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The Wedding Banquet (1993) 92% “The film left me cold, being so over-the-top that it couldn't possibly be taken at face value while lacking the wit needed to make for entertainment.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Do the Right Thing (1989) 92% “As soon as the credit sequence gets moving...you sense that Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing is going to be an extraordinary film.” – Sydney Morning Herald Mar 20, 2025 Full Review Aladdin (1992) 96% “There's so much in Aladdin that at least two viewings are probably needed to take it all in. You emerge from the cinema wondering what they slipped in that Coke you bought in the foyer.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Dick Tracy (1990) 63% “Bright, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 13, 2024 Full Review The Little Mermaid (1989) 92% “Not quite a return to classic form, then, but encouraging, nevertheless. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 13, 2024 Full Review Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 69% “It isn't scary or suspenseful at all. Coppola's telling is better thought of as a Dracula for the M온라인카지노추천 generation, a series of diverting -- and often quite fabulous -- moments which ultimately add up to less than their sum.” – Sydney Morning Herald Sep 26, 2024 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (1991) 95% “Disney made big strides towards recapturing its classic form with the animated fairy tale The Little Mermaid a couple of years ago, but they let an insipid heroine almost spoil the effect. But Beauty and the Beast is unambiguously successful.” – Sydney Morning Herald Aug 5, 2024 Full Review Alien 3 (1992) 44% “Although there are moments when it's hard to shake the feeling we're watching a re-run of Ridley Scott's masterful first film, only with different sets, Alien 3 deserves credit for managing to produce shocks when they're least expected.” – Sydney Morning Herald Aug 5, 2024 Full Review When Harry Met Sally... (1989) 89% “A witty adult comedy whose dissection of sexual mores and relationships between the sexes manages to be delightfully old-fashioned and utterly contemporary in one stroke. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Jul 12, 2024 Full Review The Crying Game (1992) 95% “Here is a film that takes viewers on an unpredictable journey, tackling an ambitious variety of themes and ideas without ever losing the plot.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 14, 2023 Full Review Malcolm X (1992) 89% “Unusually rich, absorbing and often brilliant film-making, an epic deserving of the description. But that doesn't stop it from being worryingly ambiguous. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 14, 2023 Full Review The Last of the Mohicans (1992) 88% “Old-fashioned stuff? Mann's triumph is to transform a seemingly outmoded boys-own adventure into a story that speaks in the kinetic language of today.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 14, 2023 Full Review Home Alone (1990) 66% “Using split-second editing, playfully choreographed violence and exaggerated responses such as the bug-eyed double take, director Chris Columbus has created a live action comedy in the style of a Warner Bros cartoon.” – Sydney Morning Herald Nov 29, 2023 Full Review Goodfellas (1990) 94% “How dull, safe and prosaic most Hollywood cinema appears after seeing the work of a virtuoso director like Martin Scorsese in full flight.” – Sydney Morning Herald Oct 17, 2023 Full Review White Men Can't Jump (1992) 75% “It's interesting that the only type of racial stereotyping "White Men" tackles seriously is the problem of being white in the black man's world of basketball. Fair enough. But a sense of irony might have come in handy. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Aug 30, 2023 Full Review Batman (1989) 77% “To concentrate too heavily on the film's comic origins is to miss its grasp of Cinema with a capital "C," the way it resonates with archetypal Hollywood imagery while giving its audience something it feels it hasn't experienced before.” – Sydney Morning Herald Jul 25, 2023 Full Review Patriot Games (1992) 72% “The director, Australia's Phillip Noyce, pumps enough adrenalin into the story to help the audience suspend its derision, and the supporting cast works hard at bringing a degree of dignity to some clichéd characterizations. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Jun 6, 2023 Full Review Army of Darkness (1992) 68% “Adolescent gross-out is replaced with adolescent humor, with the usual bad acting much in evidence. Raimi's energetic inventiveness offers only partial compensation. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Mar 31, 2023 Full Review Thelma & Louise (1991) 86% “Thelma & Louise is a pop fantasy with a viewpoint rooted in the kind of everyday reality that Hollywood routinely denies, playing fast and loose with the kind of masculine film conventions that have been long overdue for upsetting.” – Sydney Morning Herald Feb 28, 2023 Full Review Tár (2022) 91% 3.5/5 “Even by her usual high standards, Blanchett’s acting here is mesmerising, bringing to life a character who is not only charismatic, highly intelligent and passionate about music, but also bafflingly devious and egoistic to the nth degree.” – Limelight Dec 22, 2022 Full Review Groundhog Day (1993) 94% “That it works so entertainingly is a tribute to an ingenious script -- which gradually turns the film into an unconventional romantic comedy and, almost miraculously, never runs out of steam -- and to a pair of very likable performances.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 21, 2022 Full Review Postcards From the Edge (1990) 83% “"Postcards" won't solve the fundamental dilemmas of human existence, but it passes the time agreeably. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Nov 2, 2022 Full Review Dances With Wolves (1990) 87% “On paper, Dances with Wolves looks like another Heaven's Gate... But not only has this epic successfully disinterred a long-buried genre, it's a triumph on all levels that establishes Costner as a born film-maker. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Nov 2, 2022 Full Review The Quiet Girl (2022) 97% “Visually the film is striking and sometimes breathtaking. Writer-director Colm Bairéad is clearly a major talent.” – Limelight Oct 3, 2022 Full Review Addams Family Values (1993) 75% “Addams Family Values is a slick, witty and mischievous delight, and one of those rare sequels which surpasses its predecessor. Not that the latter was a difficult task. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Sep 22, 2022 Full Review
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