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Bruce Westbrook

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The Abyss (1989) 76% A EDIT “The Abyss is slick yet real, fanciful yet gripping, and truly an eye-popping adventure.” – Houston Chronicle Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 91% EDIT “...it's an entertaining and cathartic thrill ride with all the intellectual and moral essence of a rollercoaster. ” – Houston Chronicle Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Predator 2 (1990) 36% EDIT “The film rarely strays from its violent catharses. ” – Houston Chronicle Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Night of the Living Dead (1990) 57% EDIT “Its plot and tone merely mimic the original, and shooting it in color is no improvement, considering the first film's dark, stark power.” – Houston Chronicle Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Toy Story (1995) 100% EDIT “None of its technical wizardry would matter if there weren't such a superb script and such strong characters, especially an overly sensitive toy dinosaur voiced by Wallace Shawn. ” – Houston Chronicle Sep 10, 2025 Full Review This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 98% B+ EDIT “Reiner's directing debut holds up far better than the music it mocks.” – Houston Chronicle Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% EDIT “It's escapism with heart, full of action, wit, humanity and pathos.” – Houston Chronicle Aug 27, 2025 Full Review Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1995) 48% EDIT “Darkman II delivers exploitation-movie goods. However, it loses the melodramatic tragedy that director Sam Raimi brought to the first film.” – Houston Chronicle Aug 26, 2025 Full Review Tales From the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood (1996) 14% EDIT “This film is badly plotted. If anything, it tries to tell too much tale. And though its special effects are good, the vampires are too easily dispatched, and the laborious finale is predictable.” – Houston Chronicle Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Grease (1978) 65% EDIT “Exuberant song and dance scenes are what make Grease the enjoyable diversion that it is. It is not a knockout film. But Grease is a smartly crafted revival of a traditional movie musical form, and for that we are thankful. ” – The Oklahoman Feb 8, 2024 Full Review My Kid Could Paint That (2007) 94% 3/4 EDIT “A fascinating documentary.” – Houston Chronicle Oct 19, 2007 Full Review Gone Baby Gone (2007) 94% 4/4 EDIT “A love-tolerate valentine to the city, it feels more real than the gangster-gorged mean streets of Martin Scorsese's The Departed, and just as tortured as Clint Eastwood's Mystic River.” – Houston Chronicle Oct 19, 2007 Full Review Lust, Caution (2007) 73% 3/4 EDIT “A quietly compelling drama of hidden desperation and fierce passions.” – Houston Chronicle Oct 12, 2007 Full Review The Alps (2007) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “An eye-popping tribute to the European range that's heaved heavenward since bulging from the Earth eons ago during continental drift.” – Houston Chronicle Oct 5, 2007 Full Review King of California (2007) 62% 3/4 EDIT “Writer-director Mike Cahill explores Charlie's foolishness with funny-sad fondness.” – Houston Chronicle Oct 5, 2007 Full Review The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007) 13% 1.5/4 EDIT “It's simply product for a pre-conditioned marketplace, pushing familiar buttons without doing anything remotely creative.” – Houston Chronicle Oct 5, 2007 Full Review Feast of Love (2007) 40% 3.5/4 EDIT “Director Robert Benton and screenwriter Allison Burnett tell a sobering, adult-geared tale of love's highs, lows and maddening twists and turns.” – Houston Chronicle Sep 28, 2007 Full Review Fierce People (2005) 24% 2.5/4 EDIT “A buoyant coming-of-age adventure welded to an amiable wealth fantasy.” – Houston Chronicle Sep 21, 2007 Full Review In the Shadow of the Moon (2006) 95% 3/4 EDIT “Though Shadow could use a bit more confessionals and a bit less history, it still succeeds as a reminder of America's can-do spirit at its best.” – Houston Chronicle Sep 21, 2007 Full Review In the Valley of Elah (2007) 73% 2.5/4 EDIT “[Haggis'] self-serious tone becomes wearisome, and he fails to explore how the military failed its men while clumsily laying a guilt trip at its feet.” – Houston Chronicle Sep 21, 2007 Full Review Sea of Dreams (2006) 43% 1.5/4 EDIT “Sea of Dreams purports to be a film of 'magic realism,' but it's neither magical nor realistic.” – Houston Chronicle Sep 21, 2007 Full Review Deep Water (2006) 96% 4/4 EDIT “For this gripping and amazing documentary, such truth emerges not just from the facts, but also the poetry of men who redefine themselves in a risky race on small sailboats.” – Houston Chronicle Sep 14, 2007 Full Review The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) 97% 3/4 EDIT “Nerds rule.” – Houston Chronicle Sep 14, 2007 Full Review Silk (2007) 7% 1.5/4 EDIT “Although the period-piece film has all the trappings, from beautiful people to an obligatory sense of tragedy, it never follows through. In fact, its love story needs a shove -- it just lies there.” – Houston Chronicle Sep 14, 2007 Full Review Eastern Promises (2007) 90% 1/4 EDIT “What it's really about, more than sensitivity for displaced people or social analyses, is violence -- hideous, gruesome, over-the-top violence.” – Houston Chronicle Sep 14, 2007 Full Review
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