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John Brosnan

John Brosnan's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Christine (1983) 72% EDIT “Christine is definitely a Rolls Royce among horror movies.” – Starburst Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Supergirl (1984) 19% EDIT “The script is the movie's main handicap -- a lead weight that prevents it from ever taking off as it should.” – Starburst Jun 28, 2025 Full Review Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 94% EDIT “A glorious mixture of spectacular, fast-paced action and sly humor.” – Starburst May 4, 2023 Full Review Blind Date (1984) EDIT “This is tack with a capital 'T'.” – Starburst Aug 2, 2022 Full Review Zelig (1983) 97% EDIT “I found the picture's cod-documentary structure rather limiting and after a while I started wishing that the real movie would start.” – Starburst Aug 1, 2022 Full Review Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) 29% EDIT “A moderately entertaining mixture of Mad Max 2 and Escape from New York done in 3-D. ” – Starburst Aug 1, 2022 Full Review The Island at the Top of the World (1974) 50% EDIT “It's a fast, relatively painless hour and a half which won't bore you even though you may wish that the script could have been a little meatier.” – Starburst Jul 29, 2022 Full Review Android (1982) 86% EDIT “The best thing about Android is its intelligent, witty script.” – Starburst Jul 29, 2022 Full Review Creepshow (1982) 66% EDIT “You'll probably leave the cinema thinking you've seen a fairly entertaining horror movie with more laughs than shocks.” – Starburst Jul 29, 2022 Full Review Blade Runner (1982) 89% EDIT “A masterpiece.” – Starburst Jul 29, 2022 Full Review Poltergeist (1982) 88% EDIT “A family horror movie designed to offend as few people as possible and to appeal to the majority.” – Starburst Jul 29, 2022 Full Review Alligator (1980) 87% EDIT “Intelligent, witty and refreshingly original. ” – Starburst Jul 28, 2022 Full Review Heavy Metal (1981) 66% EDIT “ Heavy Metal is a mind boggling, mind blowing animation extravaganza.” – Starburst Jul 27, 2022 Full Review An American Werewolf in London (1981) 89% EDIT “This is a revolutionary movie... It pull's off the difficult trick of revitalizing the genre while parodying at the same time. ” – Starburst Jul 27, 2022 Full Review Blow Out (1981) 88% EDIT “Blow Out may not be De Palma's best film to date but it's certainly the best thriller I've seen this year. And like all his movies it's a 'must see' if you have any real interest in the cinema.” – Starburst Jul 27, 2022 Full Review Outland (1981) 59% EDIT “ It is a beautifully photographed façade of a real movie.” – Starburst Jul 27, 2022 Full Review For Your Eyes Only (1981) 69% EDIT “It is definitely a movie where you can start watching it at any point and not feel confused about what is going on — because there is nothing going on.” – Starburst Jul 27, 2022 Full Review Friday the 13th, Part 2 (1981) 36% EDIT “It may be tacky, cheaply made and unoriginal but the basic formula, established in the first film by Sean Cunningham, is fool- proof.” – Starburst Jul 27, 2022 Full Review Altered States (1980) 86% EDIT “Altered States is a total cinematic experience that aims to work directly on the emotions but at the same time... it doesn't insult the intelligence while doing so.” – Starburst Jul 27, 2022 Full Review Excalibur (1981) 73% EDIT “Excalibur is an embarrassment... it’s the banality of much of the dialogue in Excalibur that’s so depressing.” – Starburst Jul 27, 2022 Full Review Scanners (1981) 69% EDIT “Not destined to be a classic, nor even the best Cronenberg so far, Scanners is nonetheless an entertaining and often exciting horror-thriller. ” – Starburst Jul 26, 2022 Full Review Popeye (1980) 60% EDIT “Altman's naturalism and the unreal subject matter that makes Popeye so interesting and unusual... a genuinely original atmosphere.” – Starburst Jul 26, 2022 Full Review Superman II (1980) 88% EDIT “Superman II is a winner on all counts and is even better than Superman I. It shines as a perfect example of how to put a comic strip character on the screen. ” – Starburst Jul 26, 2022 Full Review Somewhere in Time (1980) 52% EDIT “Somewhere In Time, like its central character, is out of its proper time and place. It's an interesting experiment, and a brave one, but one that was doomed to fail in 1981.” – Starburst Jul 26, 2022 Full Review The Changeling (1980) 85% EDIT “The movie is basically old and familiar territory revisited but Medak is a good enough film maker to make you feel the visit has been worth-while.” – Starburst Jul 26, 2022 Full Review
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