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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 83% “There's little sense of narrative momentum, or of anything vital at stake. Each episode seems more labored and isolated than the last.” – Film.com Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 69% 2.5/4 “This "Dracula" lacks the narrative drive, the creepiness and the necessary brevity of the best previous film adaptations. Overblown and sinfully overlong at 123 minutes, it leaves you wanting much less.” – Seattle Times Sep 26, 2024 Full Review Home (2008) 93% 3/4 “Gradually the movie turns into an ironic assault on the inconvenient nature of civilization's conveniences.” – Seattle Times Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Eve's Bayou (1997) 84% 3.5/4 “Firmly anchored by confident movie-star performances by Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield and Diahann Carroll, this vivid portrait of an early-1960s African-American family is one of the most impressive ensemble pieces of the season.” – Seattle Times Jan 10, 2023 Full Review Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) 92% 3.5/4 “[Washington plays] Rawlins as a mixture of canny private eye and wary out-of-towner. In her best role to date, Beals communicates some of the hothouse seductiveness of film noir's best bad girls.” – Seattle Times Oct 26, 2021 Full Review Cool as Ice (1991) 3% “Try to imagine Vanilla Ice in the Marlon Brando role in The Wild One. Somebody did, and this is the embarrassing result.” – Seattle Times Aug 13, 2021 Full Review Bhaji on the Beach (1993) 88% 3/4 “The scenes in Blackpool are vibrant, funny and finally quite complex and powerful.” – Seattle Times May 10, 2021 Full Review Nights of Cabiria (1957) 100% 4/4 “Fellini and Masina's unique collaboration appears to demolish the wall between life and art, film and audience.” – Seattle Times Feb 28, 2021 Full Review The Unforeseen (2007) 90% “A gorgeous, thoughtful film that is remarkably evenhanded in its treatment of the subject.” – Seattle Times Sep 22, 2020 Full Review Born to Be Wild (1995) 0% “Screenwriters Paul Young and John Bunzel... can't decide whether they're making a slapstick comedy or an impassioned ecological statement or just a harmless baby-sitter...” – Seattle Times Jul 13, 2020 Full Review Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) 71% “What lends it novelty and makes it such wicked fun is the change of locale from a Capra-esque small town to rude, hectic New York City.” – Seattle Times Jun 23, 2020 Full Review The Killing Fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor (2015) 3/4 “Arthur Dong, the director of Coming Out Under Fire, tells this strange, sad, unresolved story with remarkable clarity.” – Seattle Times May 8, 2020 Full Review The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) 86% 4/4 “This is a shocking, confrontational film that is intended to disturb. It is also an adult film in the best sense.” – Seattle Times Apr 21, 2020 Full Review Prefontaine (1997) 56% 3/4 “The most poignant aspect of Prefontaine has to do with the title character's adjustment to relative failure.” – Seattle Times Mar 25, 2020 Full Review Stepmom (1998) 44% 2/4 “The result is a cartoonish two-hour-plus soap opera of little distinction, played by actors who deserve better and should have known better.” – Seattle Times Apr 1, 2019 Full Review Itzhak (2017) 90% 3/4 “Music hangs in the air throughout the film.” – Seattle Times Apr 4, 2018 Full Review The Final Year (2017) 83% 3.5/4 “In the end, "The Final Year" can offer only the perspective of time and history as a consolation.” – Seattle Times Jan 17, 2018 Full Review Father Figures (2017) 17% 2.5/4 “At first [Helms and Wilson] seem incompatible. But their journey through family secrets delivers surprising charm.” – Seattle Times Dec 22, 2017 Full Review The Foreigner (2017) 66% 3/4 “[Campbell is] a master at rejuvenating tired warhorses, and he pulls it off again with this one.” – Seattle Times Oct 10, 2017 Full Review Second Nature (2016) 2.5/4 “The staging of a few scenes suggests home-movie limitations. But enthusiasm counts for a great deal in a project as ambitious and strange as "Second Nature."” – Seattle Times Sep 7, 2017 Full Review Whose Streets? (2017) 98% 3/4 “"Whose Streets?" marks the filmmaking debut of Folayan and Davis, and it's charged by its personal touch.” – Seattle Times Aug 15, 2017 Full Review Susanne Bartsch: On Top (2017) 100% 3/4 “Auntie Mame once insisted that "life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death." That sentiment is echoed in a new documentary about a nonfictional Mame, Susanne Bartsch, who reigned in New York during the post-Warhol era.” – Seattle Times Jun 20, 2017 Full Review My Journey Through French Cinema (2016) 100% 3.5/4 “Tavernier's own adolescent obsession with the films of Jacques Becker gets the movie off to a choppy start, but the variety of inspirations (not to mention the visual quality of the film clips) is astonishing.” – Seattle Times Jun 20, 2017 Full Review Kalushi: The Story of Solomon Mahlangu (2017) 3/4 “The script tends to build its narrative on philosophical and religious arguments, but they're often riveting and articulate, especially in courtroom scenes that take the film beyond the expected limitations of action scenes.” – Seattle Times Jun 20, 2017 Full Review The Last Animals (2017) 100% 3/4 “Testimonials cover a wide range, including England's Prince William who helps to bring it all into perspective.” – Seattle Times Jun 20, 2017 Full Review
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