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Wallace Baine

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Hercules (1997) 83% B+ “Hercules will probably not be remembered as one of Disney's greatest films. But that is only because it is following in the steps of immortals. Still, the new toon is funny, smart, imaginative and vividly realized. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Dec 18, 2024 Full Review The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) 80% B+ “What makes this claptrap plotting work so wonderfully, however, is Disney's approach, a dark and seductive panorama that brims with subtext. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Pocahontas (1995) 58% C “There is nothing wrong per se with Pocahontas. Disney's only mistake is that it made the same movie -- and made it better -- back in 1989.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Little Women (1994) 92% “Little Women connects us to the brand of American idealism common in the days before media culture, a piece of art with an undisguised purpose to educate, enlighten and inspire. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Apr 10, 2024 Full Review Almost Famous (2000) 91% A “Crowe's eye-popping success with Jerry Maguire gave him a blank check with the studio suits. He's used it to make a heartfelt memoir of an era too often not given its due.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 92% B+ “Eventually, "Four Weddings" succumbs to the kind of soggy self-obsession and trumped-up dramatics of most love stories. But it doesn't dim the luster of the revelation that is Hugh Grant's performance.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Feb 28, 2024 Full Review Amélie (2001) 90% A “You can pass on the cakes and cookies this holiday season, but indulge in the crème brulee of "Amelie." It hits the spot.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Feb 13, 2024 Full Review Quiz Show (1994) 97% A “Wonderful subtext and crisscrossing themes make this an Oscar contender.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Feb 10, 2024 Full Review Smoke Signals (1998) 90% A- “If Alexie's intention is to fight back a century's worth of negative stereotyping, he does it with humor, grace and an appealing sense of self-deprecation.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Nov 8, 2023 Full Review The Exorcist (1973) 78% A “William Friedkin's disturbing drama set the standard for Satanic themes in movies for years and some of the exorcism images quickly became pop-culture shorthand. See it, if you haven't, but don't eat pea soup beforehand. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Sep 28, 2023 Full Review Y tu mamá también (2001) 90% A- “This is a movie that bristles with spontaneity and brims with subtext.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Sep 9, 2023 Full Review Mulholland Dr. (2001) 84% B “Much of the film unfolds in satisfying fashion as a compelling mystery of dark allure set amongst the much-maligned environment of Hollywood. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Jul 11, 2023 Full Review The Truman Show (1998) 94% A “Post-O.J., post-Diana, a scenario like The Truman Show becomes a more and more vivid reminder that media realities, however true-to-life, are contrived realities and our thirst for vicarious thrills trumps our respect for other's dignity.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Feb 8, 2023 Full Review The Big Lebowski (1998) 80% C+ “The burden of being Hollywood's hippest filmmakers looks to be weighing heavily on the Coen brothers. After Fargo, "Lebowski" is a return to the overly manner film-nerd humor of The Hudsucker Proxy. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Jan 24, 2023 Full Review Braveheart (1995) 76% A- “Braveheart is an astonishing spectacle of blood and heart, a virile and punishing epic, less interested in historical relevance than in grandiose myth-making. ” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Nov 18, 2022 Full Review Gladiator (2000) 80% C “Gladiator is a cynical exercise. It gives historical legitimacy to a pageant of mayhem every bit as ritualized as professional wrestling. It's loud, bloody and empty. The crowds will love it.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Nov 1, 2022 Full Review Addams Family Values (1993) 75% B- “Moviegoers, even those put off by the original, are likely to find Addams Family Values entertaining and humorous. But it could have been so much more so, if, for instance, the other Addamses were given roles as juicy as that given to Wednesday.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Sep 21, 2022 Full Review Mississippi Masala (1991) 92% 4/4 “It is a powerful and provocative film that examines love in the context of family, culture and prejudice presented in an appealing, naturalistic style.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Apr 15, 2022 Full Review Titanic (1997) 88% A- “Titanic was expected to be impressive. It is, friends, much more than that. It attains a state of humbling majesty, evoking with a sense of unashamed grandeur a terribly out-of-style but vital emotion, awe.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Mar 17, 2022 Full Review I Like It Like That (1994) 89% B+ “Like It is a richly textured story of Lisette's struggle to set herself apart from the soul-sapping entropy of her surroundings, often to comic effect.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Mar 2, 2022 Full Review L.A. Confidential (1997) 99% A “I loved this movie and respected its just-right blend of art and entertainment. Its lack of ironic self-consciousness and its insistence that its heroes be imperfect men of imperfect justice make this an exquisite noir experience.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Oct 20, 2021 Full Review Clueless (1995) 81% B+ “This is meant to be a light-hearted well-written spoof and on those terms it succeeds.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Mar 15, 2021 Full Review American History X (1998) 84% A- “One of the year's more absorbing films.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Mar 25, 2020 Full Review In the Cut (2003) 35% C+ “I never found myself relaxed watching In the Cut. There is a pat, color-by-numbers quality to the inherent whodunit and the urban backdrop feels gratuitous and empty,” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Apr 1, 2019 Full Review The Cable Guy (1996) 56% B- “Those who like enjoy seeing performers open up their ids in the name of comedy might get a kick out of Carrey's spooky malevolence. Others, however, enter at their own risk.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel Mar 11, 2019 Full Review
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