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Malcolm Johnson

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Starman (1984) 84% “The film rapidly becomes rather dull, once the initial powers of the special effects have worn off.” – Hartford Courant May 13, 2025 Full Review C.H.U.D. (1984) 41% “It is almost always well enough paced to keep us amused, if not trembling with excitement.” – Hartford Courant May 10, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible II (2000) 57% 3/4 “Unlike the original film, M:I-2 also boasts a cogent plot, worked into a spare, smart screenplay by veteran Robert Towne.” – Hartford Courant May 8, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible (1996) 65% 3/4 “Cruise has total command of this picture.” – Hartford Courant May 6, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 83% “Our faith in Lucas's characters may waiver at times, but Return of the Jedi never lets up in delivering one exciting scene after another. Although more dazzling than deeply engaging, it brings the legend of Luke, Han and Leia to a spectacular finale.” – Hartford Courant Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 93% “However Darth is done, however, he emerges this time around as an even darker villain than before, and his light sword duels with Luke are the best thing since Erroll Flynn clashed up and down staircases with Basil Rathbone.” – Hartford Courant Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) 61% 2.5/4 “Too often the characters seem like cardboard figures.” – Hartford Courant Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% “Lucas has simply made the most satisfying space opera ever, using the old Flash Gordon serials as a launch pad and fueling his futuristic flight of fancy with cleverly integrated cliches from other beloved movie genres.” – Hartford Courant Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) 54% 3.5/4 “In the end, Lucas serves up an evocation of the finale of "A New Hope," with a child at the controls. The new beginning of the "Star Wars" cycle is a tale of a little boy, aimed chiefly at children, who may even find Jar Jar funny.” – Hartford Courant Apr 16, 2025 Full Review Brannigan (1975) 48% “"Brannigan" is alternately amusing and mendacious, but generally the larger than life Wayne triumphs over the material, as he usually does.” – Hartford Courant Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Capone (1975) 28% “Its rhythm is soggy, rather than crisp.” – Hartford Courant Apr 8, 2025 Full Review American Psycho (2000) 68% 2.5/4 “Bales gives a performance drained of personality and humanity, sometimes exhibiting a glint of affected charm, sometimes even saying the right thing.” – Hartford Courant Apr 5, 2025 Full Review Withnail and I (1987) 84% 3/4 “Although Robinson's scratching at the soft and unwashed underbelly of swinging London moves much more slowly and solemnly than buoyant period artifacts such as A Hard Day's Night... the chilly and paranoid world he paints seems remarkably true to life.” – Hartford Courant Apr 4, 2025 Full Review A Goofy Movie (1995) 64% 1/4 “With schlock-rock tunes in the mode of "Footloose" and "Thriller" and a tale of father-son bonding, "A Goofy Movie" zips from one lame attempt to woo the youth market to the next.” – Hartford Courant Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 92% “All of this is very silly and fast and funny, if this sort of foolishness is your cup of Meade.” – Hartford Courant Apr 1, 2025 Full Review At Long Last Love (1975) 23% “Peter Bogdanovich must harbor some weird inner hostility for Cole Porter and sophisticated 1930s musicals. This is the only plausible explanation for the inept and tiresome "At Long Last Love"” – Hartford Courant Mar 25, 2025 Full Review Tommy (1975) 71% “Tommy is a dazzling, exciting, sometimes garish, sometimes grandiloquent trip.” – Hartford Courant Mar 18, 2025 Full Review Do the Right Thing (1989) 92% 4/4 “While this depiction of spontaneous combustion on a summer night has already provoked controversy from those who ask whether Lee has done the right thing, no one can deny that as a filmmaker he has done his thing right.” – Hartford Courant Mar 18, 2025 Full Review Report to the Commissioner (1975) 55% “The obligatory chase sequences are really absurd, almost Keystone Kop stuff.” – Hartford Courant Mar 12, 2025 Full Review The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) 61% “George Roy Hill's direction seems caught between the impulse to get a laugh and the innate seriousness of William Goldman's screenplay.” – Hartford Courant Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Back to School (1986) 81% 2/4 “At the beginning [of the film], it's terribly funny in its own loud, vulgar way. And though its middle is on the flabby side, it comes back stoutheartedly in its final scenes.” – Hartford Courant Feb 27, 2025 Full Review Nashville (1975) 89% “A constantly absorbing, but rarely surprising movie that says a lot of things about country music people and maybe something about Bicentennial America as well. But the masterpiece of the decade it isn't.” – Hartford Courant Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% “Visual beauty is all very well, but when it is unrelieved by a dramatic impetus, it seems merely empty prettiness.” – Hartford Courant Feb 25, 2025 Full Review The Breakfast Club (1985) 87% “Hughes' new film is an admirable experiment that scores high in aptitude and attitude.” – Hartford Courant Feb 14, 2025 Full Review Scream 2 (1997) 82% “Surpasses the original hit shocker in ingenuity, wit, and sustained suspence. ” – Hartford Courant Feb 5, 2025 Full Review
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