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Dave Kehr

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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 83% 3/4 “In many ways, "Jedi" is the most childish of the series... But that has always been the secret of George Lucas' success: he provides grownup thrills for children -- and childish pleasures for adults. ” – New York Daily News Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Sheba, Baby (1975) 29% “Even the spectacular Pam Grier is sandbagged in this clumsy black actioner.” – Chicago Reader Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Withnail and I (1987) 83% 2/4 “The image of the pathetic, predatory homosexual seems outdated even for 1969; this, combined with the film's reluctance to examine too closely the relationship between Withnail and Marwood makes the movie seem evasive and self-protective.” – Chicago Tribune Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Scream 2 (1997) 82% 3/4 “A whodunit as much as it is a thriller, generating its effects by strategically withholding information rather than pumping fountains of gore. ” – New York Daily News Feb 6, 2025 Full Review The Rescuers Down Under (1990) 85% 3.5/4 “It's a far better piece of animation than the dismal Oliver and Company of 1988 and last year's smartly conceived but indifferently executed Little Mermaid. Butoy and Gabriel obviously love their medium, the first Disney directors to do so in years.” – Chicago Tribune Dec 15, 2024 Full Review Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 69% 2/4 “Bram Stoker's Dracula is a film that fails to make the most of its good ideas and spends far too much time fussing over its bad ones.” – Chicago Tribune Sep 26, 2024 Full Review Alien Resurrection (1997) 55% 2/4 “The sense of mystery and anticipation that defined Ridley Scott's original Alien here dissolves into a series of more or less overt encounters with no more poetry or suspense than an evening of professional wrestling.” – New York Daily News Aug 7, 2024 Full Review Steel Magnolias (1989) 73% 2/4 “The screen is filled with tics, mannerisms and desperately clutched props -- trademarks substituted for personalities. ” – Chicago Tribune Apr 30, 2024 Full Review Postcards From the Edge (1990) 83% 3/4 “Postcards From the Edge is alive only when it's being as mean and vicious as its little heart can be, which is more than often enough.” – Chicago Tribune Apr 29, 2024 Full Review I Think I Do (1997) 42% 2/4 “Likeable but less than fully accomplished.” – New York Daily News Apr 17, 2024 Full Review Spaceballs (1987) 52% 1/4 “Brooks' own timing as a director doesn't seem up to its usual snuff. Light-years stretch out between the set-up of a gag and its payoff, and for a director who has always depended on the quantity of his jokes rather than the quality, the gap is fatal.” – Chicago Tribune Apr 12, 2024 Full Review Westward the Women (1951) 69% “The director, William Wellman, was on his last legs by the time he made this 1951 MGM western; the raw energy of his 30s films had degenerated into flat bombast.” – Chicago Reader Feb 27, 2024 Full Review Quiz Show (1994) 97% 3/4 “For all of its occasional naiveté, this is a movie that practices what it preaches: It's a fine, worthy film, devoid of pandering or commercial compromise, that allows a number of talented people do some very good work.” – New York Daily News Feb 13, 2024 Full Review Little Big Man (1970) 91% “The dual point of view is used effectively, though it’s less valid as social criticism than as an index of the uncertainty that characterizes most of Penn’s heroes. With Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, and Chief Dan George, who stole the show.” – Chicago Reader Nov 10, 2023 Full Review Smoke Signals (1998) 90% 3/4 “The characters are too sweet, small and relentlessly endearing to command real emotion, but Alexie supplies enough wry observations and eccentric details to animate his world. The results are highly watchable if not always free of show-business savvy.” – New York Daily News Nov 8, 2023 Full Review Selena (1997) 66% 2/4 “Selena's fans should find it respectful and appropriately celebratory, but it doesn't have much originality or insight to offer. ” – New York Daily News Sep 5, 2023 Full Review Moscow on the Hudson (1984) 73% “As usual, Mazursky seems way too proud of his most artificial ideas, and he hasn’t found a story structure that can sustain the film between its bursts of lyric feeling. ” – Chicago Reader Aug 16, 2023 Full Review Hard-Boiled (1992) 92% 3.5/4 “It's astoundingly emotional and exhilarating, thanks to the oversized passions Woo grants his characters and the formal brilliance of his filming, with his rushing camera, extreme long takes and magnificent choreography of movement.” – New York Daily News Jul 27, 2023 Full Review La Haine (1995) 96% 3/4 “A bit familiar and more than a little derivative... But within these limitations, Hate is a strongly conceived, precisely directed film that dramatizes a number of abstract issues.” – New York Daily News Jul 20, 2023 Full Review Patriot Games (1992) 72% 2/4 “The screenplay, by W. Peter Iliff and Donald Stewart, eliminates most of Clancy's journalistic focus, and Noyce's primitive direction reduces the material even further, to the kind of simplistic melodrama most notoriously embodied by [Death Wish].” – Chicago Tribune Jun 6, 2023 Full Review An American Tail (1986) 77% 2/4 “The Disney style was based on a deft blend of humor, sentimentality and horror. An American Tail tries for the same blend, but the elements are out of balance. The humor is dim and the sentimentality is forced, leaving the horror to take over.” – Chicago Tribune May 16, 2023 Full Review Crossing Delancey (1988) 82% 3/4 “Much of the pleasure of Crossing Delancey lies in watching the performers fill out their slimly written roles.” – Chicago Tribune May 15, 2023 Full Review Army of Darkness (1992) 68% 3/4 “Raimi has created the cinematic equivalent of fast food -- efficient, unassuming and seriously regressive. It may not be much good for you in the end, but consuming it is loads of fun.” – Chicago Tribune Mar 31, 2023 Full Review Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) 96% “Buster Keaton’s beautiful 1928 comedy equates parental rejection with the most violently destructive forces of nature; behind the elegant slapstick is an eloquent fable of survival.” – Chicago Reader Mar 21, 2023 Full Review Come and See (1985) 89% 3.5/4 “The film is a sustained act of looking, with a minimum of dramatic or character development, and these are sights that leave an indelible impression as strong or stronger than any antiwar film in memory.” – Chicago Tribune Mar 14, 2023 Full Review
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