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Geoff Brown

Geoff Brown's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The American President (1995) 90% EDIT “There is too much presidential pomp, too small a glimpse of the ordinary man within. Bening is charm personified as Sydney Wade; unfortunately, bright eyes, a winning smile, and a strong supporting cast can only take this soft, boring film so far.” – The Times (UK) Jan 20, 2026 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% EDIT “This is undoubtedly the popcorn muncher of the season. ” – The Times (UK) Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% EDIT “Cooper's script, from a novel by Janet Rule, allows the characters to articulate their feelings without ascending into wordy clouds; while the performers explore the human heart with sympathy, delicacy and ease. ” – The Times (UK) Oct 13, 2025 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% EDIT “It is hard not to be entertained. ” – The Times (UK) Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Hard Eight (1996) 82% EDIT “Hard Eight, shot in 1995, shows admirable single-mindedness, but it gives the audience scant encouragement to wade through the talky, baldly shot scenes, and take an interest in the characters.” – The Times (UK) Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Toy Story (1995) 100% EDIT “Whatever unfathomable technology brought Toy Story into being, the completed film is delightfully user-friendly. ” – The Times (UK) Sep 9, 2025 Full Review This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 98% EDIT “The subject is parodied with loopy humour, a sharp eye for pretentions and - most important of all - a great flair for detail.” – The Times (UK) Sep 9, 2025 Full Review I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) 47% EDIT “It rests content with smaller ambitions, delivering enough thrills to keep teenage audiences ticking over before the onset of Scream 2.” – The Times (UK) Jul 15, 2025 Full Review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 57% EDIT “Like too many movies, The Lost World is no living organism, but a machine: factory-assembled from existing blueprints and duplicate parts.” – The Times (UK) Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Return to Oz (1985) 59% EDIT “The film succumbs too much to the special effects fidgets.” – The Times (UK) Jun 20, 2025 Full Review Starman (1984) 83% EDIT “Ten years ago, Carpenter's low-budget films were crispy, quirky marvels, pulling Hollywood genres inside-out; now, secure within Hollywood's bosom, he lazily accepts the genres at face value.” – The Times (UK) May 13, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 83% EDIT “It still feels like sweet relief to leave the cinema and rediscover a world outside populated by ordinary people, not gibbering creatures encased in plastic or fur.” – The Times (UK) Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% EDIT “Compared to the films it spawned, Star Wars appears gleamingly clean and wholesome. ” – The Times (UK) Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Rancho Deluxe (1975) 62% EDIT “The movie isn't completely without pleasures... but on the whole, Rancho Deluxe remains stridently unattractive.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Mar 27, 2025 Full Review Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) 87% EDIT “Given a strong story line... the Disney team seem content to fritter it away with silly comedy and footling displays of magic.” – Monthly Film Bulletin Mar 19, 2025 Full Review Pocahontas (1995) 59% EDIT “This is not material for a Disney cartoon: but then neither is the sanitised fantasy we have before us. Who wants a cartoon that is dull?” – The Times (UK) Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Scream (1996) 78% EDIT “Aside from the in-jokes, Craven ensures we scream alongside his characters at the indestructible killer in the Halloween who taunts down the phone. ” – The Times (UK) Nov 18, 2024 Full Review Triple Bogey on a Par 5 Hole (1991) EDIT “Passing pleasantries acknowledged, too much of the film seems as pointless as the activities of McBride's punk.” – The Times (UK) Sep 26, 2024 Full Review Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 69% EDIT “The breathless succession of mini-climaxes diminishes the film's power and cuts the drama into gobbets. Some chunks you swallow, others you want to spit out straight away. You emerge from this vampire's feast hungry and disappointed.” – The Times (UK) Sep 26, 2024 Full Review 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997) 7% EDIT “With Joe Pesci squawking and Tom Schulman directing, it is nowhere near as funny as it should be.” – The Times (UK) Aug 6, 2024 Full Review A Merry War (1997) 69% EDIT “The result, bar the odd moment of muted humour, is the most pointless British film of the year.” – The Times (UK) Aug 6, 2024 Full Review One Night Stand (1997) 34% EDIT “Figgis, as director, writer and composer, treats the subject with such refinement that the characters come close to seeming genuine human beings.” – The Times (UK) Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Under the Skin (1997) 90% EDIT “Samantha Morton, all of 20, throws herself wholeheartedly into the complex part.” – The Times (UK) Aug 6, 2024 Full Review The Tango Lesson (1997) 52% EDIT “You emerge from the cinema moved and exhilarated, with an un-English urge to dance away with the night, a rose between the teeth.” – The Times (UK) Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Alien Resurrection (1997) 56% EDIT “We experience the usual gore in a brilliant but cold-hearted spectacle. It is frustrating, for somewhere within the big-budget compromises of Alien Resurrection a far better, quirkier, movie is struggling to break free.” – The Times (UK) Aug 6, 2024 Full Review
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