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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 83% “Return of the Jedi is not a movie, it's a shopping mall. At the beginning, as John Williams's music started blaring away, my heart sank a bit, because the big brass theme has become the anthem of a merchandising concept that has completely triumphed.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 93% “A Wagnerian pop movie -- grandiose, thrilling, imperiously generous in scale, and also a bit ponderous... The throwaway wit and the recondite references to old movies have been replaced with solemn reverence. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 24, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% “It's both a loving parody of banality and an awesomely beautiful work of imagination -- a throwaway, comic-book epic. Lucas's joke is first-rate.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 23, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (1993) 92% “The Wedding Banquet is consistently funny in an unforced, almost glancing style.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Back to School (1986) 81% “...after a while, you begin to look a little closer, and you realize that, amazingly, [Rodney Dangerfield is] giving a performance.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 27, 2025 Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 91% “The combination of sexual primitivism and art-world knowingness brings its own kind of heavy depression. Blue Velvet is a work of art, but it’s not an exhilarating experience.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 22, 2025 Full Review The Lion King (1994) 93% “The grandeur of the Serengeti Plain comes through the animation, and the young audience may actually feel something like amazement. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Hercules (1997) 83% “The movie enters a plane of gratifying silliness.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Aladdin (1992) 96% “Reviewers have referred knowingly to the elegant Thief of Baghdad, but I would say the Arabism here is more on the level of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. And then Robin Williams comes along and saves the movie from possible embarrassment. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 16, 2024 Full Review The Little Mermaid (1989) 92% “The movie offers wit and honest delight, both rarities in children's entertainment. The best of animation has combined with show-business savvy, making The Little Mermaid the most entertaining animated feature since Yellow Submarine. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 13, 2024 Full Review Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 69% “This is the hotel Fontainebleau of vampire movies -- a vulgar monstrosity with too many characters, too many climaxes (and hence no climax). What's important, and what isn't? Coppola no longer knows.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 26, 2024 Full Review The Conversation (1974) 93% “I feel that Coppola has partially botched the thriller, but the film is a triumph none the less -- gritty, complex, idiosyncratic, a rare case of freedom used rather than squandered. ” – Sight & Sound Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Apocalypse Now (1979) 90% “Yes, there are passages of horrifying beauty in Apocalypse Now, but it's a heavy, self-important work, redundant and undramatic -- more like a bad trip than art. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 22, 2024 Full Review Jaws 2 (1978) 56% “The thrills are still there, but the intelligence and humor and theatrical flair that made jaws so much fun are gone. ” – Boston Phoenix Aug 14, 2024 Full Review Damien: Omen II (1978) 50% “Omen II is genuinely poignant. ” – Boston Phoenix Aug 14, 2024 Full Review Alien Resurrection (1997) 55% “Welcome to the movies of the late nineties: rage without purpose, threat without meaning, horror without relief.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Aug 7, 2024 Full Review Aliens (1986) 94% “It's like a Romantic symphony that won't come to an end. But it keeps you high.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Twister (1996) 67% “The movie, of course, is preposterous. But Twister is also irresistible -- absurdly exciting and entertaining -- and though I didn't believe a single thing in it, and some of it made me cringe, I had a great time.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 16, 2024 Full Review Spaceballs (1987) 52% “Most of the picture is second-drawer stuff.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 3, 2024 Full Review Seven (1995) 84% “Seven is gripping and intricate in a sordid way, and Freeman and Pitt, physical and spiritual opposites, become an oddly satisfying pair, but I was happy when the movie had played its last trick on me and could hold me no longer.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Mar 29, 2024 Full Review The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 89% “There's nothing going on in The Shawshank Redemption from shot to shot -- no expressive life, no spontaneity or feeling. It's a stunted movie.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Mar 4, 2024 Full Review Forrest Gump (1994) 75% “Zemeckis has made a fast movie about a slow hero; he transforms Forrest's daffy misconceptions into lyrical flights. Forrest Gump has a softer, more delicate touch and a richer current of feeling than any of the other holy-innocent movies.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Mar 1, 2024 Full Review Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 92% “The movie has a genuine good spirit, a democratic appreciation of erotic possibilities in unlikely situations. And Newell and Curtis convince us that the people in this odd group actually do like each other.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 29, 2024 Full Review Quiz Show (1994) 97% “Quiz Show is remarkably entertaining, a movie that works as spectacle, as tangled ethical drama, as an exposé of the fault lines of ethnicity and class in this country.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 13, 2024 Full Review The Last of the Mohicans (1992) 88% “The movie is a piece of design, like one of Mann's 온라인카지노추천 series, and it makes little dramatic sense. Mann sees everything visually -- as an effect. He loads these effects one atop the other as the movie grandly slips through his fingers.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 15, 2023 Full Review
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