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RoboCop 3 (1993) 20% 2/4 EDIT “On its own juvenile terms, Robocop 3 is a lot more entertaining than we have any right to expect and far, far superior to the mean-spirited Robocop 2.” – Dayton Daily News Mar 16, 2026 Full Review RoboCop 2 (1990) 31% 1.5/4 EDIT “Robocop 2 may be more elaborate and extravagant, but it's less provocative and entertaining. It ain't heavy, it's a bummer.” – Dayton Daily News Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Waiting for Guffman (1996) 91% 3/4 EDIT “In pretending to be bad, these performers get to do their best work in years. ” – Detroit Free Press Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Prince of Darkness (1987) 59% EDIT “There are a few fleeting moments at the outset of Prince of Darkness where we actually imagine we might be challenged or at least stimulated a bit.” – Dayton Daily News Mar 4, 2026 Full Review RoboCop (1987) 84% EDIT “Robocop, for all its emphasis on hardware and hokum, has something akin to a soul, evidenced most by its smart sense of humor and its ability to send real bloody racing through our still unsynthetic veins.” – Dayton Daily News Mar 4, 2026 Full Review Sense and Sensibility (1995) 97% 4/4 EDIT “It's impossible to know what kicked off the current preoccupation with all things Austen, but as long as it produces movies as sublime as "Persuasion" and this one, let's not ask too many questions. ” – Detroit Free Press Feb 26, 2026 Full Review The Postman (1994) 92% 3/4 EDIT “If a poem is a truth made artful, this movie and Noiret's performance make the point.” – Dayton Daily News Feb 22, 2026 Full Review Pretty in Pink (1986) 75% EDIT “Pretty in Pink is as funny as Sixteen Candles and as serious as The Breakfast Club.” – Dayton Daily News Feb 13, 2026 Full Review Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) 96% 4/4 EDIT “"Crouching Tiger" takes a genre built on cliches, isolates the form's attractions, then reimagines it with exuberance and intelligence and incredible special effects. The result is a movie you've always wanted to see, even if you didn't know you did.” – Detroit Free Press Feb 11, 2026 Full Review House (1985) 49% EDIT “At the bloody and rotting end, we can't figure out whether to giggle or gag, so we simply put our hands over our mouths to stifle either reaction. A real horror movie makes us put our hands over our eyes.” – Dayton Daily News Jan 30, 2026 Full Review North (1994) 12% 1.5/4 EDIT “Anyone older than North will be too busy wondering what Reiner found so interesting about this thin story to even pay much attention.” – Dayton Daily News Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Misery (1990) 86% 2/4 EDIT “Misery is undone by Reiner's refusal to make the movie about what the movie is about. It's one case of writer's block where the writer is not responsible.” – Dayton Daily News Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The American President (1995) 90% 3/4 EDIT “This would be a far better country if the soulful Martin Sheen really were its chief of staff, and Michael J. Fox has finally been given a film role that recognizes the qualities that made him a major television star.” – Detroit Free Press Jan 20, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% EDIT “Stand By Me blatantly trades on our rosy recollections of an uncomplicated world. But it does it without the slick calculation found in such projects, and Reiner is careful not to infect it with any '80s cynicism. ” – Dayton Daily News Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Sure Thing (1985) 84% EDIT “The Sure Thing lives up to its title. It's the sweetest, most positive little romance since -- dare I say -- Splash. ” – Dayton Daily News Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% EDIT “Our involvement becomes very real. You have to believe in magic for magic to work may be a cliche, but like all the others incorporated into this lovely, beautifully-made movie, it remains the truth. ” – Dayton Daily News Jan 7, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% 3.5/4 EDIT “Like cable television's legal channels, it might pay lip service to being concerned with the workings of justice, but it's actually preoccupied with keeping us glued to our seats. At which it is remarkably successful...” – Dayton Daily News Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% 2.5/4 EDIT “Spielberg hides a good movie underneath a thicket of themes and mechanizations. The result is a movie of great moments, but no great impact. We're impressed, but unmoved. Hook flies, but never soars. ” – Dayton Daily News Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Big Top Pee-wee (1988) 30% 1/4 EDIT “If the first movie was sublimely stupid, this one is just plain stupid, both in approach and realization. ” – Dayton Daily News Dec 11, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 75% 3.5/4 EDIT “For all of the elaborate craftsmanship, there is also an ethereal quality to The Abyss that does not seem contrived or manufactured. ” – Dayton Daily News Dec 10, 2025 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% 3/4 EDIT “As a summer entertainment, True Lies doesn't deceive: It's large fun, and that's the truth. ” – Dayton Daily News Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 91% 3/4 EDIT “But if Terminator 2 is somewhat mechanical and predictable, it is never boring or stupid in the way that most big budget action films have become. The Terminator may shoot at the knees, but the movie aims much higher.” – Dayton Daily News Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (1987) 59% EDIT “The real attraction is watching Schwarzenegger dispatch these villains sans the guilt and remorse of mere mortals.” – Dayton Daily News Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Predator 2 (1990) 36% 3/4 EDIT “Despite an abundance of the excess we've come to expect from Silver's action extravaganzas, Predator 2 is a better movie than the original.” – Dayton Daily News Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Predator (1987) 64% EDIT “...director John McTiernan's only mission is to keep the film going until the climactic face-off between the world's most powerful man and the universe's most godawful thing, and it is there that Predator fails miserably.” – Dayton Daily News Oct 30, 2025 Full Review
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