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Sheila Johnston

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The Wedding Banquet (1993) 92% “Although it's very plainly short -- the real pleasure is in the subtle minutely-observed characterisations.” – Independent (UK) Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Do the Right Thing (1989) 92% “The strengths of Do the Right Thing lie firstly in its stylishness - its brash energy, its bright, primary palette, its technical virtuosity...and, secondly, in Lee's moral generosity.” – Independent (UK) Mar 20, 2025 Full Review Funny Man (1994) “The story quickly degenerates into coarse, repetitive stuff. ” – Independent (UK) Dec 19, 2024 Full Review Mina Tannenbaum (1993) “A bright, unpredictable piece, with dollops of fantasy and fast changes of mood, although it adds up to less than the sum of its parts. ” – Independent (UK) Dec 19, 2024 Full Review The Lion King (1994) 93% “For all the surface sense of fun and brio, great tracts of the film are reactionary drivel of a high order. ” – Independent (UK) Dec 19, 2024 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (1991) 95% “If political correctness is a turn-off, there's plenty more to commend this, from the animation to the sophisticated adult lyrics.” – Independent (UK) Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Mannequin: On the Move (1991) 12% “A valueless sequel to the valueless 1987 comedy Mannequin and similarly targeted at those who like their women blank, passive and none too bright.” – Independent (UK) Dec 14, 2024 Full Review Femme Fatale (1991) “An unintentionally comic maelstrom of drugs, pornography, lesbianism, schizophrenia and experimental art.” – Independent (UK) Dec 14, 2024 Full Review Chattahoochee (1989) 9% “The film is hard to lock into, however, partly because it's shot in a low-key drama-documentary style, but mainly because its muffled storyline bears the marks of severe re-editing. ” – Independent (UK) Dec 14, 2024 Full Review Doc Hollywood (1991) 66% “Doc Hollywood is directed by a Brit but remains at heart one of Los Angeles's periodic half-hearted diatribes against itself.” – Independent (UK) Dec 14, 2024 Full Review City Slickers (1991) 87% “The film's rot sets in when the meaning of life appears on the horizon and all is lost by the time that Crystal helps to birth Norman, a baby calf.” – Independent (UK) Dec 14, 2024 Full Review The Rescuers Down Under (1990) 85% “This is a sequel to the 1977 Disney cartoon, and vastly superior... The craftsmanship is of a high standard, including some breathtaking flying sequences; the message immaculately Green.” – Independent (UK) Dec 14, 2024 Full Review Def Jam's How to Be a Player (1997) 14% “The sexual politics of this shrill, dim-witted yarn would have looked passé in the blaxploitation films of the early 1970s.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 6, 2024 Full Review 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997) 7% “A mixture of screeching farce and grinding puns.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 6, 2024 Full Review The Myth of Fingerprints (1997) 64% “It's a performance-driven piece, competently if unspectacularly orchestrated by the first-time writer-director Bart Freundlich into a series of minor insights, which deliberately steer away from catharsis. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Alien Resurrection (1997) 55% “One suspects that Jeunet's ideas have been diluted by studio intervention; after a promising start, his overlong third act dwindles into routine tracts of running and screaming.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 6, 2024 Full Review All Men Are Mortal (1995) “In short it has, and unerringly combines, all the ingredients for disaster.” – Independent (UK) Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Four Rooms (1995) 13% “No one at all seems to have directed Tim Roth who, as the bellhop linking the segments, tries to do a Jerry Lewis and ends up with a twitching, mugging, achingly unfunny performance that he will come to regard as an embarrassment.” – Independent (UK) Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Something to Talk About (1995) 33% “Contains the occasional barb -- mainly from Kyra Sedgwick, who steals the film as Roberts' tart-tongued sister. But Roberts herself is a drip, and it's a dull story.” – Independent (UK) Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Seven (1995) 84% “The film belongs to Freeman and his quiet, carefully detailed portrayal of the jaded older man who learns not to give up the fight.” – Independent (UK) Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Beijing Bastards (1993) “It makes meticulous use of framing, lighting and sound effects, but the net impression is of inertia: the characters are bored with each other and we're bored with them.” – Independent (UK) Feb 12, 2024 Full Review The River Wild (1994) 63% “The film is energetically directed by Curtis Hanson, and it's certainly a refreshing change to see an action heroine at the helm, bossing all the men about.” – Independent (UK) Feb 12, 2024 Full Review Quiz Show (1994) 97% “If Quiz Show works, it's as a character-driven piece: at root it's something both less and more than yet another treatise on what went wrong with America -- it's that ancient perenniel, the Oedipal struggle.” – Independent (UK) Feb 12, 2024 Full Review When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) 69% “It's a tough story that has to steer through too many U-turns in order to leave us feeling good.” – Independent (UK) Aug 31, 2023 Full Review The Secret of My Success (1987) 48% “The latest in a line of American films endorsing the merits of being worldly, ruthless and rich, it wears its heartlessness proudly on its sleeve. ” – Independent (UK) Mar 29, 2023 Full Review
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