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Dean Johnson

Dean Johnson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 93% 4/4 “It would be hard to top the exhilarating surprise of the original... On the other hand, three years have brought advances in special effects wizardry -- and the glories of the "Empire" visuals, executed in stunning detail, are awesome. ” – Orlando Sentinel Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% “If a sequel is ever made, Lucas (or whoever might take the reins from him) has to feature C-3PO and R2-D2, as charming a pair of buddies as we've ever seen.” – Orlando Sentinel Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Apocalypse Now (1979) 90% 4/4 “Flaws and all, the genius of Coppola and his team can still enrich, stimulate, depress, provoke, horrify, probe. The faces will burn in memory; the places as well. Since film is a visual medium, that, perhaps, is enough.” – Orlando Sentinel Sep 23, 2024 Full Review Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 96% “A poignant, sympathetic, sometimes funny film — an approach that could easily have been turned around by freak show antics if the directing assignment had been handed to a lesser director.” – Orlando Sentinel Apr 6, 2024 Full Review Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 90% “Writer-director Steven Spielberg and I would get on well. I am as suspicious as he of people who lack imagination. Because out of dreams and imagination and fantasy, there is reality. And hope.” – Orlando Sentinel Apr 3, 2024 Full Review Grease (1978) 66% “Flair is missing. Grease should have been more fun. And, worst of all, you get the feeling that absolutely no one, especially director Kleiser and even Eve Arden, had any feeling for the '50s.” – Orlando Sentinel Feb 8, 2024 Full Review Alien (1979) 93% “Scott has the commercialist's feel for economy, and if the film doesn't say much, the director makes up for a void of message with a stunning visuality. ” – Orlando Sentinel Nov 16, 2023 Full Review Raging Bull (1980) 92% 3.5/4 “The brutality of Raging Bull is intense, a mood Scorsese maintains consistently. And, connected with that, is the director's search for, if not beauty, then poetry, within that vivid viciousness. He succeeds in that search.” – Orlando Sentinel Oct 11, 2023 Full Review Taxi Driver (1976) 89% “So sure, there are lonely people out there -- but Taxi Driver fails to offer an imitable solution to lone wolfishness. The outcome is about as senseless as the director's closeup of a glass of fizzy Alka-Seltzer.” – Orlando Sentinel Oct 6, 2023 Full Review 3 Women (1977) 83% “I couldn't understand about the last third of 3 Women -- but I liked the film. ” – Orlando Sentinel Apr 4, 2023 Full Review 9 to 5 (1980) 69% 3/4 “The script has to be considered a failure. Not so the acting. Tomlin is brilliant. ” – Orlando Sentinel Mar 3, 2023 Full Review The Deer Hunter (1978) 86% 4/4 “The meticulous work of De Niro establishes an intelligent base for the rest of the cast, a rare ensemble of peers awesome in their presentation of the ordinary and the extraordinary.” – Orlando Sentinel Aug 30, 2022 Full Review Chariots of Fire (1981) 84% 4/5 “Chariots of Fire is a beautiful title. That's fitting, because "beautiful" describes the major ingredients of the film -- the inspirational story, the acting, the direction, the photography and certainly the music.” – Orlando Sentinel Jul 14, 2022 Full Review Ordinary People (1980) 89% 5/5 “It is not a movie we can forget. It is not a movie we should forget.” – Orlando Sentinel Jul 12, 2022 Full Review Thief (1981) 80% 3.5/5 “It is James Caan's tough-cocky-chilling performance that turns Thief into a disturbingly gripping character study -- and that, judging by the title, is what the movie is supposed to be.” – Orlando Sentinel Jul 7, 2022 Full Review Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) 84% 4/4 “The appeal of Coal Miner's Daughter lies basically in its naturalness and, along with that, its honesty. And, unlike most film biographies of entertainers, this one is, indeed, entertaining. ” – Orlando Sentinel Apr 6, 2022 Full Review Hair (1979) 83% 3/4 “The movie is a delight. It's fluffy, impossibly contrived and it couldn't have made much sense to the actors while they were making it -- but it's fun.” – Orlando Sentinel Nov 8, 2021 Full Review Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) 10% “The acting pretty much lives up to the direction, writing, and music -- it's all annoying. And The Heretic is about as scary as a June wedding.” – Orlando Sentinel Oct 26, 2021 Full Review Blue Collar (1978) 96% “It is, as they say, not a pretty movie. It's a rough one. And, in its horror, it also offers Pryor, Keitel, and Kotte the best roles each has ever been awarded.” – Orlando Sentinel Aug 21, 2021 Full Review The Legacy (1979) 19% 1/4 “No surprises. None at all.” – Orlando Sentinel Jul 31, 2021 Full Review Heroes (1977) 27% “Winkler is just trying too hard. It isn't that he's a rotten actor exactly; it's more like you can tell he IS acting. That's a no-no.” – Orlando Sentinel Jun 10, 2021 Full Review Tom Dowd & the Language of Music (2003) 90% 3/4 “” – Boston Herald Aug 21, 2004 Full Review
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