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Derek Malcolm

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North (1994) 12% EDIT “The whole thing is based on a novel which should have either remained on the page or been considerably livened up for the screen.” – Guardian Jan 24, 2026 Full Review The American President (1995) 90% EDIT “There's not the slightest hint of the racy irreverence of Reiner's This Is Spinal Tap, nor much of the wicked irony of his misery. This is more like When Harry Truman Met Sally -- a little pat, but equipped with a nicely intriguing premise. ” – Guardian Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Bite the Bullet (1975) 69% EDIT “A long and increasingly tedious odyssey.” – Guardian Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% EDIT “Nostalgia may be there, but Reiner avoids sentimentality and rose-coloured spectacles like the plague, securing performances from his young cast that scarcely seem like acting at all.” – Guardian Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Sure Thing (1985) 84% EDIT “I wish I could say it was notable, but in the end, it adds up to distinctly less than the sum of its parts.” – Guardian Jan 7, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% EDIT “The rest [of the film], underscored discreetly by the sort of music that tells us what to think a second or too after the script and actors have done so, is superior Hollywood courtroom drama of the kind you know about without me telling you.” – Guardian Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Re-Animator (1985) 88% EDIT “The whole thing has a delirious quality about it you are likely to either love or hate.” – Guardian Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Death Race 2000 (1975) 80% EDIT “Mr. Bartel, in short, turns out to be a rather good and certainly vigorous film-maker who might even have a go at art one day if only he can learn to keep a straight face and bore us better.” – Guardian Dec 21, 2025 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% EDIT “The screen is so filled with expensive images that what's actually happening frequently takes second place to how it is happening. This zaps the eyes and blasts the ears a good deal more than it engages the mind. ” – Guardian Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Baby's Day Out (1994) 32% EDIT “The whole is so efficiently made that you honestly can't tell where and how the stunts are woven into the material. ” – Guardian Dec 10, 2025 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% EDIT “On the level of the rest of Cameron's output, you could say this is fair to average money-letting proficiency.” – Guardian Dec 10, 2025 Full Review The Wiz (1978) 38% EDIT “Lavish as it is, The Wiz has all the lightness of touch an elephant and is desperately short on charm.” – Guardian Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Dracula (1979) 64% EDIT “All all the skill of Peter Murton's production design and Gilbert Taylor's photography there is something missing.” – Guardian Oct 21, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% EDIT “It is by no means a masterpiece, but that simply does not matter, because it is trying for something different, and something very important indeed. ” – Guardian Oct 10, 2025 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% EDIT “Narrated by Lily Tomlin, speaking Armistead Maupin's words, it posits the idea that our attitudes are shaped by the films we see and that, since almost all of them are mainstream, Hollywood has a lot to answer for. ” – Guardian Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% EDIT “The films is pleasingly affectionate and sincere, even if it never gives us a clue as to what occasionally went wrong.” – Guardian Oct 3, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% EDIT “It places Burnett as a major American film-maker.” – Guardian Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Night of the Living Dead (1990) 57% EDIT “This Romero-approved remake is an efficient but redundant piece of work.” – Guardian Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Clueless (1995) 82% EDIT “[Amy Heckerling] secures from Silverstone the kind of performance to note as more than just promising. But everyone is good in the film, which seems to have a hotline to teenage mores of a certain type.” – Guardian Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Nine Months (1995) 26% EDIT “Columbus pulls every shallow emotional string he can find to give the film its pro-family feelgood conclusion and directs in so slapdash a way that its faults seem to be constantly magnified.” – Guardian Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Canadian Bacon (1995) 15% EDIT “The joke turns out to be as much against Canada as the United States, since Moore, perpetrator of Michael Moore's TV Nation, sees as much absurdity there as everywhere else. The result is only sporadically funny.” – Guardian Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Mortal Kombat (1995) 44% EDIT “Less than perfect but eye-catching.” – Guardian Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Cooley High (1975) 83% EDIT “Michael Schultz's film is bright-eyed rather than bitter, sentimental rather than cynical. But there's an edge to it all the same.” – Guardian Aug 15, 2025 Full Review The Return of the Living Dead (1985) 71% EDIT “Return Of The Living Dead is one of those horror rip-offs that expects to make you laugh as you scream. ” – Guardian Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Waterworld (1995) 60% EDIT “Waterworld, however, is not the disaster everyone expected, even if its failures equal its virtues and sometimes obscure them.” – Guardian Jul 28, 2025 Full Review
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