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Bill Cosford

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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 83% 3/4 “Return of the Jedi is more conversational than the first two films; it is, in parts, downright talky. It is also dazzling, surpassing the earlier films in production design and special effects.” – Miami Herald Apr 25, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (1993) 92% 3/4 “Ang Lee, the director, has a nice touch with the little, human moments.” – Miami Herald Apr 15, 2025 Full Review The Breakfast Club (1985) 87% 3/4 “It's a fine ensemble, and one mark of how well it works is that The Breakfast Club leaves the confines of the library only three times, and yet we never feel claustrophobic. We just feel trapped, like the kids.” – Miami Herald Feb 14, 2025 Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 91% 3/4 “It's a love-it / hate-it proposition, but Blue Velvet is one absolute: proof that there is still intelligence and energy, however perverse, in the American movie. Watch out for Lynch. He's dangerous.” – Miami Herald Jan 22, 2025 Full Review Aladdin (1992) 96% 4/4 “It is a masterpiece of design. The animated backgrounds are voluptuously illustrated, and the action often proceeds at dizzying speed, while an elaborate fabric of subtle visual cues steer the narrative.” – Miami Herald Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (1991) 95% 3.5/4 “This Beauty and the Beast is truly lovely, even haunting. It is a feature-length animation of a quality I'd thought lost forever. The people at Disney have long thrown out the word "magic" entirely too carelessly; they should have saved it for this.” – Miami Herald Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 69% 3/4 “Performances come second in such a tech's dream, of course, but Oldman is a splendid Dracula, cackling and howling and thoroughly enjoying himself, and Hopkins is a great Van Helsing for the same reasons.” – Miami Herald Sep 26, 2024 Full Review Apocalypse Now (1979) 90% “Though as high art this movie may have its problems, it is a complete movie, a huge piece of work that is at once a technical masterpiece and a thing of lyrical, lethal beauty. This will be the film to see in 1979.” – Miami Herald Sep 23, 2024 Full Review Alien 3 (1992) 44% 3/4 “This third (and, I would guess, last) installment does what few sequels do. It actually extends the story into its logical destination rather than merely recycling familiar characters and situations.” – Miami Herald Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Aliens (1986) 94% 3.5/4 “It's a first-rate movie, satisfying in nearly every way. And it's terrifying. Ah, summer. Who could ask for anything more?” – Miami Herald Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Napoleon (1927) 87% “As an artifact from the days when directors were deciding what the movies were to be, when filmmakers were discovering what film could do and advancing the art by quantum jumps, Napoleon is a vast textbook-on-film, a masterpiece of the early days.” – Miami Herald May 14, 2024 Full Review Postcards From the Edge (1990) 83% 2/4 “There isn’t a single sympathetic character in this story.” – Miami Herald Apr 29, 2024 Full Review Dune (1984) 36% 2/4 “One has the sense before Dune is well under way that it is the kind of film that may reveal itself over several viewings. But fidelity to the source can be a trap, and Lynch fell into it; his movie is big and splashy and nearly nonsensical. ” – Miami Herald Feb 14, 2024 Full Review The Last of the Mohicans (1992) 88% 2.5/4 “This is James Fenimore Cooper, not James Joyce -- but Mann clearly admires his source. He has taken on The Last of the Mohicans as a Big Story, and he has dressed it out as epic. It works pretty well, too. ” – Miami Herald Dec 15, 2023 Full Review Alien (1979) 93% “There are no moral choices, no Deer Hunter ambiguity or Midnight Express propaganda. There is only the quandary over whether to stick it out until the end, edge of the seat and all, or bolt for the exits and a dreamless sleep. Alien is very scary.” – Miami Herald Nov 16, 2023 Full Review Cocoon (1985) 82% 3/4 “This is a great deal of performing talent in one small space, and Howard, whether by innate good sense or blind good luck (I’d like to think it’s the former), doesn’t waste a moment of it.” – Miami Herald Nov 12, 2023 Full Review Goodfellas (1990) 94% 3.5/4 “The simple fact, as exhilarating as it is dreadful, is that after a life of crime, Hill had but one regret -- that he had to stop. This is the engine of GoodFellas, an idea as elemental as it is radical. ” – Miami Herald Oct 18, 2023 Full Review Raging Bull (1980) 92% “Without preachment... Raging Bull draws a peculiar character, lays him out and opens him up for us to see. This is a character study of richness and texture, and if it ends without explaining much, it remains a piece of beautiful work. ” – Miami Herald Oct 10, 2023 Full Review Moscow on the Hudson (1984) 73% 2/4 “Williams is just not very funny in a medium as structured as the conventional Hollywood movie. And neither, it becomes apparent, is Paul Mazursky. ” – Miami Herald Aug 17, 2023 Full Review A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) 68% 2/4 “A better reason to see Dream Warriors, if indeed there is one, is that it's really pretty gross and neat. ” – Miami Herald Jul 18, 2023 Full Review Patriot Games (1992) 72% 3/4 “It's a slam-bang action picture, but it has a kind of maturity, too -- at the end you know you've seen something. It ought to be a big hit. ” – Miami Herald Jun 6, 2023 Full Review The Color Purple (1985) 73% “Spielberg is entirely too sure-handed a filmmaker to fail at material this rich. The Color Purple is immensely satisfying at last, and an honest tearjerker. For all its flaws and for all its many, artsy minutes, this ambitious film is an achievement. ” – Miami Herald May 25, 2023 Full Review A Chorus Line (1985) 48% “A Chorus Line is overblown and self-conscious, a travesty upon its celebrated source material and, for a film about dancers, much too casual in recording their art. It is also one of the singular pleasures of this movie year. ” – Miami Herald May 25, 2023 Full Review An American Tail (1986) 77% 2.5/4 “An American Tail is simply not remarkable. It's handsome, wholesome and eager to please, but its theme seems well beyond the ken of the very young. Worse, the plot has a dreadful familiarity to it -- the borrowings are extensive.” – Miami Herald May 19, 2023 Full Review Silkwood (1983) 77% 3.5/5 “One of the best-performed films of 1983, with the result that even those times when Silkwood seems to be repeating itself are likely as not to be illuminated by fine acting. ” – Miami Herald May 13, 2023 Full Review
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