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Brian D. Johnson

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Postcards From the Edge (1990) 83% “Mercurial and caustic, Streep displays brilliant comic timing.” – Maclean's Magazine Apr 29, 2024 Full Review Amélie (2001) 90% “Although it's too long for a film so slight, it transports us to a Paris that's as irresistible as it is unreal.” – Maclean's Magazine Feb 13, 2024 Full Review Miller's Crossing (1990) 93% “The violence, like the rest of Miller's Crossing, is poetically staged, and strangely tasteful. But the movie's real firepower is the staccato slang of its script. ” – Maclean's Magazine Oct 18, 2023 Full Review Goodfellas (1990) 94% “Funny and frightening, unpredictable and provocative, GoodFellas may be the most authentic Mafia picture ever made. The acting is superb, and so natural that no one -- least of all De Niro -- seems to be performing. ” – Maclean's Magazine Oct 18, 2023 Full Review Mulholland Dr. (2001) 84% “As a puzzle of merged (and submerged) identity, Mulholland Drive casts a spell reminiscent of Vertigo and Persona. The pieces never quite fall into place. But, like a dream, it's a movie that invites multiple interpretations -- and multiple viewings.” – Maclean's Magazine Jul 11, 2023 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 84% “Spielberg, the consummate show-off, keeps upstaging his stars with the relentless firepower of his action sequences. A brutal 10-minute scene in which a tank chases Jones around the desert seems interminable.” – Maclean's Magazine May 1, 2023 Full Review Strictly Ballroom (1992) 88% “Strictly Ballroom is a ball -- a buoyant, crowd-pleasing musical with an irreverent wit.” – Maclean's Magazine Dec 21, 2022 Full Review Groundhog Day (1993) 94% “Occasionally, Groundhog Day buries its head in dumb-comedy clichés. But the film-makers have depended mostly on witty dialogue, and on the simple elegance of the premise -- which could be about anyone whose days all start to seem the same.” – Maclean's Magazine Dec 21, 2022 Full Review The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) 82% “A water-into-wine miracle on screen. Visually breathtaking and intellectually scorching, the movie represents an extraordinary feat of film-making. But what it attempts is so ambitious that, in the end, it is a gloriously imperfect masterpiece.” – Maclean's Magazine May 6, 2022 Full Review Mississippi Masala (1991) 92% “Like Choudhury, Mississippi Masala seems utterly fresh and charming. But it is also profoundly interesting.” – Maclean's Magazine Apr 15, 2022 Full Review L.A. Confidential (1997) 99% “While the characters ricochet through a maze of intrigue, a whip-smart script keeps the plot clear, the action sexy and the humor shrewd.” – Maclean's Magazine Oct 19, 2021 Full Review The Bodyguard (1992) 38% “With a soap-opera plot that triggers alarms of incredulity, The Bodyguard remains no more than a serviceable thriller.” – Maclean's Magazine Sep 9, 2020 Full Review Tequila Sunrise (1988) 53% “Witty, seductive and unpredictable, Tequila Sunrise is so arresting that it demands to be seen again even before it is over.” – Maclean's Magazine Aug 12, 2020 Full Review Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) 71% “Beneath the gags is a pedestrian script. And the gremlins, like a troupe of nightmare Muppets, are too overproduced to be either funny or horrifying.” – Maclean's Magazine Jun 22, 2020 Full Review Benny & Joon (1993) 75% “It is a funny, innocuous fable, a Sweet 'N Low romantic comedy that seems a little facile at first, but has irresistible charm.” – Maclean's Magazine Jun 17, 2020 Full Review Henry V (1989) 98% “Reigniting Shakespeare's poetry on screen, the movie is not only accessible to a general audience -- it has enough excitement, wit and suspense to hold its own in the Hollywood fray.” – Maclean's Magazine Jun 12, 2020 Full Review The Story of Us (1999) 26% “The Story of Us reduces marriage to a montage sequence -- an embarrassment to baby boomers everywhere.” – Maclean's Magazine Apr 7, 2020 Full Review Men With Brooms (2002) 57% “The filmmakers have great fun mixing and matching the game's metaphors. With such gags as a sweat lodge of hot curling rocks, they send up and glorify its rituals all at once.” – Maclean's Magazine Mar 24, 2020 Full Review Gladiator (2000) 80% “It wields its religiosity, and its democratic morality, with the subtlety of a broadsword. But this is a ferociously entertaining spectacle, with thrilling action sequences, eye-popping art direction and uniformly powerful performances.” – Maclean's Magazine Feb 6, 2020 Full Review Forrest Gump (1994) 75% “The narrative is so programmed it is like watching software. Forrest Gump is a medley of sound bites-clever, cute, amusing, silly, sentimental-and irritatingly phony...” – Maclean's Magazine Feb 6, 2020 Full Review Driving Miss Daisy (1989) 85% “In Driving Miss Daisy...silence speaks volumes.” – Maclean's Magazine Feb 6, 2020 Full Review Dances With Wolves (1990) 87% “Such single-minded idealism begs disbelief. But in Costner's case, it appears genuine. With Dances with Wolves, he has reduced Hollywood formula to an elegant equation of truth and beauty.” – Maclean's Magazine Feb 6, 2020 Full Review Unforgiven (1992) 96% “Eloquent and expansive, Unforgiven is arguably the best film of Eastwood's career-a movie that could well serve as the last word on the western.” – Maclean's Magazine Feb 6, 2020 Full Review Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) 50% “Gerónimo attempts to combine the classical and the correct-with mixed results.” – Maclean's Magazine Feb 5, 2020 Full Review Bad Behaviour (1993) 100% “Although Bad Behaviour flirts with clichés, it keeps veering away from them at the last minute, offering subtle surprises right down to a delightfully ragged ending.” – Maclean's Magazine Feb 5, 2020 Full Review
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