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Katherine Monk

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North (1994) 12% 2/5 EDIT “Reiner doesn't spend anytime to sew it all together into a coherent, comic and meaningful film.” – Vancouver Sun Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 94% 4/5 EDIT “To Jackson's credit, Return of the King is not only a jaw-dropping feast for the eyes, but a coherent, rousing narrative that manages to bring emotional closure to the whole project.” – Vancouver Sun Jan 14, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 95% 3/5 EDIT “Credit to director Peter Jackson for making the whole film work, from beginning to end, when it could have easily been a jumbled disaster.” – Vancouver Sun Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Spider-Man (2002) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Director Dam Raimi not only nails the look and mood of the comic book with his compressed tableaux, primary-colored palette and abbreviated story-telling, he finds the perfect balance between realism and fantasy. ” – Vancouver Sun Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Requiem for a Dream (2000) 80% 4/5 EDIT “As a story, this long, bleak descent into consumer hell doesn't sound like it would be much fun to watch as a movie. But there is something undeniably engrossing about Requiem for a Dream and it's a direct result of Darren Aronofsky's direction.” – Vancouver Sun Aug 23, 2025 Full Review Red Rock West (1993) 95% 3/5 EDIT “Cage's real coup is that he doesn't push the good side and make Mike a really boring character. He seems to possess an incredible sense of internal timing that pulls depth from his character when you least expect it.” – Vancouver Sun Jul 15, 2025 Full Review Superman Returns (2006) 72% 2.5/5 EDIT “...Singer had all the tools to strike a balance between action-movie spectacle and moving human drama. But he can't quite pull it off because the script feels incomplete from the very first sequence, and grows more confusing with each new scene.” – Vancouver Sun Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Jurassic Park (1993) 91% 3.5/5 EDIT “When it's all over, it feels like you just survived nine rounds with old George Foreman: dazed, pumped on adrenalin and a few brain cells less than when you started... but you're pretty sure you had fun.” – Vancouver Sun Jul 1, 2025 Full Review Jurassic Park III (2001) 49% 3/5 EDIT “With better graphics than its predecessors, a complete understanding of its comic-book proportions, a few good gags and a mercifully short running time, it sputters to its destination and delivers some mindless, summer fun without too many stalls. ” – Vancouver Sun Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Final Destination (2000) 50% 2/5 EDIT “It offers enough blood, chills, special effects and bad jokes to keep it in the air long enough for a ride. It simply fails to land in one piece.” – Vancouver Sun May 22, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible III (2006) 73% 3/5 EDIT “Director J.J. Abrams does a nice job making Cruise look heroic...without making it look like a fashion shoot -although, there are times when it's tough to tell- and he even has enough confidence to offer some quiet moments to push some emotional content.” – Vancouver Sun May 21, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible II (2000) 58% 3.5/5 EDIT “It's got the right look, the chiseled detail and the wrinkle-free image that only a face-peeling expert like Woo could achieve. ” – Vancouver Sun May 8, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) 62% 3/5 EDIT “I was still frustrated by the reliance on computers when it came to character, but the light sabre finale was such good, silly fun -- that I forgave Lucas all the technical excess, embraced the hokum and enjoyed the ride.” – Vancouver Sun Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) 79% 2.5/5 EDIT “Revenge of the Sith is an anemic script pumped up on so many cinematic steroids, it's lost all sense of dramatic finesse. ” – Vancouver Sun Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) 54% 2/5 EDIT “A good movie touches you, and Phantom Menace - cocooned in cold, computer-generated images and dull, unsympathetic characters - couldn't poke a single finger out of its hard drive shell.” – Vancouver Sun Apr 16, 2025 Full Review Scream 2 (1997) 83% 3/5 EDIT “Scream 2 continues the joke and for the most part, the gags are just as good and the film is just as entertaining. ” – Vancouver Sun Feb 6, 2025 Full Review The Lion King (1994) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Imagine hamlet in fuzzy costumes, and you have a pretty good idea of what The Lion King is all about. ” – Vancouver Sun Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Hercules (1997) 83% 3/5 EDIT “What a perfect Disney statement for our times. Multinational conglomerate remakes myth according to its own image based in money, corporate domination and misplaced family values.” – Vancouver Sun Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Alien Resurrection (1997) 56% 3/5 EDIT “Alien Resurrection has big props, a big budget and some brilliant horror, but it lacks feeling and blows the climax. Must be "one of those chick things."” – Vancouver Sun Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Almost Famous (2000) 91% 3.5/5 EDIT “The resulting revelations are about as deep as "rock 'n' roll is a vicious game," but Crowe knows his material intimately and translates this life-altering drama into a movie that is fleetingly profound and profoundly entertaining.” – Vancouver Sun Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Forrest Gump (1994) 75% 4/5 EDIT “A tasty mix of the comic and the absurd. You never know what you're gonna get, but you can always be sure Hanks will deliver the goods in mint condition.” – Vancouver Sun Mar 1, 2024 Full Review Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 92% 4/5 EDIT “You'll laugh, you'll cry. In short, you could say Four Weddings and a Funeral delivers everything it promises.” – Vancouver Sun Feb 29, 2024 Full Review Grease (1978) 65% 2/4 EDIT “20 years hence -- despite time's inability to romanticize every sentimental stain and pop culture souvenir along the way -- Grease just ins't very good. ” – Vancouver Sun Feb 7, 2024 Full Review Mean Girls (2004) 84% 3/4 EDIT “Mean Girls escapes relatively unscathed thanks to the presence of Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams, who form the central core of the movie as rival teen queens. ” – Vancouver Sun Jan 9, 2024 Full Review Smoke Signals (1998) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Only after you've sat with it for a while does the greater, universal message of true self-love take form. Fortunately, the delayed impact takes nothing away from the movie's upfront entertainment value.” – Vancouver Sun Nov 8, 2023 Full Review
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