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Desmond Ryan

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Bite the Bullet (1975) 69% EDIT “The writing has a crisp, laconic wit and the acting ranges from professional to excellent.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 15, 2026 Full Review The Sure Thing (1985) 84% EDIT “The easygoing humor with which Reiner moves his film and the way he confounds his character's great expectations are both delightful and inevitable. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% 3/4 EDIT “A film that's more than just something you can enjoy with the kids. You can talk to them about it afterward, and you may not have the last word.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 19, 2025 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% 2.5/4 EDIT “The core trouble in True Lies is twofold, and the duality leads Cameron's screenplay into all sorts of improbable convolutions to connect the sagging middle with the more conventional elements at the beginning and the end. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 10, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% 4/4 EDIT “The Abyss is a genuine breakthrough.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 9, 2025 Full Review The Terminator (1984) 90% 1/4 EDIT “It continues nonstop in an orgy of mindless and utterly pointless violence whose garish slickness makes it the more offensive.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Peeper (1975) 30% EDIT “The comedy in the the film is clumsy and the mystery untrying. "Peeper" is barely worth a first glance.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Journey Back to Oz (1974) 30% EDIT “A charming, full-length animated cartoon for children that manages to be straightforward and freshly inventive at the same time.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Nov 21, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (1987) 59% 2/4 EDIT “Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest outing is a slick and lurid mixture of satire and sadism.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Predator 2 (1990) 36% 2/4 EDIT “Predator 2 is high of tech and low of brow.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Predator (1987) 64% 2/4 EDIT “This is a movie that is slick with blood and even slicker in its production values.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Dracula (1979) 64% EDIT “Whatever Langella, who makes a magnetically urbane Dracula, has added to the legend is immediately subtracted in Badham's direction.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 21, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% 4/4 EDIT “Frears did not make the easy film: Instead, he took Hanif Kureishi's ingeniously structured script and turned it into a vision of Margaret Thatcher's England that is scathing, unsparing and hilarious. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% 2.5/4 EDIT “Ricci makes all this far more palatable than it should be. She is surely helped by the dismal level shared by most allegedly more adult afterlife fantasies.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Tron (1982) 60% 3/4 EDIT “There is more flash than substance to Tron, and that is a pity since the film could have had both.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 1, 2025 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “It pulls its punches.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Sep 26, 2025 Full Review Hard Eight (1996) 82% 3/4 EDIT “Carrying the main load of this stylish directing debut from Paul Thomas Anderson are Philip Baker Hall and John C. Reilly. It's counter-casting, and it pays off handsomely. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Night of the Living Dead (1990) 57% 1/4 EDIT “Most remakes are merely redundant; this one is a grave error.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Cooley High (1975) 83% EDIT “Ponderous developments of plot push the film into an abrupt change of mood from low comedy to overbearing and mawkish sentiment. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Aug 15, 2025 Full Review The Return of the Living Dead (1985) 71% 1/4 EDIT “The acting is so bad that it’s hard in most scenes to tell the walking dead from the supposedly living, and as an attempt to mimic horror with humor, O’Bannon’s film is as hilarious as an autopsy.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Waterworld (1995) 60% 3/4 EDIT “As a movie, it is a vision of the sea in its vastness that is well worth seeing. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) 66% 2/4 EDIT “If The Naked Gun and The Naked Gun 2 1/2 had an endearing off-the-wall wackiness, The Naked Gun 33 1/3 has the feel of a movie with too many jokes off the cutting-room floor.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jul 22, 2025 Full Review DuckTales, the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) 66% 3/4 EDIT “DuckTales is a waddling winner.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Superman III (1983) 31% EDIT “Superman III has a pleasing, down to earth quality, and Pryor serves as the bridge to the fantasy elements. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Superman II (1980) 88% EDIT “[Superman II] is an entertainment that brims with technical skill, good humor, and acting that is above anything one might expect and, more importantly, with actors behaving as if they are in the same movie.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 28, 2025 Full Review
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