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C.H.U.D. (1984) 41% “However tawdry and inexcusable the whole project... the director, writer and actors have still managed to cram a certain amount of intelligence and humor into the plotholes.” – L.A. Weekly May 11, 2025 Full Review The Breakfast Club (1985) 87% “The movie is too crafty for its own good; its mixed ambitions often self-destruct... That doesn't mean that, in many ways, it's not a good movie, or that Hughes and his collaborators don't show a lot of talent and intelligence.” – Los Angeles Times Feb 14, 2025 Full Review Mulan (1998) 92% 3/4 “Highly accomplished, slick as a whistle and sometimes dazzlingly entertaining, this new Disney animated feature is a modernized version of a Chinese legend.” – Chicago Tribune Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Hercules (1997) 83% 3.5/4 “Packed with Olympian delights and Herculean feats of animation, snapping with live-wire wit and wisecracks, Hercules is one of the funniest and most purely entertaining of all the recent Disney cartoon features.” – Chicago Tribune Dec 18, 2024 Full Review The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) 80% 3.5/4 “Except for Toy Story, Disney's hasn't really made a first-class scary movie -- on the level of Dumbo, Bambi or Pinocchio -- during its recent renaissance. The Hunchback of Notre Dame comes close, ringing the bells for adults if not their kids.” – Chicago Tribune Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Pocahontas (1995) 58% 3/4 “If Pocahontas had appeared before The Little Mermaid, it would have seemed like a revelation.” – Chicago Tribune Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Girls Town (1996) 81% 1.5/4 “At its best, Girls Town has a scalding vigor and spontaneity, a real sense of the streets. At its worst -- which is far too often -- it's just as shallow, violent and cliché-ridden as the big-budget movies whose excesses its makers want to correct.” – Chicago Tribune Nov 14, 2024 Full Review Alien Resurrection (1997) 55% 2.5/4 “Whatever points the movie gets for its spectacular design and amazing cinematography are frequently sacrificed to inane dialogue and absurd plot twists.” – Chicago Tribune Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Alien 3 (1992) 44% “It does succeed in rounding the three movies off, not smashingly but interestingly. It drives us into the wall, throws Ripley into a blind alley from which, at last, there is no escape hatch.” – Los Angeles Times Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Twister (1996) 67% 3.5/4 “It's a grand, thrilling subject. But the movie doesn't really treat its theme seriously. Instead, as directed by Jan De Bont and co-written and co-produced by Michael Crichton, Twister is unabashed entertainment, an undemanding, full-speed-ahead joyride.” – Chicago Tribune Jul 16, 2024 Full Review I Think I Do (1997) 42% 1.5/4 “Screwball comedy may be the source of some crown jewels of the American cinema, but the low-budget, low-inspiration American indie romp I Think I Do is a pasteboard geegaw.” – Chicago Tribune Apr 17, 2024 Full Review Spaceballs (1987) 52% “Some of the gags in Spaceballs are screamingly funny. Some are mildly amusing. Others seem forced, pokey or deliberately, of course flatulent.” – Los Angeles Times Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Showgirls (1995) 23% 2.5/4 “Director Verhoeven, a brilliant moviemaker, keeps punching Showgirls across with such galvanizing speed and vitality, such roaring movement and dazzling visuals, that you're continually sucked into every scene, even the stupidest ones.” – Chicago Tribune Mar 27, 2024 Full Review Almost Famous (2000) 91% 4/4 “It rocks hard and sweetly, making that past live and sing for us. I loved this movie madly, and so will many of you.” – Chicago Tribune Mar 26, 2024 Full Review The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 89% 3.5/4 “The Shawshank Redemption may be working with stuff we've seen before, but it's surprisingly strong and engrossing. Even elitists in the audience who dismiss King as a shock schlockmeister may be amazed at this picture's narrative grip.” – Chicago Tribune Mar 4, 2024 Full Review Dune (1984) 36% “Brilliant as Lynch and his collaborators often are, one has to mine out the cinematic gems and moments of wonder and awe here -- like the precious water concealed below Arrakis' sandy surface. ” – Los Angeles Times Feb 14, 2024 Full Review Quiz Show (1994) 97% 3.5/4 “The movie hums, purrs and shines. But it's also full of contradictions. A big budget picture about mass media fakery that's somewhat rigged itself, a docudrama that stretches the facts, an exposé on class prejudice that almost succumbs to [that] vice.” – Chicago Tribune Feb 13, 2024 Full Review Grease (1978) 66% 3/4 “On a big screen, with all the colors shiny and new, and Travolta and Newton-John looking just like they did when they were teenagers, in their 20s. Greasy kid stuff it may all be, but just like rock 'n' roll, it'll probably never die. ” – Chicago Tribune Feb 1, 2024 Full Review Goodfellas (1990) 94% “It's staggering: a feast of virtuoso Steadicam tracking shots, ironically pell-mell editing, and a mix of baroque visual satire, off-key realism, and brilliant, scabrous dialogue that elevates gutter badinage to the high verbal style of a Jacobean drama.” – Isthmus (Madison, WI) Oct 18, 2023 Full Review Taxi Driver (1976) 89% 4/4 “Made with feverish intensity by its white-hot, mostly young cast and crew, this is a film that can ravish, amuse and terrify you by turns.” – Chicago Tribune Oct 5, 2023 Full Review Shocker (1989) 30% “Ever since he directed the first “Nightmare on Elm Street” in 1984, abandoning the sequels to others, Craven may be haunted by the fact that he made what many regard as the single scariest genre horror movie of the decade.” – Los Angeles Times Sep 5, 2023 Full Review When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) 69% 3/4 “Andy Garcia conveys an almost glacial calm and fortitude beneath which a reservoir of boiling rage consistently seems to simmer.” – Chicago Tribune Sep 1, 2023 Full Review The Last Boy Scout (1991) 46% “A story about lonely heroism in a sick age should be a little hipper to what’s really heroic and what’s really sick.” – Los Angeles Times Aug 4, 2023 Full Review La Haine (1995) 96% 3.5/4 “Hate is a blast of movie outrage, a genuine shocker. ” – Chicago Tribune Jul 20, 2023 Full Review Mapantsula (1988) 100% “The film starts as a racy gangster melodrama with an unusually pungent low-life city background, then builds inexorably to a moral reckoning, a ferocious, unforgettable denouement.” – Los Angeles Times Jun 30, 2023 Full Review
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