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The Wedding Banquet (1993) 92% “Lee's ingredients are pure '30s screwball, which is to say pure delight.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Apr 15, 2025 Full Review A Goofy Movie (1995) 64% “Animated with customary Disney perfection..."A Goofy Movie" looks great, but plays at a somewhat lower level.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Scream 2 (1997) 82% “Scream 2 was written by Kevin Williamson, a very clever man who concocts elaborately witty, parodic riffs on pop culture that are as entangled in themselves as an M.C. Escher print. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 5, 2025 Full Review Mulan (1998) 92% “Studios at long last have discovered Girl Power. The wait was worth it. Mulan, Disney's enchanting version of a Chinese legend, boasts a feisty heroine who accomplishes the sorts of feats past Disney movies left to the princes and knights.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 20, 2024 Full Review The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) 80% “It's not indulging in hyperbole to say that "Hunchback" takes the studio to another level of artistry, not only in animation, but also in music and story. All three elements are richer, darker, and far more sophisticated than Disney has yet done.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Pocahontas (1995) 58% “To dwell on what is "wrong" with Pocahontas is to risk what is missing what is right about it: the lush, intricate score by Alan Menken, who is composing finer music for Disney than anyone is for Broadway these days.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 17, 2024 Full Review An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) 59% “The slapstick humor and irrepressible energy make up for anything you might miss as the movie whizzes along.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (1991) 95% “Beauty and the Beast lacks both a solid story and popular score, but it still deserves to become a classic. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Prancer (1989) 68% “Though the film doesn't inspire awe visually, it does offer a heartwarming, unabashedly family-oriented story.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 13, 2024 Full Review All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) 46% “It's hard to tell just who Don Bluth and company had in mind with this wayward animated feature. It manages to violate just about every rule of family films, beginning with its essential cynicism. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 13, 2024 Full Review The Little Mermaid (1989) 92% “It features on the Disney trademarks, a superb villainess. Best of all, it has lively, amusing and very hummable songs by the team that wrote Little Shop of Horrors.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 13, 2024 Full Review Girls Town (1996) 81% “Girls Town seethes with riot-grrl energy and audacity, and -- like its heroes -- it has an impudent, funky grunge style all its own. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Nov 14, 2024 Full Review Alien Resurrection (1997) 55% “For all its visual imagination and classic themes, Alien Resurrection is more fascinating than it is enjoyable... But for what he manages to inject into the formula, Jeunet has made the best Alien of the bunch.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Twister (1996) 67% “Crichton has unparalleled showman's instincts. He knows exactly what will sell on 온라인카지노추천, in bookstores and at the movies, and what sells at the movies is what you can't create on 온라인카지노추천: amusement-park thrills. So Twister delivers them. And how.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jul 16, 2024 Full Review When Harry Met Sally... (1989) 89% “Reiner and Ephron deftly thread Casablanca through Harry and Sally's on-again, off-again relationship. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jul 12, 2024 Full Review Almost Famous (2000) 91% “In Crowe's generous telling, Almost Famous expands from the "me" to the "we," becoming the autobiography of an entire generation.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Smoke Signals (1998) 90% “The handsome Beach and the very amusing Adams anchor an ensemble of terrific actors, including Tantoo Cardinal as Victor's spirt-weary mother, Farmer as the troubled, guilt-ridden Arnold Joseph, and Irene Bedard as Suzy Song.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Nov 8, 2023 Full Review Traffic (2000) 93% “In an ensemble of more than a dozen major roles and a hundred speaking roles, not a single performance misfires. [A stand-out is] Del Toro, whose quiet, intent, soulful performance should at last make him a star (if there is justice in this world).” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 8, 2023 Full Review Magnolia (1999) 82% “If Magnolia is, ultimately, a failure, at least it's a vibrant, grand, reckless failure.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jun 30, 2023 Full Review Armageddon (1998) 43% “Obviously, Armageddon is to summer movies what Long Island Iced Tea is to summer parties. So drink up, offer many toasts to the genius of Bruce Willis, and don't even think about how you'll feel m the morning.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jun 20, 2023 Full Review The Truman Show (1998) 94% “The Truman Show is that rare thing, a provocative movie that is at once deeply thoughtful and hugely entertaining. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 14, 2023 Full Review The Big Lebowski (1998) 80% “Leave it to Joel and Ethan Coen to wake up a drowsy movie genre with a bucket of ice water, a giant alarm clock and a fistful of No-Doz. The Big Lebowski... injects a mammoth syringe of adrenaline lunacy directly into the overdosed heart of film noir.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jan 24, 2023 Full Review Love & Basketball (2000) 85% “he two stars are immensely appealing (Epps possesses the most liquid, soulful eyes of any actor since Omar Sharif) and create a real chemistry together.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Mar 9, 2022 Full Review Godzilla (1998) 20% “It is not just a bad movie; it is depressingly bad, in large part for what it says about the prevailing atmosphere of utter contempt for the art -- and the audience -- in which movies now are designed and produced.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 5, 2022 Full Review The Blair Witch Project (1999) 86% “It sticks with you, as much for its old ideas as for its new ideas. "Blair Witch" may represent the cutting-edge of independent filmmaking, but its heart is as ancient and familiar as a Grimm's fairy tale.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 4, 2022 Full Review
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