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Bruce Bailey

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My Bloody Valentine (1981) 54% EDIT “The film's main problem, apart from an awkward script, is that it's just not tenable.” – Montreal Gazette Jan 28, 2026 Full Review The Sure Thing (1985) 84% EDIT “It's a passable, fairly amusing piece of work.” – Montreal Gazette Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% 3.5/5 EDIT “This charming and gently humorous excursion into the land of monsters and stereotypes is one of the more palatable things ever made for the dread "children of all ages."” – Montreal Gazette Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Running Man (1987) 59% 2/5 EDIT “It's sometimes fast-moving fun, with some striking surreal touches.” – Montreal Gazette Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% 3.5/5 EDIT “The film is brilliant at capturing the extraordinary trepidation with which Cay must feel out of the situation. ” – Montreal Gazette Oct 12, 2025 Full Review Tron (1982) 60% 2.5/5 EDIT “It's as soulless as Pac-Man.” – Montreal Gazette Oct 6, 2025 Full Review This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 98% 3.5/5 EDIT “All the jokes in this spoof are delivered in a well-timed, off-the-cuff fashion -- and that goes a long way toward lending authenticity to the film's decidedly black slant on the music.” – Montreal Gazette Sep 9, 2025 Full Review High and Low (1963) 97% 3/5 EDIT “The film doesn't hesitate to move in on the question of whether one's social responsibility extends outside of one's immediate family. But the film also stands up as an ordinary, down-to-earth police drama.” – Montreal Gazette Aug 13, 2025 Full Review The Return of the Living Dead (1985) 71% 1/5 EDIT “The macabre jokes wear rather thin after a half-hour or so. And besides, it’s almost impossible to do an effective parody of someone who was himself a satirist.” – Montreal Gazette Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) 78% 3/5 EDIT “The film-makers who put together Pee-wee's Big Adventure are determined to get as silly as possible and keep you wondering just how far they're going to go next.” – Montreal Gazette Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) 16% 2/5 EDIT “The pyrotechnics are just plain boring -- or, as in the case of the exploding Great Wall of China, look like they were put together by Mattel.” – Montreal Gazette Jul 2, 2025 Full Review Supergirl (1984) 19% 1.5/5 EDIT “Supergirl is about as entertaining as watching a plank warp.” – Montreal Gazette Jun 27, 2025 Full Review Superman II (1980) 88% EDIT “One of the sequel's greatest assets is that it takes itself even less seriously than the original. Its wry sense of humor often surfaces at just the right moment.” – Montreal Gazette Jun 27, 2025 Full Review Return to Oz (1985) 59% 3/5 EDIT “The acting -- though somewhat stylized for some tastes -- is perfectly acceptable.” – Montreal Gazette Jun 19, 2025 Full Review The Karate Kid Part II (1986) 49% 2/5 EDIT “All that's really changed are the superficialities of time and place and the addition of new villains and love interests. ” – Montreal Gazette May 27, 2025 Full Review Starman (1984) 83% 3/5 EDIT “What starts out as cold-blooded science-fiction turns into a rather touching romance -- something more along the lines of an "on the road" movie than a space opera.” – Montreal Gazette May 13, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 83% 4/5 EDIT “At this rate, perhaps we'll learn next time that R2-D2 is really C-3PO's grandmother or that Chewbacca is really the son of Lando's milkman.” – Montreal Gazette Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 93% EDIT “Lucas' story still deals with the basic conflict between good and evil, the Empire vs. the good-guy rebels -- and it does so with at least as much style and excitement as Star Wars.” – Montreal Gazette Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Back to School (1986) 81% 1.5/5 EDIT “With so many cooks at work on what was supposed to be a comic broth, it's no surprise that the results are more like a dog's breakfast. ” – Montreal Gazette Feb 27, 2025 Full Review The Breakfast Club (1985) 87% 3/5 EDIT “What these kids have to say doesn't really amount to anything new. But so many of their lines are witty or well-turned, that we almost forget that the objects of analysis have never really done much or gone anywhere worth mentioning.” – Montreal Gazette Feb 14, 2025 Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 91% 2.5/5 EDIT “Hopper's performance won him the prize for the Best Actor at the [Montreal World Film Festival]. His relentless posturing is so extreme, however, some might be more inclined to give him the Grand Prix for over-acting. ” – Montreal Gazette Jan 22, 2025 Full Review Aliens (1986) 94% 3/5 EDIT “There's an obvious attempt here to top the violence-level of Alien. But that works both for and against this super-slick sequel.” – Montreal Gazette Jul 24, 2024 Full Review Spaceballs (1987) 52% 3/5 EDIT “Spaceballs, [Brooks's] lively send-up of the Star Wars series, is just about the best work he's done since Blazing Saddles.” – Montreal Gazette Apr 12, 2024 Full Review Dune (1984) 36% 2/5 EDIT “Herbert's story of four different planets, a messiah, a space war, betrayals, bloodlines, and prophecies is so complex that this $47 million epic feature simply comes across as ludicrous every time it tries to jam an explanation into the dialogue. ” – Montreal Gazette Feb 14, 2024 Full Review Raging Bull (1980) 92% EDIT “Raging Bull is a masterful etching, scratching deep yet with disarming subtlety into the true story of boxer Jake La Motta. ” – Montreal Gazette Oct 10, 2023 Full Review
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