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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% “So seamless is the blend between old and new footage that casual fans won't notice. For them, the four extra minutes in Star Wars will seem like tiny new ornaments on one of the grandest cinematic Christmas trees.” – Charlotte Observer Apr 22, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (1993) 92% 3/4 “Director and co-writer Ang Lee puts a witty spin on his modern version of old Hollywood screwball comedies.” – Charlotte Observer Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Do the Right Thing (1989) 92% 3/4 “"Do the Right Thing" is the most provocative drama on the summer horizon. To a moviegoer wandering in a desert of sequels and special effects, it looks like a multilayered mirage.” – Charlotte Observer Mar 13, 2025 Full Review Scream 2 (1997) 82% B- “It's just as sarcastically glib, funny and shrewd in commenting on horror-film conventions, which it gleefully skewers throughout. ” – Charlotte Observer Feb 5, 2025 Full Review Mulan (1998) 92% B+ “[Mulan] is often spontaneous and spectacular. When it is, it's as good as '90s animation gets. When it follows rigid company dictates, it occasionally goes flat. But stimulating moments outnumber stale ones about 3 to 1.” – Charlotte Observer Dec 20, 2024 Full Review The Lion King (1994) 93% 3/4 “Though. Computers generate many of the images, they're attractive. ” – Charlotte Observer Dec 19, 2024 Full Review Hercules (1997) 83% B+ “If it's a few shades short of greatness in its heart and soul, that won't bother folks who prefer Disney Lite.” – Charlotte Observer Dec 18, 2024 Full Review The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) 80% 2.5/4 “The animated musical plays fast and loose with almost all of Hugo's hefty novel. Pocahontas, slammed for distorting its source material, looks like a doctoral thesis by comparison. ” – Charlotte Observer Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Pocahontas (1995) 58% 3.5/4 “Her story has been told so touchingly that, inaccuracies and all, no animated picture has been more satisfying since Beauty and the Beast.” – Charlotte Observer Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Aladdin (1992) 96% 3.5/4 “Can you have a first-rate musical without first-rate music? Until now, I'd have said no, but Aladdin has changed my mind.” – Charlotte Observer Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (1991) 95% 3.5/4 “The spirit of Beauty and the Beast belongs to Howard Ashman, the lyricist who died after writing the songs with Alan Menken. The film is a fitting valedictory, falling only a hair short of their extraordinary work for The Little Mermaid two years ago.” – Charlotte Observer Dec 16, 2024 Full Review The Rescuers Down Under (1990) 85% 3.5/4 “At times, we seem to be on a thrill ride, plunging down a roller-coaster slope or cracking around a corner like a whip.” – Charlotte Observer Dec 15, 2024 Full Review The Prince and the Pauper (1990) 76% “The movie doesn't make any impact. At full-length, it probably would have. ” – Charlotte Observer Dec 15, 2024 Full Review The Little Mermaid (1989) 92% 4/4 “You'd have to go back to the '60s, to The Jungle Book or 101 Dalmatians, to find an animated Disney film that compares. And on first hearing, the Howard Ashman-Alan Menken score belongs in a class with Marry Poppins or Cinderella.” – Charlotte Observer Dec 13, 2024 Full Review Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 69% 1.5/4 “Overwrought melodrama, doused in violence and symbolism, that has as much to do with Stoker's book as Dumbo did with a real circus. The film falls just short of being silly enough to qualify as a camp classic.” – Charlotte Observer Sep 26, 2024 Full Review Alien Resurrection (1997) 55% D+ “The silliest and most repulsively graphic installment in this series.” – Charlotte Observer Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Alien 3 (1992) 44% 1.5/4 “The magic is gone. First-time director David Fincher ends with a completely incomprehensible chase lasting about a quarter of an hour, and a bevy of writers couldn't come up with two interesting characters among them.” – Charlotte Observer Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Twister (1996) 67% 1.5/4 “The sound and sound effects are extraordinary, a virtual certainty for Oscar nominations. But praising sound in one of the summer's most-awaited movies is like saying your annoying blind date drove a hip car.” – Charlotte Observer Jul 15, 2024 Full Review When Harry Met Sally... (1989) 89% 2.5/4 “The deepest love, Ephron seems to say, is literally blind... If you can buy that concept, you'll smile through this film.” – Charlotte Observer Jul 4, 2024 Full Review Steel Magnolias (1989) 73% 2.5/4 “Harling sometimes reproduces old gags as his own or relies on corny similes, but more often writes in a fresh, wise-gal style.” – Charlotte Observer Apr 30, 2024 Full Review Little Women (1994) 92% 3/4 “Ryder is a radiant Jo, absolutely right, whether running giddily through the snow or suddenly realizing the depth of her affections. ” – Charlotte Observer Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Seven (1995) 84% 3/4 “Saying that a film is catchy in spite of its director is like saying a meal is savory in spite of its chef. But that's the case with Seven.” – Charlotte Observer Mar 28, 2024 Full Review Almost Famous (2000) 91% A- “Crowe's amused memories of the '70s are clear and unforgiving: He recreates the era without mythologizing it. ” – Charlotte Observer Mar 25, 2024 Full Review The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 89% 3/4 “Tim Robbins, William Sadler, Bob Gunton, Clancy Brown and James Whitmore find ways to surprise us in familiar parts. Yet Freeman tower over them as Red.” – Charlotte Observer Mar 1, 2024 Full Review Pulp Fiction (1994) 92% 3/4 “There’s a method to his rad-ness: Tarantino stories wander, but in interesting directions. In the end they come full circle.” – Charlotte Observer Feb 29, 2024 Full Review
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