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Glenn Lovell

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Film Critic, San Jose Mercury News

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Peter Pan (1953) 79% EDIT “"Peter Pan" comes alive whenever the animators cut back to Hook and his scurvy swabbies.” – San Jose Mercury News Jan 21, 2026 Full Review UHF (1989) 64% EDIT “It is entertaining and funny enough to ensure the video satirist an encore performance as a small-town bungler named George Newman.” – San Jose Mercury News Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Big Top Pee-wee (1988) 31% EDIT “"Big Top" is sluggish, flat and mildly naughty.” – San Jose Mercury News Dec 11, 2025 Full Review The Last of the Mohicans (1992) 88% EDIT “[The Last of the Mohicans] shouldn't be approached as a great adaptation of an American classic. And it's certainly no Black Robe. But as classy, first-rate escapism, there's much here to hold the eye and spark the imagination.” – Knight Ridder News Service Dec 14, 2023 Full Review El Mariachi (1992) 91% EDIT “Lacking the resources of a T2, Rodriguez has done something that's fairly heretical in Hollywood these days: He has subbed imagination humor and a lot of old-fashion camera trickery.” – Knight Ridder News Service Sep 8, 2021 Full Review Knives Out (2019) 97% 2:4 EDIT “At over two hours, this salute to Dame Agatha feels overlong, padded ... The denouement isn't reached so much as laboriously coughed up, like a fur-ball.” – CinemaDope Dec 24, 2019 Full Review 1917 (2019) 88% 4:4 EDIT “Think Kubrick's 'Paths of Glory' crossed with Spielberg's 'Saving Private Ryan,' and you'll be in the grim yet somehow exhilarating vicinity of this inevitable Best Picture Oscar contender.” – CinemaDope Dec 20, 2019 Full Review Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) 47% 1.5/4 EDIT “This overlong, over-the-top continuation sniffs and scratches so desperately to establish its pedigree it could be a mutt cousin of Spielberg's original blockbuster. You feel less like criticizing the thing than putting it down ...” – CinemaDope Sep 20, 2018 Full Review Hereditary (2018) 90% 3/4 EDIT “... an assured debut that folds in Shirley Jackson, Rosemary Woodhouse and, for its immersive creepiness, 'Seance on a Wet Afternoon' ... Collette fearlessly explores Annie's primal fears, at times contorting her face into hideous mask” – CinemaDope Sep 18, 2018 Full Review Adrift (2018) 69% 3/4 EDIT “... the extreme long shots say it all: we are completely alone, mere specs on an endless expanse of shimmering gray ... best of its kind since J.C. Chandor's 'All Is Lost' ... required viewing for arm-chairs adventurers who live vicariously.” – CinemaDope Sep 12, 2018 Full Review The Bookshop (2017) 57% 2/4 EDIT “... standard PBS Masterpiece fare ... self-consciously arty and as studied as a John Constable pastoral come to life ... has small-town hypocrites in its sights but is too polite to pull the trigger” – CinemaDope Sep 4, 2018 Full Review Papillon (2017) 52% 2.5/4 EDIT “...remake is overall more satisfying than original ... less movie start charismatic, Hunnam plays squire to McQueen's Cooler King ... 'Les Miz' meets 'Escape from Alcatraz'” – CinemaDope Aug 27, 2018 Full Review 78/52 (2017) 88% 2/4 EDIT “Who doesn't remember where he was when Leigh shed black bra and slip, unwrapped a bar of complimentary Bates Motel soap, and washed away her sins? ... Unfortunately doc's scholarship feels sketchy, arbitrary.” – CinemaDope Dec 11, 2017 Full Review Lucky (2017) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “One of the year's true finds, a spare but amiable slice-of-lifer about an argumentative old coot and his equally eccentric friends ... Stanton, never better, deserves a posthumous Oscar nod.” – CinemaDope Sep 21, 2017 Full Review mother! (2017) 68% 1.5/4 EDIT “Marketed as a supernatural thriller, Aronofsky's latest is a black comedy about what it means to play muse to creep artist ... Doesn't attain MOAB stature but still the most indulgent film from a major director in a good while” – CinemaDope Sep 18, 2017 Full Review It (2017) 85% 2/4 EDIT “Skarsgard's purring Pennywise is the stuff of indelible beddy-time nightmares, but this fusing of small-town Americana and childhood neuroses lags, feels cobbled together from other fright films” – CinemaDope Sep 13, 2017 Full Review It Comes at Night (2017) 88% 3/4 EDIT “Mines the same dour forebodings as Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road' ... a grim little cautionary fable that relies on mood, character development and performance, not 'Walking Dead' gore effects.” – CinemaDope Jun 26, 2017 Full Review Kong: Skull Island (2017) 75% 3.5/4 EDIT “Not only the most exhilarating e-ticket ride since 'Mad Max Fury Road,' it's almost as exciting as the RKO original, thanks to expertly orchestrated cliff-hangers and the scariest CG beasties since 'Jurassic Park'” – CinemaDope Mar 19, 2017 Full Review The Last Word (2017) 40% 2.5/4 EDIT “Despite the laudable direction and another feisty turn by MacLaine, this low-budget vehicle fairly buckles under mounting contrivances, used to facilitate shifts in tone, from bleak to heartfelt to silly” – CinemaDope Mar 12, 2017 Full Review Logan (2017) 93% 2.5/4 EDIT “Before it settles down as a cross between 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome' and 'Shane' it's a pretty joyless slog, one CG-enhanced battle after another ... Dafne Keen as Wolvie's ward goes full feral.” – CinemaDope Mar 6, 2017 Full Review Get Out (2017) 98% 3/4 EDIT “... first really interesting film of the new year is an unnerving social satire that uses horror tropes to peel away the hypocrisy of white liberal America .. Peele is obviously a director to watch.” – CinemaDope Mar 5, 2017 Full Review Split (2017) 79% 2.5/4 EDIT “Shyamalan has been biding his time in The Twilight Zone, mounting, if not a comeback, a tentative second beginning ... More ingenious than scary; it could have used a few more hardcore shocks.” – CinemaDope Jan 21, 2017 Full Review Hidden Figures (2016) 93% 2.5 EDIT “... inspirational but predictable celebration of sacrifice, can-do spirit of three exploited NASA workers ... feels pat, too self-aware ... may be overdoing things to redress past sins.” – CinemaDope Jan 9, 2017 Full Review Paterson (2016) 96% 4/4 EDIT “... a wry meditation on the nature of creativity ... Adam Driver is wonderful as the would-be poet searching for inspiration in all the wrong places ... Jarmusch's sweetest, most accessible film” – CinemaDope Jan 4, 2017 Full Review Fences (2016) 92% 4/4 EDIT “... a powerhouse of a drama ... Washington is breathtakingly good as the embittered Troy, who's erecting a wall between himself and an unjust world. Viola Davis can prepare her Oscar speech” – CinemaDope Jan 4, 2017 Full Review
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