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Spaceballs (1987) 52% “Spaceballs isn't Brooks' unfunniest comedy (that would be History of the World, Part I) or his most tasteless (Blazing Saddles), but it ranks fairly high in both departments.” – Philadelphia Daily News Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Crossing Delancey (1988) 82% “I refuse to give the distributor a blurb saying Crossing Delancey is this year's Moonstruck because I think that Crossing Delancey is better than Moonstruck.” – Philadelphia Daily News May 16, 2023 Full Review Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 97% “Even those of us who prefer the goofy anarchy of Warner Brothers' Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck to the sweet, cute and too often treacly world according to Disney have to grant the frequent charm of this film.” – Philadelphia Daily News Dec 19, 2022 Full Review The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) 82% “No one is better able to appreciate this movie than the devout Christians who are protesting it. If you have a deep interest in Jesus, you may find the movie infuriating, but you will probably also find it consistently engaging and at times inspiring.” – Philadelphia Daily News May 5, 2022 Full Review Stand and Deliver (1988) 89% “This is a Rocky without any cut lips, a story of hope and glory in a strange world of the Y axis and differential equations. Stand and Deliver makes you want to stand up and cheer.” – Philadelphia Daily News Aug 10, 2021 Full Review La Bamba (1987) 83% “La Bamba is an appealing film, in part because of its very niceness. In telling the Valens story, Valdez has taken the edge off many music-bio clichés, a welcome counter to our expectations.” – Philadelphia Daily News Aug 10, 2021 Full Review Baby Boom (1987) 67% “The message of "Baby Boom" is so wildly dubious that it s impossible to ignore. When you think of it as only a movie, however (and a slick, manipulative light comedy at that), you have to admit that "Baby Boom" does a nice job.” – Philadelphia Daily News Jun 24, 2021 Full Review Running on Empty (1988) 81% “"Running on Empty," helped by uniformly excellent performances, is a thoughtful, moving and, yes, dramatic look at a family's struggle to stay together.” – Philadelphia Daily News May 25, 2021 Full Review The Living Daylights (1987) 72% “The relative clarity of the story allows director John Glen and screenwriters Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson to inject moments of subtlety and human interest -- commodities that in recent Bonds have been in even shorter supply than sense.” – Philadelphia Daily News Oct 20, 2015 Full Review Hot to Trot (1988) 0% 1/4 “[Hot to Trot] sounded truly awful. It turned out to be worse.” – Philadelphia Daily News Apr 21, 2015 Full Review Tampopo (1985) 100% “As long as the movie sticks to the story of the noodle shop, however, it's delightful and funny.” – Philadelphia Daily News Mar 13, 2015 Full Review She's Having a Baby (1988) 45% “Hughes is simply doing what they tell you the first day of creative writing class: write about what you know. And he's doing it with both craft and a good deal of emotional honesty.” – Philadelphia Daily News Jun 4, 2014 Full Review Eight Men Out (1988) 87% “Unfortunately, the movie's didacticism returns in the lengthy and somewhat tedious courtroom ending dealing with the aftermath of the Series.” – Philadelphia Daily News May 6, 2014 Full Review Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) 10% “It's hard to escape the conclusion that all the originality and excitement have been drained from the series.” – Philadelphia Daily News May 5, 2014 Full Review Three Amigos! (1986) 45% “So sweetly goofy that you can't keep from laughing.” – Philadelphia Daily News Apr 25, 2014 Full Review Platoon (1986) 89% “Platoon is not the definitive Vietnam statement that Stone may have intended, or that others are already claiming it to be. But it is a powerful document about that sad war, and a riveting piece of moviemaking. ” – Philadelphia Daily News Feb 24, 2014 Full Review RoboCop (1987) 92% “It proceeds from a vision, and it takes that vision seriously. It ends up being moving -- and for a comic book of a movie, that's no small achievement.” – Philadelphia Daily News Feb 11, 2014 Full Review Moonstruck (1987) 90% 1/4 “No resistance could overcome the overfamiliarity of the situations in Moonstruck, the corniness of its dramaturgy or the banality of its message.” – Philadelphia Daily News Feb 7, 2014 Full Review The Lost Boys (1987) 75% “Though there is enough gore in the film to satisfy the typical bloodthirsty filmgoer, its strong suit is deadpan humor.” – Philadelphia Daily News Jan 21, 2014 Full Review The Last Emperor (1987) 86% “Even though its ambitions sometimes get the better of it, the film succeeds often enough to make us grateful that, even in our M온라인카지노추천 age, a director like Bertolucci is still willing to get on the mat and grapple with Personality and History.” – Philadelphia Daily News Jan 7, 2014 Full Review Lethal Weapon (1987) 80% “What this premise needs is a serviceable plot, but screenwriter Shane Block hasn't provided one. Indeed, for an action thriller, Lethal Weapon is unacceptably slow.” – Philadelphia Daily News Dec 6, 2013 Full Review Big (1988) 98% “There's also one absolutely charming moment when Hanks and Loggia leap from key to key to tap out the melody and harmony to "Heart and Soul" on a giant piano in the F.A.O. Schwarz toy store.” – Philadelphia Daily News Aug 2, 2013 Full Review The Big Easy (1986) 89% “Barkin makes the silliness with which her character behaves as credible as is probably possible.” – Philadelphia Daily News Jul 31, 2013 Full Review A Fish Called Wanda (1988) 96% “As in most of his Python parts... Cleese's character is an extended riff on the concept of pomposity. But Archie is more leavened with humanity than any of his other roles.” – Philadelphia Daily News Jul 30, 2013 Full Review Midnight Run (1988) 95% “De Niro is probably the most intense and idiosyncratic actor of his generation; Midnight Run may be the most conventional movie I've ever seen.” – Philadelphia Daily News Jul 30, 2013 Full Review
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