earlier [Hughs] films.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Bride of Re-Animator (1990) Betsy Sherman Brian Yuzna keeps the pace fast, if sometimes at the expense of coherence.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Muppet Treasure Island (1996) Matthew Gilbert This is not an extraordinary kids' movie, or even a memorable one, but it's sweet and easy and it certainly won't give anyone bad dreams.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Pillion (2025) Odie Henderson The sex scenes are refreshingly graphic, but they’re never used for shock value. The real shock comes from how emotionally involved the characters become within the construct of their kink.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Wuthering Heights (2026) Odie Henderson When Fennell swaps in her adult actors, the cracks start showing immediately. While strikingly attractive on their own, Elordi and Robbie have zero romantic chemistry.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/4
The Moment (2026) Odie Henderson Here’s a movie that’s willing to call fans suckers to their faces by denying them the one thing they wanted most -- to hear their favorite singer sing.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Vanishing Point (1971) Edgar J. Driscoll Jr. You don't get to see much more of Newman than his sweating head and shoulders above the wheel. Yet a certain charism is there.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Blonde Venus (1932) Globe Staff It is inevitable that so individual a director and so unique a personality as these two should have their detractors, but smart aleck critics or no, "Blonde Venus" is a superb film - grand entertainment on a lavish scale.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
A Face in the Crowd (1957) Globe Staff Griffith gives you a reason why a Lonesome Rhodes could charm men and women who watched him on television -- he is a big boy trying to be honest and liking a good joke, and a good song.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Arabesque (1966) Sara Davidson ...the film...gets off to an unremarkable start and has a tendency to drag from cliche to redundant corn, despite the director's attempt to jazz up the beat with trick camera angles and contrived composition. But Loren and Peck save the day.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Days of Heaven (1978) Bruce McCabe Malick's film is seductive. It's visually overpowering. And the beauty of the way it's shot is in its facility with both sweep, scope and grandeur with detail... Unfortunately, Malick's visual sense supersedes his skill with words.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Camille (1936) Globe Staff In truth, it is Garbo's most exciting and most believable film performance since she became a star of the talkies.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Ace in the Hole (1951) Marjory Adams The picture is fascinating -- all one hour and 52 minutes of it. It's like a book that shocks you, yet you cannot bear to put it down.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
House (1985) Jay Carr Any present-day mortgage is more terrifying than "House."
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
My Bloody Valentine (1981) Michael Blowen The direction, acting and production values are so inept that you begin rooting for the killer.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
A Private Life (2025) Odie Henderson Foster and the rest of the cast are so good, I almost want to recommend that you go just for their performances. After all, it’s the journey, not the destination, that counts. That is, unless you’re making a murder mystery.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Arco (2025) Chris Vognar It feels both familiar and uncanny. The globe-shaped domes that cover the houses in the 2075 world seem both creepy and somehow smart. For all of its design savvy, the movie’s biggest strength might be its tender heart.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Send Help (2026) Odie Henderson You can probably figure out where the movie is headed, but that doesn’t make the journey any less fun. The bloody battle between Linda and a wild boar provides the first big thrills of 2026.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
H Is for Hawk (2025) Odie Henderson Helen is held at such a distance that we’re not even sure why she chose this specific temperamental goshawk in the first place. The flashbacks and overbearing music serve as this film’s emotional core, and the result rings false and superficial.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
North (1994) Jay Carr The failure of "North" is a failure of tone -- and a virtual nonexistence of story.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
The American President (1995) Jay Carr There isn't, in fact, a politician in the land who couldn't profit from this hugely satisfying film's lessons in shrewd mainstreaming.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
1/4
Mercy (2026) Odie Henderson I admit that the plot details sound intriguing. But as Roger Ebert used to say, it’s not what a movie is about, but how it’s about it. “Mercy” completely botches that “how.”
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Jay Carr Two scenes in "Misery" are shockingly brutal. But many more are wickedly amusing - especially the ones stemming from the fact that no small part of the writer's torture is the way his deranged muse uses language.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Marjory Adams The calm face, the tolerant smile, the somewhat surprised attitude at mankind's silliness all make Klaatu a likeable character instead of a fearful one.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Odie Henderson When the credits rolled on this story of a woman who was, as we’re told, “clothed by the Sun,” I felt curiously empty and couldn’t remember anyone else besides Lee. That’s a testament to Seyfried’s performance, but doesn’t make for a satisfying movie.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Bite the Bullet (1975) Kevin Kelly There's enough good stuff in Richard Brook's "Bite the Bullet" to make up for its creative lapses.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Odie Henderson DaCosta knows how to milk a scene for maximum impact, and she’s not afraid to get gruesome. The problem here is Garland’s script, which spends far too much time with the less interesting of its two stories.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The Choral (2025) Odie Henderson The Brits do this kind of light and dark juggling act better than almost anybody, and the filmmakers and their cast deliver a movie that's perfect for viewing on a lazy Sunday afternoon at the movie theater.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
The Magnificent Seven (1960) Marjory Adams Now William Roberts has rewritten slightly the story by Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Oguni. The result is another "Magnificent Seven," still thrilling, gory, savage and satisfactory.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
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