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Bill DuPre

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Mission: Impossible II (2000) 57% 3/4 “Director John Woo puts a deft spin on a formula that seemed tired after just one movie and gives Mission: Impossible 2 a sharper, simpler story line than its predecessor, as well as the saving grace of self-mockery. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) May 8, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) 54% 3/4 “"Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" is, even more than its predecessor-sequels, a visual phantasmagoria. And it works best at simply that level.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Apr 16, 2025 Full Review A Goofy Movie (1995) 64% “...the characters in "A Goofy Movie," for all their cartoonish ways, are a lot like you and me. And that's what gives the movie its depth and resonance. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Apr 2, 2025 Full Review Scream 2 (1997) 82% “Sometimes a sequel is better than the original, and that's the happy scenario with Scream 2. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Feb 6, 2025 Full Review Aladdin (1992) 96% 3/4 “This is an astonishingly free-spirited work, one that synthesizes an ancient fairy tale with mall-smart heroes and a hipster genie who can switch images faster than a couch potato with 90-channel cable and remote control.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (1991) 95% 3/4 “Screenwriter Linda Woolverton has managed to free the Disney studio from the saccharine-heroine syndrome.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Dec 16, 2024 Full Review When Harry Met Sally... (1989) 89% 3/4 “When Harry Met Sally... is a terrific movie: smart, funny and wonderfully acted.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jul 9, 2024 Full Review Planet of the Apes (2001) 43% 2/4 “Run-of-the-mill summer multiplex fodder -- quite a disappointment from a director who has brought some of the more peculiar and interesting Hollywood movies to the screen in recent years.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) May 1, 2024 Full Review Seven (1995) 84% 1/4 “All the literary allusions and cinema school self-consciousness can't save Fincher from drowning in the tawdry waste of this dreadful, brutal, abusive movie. Go, our little moviemaker, and sin no more.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Mar 29, 2024 Full Review The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 89% 2.5/4 “Freeman and Robbins have done wonders, giving Red and Andy nuances that render them memorable, even in the context of a forgettable and formulaic film.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Mar 4, 2024 Full Review Forrest Gump (1994) 75% 4/4 “Forrest Gump is a rare treat: a movie that delivers a message of hope and faith without delving into preachiness. Much of that success is due to Hanks' majestically deadpan performance.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Mar 1, 2024 Full Review Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 92% 3/4 “Director Mike Newell seasons this goulash of anxiety with wit and pathos. And the flavoring is just right to keep this unlikely contrivance sailing merrily along.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Feb 29, 2024 Full Review Quiz Show (1994) 97% 4/4 “Quiz Show is a corker of a movie -- cracklin' good entertainment, an engrossing story of greed and lost trust; a seamless, headlong tale of Faustian deals that cost America its very soul.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Feb 13, 2024 Full Review The Last of the Mohicans (1992) 88% 3.5/4 “Glorious liberties have been taken with the novel, long the bane of eighth-grade English students. This movie is great, thrilling fun, like a trip to some wilderness theme park.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Dec 14, 2023 Full Review Home Alone (1990) 66% 2.5/4 “Home Alone is a lot like most Christmas gifts -- nicely packaged and fun to open, but not very useful or tasteful. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Nov 29, 2023 Full Review Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990) 67% 3.5/4 “The technique... allows the images to rattle through the viewer's mind like a transcendent line of poetry; these images are so intense and stay on the screen for such a time that the viewer's interpretation of them becomes introspective and personal.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Oct 18, 2023 Full Review Armageddon (1998) 43% 1.5/4 “The good news is that Armageddon may well be the second-best asteroid movie of the summer. The bad news is that you walk away from this raucous bore wishing the asteroid had won. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jun 22, 2023 Full Review Heavenly Creatures (1994) 95% 3.5/4 “Heavenly Creatures is a lyrical depiction of a deep, affecting friendship in the making. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) May 16, 2023 Full Review Boys on the Side (1995) 73% 2.5/4 “For a movie that purports to deal with some sticky subjects, Boys on the Side is just a little too neat, a little too packaged, to serve up the emotional wallop that it sets out to deliver.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Mar 14, 2023 Full Review Godzilla (1998) 20% 2/4 “Yes, size does matter, and Godzilla is just too darn long. Like the critter itself, the movie's bulk simply overwhelms its tiny brain.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Feb 15, 2023 Full Review Groundhog Day (1993) 94% 2.5/4 “Murray's success here is also the film's undoing. This is his vehicle, and the rest of the cast, as well as the town itself, becomes his straight man.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Dec 21, 2022 Full Review Braveheart (1995) 76% 3.5/4 “Just what makes a historical costume drama a thrilling adventure instead of the more typical plodding pretentious bore is hard to pin down, but Gibson has managed to keep Braveheart, for all its grandeur and sweep, at a very personal and passionate level.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Nov 17, 2022 Full Review Gladiator (2000) 80% 3.5/4 “Crowe is a marvel as Maximus, especially considering that he seems small and rather ordinary to play the part of this towering hero of the people. But Crowe makes believers of us. He's like a character out of a fable.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Nov 1, 2022 Full Review Rain Man (1988) 88% 3/4 “Director Levinson has crafted an honest film out of a story line that could easily have devolved into shabby -- and commercial -- sentimentality.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Aug 3, 2022 Full Review The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) 82% 3/4 “The joke is that while the film has its faults, they come when it follows the Bible most literally. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) May 5, 2022 Full Review
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