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North (1994) 12% 2/5 EDIT “A disastrous attempt at surreal whimsy from the usually reliable Rob Reiner.” – Ottawa Citizen Jan 23, 2026 Full Review The American President (1995) 90% 3/5 EDIT “In a country where presidents are royalty, this is rich comic stuff, and the surprising thing is how well it works. ” – Ottawa Citizen Jan 20, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 94% 4/5 EDIT “The weakest link in the project. The Lord of the Rings is still a majestic accomplishment, a masterful work of imagination on a grand, mythic scale, and it is carried to a satisfying conclusion by virtue of its momentum alone.” – Ottawa Citizen Jan 14, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 95% 4.5/5 EDIT “Gollum bears an uncanny resemblance to Steve Buscemi. It's a computer creation as well, and the most fully formed character in the film. We loves it to pieces.” – Ottawa Citizen Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 91% 4.5/5 EDIT “The Fellowship of the Ring is a grandly imaginative epic that captures both the stirring adventure and the little-boy fussiness of this gargantuan project. ” – Ottawa Citizen Jan 13, 2026 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% 3/5 EDIT “Cameron seems to be saying, "You want action? I'll give you action.” – Ottawa Citizen Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% 3/5 EDIT “Thanks mostly to its effects, Casper works often enough to be appealing. ” – Ottawa Citizen Sep 29, 2025 Full Review Spider-Man (2002) 90% 3.5/5 EDIT “Spider-Man, which plays like the collectors-edition first issue of some long-running series, doesn't have the gothic darkness of Tim Burton's first batman movie, but it has an aching adolescent tone all its own. ” – Ottawa Citizen Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% 4/5 EDIT “It was the last great party. It was when the neighbours asked you to turn up the music. It was disgusting. And it is relived in all its glittery horror in Paul Thomas Anderson's remarkable tour-de-disco.” – Ottawa Citizen Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Night of the Living Dead (1990) 57% 3.5/5 EDIT “Pace is everything in horror, and Night of the Living Dead puts the screams in all the right places.” – Ottawa Citizen Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Toy Story (1995) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Ingenious, charming, and breathtaking. ” – Ottawa Citizen Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Babe (1995) 98% 3/5 EDIT “Pending the next pig film, however, we are happy to recommend Babe, which is a comic fantasy with an offbeat charm that should appeal to the under-eight crowd.” – Ottawa Citizen Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Waterworld (1995) 60% 3/5 EDIT “There's a tiny touch of Indiana Jones about this movie, a tone of self-parody that catches you by surprise. ” – Ottawa Citizen Jul 28, 2025 Full Review Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) 66% 2/5 EDIT “The idea that was once so fresh...has now run out of steam itself. The straight-faced lunacy, the off-the-wall parodies, the shameless slapstick that was so much dopey fun, have lost their comic energy.” – Ottawa Citizen Jul 22, 2025 Full Review I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) 47% EDIT “I Know What You Did... is disappointingly straightforward, more gruesome than thrilling and far less dense with its references. ” – Ottawa Citizen Jul 15, 2025 Full Review Red Rock West (1993) 95% 3/5 EDIT “For an hour or so, Red Rock West is a dark and engaging little thriller.” – Ottawa Citizen Jul 15, 2025 Full Review Superman Returns (2006) 72% 3.5/5 EDIT “This is a smart, well-made comic-book movie that's so in love with its own mythos that even Kevin Spacey...seems exhausted by the theatricality and religion.” – Ottawa Citizen Jul 8, 2025 Full Review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 57% 3.5/5 EDIT “There is a momentum of preposterousness in The Lost World that is giddy once it gets rolling, and it is the best part of the movie.” – Ottawa Citizen Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Apollo 13 (1995) 94% 3/5 EDIT “It has, in its way, the right stuff: a compelling story, lots of technical pizzazz, and Tom Hanks. But for all its virtues, it remains an earthbound tale.” – Ottawa Citizen Jun 24, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible III (2006) 73% 3/5 EDIT “This is the third and most emotional...episode in the series about the force that takes on impossible missions and accomplishes them through a combination of fancy high-tech equipment, athletic know-how, blind luck, and incomprehensible editing.” – Ottawa Citizen May 21, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible (1996) 67% 3/5 EDIT “This movie tries to expand the caper film genre into a one-man-against-the-world-adventure, but it's a big mistake from the start.” – Ottawa Citizen May 6, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) 62% 3/5 EDIT “Episode II is a work of unfettered and rich (if derivative) imagination.” – Ottawa Citizen Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) 79% 4/5 EDIT “III is the darkest of the Star Wars episodes, and the strongest of the second trilogy. ” – Ottawa Citizen Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% 5/5 EDIT “Star Wars was a breakthrough in cinema technology that seems fresh even today.” – Ottawa Citizen Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 92% 4/5 EDIT “The Holy Grail is the most inspired of the Monty Python pictures, and the funniest, and the one that lingers longest in the collective memory (i.e. mine).” – Ottawa Citizen Apr 1, 2025 Full Review
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