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Hugo Davenport

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Misery (1990) 87% EDIT “Though the film does not entirely escape cliche on the way to its gruesome climax, Annie Wilkes makes a believably ghastly female antidote to the dreary procession of serial male slashers who have marched across our screens of late.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The American President (1995) 90% EDIT “Aaron Sorkin's eloquent script strikes sparks of political insight and sharp wisecracks, weaving its way from Oval Office to Rose Garden with the confident air of a resident.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 21, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% EDIT “Tension is skillfully woven into the intricacies of the legal process, and Kaffee's passage to maturity, via Oedipal locking of horns with Jessup, supplies the necessary psychological counterpoint.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% EDIT “It has none of the spontaneity of Barrie, nor any of the wistful melancholy that lies submerged beneath the bright surface of the tale. Alternately manic and twee, it has, instead, only the ugliness of wilfully arrested adolescence. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Predator 2 (1990) 36% EDIT “At first, the film seems no more than an old-fashioned monster-movie... However, there is a more disturbing sub-text, reminiscent of the cinematic aliens born of the Red scare of the Fifties, but rendered here more self-consciously for the Nineties.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 1, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% EDIT “There may be unfinished business in the script department, but it passes the time inoffesively.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 30, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% EDIT “Burnett's film is a subtle mixture of the comic, the poetic, and the sinister: rarely has the Devil seemed so gentlemanly.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Night of the Living Dead (1990) 57% EDIT “It is surprisingly good.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% EDIT “The film crackles with black humour, hair-rising stunts, and one or two genuinely gruesome moments.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 26, 2025 Full Review Babe (1995) 98% EDIT “Children will appreciate the admission that life can be arbitrary and unfair, while adults will applaud the message that good manners are a strong medicine. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Navy SEALS (1990) 15% EDIT “The action is choreographed with above-average efficiency. Sadly, the dialogue limps along way behind.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Defending Your Life (1991) 92% EDIT “With such a pedigree, Defending Your Life should be a much better film than it is. For it is hard to escape the suspicion that an originally satirical intention has been sweetened in line with a national hunger for consolation about the hereafter.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jul 22, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) 77% EDIT “You will probably forget it faster than yesterday's takeaway pizza -- but then again, even pizza fills a hole.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Red Rock West (1993) 95% EDIT “It moves along smartly enough to deliver a thrill, if little else.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jul 15, 2025 Full Review Jurassic Park (1993) 91% EDIT “It is to Spielberg that the Tyrannosaur's share of the credit must go. Not only has he made a film that rampages along, red in tooth and claw; he has found ingenious ways to illustrate Crichton's themes for [a young] audience.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jul 1, 2025 Full Review Apollo 13 (1995) 94% EDIT “It is to the credit of Howard's film, at least, that excessive flag-waving is avoided. Sadly, the narrative is often as underpowered as the lunar module which brings the astronauts home.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 25, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (1993) 94% EDIT “Here is a rich stew of mismatched expectations, spanning boundaries of nationality, generations and sexual preference, into which laughter, surprise, generosity and unexpected moments of pain have been skillfully blended.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Apr 16, 2025 Full Review Pocahontas (1995) 59% EDIT “You are still left with something fairly meaningless, although it's a pretty enough tale of racial reconciliation. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (1991) 95% EDIT “It is vividly characterised, stunningly designed and animated with brilliant bravura. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 16, 2024 Full Review The Little Mermaid (1989) 92% EDIT “Only the terminally misanthropic will feel any discomfort in allowing this sparkling wave of a film to wash them away.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 13, 2024 Full Review Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 69% EDIT “At times the film seems like a gigantic peepshow; a delirious magic lantern display... Given this hectic profusion, it is scarcely surprising that the film should also contain some thunderous misjudgments. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 26, 2024 Full Review When Harry Met Sally... (1989) 90% EDIT “A richly satisfying and thoroughly delightful film. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jul 4, 2024 Full Review Little Women (1994) 92% EDIT “The result is a nimble sweet-tempered, joyous reconciliation of modern female aspirations with traditional roles. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Bandit Queen (1994) 96% EDIT “Much more than a docudrama, Kapur's uncompromising film spares the viewer very little. Yet it is the opposite of exploitative.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Mar 2, 2024 Full Review The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 89% EDIT “Anyone who buys the denouement would surely believe almost anything.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Mar 2, 2024 Full Review
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