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Bruce C. Steele

Bruce C. Steele's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Transamerica (2005) 77% EDIT “Felicity Huffman may well balance off her mantle come March 5 with an Oscar to complement the Emmy she scored for Desperate Housewives in September.” – The Advocate Apr 20, 2022 Full Review Chocolate Babies (1996) EDIT “Its zero-budget filmmaking and loosely structured story are held together by writer-director Stephen Winter’s jazzy, offbeat editing and the forceful voices of his mostly African-American characters, whose anger and wit are inseparable.” – The Advocate Apr 5, 2022 Full Review The Things of Love (1989) EDIT “Lustily produced and enormously entertaining as a musical, the film also fleshes out the characters...” – OutWeek Jun 15, 2020 Full Review Coming Out (1990) EDIT “Line up early...the film has a sharp emotional power without giving in to its own melodramatic impulses...” – OutWeek Jun 9, 2020 Full Review Fun Down There (1989) EDIT “Whether because of the unreflective script or the unpolished cast, the characters don't seem to have relationships -- they barely make contact with one another.” – OutWeek May 21, 2020 Full Review Cry Baby (1990) 72% EDIT “It's not at all difficult to declare Cry-Baby the best American movie musical in recent memory.” – OutWeek May 21, 2020 Full Review The Freshman (1990) 94% EDIT “Without Brando, the movie would be all gags and surfaces. But the big guy's self-parody is so charming that the whole picture resonates with his presence.” – OutWeek May 21, 2020 Full Review The War of the Roses (1989) 84% EDIT “There's no foxier, more formidable screen vixen than Kathleen Turner, no better embodiment of self-deluding greed and innate sexism than Michael Douglas.” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review She-Devil (1989) 48% EDIT “An inept, offensive mess of a comedy.” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989) 60% EDIT “[Director Percy Adlon] has faltered tremendously with Rosalie Goes Shopping.” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review Roger & Me (1989) 100% EDIT “[Michael Moore] made his point by making a terrifically enjoyable, provocative film. Beyond that, he couldn't care less what anyone else thinks.” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review Cinema Paradiso (1988) 90% EDIT “It's another clean, colorful community with an unreal sense of vitality, everyone playing a comfortable role in the neat storyline.” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review Steel Magnolias (1989) 73% EDIT “Let's be frank. You don't go to a movie like this unless you're looking for quick laughs and cheap tears, or the next camp classic. (This isn't It.)” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review Immediate Family (1989) 54% EDIT “Their willful exploitation of a young woman in financial straits struck me as pathetic, particularly since the Masterson character is as full of life and passion as the yuppie couple is empty.” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review Look Who's Talking (1989) 56% EDIT “[Amy Heckerling] bulls her way through this smash-hit comedy by playing up to the most base assumptions of the average audience.” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review Men in Love (1990) EDIT “It's never clear why anyone buys into this sort of spiritual egoism, of even what it is exactly that they believe.” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review Dick Tracy (1990) 63% EDIT “Dick Tracy is a painted globe of a movie. Lushly artistic on the surface but resoundingly hollow, it bounces around aimlessly and finally ricochets right off the audience into oblivion, leaving hardly a trace.” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review Lord of the Flies (1990) 55% EDIT “Dialogue and actions that resonate in the novel and in the Peter Brook film version here fall lifeless onto the sandy beach.” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990) 69% EDIT “If the film has a subtext that's supposed to excuse the gross sexism, sadism and stupidity inherent in its storyline and characters, I certainly couldn't find it.” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review The Everlasting Secret Family (1988) EDIT “The despoiling of an Innocent boy by a lecherous older man Is only the beginning of the march of gay stereotypes.” – OutWeek May 20, 2020 Full Review Blaze (1989) 75% EDIT “Not a moment is believable.” – OutWeek May 19, 2020 Full Review My Left Foot (1989) 98% EDIT “[Jim Sheridan's] inconspicuous but affecting direction filters through the well-drawn characters (played by a uniformly brilliant cast).” – OutWeek May 19, 2020 Full Review Mountains of the Moon (1990) 67% EDIT “Who would have picked Bob Rafelson as the heir to David Lean? But there it is: an epic, historical adventure of the sort you thought they didn't make anymore.” – OutWeek May 19, 2020 Full Review The Godfather, Part III (1990) 66% EDIT “Countless set-pieces, both intimate and explosively violent, build intoxicating tension.” – OutWeek May 19, 2020 Full Review
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