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Joe Morgenstern

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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% “George Lucas's special rejiggered edition will be a revelation for kids who've never seen this seminal space opera in a theater, and a delicious treat for longtime "Star Wars" lovers, of which I'm one.” – Wall Street Journal Apr 22, 2025 Full Review American Psycho (2000) 68% “There's only so much an actor can do to personify an elaborately arch and ugly notion of evil. The performance wears thin as the knives, nail gun and chain saw come out and the bodies and limbs pile up. ” – Wall Street Journal Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Tarzan (1999) 90% “It's clear that Tarzan, from its treetops to its taproots, is the work of individual artists, unencumbered by corporate caution. The whole movie swings, from satisfyingly scary through charmingly silly to quietly witty.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Mulan (1998) 92% “The film, which is pleasant enough and quite lovely in its visual design, may well inspire millions of girls to forget about Leonardo DiCaprio and get on with their lives. Yet Mulan suffers from recurrent earnestness and erratic writing. ” – Wall Street Journal Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Alien Resurrection (1997) 55% “Alien Resurrection displays flashes of glum beauty, scary power and carefully titrated humor before the whole grisly thing turns to gibberish... It's time for Ripley to retire.” – Wall Street Journal Aug 7, 2024 Full Review Twister (1996) 67% “Twister shows how digital technology has transformed special effects, but it's still a new twist on an old formula, a movie that dispenses lots of thrills -- big ones, loud ones -- while dispensing with smart.” – Wall Street Journal Jul 16, 2024 Full Review Planet of the Apes (2001) 43% “My Homo sapiens brain was boggled by the movie's clumsiness, while my heart was chilled by the chance that otherwise mature members of my species might mistake this disjointed botch for summer entertainment.” – Wall Street Journal May 1, 2024 Full Review Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000) 92% “Such is the awful power of these everyday images that I urge you to see Into the Arms of Strangers on a theater screen... Yet the film's deeper power lies in the stories, both bitter and sweet, told by the former children.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Almost Famous (2000) 91% “Mr. Crowe, working in the predominantly no environment of studio production, has managed to make a wonderful, personal movie that says yes to love of music and love of life.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Smoke Signals (1998) 90% “I can't think of a recent movie that packs more provocative fun into less than ninety minutes.” – Wall Street Journal Nov 8, 2023 Full Review Lone Star (1996) 91% “Mr. Sayles's sensibility is literary, rather than cinematic. His film looks as flat as the land it depicts, while his directorial technique turns the not-so-neat trick of making professional actors look nonprofessional.” – Wall Street Journal Sep 6, 2023 Full Review Traffic (2000) 93% “No movie has ever evoked, with such intelligence and dramatic power, the doomed campaigns and moral chaos, the base motives and high ideals of the troops in their far-flung battles.” – Wall Street Journal Sep 6, 2023 Full Review Moulin Rouge (2001) 75% “By and large, though, the experience is more benumbing than bewitching, more exhausting than exciting. Moulin Rouge puts you through the mill as no musical has done before.” – Wall Street Journal Aug 30, 2023 Full Review Eraser (1996) 43% “Tree trunk he may be, but Mr. Schwarzenegger has grown new branches with green leaves in this smart action thriller, directed with panache by Charles Russell and written crisply by Tony Puryear and Walon Green.” – Wall Street Journal Jul 19, 2023 Full Review The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) 80% “You're quickly won over by the movie's subversive wit, swept along by its narrative bravado and its enormous visual energy. This new "Hunchback" is a triumph on its own terms, and on any other terms that might come to mind.” – Wall Street Journal Jul 19, 2023 Full Review In the Mood for Love (2000) 92% “In the Mood for Love excites us with words not spoken, passions not played out. A mood story more than a love story, it's all about sustaining a state of exquisite melancholy in the face of desire.” – Wall Street Journal Jul 15, 2023 Full Review Magnolia (1999) 82% “[A] sprawling, enthralling phantasmagoria.” – Wall Street Journal Jul 15, 2023 Full Review Saving Silverman (2001) 18% “It's basically a cheerful slob job, one of those slapped-together features so often embraced by teenagers with more disposable income than discernible taste. ” – Wall Street Journal Jul 15, 2023 Full Review Hannibal (2001) 39% “All of this opulence, together with extravagant set-pieces that go past grisly to grotesque (and then, in the climax, on to goony), can't compensate for the halting pace of a patchy script. ” – Wall Street Journal Jul 15, 2023 Full Review Someone Like You (2001) 42% “Another dim adaptation of a bright comic novel.” – Wall Street Journal Jul 15, 2023 Full Review The Tailor of Panama (2001) 75% “The premise still provides some fun, but only Le Carre fans with tin ears and clouded eyes will fail to note the film's sour tone, crude performances and drab look.” – Wall Street Journal Jul 15, 2023 Full Review Amores perros (2000) 93% “The writer and director combine the gravity, narrative sweep and emotional pull of traditional literature with the dazzling visuals and pungent music of contemporary entertainment. ” – Wall Street Journal Jul 15, 2023 Full Review The Matrix (1999) 83% “I know almost nothing of the intricate techniques that make The Matrix as eye-filling as it is brain-numbing, but I can tell you that... [its visuals] are wondrous to behold.” – Wall Street Journal Jul 13, 2023 Full Review Godzilla (1998) 20% “Most of the film's failings are banal ones -- a paucity of dramatic invention and of human, or reptilian, emotion; the story is as cold-blooded as its subject. ” – Wall Street Journal Feb 1, 2023 Full Review Blow-Up (1966) 87% “Never before Blow-Up has Michelangelo Antonioni, the cinema’s bravest spelunker of the soul, come up from the depths with such a marvelous story and such gorgeous pictures of the cavernous emptiness inside modern man.” – Newsweek Aug 15, 2022 Full Review
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