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Tom Coates

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 85% 4/5 EDIT “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre doesn't try anything funny, there are no winks to the audience. And it's all the better because of it.” – BBC.com Oct 19, 2010 Full Review Ocean's Eleven (1960) 47% 3/5 EDIT “There are just too many main characters for any of them to develop any depth, too many shots of casino signs sparkling in the night, and too little pace and plot to pull the whole thing together.” – BBC.com Nov 12, 2001 Full Review Superman II (1980) 88% 3/5 EDIT “Substantial credit should also go to Terence Stamp's casually menacing General Zod, who transcends his terrible costume and make-up to appear a convincing threat.” – BBC.com Sep 26, 2001 Full Review The Living Daylights (1987) 73% 3/5 EDIT “A pure back-to-basics action-adventure spy drama which mostly delivers.” – BBC.com Sep 11, 2001 Full Review Star Trek Generations (1994) 48% 2/5 EDIT “The plot holes are obvious and disconcerting, the sub-plots feel tacked-on, and the characters are both thinly-drawn and badly-played.” – BBC.com Sep 10, 2001 Full Review Planet of the Apes (2001) 42% 3/5 EDIT “A lightweight, slight movie which only looks savagely convincing.” – BBC.com Aug 6, 2001 Full Review Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 93% 5/5 EDIT “By far the best part of the trilogy, Empire is a classic that completely transcends its genre, with a reputation that can only grow and grow.” – BBC.com Aug 1, 2001 Full Review The Man With the Golden Gun (1974) 40% 1/5 EDIT “There's no shortage of innuendo, action, exotic locations, or casual misogyny. Unfortunately it's too camp and cruel an adventure to raise more than a Moore-like eyebrow.” – BBC.com Aug 1, 2001 Full Review Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) 41% 2/5 EDIT “The kind of film that children may find amusing but their parents will wish that they didn't.” – BBC.com Jul 23, 2001 Full Review Girl, Interrupted (1999) 53% 3/5 EDIT “You're left wishing the film had a little more faith in its audience, for then this well-put-together movie might have provoked more thought, and slightly less irritation.” – BBC.com Jul 3, 2001 Full Review Mars Attacks! (1996) 56% 3/5 EDIT “Mars Attacks! wants to be the Dr Strangelove of alien B-movies, but isn't up to the challenge. Instead it's a paceless, overlong, and campy film partly redeemed by a number of hilarious and gruesome alien invasion skits.” – BBC.com Jun 27, 2001 Full Review Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) 33% 2/5 EDIT “The Planet of the Apes series started well, and gradually decreased in budget and quality. By Battle the budget is all but gone, and all the believability and excitement has gone with it.” – BBC.com Jun 19, 2001 Full Review Escape From the Planet of the Apes (1971) 75% 3/5 EDIT “It works fairly well as the central movie of the franchise but will have little to offer non-devotees.” – BBC.com Jun 13, 2001 Full Review Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) 52% 3/5 EDIT “If you are ready to thrill to the fall of civilisation (for the third time in this series), then there are worse ways to spend an afternoon. Just don't expect much humour.” – BBC.com Jun 13, 2001 Full Review Scream 3 (2000) 45% 4/5 EDIT “While Scream 3 is only an above-average film in its own right, as the conclusion to the trilogy it works more effectively than anyone had a right to expect.” – BBC.com May 29, 2001 Full Review On the Waterfront (1954) 99% 5/5 EDIT “Retains the freshness of an original -- exploring the difficulties and corruptions of working stiffs with a realism, sensitivity and intelligence that has seldom been matched since.” – BBC.com May 23, 2001 Full Review
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