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Betsy Sherman

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Under Age (1941) EDIT “Under Age trumpets its benevolence in exposing a racket, but it’s too sketchy to have more than camp value. ” – Arts Fuse Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Three Wise Girls (1932) EDIT “Jean Harlow, on loan from M-G-M, doffs her usual bombshell persona and winningly plays a gal with scruples.” – Arts Fuse Nov 7, 2025 Full Review None Shall Escape (1944) EDIT “The chiaroscuro cinematography draws viewers in.” – Arts Fuse Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Address Unknown (1944) EDIT “The uniformly good cast is led by Paul Lukas.” – Arts Fuse Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Let Us Live (1939) EDIT “As it stands, the film seems rushed and without sufficient connective tissue. ” – Arts Fuse Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932) EDIT “Despite Tracy’s vigorous performance, Washington Merry-Go-Round is fatally ham-fisted. Whatever potency it musters is dissipated by its tendency to stop dead in its tracks so Button can make a speech. ” – Arts Fuse Nov 7, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% EDIT “The ungentle but fundamentally empathetic dark-comic drama looks at a woman flailing through a personal and family crisis. It features a brilliantly agile performance by Rose Byrne that’s also something of an endurance test.” – Arts Fuse Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% 3/4 EDIT “A wicked good time for all ages.” – The Improper Bostonian Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Mortal Kombat (1995) 44% EDIT “The result has a pleasing, unpretentious B-movie verve, putting a new sheen on the old-time Saturday-matinee serial. ” – Boston Globe Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Waterworld (1995) 60% 2/4 EDIT “Not horrible, not wonderful...” – The Improper Bostonian Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Filmlovers! (2024) 100% EDIT “It’s a bit of a swervy ride, but the subject matter is worthy. ” – Arts Fuse Jul 25, 2025 Full Review Babe (1995) 98% EDIT “[George Miller] and writer-director Chris Noonan convey novelist Dick King-Smith's can't-we-all-get-along message without sermonizing, and with a wonderful tongue-in-cheek edge.” – Boston Globe Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Apollo 13 (1995) 94% 2.5/4 EDIT “The nuts and bolts and jargon involved in the safe return of the Apollo 13 astronauts from their ill-fated to the moon are fascinating, but the character development hits a brick wall.” – The Improper Bostonian Jun 25, 2025 Full Review The Next Karate Kid (1994) 20% EDIT “Swank is graceful, strong and expressive, and makes Julie's transition believable. ” – Boston Globe May 29, 2025 Full Review A Goofy Movie (1995) 64% EDIT “...overall, the scripting is sharp and emotionally satisfying. Technically, the movie is exhilarating, with rich visual inventiveness, splashy colors and movement that is lively without being frantic. ” – Boston Globe Mar 31, 2025 Full Review Bob Trevino Likes It (2024) 95% EDIT “Jones and Leguizamo... have an easy rapport, and the device of snapshots for the scrapbooks gives them a believable past. She endows Jeanie with warmth, and also an elusive quality. ” – Arts Fuse Mar 31, 2025 Full Review Beetlejuice (1988) 83% EDIT “The makers of Beetlejuice manage to go beyond pastiche and succeed in creating a unique, wacked-out world. ” – Boston Globe Aug 21, 2024 Full Review The Wings of the Dove (1997) 85% 2.5/4 EDIT “This adaptation of one of Henry James’s most psychologically rich novels works on its own lighter terms -- although those terms arguably rip away the very forces that motivate the James characters.” – The Improper Bostonian Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “This intense and darkly rollicking documentary portrait of a troubled artist is in the heartwarming tradition of Crumb.” – The Improper Bostonian Aug 6, 2024 Full Review John Grisham's The Rainmaker (1997) 82% 1.5/4 EDIT “Happily this time people will discover our hometown boy Matt Damon, who gives a superb lead performance in an unfortunately mediocre property. ” – The Improper Bostonian Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) 50% 3/4 EDIT “This thriller set in Savannah, Georgia, has enough juicy intrigue to recommend it. But it's got some fault-line flaws that director Clint Eastwood ignores to weave his local-color tapestry.” – The Improper Bostonian Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Kiss or Kill (1997) 84% 2.5/4 EDIT “Diverting, but hardly a classic.” – The Improper Bostonian Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Alien Resurrection (1997) 56% 2.5/4 EDIT “It has refreshingly sick and twisted humor, bold retro-futurist art direction, adequate gore and a talented cast. Yet its splashes of entertainment don't join up into a coherent narrative; it's sadly sloppy on the story front.” – The Improper Bostonian Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Mission: Impossible (1996) 67% 1.5/4 EDIT “What should have been a finely honed spy thriller is on Cruise-control in more ways than one. Or maybe the impossible mission is expecting a coherent movie from director Brian “Setpieces ’R’ Us” De Palma anymore.” – The Improper Bostonian Jul 15, 2024 Full Review A Modern Affair (1995) 1.5/4 EDIT “This twist on the romantic comedy genre by Vem Oakley suffers from an agonizingly slow pace and an unnecessarily annoying heroine.” – The Improper Bostonian Jul 15, 2024 Full Review
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