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Judy Gerstel

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

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The American President (1995) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Stylishly directed by Rob Reiner and cleverly written by Aaron Sorkin, The American President is a spirited, feel-good diversion. ” – Toronto Star Jan 22, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% 3/4 EDIT “Despite some formula plotting, the filmmakers do manage to make a smart, entertaining movie with their adroit, if somewhat shallow, exploration of character, milieu, morality and jurisprudence.” – Detroit Free Press Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% 7/10 EDIT “Spielberg's latest attempt to commit his boyishness to the screen is likely to entertain kids. And there are worse things to fault a movie for, in the grand scheme of Hollywood crimes and misdemeanors, than rabid narcissism. ” – Detroit Free Press Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% 4/5 EDIT “It's the comments about growing up with no cinematic mirror of oneself that are most affective, however, in Celluloid Closet. ” – Toronto Star Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% 4/5 EDIT “The raw energy alone buoys the movie through a so-so narrative that begins smartly enough with dark humor, making us laugh at both the banality and the twisted innocence of the porn purveyors.” – Toronto Star Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Toy Story (1995) 100% 5/5 EDIT “More fun than Christmas mornings and birthday presents and winning a prize and making a friend, more fun than parking for free and falling in love and flying to Paris, more fun than anything you can think of is Toy Story. ” – Toronto Star Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Jurassic Park (1993) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Godzilla, eat your heart out -- or let one of Jurassic Park's velociraptors do it for you. You're history, pal. ” – Detroit Free Press Jul 1, 2025 Full Review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 57% 4/5 EDIT “Something has survived, all right. It's Steven Spielberg's genius for constructing compelling, white-knuckle spectacles.” – Toronto Star Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Mulan (1998) 91% 4/5 EDIT “You'd expect nothing less than state-of-the-art animation from Disney, but some of the scenes in Mulan are truly arresting, with shadows, camera movement, detail and definition.” – Toronto Star Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Hercules (1997) 83% 4/5 EDIT “The script is nimble and funny, mostly broad but sometimes surprisingly whimsical or quick-witted, as well it should be, with humor and polish added by former stand-up comics credited with an Emmy-nominated Seinfeld episode.” – Toronto Star Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Aladdin (1992) 96% 4/4 EDIT “Manic, magic, ballooning with mischief, Aladdin busts the speed limit and smashes the record for animated mayhem and achievement. It's hip and flip and more fun than new toys or falling in love.” – Detroit Free Press Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 69% 2/4 EDIT “Quite a mouthful. Quite an eyeful. Quite a mess. This latest cinematic interpretation of the Dracula legend by the legendary director is overdirected, overwrought, and underwhelming. It's a like a grand opera without the music.” – Detroit Free Press Sep 26, 2024 Full Review Alien 3 (1992) 44% 3/4 EDIT “The result is a very strange Alien movie, far more cerebral and less scary than the first two but successful nevertheless. And still not nice.” – Detroit Free Press Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Showgirls (1995) 24% 1/5 EDIT “The filmmakers rub our noses in the whole sordid sex thing we love to hate and hate to love, no doubt laughing at us the entire time, all the way to the bank.” – Toronto Star Mar 27, 2024 Full Review Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 92% 4/4 EDIT “The sheer joy of this film is its literate, superbly comical and occasionally naughty screenplay and dialogue.” – Detroit Free Press Feb 28, 2024 Full Review Grease (1978) 65% 5/5 EDIT “Not just a mythic movie, but a phenomenon and this re-release, with a new print but nothing added, is ever-lovin', double-dippin' nostalgia. After 20 years, it still works on every level, from cartoon to camp.” – Toronto Star Feb 7, 2024 Full Review The Last of the Mohicans (1992) 88% 2/4 EDIT “Earnest, well-crafted, superficially entertaining but unremarkable, Last of the Mohicans may owe more to Harlequin romances and Louis L'Amour westerns than to James Fenimore Cooper's classic tale of the American frontier.” – Detroit Free Press Dec 14, 2023 Full Review When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) 68% 2/4 EDIT “While director Luis Mandoki lays on a lavish production, this movie is really just expensive soap. It's doin' the ol' 12-step in designer duds.” – Detroit Free Press Sep 1, 2023 Full Review White Men Can't Jump (1992) 75% 3/4 EDIT “A movie that hustles audiences in the best possible way. ” – Detroit Free Press Aug 24, 2023 Full Review Armageddon (1998) 43% 3/5 EDIT “A blast of a movie in which guys with drills save the planet from a low-flying hunkajunk is itself a hunkajunk but superior junk, propulsive, cacophonous, hyperkinetic and not lacking one verse of the summer entertainment bible.” – Toronto Star Jun 21, 2023 Full Review Army of Darkness (1992) 68% 3/4 EDIT “Campbell's screwy machismo alone is worth the trip. ” – Detroit Free Press Mar 31, 2023 Full Review Addams Family Values (1993) 76% EDIT “"Values'' is not so much a case of trying to be ooky, kooky, creepy again as trying to be clever, nasty, smarmy. Surprisingly often it works, probably because of screenwriter Paul Rudnick.” – Detroit Free Press Sep 21, 2022 Full Review El Mariachi (1992) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Like an outlaw Strictly Ballroom, El Mariachi is an irresistible send-up with an engaging plot.” – Detroit Free Press Sep 8, 2021 Full Review Doc Hollywood (1991) 66% 6/10 EDIT “It looks like a movie, sounds like a movie, smells like a movie. But is it a movie? Naaah, it's a sitcom on steroids.” – Detroit Free Press Jun 24, 2021 Full Review Mississippi Masala (1991) 92% 8/10 EDIT “A movie that is not only accessible and earthy, but also innocent and wise.” – Detroit Free Press Mar 26, 2021 Full Review
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