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Donald Munro

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Boogie Nights (1997) 91% B+ EDIT “Boogie Nights is far more than a sex-and-drugs skin flick. It's endowed with a big, hearty dose of the human spirit.” – Fresno Bee Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Dirty Work (1998) 21% F EDIT “Macdonald isn't simply wooden; He's an anti-actor, purposefully snubbing the camera, and he shouts his lines as if he were ordering a shake and fries at a fast-food drive-through.” – Fresno Bee May 14, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible II (2000) 58% B EDIT “[Woo] delivers a dreamy, vibrant, surging series of spectacular stunts and exquisitely choreographed mayhem that spell out a slick summer blockbuster. ” – Fresno Bee May 8, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible (1996) 67% B EDIT “De Palma works hard -- funky camera angles, sophisticated gadgets, a thrilling train-chase sequence -- to make the most of what is, for spies, admittedly infertile post-Cold War ground.” – Fresno Bee May 6, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% A EDIT “From the moment the logo first appears on the screen, to the last triumphant fanfare as the heroes come forward to receive their rebel medals, the music sweeps us along with a force of its own.” – Fresno Bee Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) 54% B- EDIT “...there's a good chance you'll get so caught up in the stunning look and feel of the film...that it won't matter that the story and acting are only so-so.” – Fresno Bee Apr 16, 2025 Full Review Supervixens (1975) 49% 4/5 EDIT “As the film progresses so does the level of farce and surreality. The mundane is juxtaposed with the ridiculous and there is a deliberate subversion of narrative flow.” – Eye for Film Apr 10, 2025 Full Review Scream 3 (2000) 45% B EDIT “While the film is a tad long for the horror genre, the levity keeps it more than watchable. Especially amusing are cameos by Kevin Smith and Carrie Fisher.” – Fresno Bee Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Tarzan (1999) 90% B+ EDIT “The quality of the animation is superb, and the sweet, tender story is handled with economy and style. This is a film that knew exactly what it wanted to be, and it wasn't going to let the stuffed-toy aisle at the Disney Store dictate its storyline.” – Fresno Bee Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Mulan (1998) 91% A EDIT “Mulan is beautiful. It soars, laughs and cries. It's as delicate as a late-blooming cherry blossom and as solid as the Great Wall of China. ” – Fresno Bee Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Hercules (1997) 83% B+ EDIT “It's first and foremost a "cartoon." (A very good one.) Not that there's anything wrong with that, but Hercules doesn't match the artistic sweep and grandeur of "Hunchback."” – Fresno Bee Dec 18, 2024 Full Review The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) 80% A EDIT “Richly layered and sweeping in scope, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is at once proud and pensive. ” – Fresno Bee Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Scream (1996) 78% B- EDIT “There's enough red corn syrup to satisfy the bloodhounds, and enough pinkish humor for people who'd rather laugh than scream. ” – Fresno Bee Oct 11, 2024 Full Review Alien Resurrection (1997) 56% B- EDIT “Alien Resurrection doesn't have the spunk of a newborn baby, but the fourth time around, fans don't go for a brand new story: They just want a decent twist to the slime they love. ” – Fresno Bee Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Twister (1996) 68% B EDIT “Twister just might knock the wind out of you.” – Fresno Bee Jul 16, 2024 Full Review Almost Famous (2000) 91% A EDIT “It's heartfelt, funny, sensitive and wise, and Crowe's obvious love for the music runs so deep that the film ends up rattling around in your soul, like a thumping bass on the other side of a thin apartment wall.” – Fresno Bee Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Lone Star (1996) 91% A- EDIT “There's a warmth, a rhythm all its own, to this film.” – Fresno Bee Sep 6, 2023 Full Review Magnolia (1999) 82% A EDIT “Magnolia flowers just like life: in defiant spurts and with placid smoothness, a seamless journey punctuated by an occasional lurching chaos so overwhelming it has you sighing in surrender to that grand scriptwriter in the sky.” – Fresno Bee Jun 30, 2023 Full Review Armageddon (1998) 43% D EDIT “Even though the film marches across the screen at breakneck speed, it bogs down. At a seemingly never-ending 150 minutes, the explosions and periodic disgorgings of testosterone stretch as far as the reaches of space. It's boring. ” – Fresno Bee Jun 22, 2023 Full Review The Truman Show (1998) 94% A EDIT “The Truman Show twists its appealing parts into an even more impressive whole. ” – Fresno Bee Feb 15, 2023 Full Review Godzilla (1998) 20% C+ EDIT “There’s little wit or subtlety here, but the film does make a massive, satisfying amount of noise.” – Fresno Bee Feb 15, 2023 Full Review The Big Lebowski (1998) 79% B EDIT “Make no mistake: If Fargo came this close to machining out your weird-o-meter, The Big Lebowski will probably nudge you over the edge, then stand back and laugh as you splatter on the rocks below. ” – Fresno Bee Jan 24, 2023 Full Review Eve's Bayou (1997) 83% EDIT “Told from the point of view of a 10- year-old girl, Eve's Bayou is one of those magnificent experiences that remind you that memory is a vague, wonderful thing.” – Fresno Bee Jan 9, 2023 Full Review Down in the Delta (1998) 76% B+ EDIT “Like the fragrant air of the Mississippi, Down in the Delta heals and restores. ” – Fresno Bee Jan 5, 2023 Full Review Gladiator (2000) 80% B+ EDIT “The film’s most important effect, if you will, is Crowe himself as the unabashed hero General Maximus, followed closely by Joaquin Phoenix as the Emperor Commodus. Gladiator is at heart their simple story. ” – Fresno Bee Nov 2, 2022 Full Review
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