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Bill Cosford

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My Bloody Valentine (1981) 37% EDIT “My Bloody Valentine is just plain messy.” – Miami Herald Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Misery (1990) 87% 3/4 EDIT “Bates can take her murderous shrieks to mewls of contrition in the space of a scene. She's great fun to watch.” – Miami Herald Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “The movie has a good feeling about it. But it's badly written, too.” – Miami Herald Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Tough Guys (1986) 47% 2/4 EDIT “It's too flimsy, and we're left with two stars in search of a story.” – Miami Herald Jan 12, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% 3/4 EDIT “[The cast] all give the film a certain heat, if not weight. It's fun to watch them go through the genre paces and fun, as Hollywood courtroom dramas usually are, waiting for justice to be served, however imperfectly. ” – Miami Herald Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Sure Thing (1985) 84% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's nicely made and well-acted, and it is a bauble nonetheless.” – Miami Herald Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “The Princess Bride has pretty much everything the modern fairy tale requires, plus jokes. It's an unexpected pleasure, as sweetly unassuming as it is late-nite hip.” – Miami Herald Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% 3/4 EDIT “It's all very Spielbergian. This most maligned of Hollywood's big names probably couldn't have made a bad movie about Peter Pan if he tried. Hook looks wonderful.” – Miami Herald Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Christine (1983) 72% 2.5/4 EDIT “Carpenter gets just enough style into the picture.” – Miami Herald Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Big Top Pee-wee (1988) 31% 2/4 EDIT “The sublime surrealism of Pee-wee's original digs is gone -- and with it, most of the grown-up laughs.” – Miami Herald Dec 11, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% 3.5/4 EDIT “The Abyss rolls along, a collection of wonderfully persuasive sets and props and dazzling effects work.” – Miami Herald Dec 10, 2025 Full Review The Terminator (1984) 90% 2.5/4 EDIT “Fast, well made and utterly inconsequential -- The Terminator is a vintage "B," and it's good to know that Hollywood can still crank them out.” – Miami Herald Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Piranha II: The Spawning (1981) 4% 1/4 EDIT “The bog problem here is the fish, which are hard to produce in menacing numbers on a small budget. ” – Miami Herald Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Predator 2 (1990) 36% 2.5/4 EDIT “There's not a dull moment in the thing, and it's dumb as dirt. But who can resist?” – Miami Herald Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Dracula (1979) 64% EDIT “There isn't much at stake here, as it were, but what's been filmed is handsome and played with charisma -- a fine movie.” – Miami Herald Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Re-Animator (1985) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “The special effects here are remarkable.” – Miami Herald Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% EDIT “The first film since John Sayles' Lianna to make a grown-up view of lesbian characters. ” – Miami Herald Oct 12, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “The principal performances by Gordon Warnecke and Daniel Day Lewis are first-rate. Lean and intelligent throughout, and often darkly funny. ” – Miami Herald Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Tron (1982) 60% 3/4 EDIT “Considerable effort has gone to making the fantasy bits of TRON connect, however loosely, with the presumed relationship of man to computer, and there is not a character or a sequence of action that seems to be pure fancy.” – Miami Herald Oct 1, 2025 Full Review This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 98% 3.5/4 EDIT “The details are right and the performances are perfect.” – Miami Herald Sep 4, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% 2/4 EDIT “It's goofy, and it's mean, but Darkman isn't nearly enough of either.” – Miami Herald Aug 25, 2025 Full Review The Return of the Living Dead (1985) 71% 2.5/4 EDIT “The whole point is excess, and O'Bannon's good at getting to that point.” – Miami Herald Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) 78% 2.5/4 EDIT “Behind the persona there are some bizarre gags, and some sublime ones, and a great many send-ups of genre movie conventions.” – Miami Herald Jul 30, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% 3.5/4 EDIT “As usual, Leslie Nielsen delivers comic turns of deadpan perfection.” – Miami Herald Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Superman III (1983) 31% 3/4 EDIT “The charm of the movie, on the other hand, is that it plays like a good 25-cent read; it's the best movie comic book since Popeye.” – Miami Herald Jul 8, 2025 Full Review
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