Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
83%
B+
“There's a swashbuckling spirit revived, with characters that are mostly returned to the behaviors that made us admire them in the first place.” –
Tampa Bay Times
Apr 25, 2025
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
93%
B
“The Empire Strikes Back is one of the few films that ever let the bad guys have the upper hand, but it's an empty, vaguely masochistic experience watching these flesh-and-blood action heroes ache and squirm.” –
Tampa Bay Times
Apr 23, 2025
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
94%
A
“We've become so desensitized to the hype of movie merchandising that it's easy to forget what a wonderful experience Star Wars was, before the moneychangers took over. ” –
Tampa Bay Times
Apr 22, 2025
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
54%
“If moviegoers locate that balance that Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are always chatting about, between the dark side of commercialism and the light of genius, the series is safe.” –
Tampa Bay Times
Apr 16, 2025
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The Wedding Banquet (1993)
92%
A
“The Wedding Banquet is an exquisite comedy, brimming with simple human decency and more belly laughs than any comedy I've seen this year.” –
Tampa Bay Times
Apr 15, 2025
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American Psycho (2000)
68%
F
“Bale is an actor without much personality in a role demanding even less.” –
Tampa Bay Times
Apr 4, 2025
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Scream 3 (2000)
43%
B
“Throughout the series, Craven changed the rules of slasher films to gleeful anarchy, in a trilogy that actually improved from start to finish. ” –
Tampa Bay Times
Feb 20, 2025
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Scream 2 (1997)
82%
B
“The results are stronger ironic humor and a more convincing delivery. ” –
Tampa Bay Times
Feb 6, 2025
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Tarzan (1999)
90%
B
“Tarzan is fun, in a temporary fashion, but it isn't special, either. This movie has an air of emotional disposability rivaled only by Pocahontas in the pecking order of modern Disney animation.” –
Tampa Bay Times
Dec 20, 2024
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Mulan (1998)
92%
A-
“When you see the Walt Disney Pictures animation wizards working near the top of their game like this, you wonder why any other studio ever tries to muscle into their territory.” –
Tampa Bay Times
Dec 20, 2024
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The Lion King (1994)
93%
A
“The most contemplative drama Disney ever committed to cels -- the daring act of a studio growing up with the world around it. ” –
Tampa Bay Times
Dec 19, 2024
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
80%
A
“This is often a stunning, even groundbreaking, piece of work that can only be compared to Beauty and the Beast with its breathtaking detail and atmospheric shadows and light. ” –
Tampa Bay Times
Dec 18, 2024
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Pocahontas (1995)
58%
“Disney has created the first anti-animation movie, in which all of the fantasy flourishes that worked so well in the past are muted into dirt-brown dull.” –
Tampa Bay Times
Dec 17, 2024
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Twister (1996)
67%
B-
“You name it, and Mother Nature's helpers at Industrial Light and Magic smash it up real good.” –
Tampa Bay Times
Jul 16, 2024
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Planet of the Apes (2001)
43%
B+
“Exactly what this mediocre summer movie season needs. Something fresher than dinosaurs and edgier than talking pets and cartoons. Something familiar enough to make us buy tickets, yet original enough to feel the money was well-spent.” –
Tampa Bay Times
May 1, 2024
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Little Women (1994)
92%
B+
“The slim story's anchor is Jo March, a fiercely independent achingly insecure bundle of promise played with shimmering vitality by Winona Ryder. ” –
Tampa Bay Times
Apr 11, 2024
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Seven (1995)
84%
C-
“Did anyone else believe that M온라인카지노추천-video veteran David Fincher ruined his feature film career when it started?... Apparently not the honchos at New Line Cinema, who handed Fincher an interesting, grisly idea for a movie, then allowed him to bury it.” –
Tampa Bay Times
Mar 29, 2024
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Almost Famous (2000)
91%
A
“This movie splashes a toast of Jack Daniels on the grave, scribbling graffiti optimism on the tombstone: Rock is dead. Long live rock. ” –
Tampa Bay Times
Mar 26, 2024
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
89%
B-
“Robbins and Freeman are a wonderful polar pairing; young and old, white and black, minimalist and expressionist actors. Watching Andy and Red's wary friendship blossom through these performers is the best aspect of Darabont's film.” –
Tampa Bay Times
Mar 4, 2024
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
92%
A+
“Nothing you've ever seen on screen fully prepares you for the audacious ferocity of Quentin Tarantino's pitch-black comedy Pulp Fiction.” –
Tampa Bay Times
Mar 1, 2024
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Forrest Gump (1994)
75%
A-
“Forrest Gump isn't a movie for cynics. Instead, it's one of those rare films that seduces viewers into overlooking its faults with the sheer goodness of its heart.” –
Tampa Bay Times
Mar 1, 2024
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Amélie (2001)
90%
C
“Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film was all the rage in Paris and shunned by the Cannes Film Festival, where elitist selection committee members deemed it too lightweight for inclusion. Sometimes those elitist types know what there talking about.” –
Tampa Bay Times
Feb 13, 2024
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Quiz Show (1994)
97%
A
“Quiz Show is that rare film that manages to be simultaneously provocative and entertaining. But its greatest accomplishment will be if viewers walk away contemplating our continuing erosion of values.” –
Tampa Bay Times
Feb 13, 2024
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Mean Girls (2004)
84%
B+
“Mean Girls contains more than its share of recognition laughs for students, teachers and parents -- all of whom take turns as targets of the humor. ” –
Tampa Bay Times
Jan 9, 2024
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Heat (1995)
83%
C
“Pacino and De Niro don't need gunpowder to heat up a screen, just something more inspiring than Heat. Those guys should make a movie together sometime.” –
Tampa Bay Times
Dec 21, 2023
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