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Dave Kehr

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The American President (1995) 90% 3/4 EDIT “This is a film that depends largely on the charm of its stars, and the chemistry does work between [Michael Douglas and Annette Bening]... The juicy element is there but effectively understated.” – New York Daily News Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Big Top Pee-wee (1988) 31% 3/4 EDIT “The film starts out with high spirits and a frisky imagination, but slips slowly into self-consciousness and ends on a note of debilitating camp. ” – Chicago Tribune Dec 11, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% 3/4 EDIT “"The Abyss" doesn't quite come off, but it's a commanding failure -- a film with a genuine cinematic project, which is rare these days.” – Chicago Tribune Dec 5, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (1987) 59% 2/4 EDIT “The film is simply a series of one-on-one confrontations.” – Chicago Tribune Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Predator 2 (1990) 36% 3/4 EDIT “The picture hurtles along, smoothly if not plausibly, and saves some surprises for the last reel.” – Chicago Tribune Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Predator (1987) 64% 2/4 EDIT “McTiernan never seems in complete control of the wildly disparate elements he has assembled, and the movie doesn't settle into one groove long enough to establish a firm hold on the audience.” – Chicago Tribune Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Dracula (1979) 64% EDIT “Frank Langella is the count, in a performance that reportedly differed from his Broadway interpretation: less campy, more glamorous. Still, Badham hasn’t made much of him. The character is presented well, but never developed.” – Chicago Reader Oct 23, 2025 Full Review From Beyond (1986) 74% 3/4 EDIT “In its brash, enthusiastic tackiness, "From Beyond" is a show that would do any carnival proud.” – Chicago Tribune Oct 20, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% 3/4 EDIT “Like the studio films of yore, "Casper" combines distinct creative contributions into a highly entertaining if not always coherent whole.” – New York Daily News Sep 30, 2025 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “Hill’s thoughtful handling of the moral issue—survival versus friendship—and his subtle, evocative camerawork make this 1975 release a hundred times better than it should be.” – Chicago Reader Sep 25, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% 4/4 EDIT “It is impossible to leave this film without a sense of uplift; it glows.” – Chicago Tribune Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Hard Eight (1996) 82% 3/4 EDIT “Written and directed by newcomer Paul Thomas Anderson, Hard Eight is an engaging independent film with the staccato rhythm of a David Mamet play -- but with unexpected warmth.” – New York Daily News Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Night of the Living Dead (1990) 57% 3/4 EDIT “Though the broad outlines of the plot are the same... the characters have been deepened and the thematic emphasis shifted.” – Chicago Tribune Sep 17, 2025 Full Review Toy Story (1995) 100% 4/4 EDIT “John Lasseter is Walt's digital descendant, having nurtured this new animation technology from its earliest days.” – New York Daily News Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988) 10% 2/4 EDIT “"ROTLD II" may be junk, at least in the hands of director Ken Wiederhorn it's efficient, well-filmed junk.” – Chicago Tribune Aug 30, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% 3.5/4 EDIT “Rami is a genuine filmmaker, someone who knows how to tell a story in movement and pictures.” – Chicago Tribune Aug 25, 2025 Full Review Pumpkinhead (1988) 51% 1/4 EDIT “As a technician, Winston clearly knows how to make a monster, but as a director he's yet to learn how to bring one to life. ” – Chicago Tribune Aug 13, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) 77% 3.5/4 EDIT “It's 85 minutes of pure, breathless pleasure. The eternally oblivious Drebin, played with growing relish by a reborn Leslie Nielsen, now seems firmly entrenched as one of the great comic creations of American movies.” – Chicago Tribune Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Day of the Dead (1985) 61% EDIT “Beginning from a position of absolute misanthropy, Romero asks what it means to be human, and the answers are funny, horrifying, and ultimately hopeful.” – Chicago Reader Jun 24, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 83% 3/4 EDIT “In many ways, "Jedi" is the most childish of the series... But that has always been the secret of George Lucas' success: he provides grownup thrills for children -- and childish pleasures for adults. ” – New York Daily News Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Sheba, Baby (1975) 28% EDIT “Even the spectacular Pam Grier is sandbagged in this clumsy black actioner.” – Chicago Reader Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Withnail and I (1987) 84% 2/4 EDIT “The image of the pathetic, predatory homosexual seems outdated even for 1969; this, combined with the film's reluctance to examine too closely the relationship between Withnail and Marwood makes the movie seem evasive and self-protective.” – Chicago Tribune Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Scream 2 (1997) 83% 3/4 EDIT “A whodunit as much as it is a thriller, generating its effects by strategically withholding information rather than pumping fountains of gore. ” – New York Daily News Feb 6, 2025 Full Review The Rescuers Down Under (1990) 85% 3.5/4 EDIT “It's a far better piece of animation than the dismal Oliver and Company of 1988 and last year's smartly conceived but indifferently executed Little Mermaid. Butoy and Gabriel obviously love their medium, the first Disney directors to do so in years.” – Chicago Tribune Dec 15, 2024 Full Review Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 69% 2/4 EDIT “Bram Stoker's Dracula is a film that fails to make the most of its good ideas and spends far too much time fussing over its bad ones.” – Chicago Tribune Sep 26, 2024 Full Review
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