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David Armstrong

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The Wedding Banquet (1993) 94% 3/4 EDIT “"The Wedding Banquet" is an impressive effort by Lee.” – San Francisco Examiner Apr 15, 2025 Full Review The Lion King (1994) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “The score, by Hans Zimmer, is a soaring, chorale=-based work that draws effectively on traditional African music. ” – San Francisco Examiner Dec 19, 2024 Full Review Alien 3 (1992) 44% 2.5/4 EDIT “How good is Alien 3? Does it ennoble its genre, as it were? I wouldn't go that far, but Alien 3 is a sound, workmanlike thrill-o-rama from Planet Hollywood.” – San Francisco Examiner Aug 1, 2024 Full Review The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 89% 3/4 EDIT “If The Shawshank Redemption, adapted from a Stephen King novella, is familiar, it earns respect by configuring these familiar elements in an engaging, shrewdly constructed way.” – San Francisco Examiner Mar 4, 2024 Full Review Forrest Gump (1994) 75% 3.5/4 EDIT “It requires a delicate touch to keep from becoming precious. Director Robert Zemeckis is up to the task.” – San Francisco Examiner Mar 1, 2024 Full Review The Great Outdoors (1988) 42% 1.5/4 EDIT “Candy and Aykroyd do what they can with this by-the-numbers picture, but it's not enough to push "The Great Outdoors" to greatness, or even pretty-goodness.” – San Francisco Examiner Jun 16, 2023 Full Review Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1992) 55% 3.5/4 EDIT “It's a grand ride and it's well-handled by the filmmakers, headed by co-directors William T. Hurtz and Masami Hata.” – San Francisco Examiner Mar 7, 2023 Full Review Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992) 69% 2.5/4 EDIT “Didactic and occasionally turgid, the film is redeemed by its honesty, a vivacious performance by its star, Ariyan Johnson, and its timeliness.” – San Francisco Examiner Jan 10, 2023 Full Review Bless Their Little Hearts (1984) 100% EDIT “Woodbury's Bless Their Little Hearts has... a sense of slow, grinding, inevitability leavened with deep feeling that is rarely sentimental.” – San Francisco Examiner Jan 10, 2023 Full Review Dances With Wolves (1990) 87% 2.5/4 EDIT “I liked much of it and I admire Costner for making it. Dances With Wolves is worth seeing; it's too bad there isn't more to see all the way through this heartfelt, honest effort.” – San Francisco Examiner Nov 2, 2022 Full Review The Land Before Time (1988) 65% 3/4 EDIT “Familiar though it may be, Land Before Time is a well-told, skillfully animated feature that, at only 69 minutes running time, dovetails nicely with the kiddies' short attention span. ” – San Francisco Examiner Aug 18, 2022 Full Review I Like It Like That (1994) 89% 2.5/4 EDIT “Martin draws an appealing performance from Velez, who convincingly conveys Lisette's mixture of pride, humiliation, vulnerability and growing strength. Seda is fine as the none-too-aware man-child Chino. Melly, at 10, is already coolly self-possessed.” – San Francisco Examiner Mar 2, 2022 Full Review Thousand Pieces of Gold (1990) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “A watchable and informative fiction film about a Chinese woman in late 19th century America.” – San Francisco Examiner Feb 15, 2022 Full Review Sidewalk Stories (1989) 79% 2.5/4 EDIT “On balance, this is a worthy if uneven picture. It entertains -- most of the time, anyway -- as it instructs, putting human faces on the statistics of lost souls.” – San Francisco Examiner Jan 24, 2022 Full Review Wyatt Earp (1994) 31% 2/4 EDIT “As carefully as Kasdan has rooted this story in the 19th century setting, his lack of control in shaping the expansive material makes the viewer think the movie may be depicting the entire 19th century.” – San Francisco Examiner Dec 22, 2021 Full Review The Presidio (1988) 41% 2/4 EDIT “Sound familiar? It should. It's the set-up for countless TV cop shows and movies during the last 20 years, minimum.” – San Francisco Examiner Sep 6, 2021 Full Review Wayne's World (1992) 79% 2.5/4 EDIT “The movie is good-natured and fun, riding successfully on the talents of its three principals, Myers, Carvey and Lowe. It is also packed with witty throw-away lines and heavy-metal signifiers that raise a smile.” – San Francisco Examiner Mar 11, 2021 Full Review The Joy Luck Club (1993) 86% 3/4 EDIT “Cinematographer Amir Mokri gives indoor scenes, many shot in the Bay Area, the rich, dark look of polished wood. The outdoor scenes, shot here and in China, are stunning.” – San Francisco Examiner Dec 17, 2020 Full Review Wilde (1997) 72% EDIT “Wilde is, laudably, not presented as a simple icon or martyr of the gay movement, but as a flawed, admirable, attractive, disappointing human being.” – San Francisco Examiner Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Clay Pigeons (1998) 62% EDIT “You can do a lot with black comedy: show dead bodies, show naked bodies, juxtapose irony and fear, strike cultural poses, tell jokes -- and you don't need a big budget. You just need attitude. And, hopefully, skill.” – San Francisco Examiner Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Frequency (2000) 70% EDIT “Quaid and Caviezel establish a firm emotional connection in moments that are by turns funny, affecting and eerie.” – San Francisco Examiner Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Two Girls and a Guy (1997) 51% EDIT “The year's smartest and spikiest date-movie so far.” – San Francisco Examiner Jan 1, 2000 Full Review October Sky (1999) 90% EDIT “A compulsively watchable, well-crafted feature...” – San Francisco Examiner Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Higher Learning (1995) 48% EDIT “Energetic, uneven but engaging.” – San Francisco Examiner Jan 1, 2000 Full Review In the Mouth of Madness (1995) 58% EDIT “The names are big, but the payoff is small.” – San Francisco Examiner Jan 1, 2000 Full Review
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