Scott Rosenberg
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Aladdin (1992)
96%
3/4
“Williams has loaned his voice to the Genie in the ancient tale. But even more distinctively, he has loaned his quicksilver spirit to the character -- and it in turn gives everything else in the film a giddy lift.” –
San Francisco Examiner
Dec 16, 2024
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Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
69%
2.5/4
“Bram Stoker's Dracula strives for operatic grandeur. But the lushness feels forced; it's at odds with the nocturnal astringency of Stoker's writing.” –
San Francisco Examiner
Sep 26, 2024
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Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
92%
2.5/4
“Four Weddings and a Funeral could use more of Atkinson's comic spirit. But what really prevents the film from achieving the kind of touching amusement it aims at is MacDowell's ungainly performance.” –
San Francisco Examiner
Feb 29, 2024
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
92%
2/4
“Pulp Fiction's bursts of ingenuity and wit are swimming in a big pool of screen time that's been awfully casually frittered away.” –
San Francisco Examiner
Feb 29, 2024
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Dune (1984)
36%
“In cramming a 500-page novel into a 140-million film, Lynch has salvaged the names and faces of Dune but lost its ideas, its social resonance, even its suspense. ” –
Boston Phoenix
Feb 14, 2024
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The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
88%
2/4
“What stirred the soul of Michael Mann, chronicler of today's alienated urban criminals and their equally alienated opponents, to undertake this grand but ultimately foolish project about an alienated wilderness hero from two centuries ago?” –
San Francisco Examiner
Dec 15, 2023
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The Day After (1983)
86%
“It blends right in with the surrounding mediocrities on the 온라인카지노추천 schedule; and once you let it into your living room, it will turn off the lights, block the exits, and proceed to dismember your psychological defenses. ” –
Boston Phoenix
Nov 22, 2023
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Heavenly Creatures (1994)
95%
“Jackson plainly remembers what it's like to be a teenager. ” –
San Francisco Examiner
May 15, 2023
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Army of Darkness (1992)
68%
2/4
“It sounds better in concept than in execution. It's not that Raimi has run out of cheerily spectacular effects and giddily dumb jokes... The trouble with the movie is that it parades its own lameness without ever finding a way to transcend it. ” –
San Francisco Examiner
Mar 31, 2023
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Groundhog Day (1993)
94%
3/4
“Groundhog Day could have been a dull one-joke film, but Murray and Ramis make it work by doggedly pursuing the implications of their outlandish premise. ” –
San Francisco Examiner
Dec 21, 2022
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Addams Family Values (1993)
75%
3/4
“It joins the select roster of sequels that defy the natural half-life of inspiration and somehow surpass their predecessors in quality... You won't mistake it for art, but you'll probably be tickled ghastly. ” –
San Francisco Examiner
Sep 22, 2022
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Amadeus (1984)
90%
“Forman's film is an improvement on Shaffer's play, but wherever Amadeus turns up, in whatever medium, it's a poor excuse for art. ” –
Boston Phoenix
Jul 11, 2022
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El Mariachi (1992)
91%
2.5/4
“Rodriguez makes his limitations serve the film: The underpopulated landscape has a poetic feel, and the jittery hand-held shots add to the tension.” –
San Francisco Examiner
Sep 8, 2021
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Schindler's List (1993)
98%
3.5/4
“A thoughtful, rigorous and thereby moving piece of work.” –
San Francisco Examiner
Apr 14, 2021
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Bhaji on the Beach (1993)
88%
3/4
“Meera Syal's screenplay treads lightly through such potential melodramas, finding surprises and contradictions that add depth to' their colorful surfaces.” –
San Francisco Examiner
Mar 18, 2021
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The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
77%
2.5/4
“Little Jo is resolutely unsensationalistic about its material... Yet the movie's earnestness is also its biggest flaw: Writer-director Maggie Greenwald's manner is more that of a bright sociologist than that of a creative storyteller.” –
San Francisco Examiner
Mar 18, 2021
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Starship Troopers (1997)
72%
“Lacks the courage of the book's fascist conclusions.” –
Salon.com
May 29, 2002
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I Am Cuba (1964)
100%
“It still has power to surprise and, occasionally, to enchant.” –
San Francisco Examiner
Feb 21, 2001
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Living in Oblivion (1995)
86%
“A smart, funny send-up of the trials and joys of filming on big egos and low budgets - subjects that writer-director Tom DiCillo and his collaborators presumably know first-hand.” –
San Francisco Examiner
Jan 1, 2000
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Small Soldiers (1998)
50%
4/5
“Fortunately, it's possible to ignore the morals entirely and simply enjoy the filmmakers' skill at creating carefully contained mayhem in a microcosm.” –
Salon.com
Jan 1, 2000
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Death and the Maiden (1994)
82%
2/4
“The lesson shapes the drama, rather than arising from it.” –
San Francisco Examiner
Jan 1, 2000
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
42%
“Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has its loopy appeal, and anyone with a taste for gore or Gothic will get at least one or two galvanic kicks out of it. But there's a deep psychological void at the film's center.” –
San Francisco Free Press
Jan 1, 2000
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The Fifth Element (1997)
71%
“As you sit through the interminable two-hours-plus that constitute The Fifth Element -- a colossally stupid, overbearingly pompous new movie by Luc Besson -- you can expect to become acquainted with boredom on the most elemental level.” –
Salon.com
Jan 1, 2000
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Something to Talk About (1995)
33%
2/4
“Director Lasse Hallstrom glazes the film with too much faux bluegrass music, and the equine fantasy-world of the King Ranch is so enveloping that it suffocates all aspirations to more serious drama.” –
San Francisco Examiner
Jan 1, 2000
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Losing Isaiah (1995)
45%
2/4
“Losing Isaiah raises hopes for itself by dealing with a social issue as a disturbing dilemma rather than, in typical Hollywood style, as a heroic cause. But it's unwilling to follow through.” –
San Francisco Examiner
Jan 1, 2000
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