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Lou Lumenick

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The Princess Bride (1987) 93% 2.5/4 EDIT “Neither terribly funny nor rousingly exciting, The Princess Bride tries to be both. It's sad to see a movie that's the victim of its own ambitiousness. ” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Sure Thing (1985) 84% EDIT “Rob Reiner, who directed the brilliant This is Spinal Tap, lets things here lapse into sitcom tedium after a moderately bright beginning. ” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Christine (1983) 72% EDIT “In short, it's pretty low-octane fare.” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Big Top Pee-wee (1988) 31% 2/4 EDIT “Though "Big Top" has its share of moments, I don't think it will appeal to adults nearly as well as "Big Adventure"” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Dec 11, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% 3/4 EDIT “Ed Harris offers a flawless, Oscar-caliber lead performance. ” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Predator (1987) 64% 2/4 EDIT “Unfortunately, this giddily entertaining half-hour is trapped in a noisy, incoherent, and lumbering 106-minute combat movie that will severely test the patience and eardrums of all but hard-core Schwarzenegger fans.” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Oct 30, 2025 Full Review From Beyond (1986) 74% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's good-natured, moderately scary, and reasonably well acted.” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Oct 20, 2025 Full Review Re-Animator (1985) 88% EDIT “[Re-Animator is] an unremittingly gory and silly horror movie.” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Oct 16, 2025 Full Review The Return of the Living Dead (1985) 71% EDIT “The acting is deliberately broad, the special effects are cheesy, and the humor runs to jokes about rigor mortis. The effect is deadening.” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) 78% EDIT “Simultaneously dumb, silly, knowing, and utterly surreal, "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" is the sort of warped children's picture that might have resulted if the early Woody Allen had collaborated with Federico Fellini.” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Jul 30, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% 3/4 EDIT “"The Naked Gun" has more than enough bad jokes to keep you chuckling for its 89 minutes. ” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Explorers (1985) 49% EDIT “Joe Dante's "Explorers," for all its charm and amusing eccentricities, is a children's fantasy that never does manage to gets its act together.” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Superman III (1983) 31% EDIT “Thanks to a witty script by David and Leslie Newman and Richard Lester's slap sticky direction, it's still a lot more fun than the frail romps that Pryor's fans have flocked to in the past. ” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Jul 7, 2025 Full Review Supergirl (1984) 19% EDIT “"Supergirl" is a puerile botch.” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Jun 27, 2025 Full Review Superman II (1980) 88% EDIT “"Superman II" is a big film to see this summer, sophisticated enough to delight adult audiences while keeping the kids on the edge of their seats. It's at least as much fun as "Raiders of the Lost Ark," with characters that are much more involving.” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Day of the Dead (1985) 61% EDIT “Talk about beating a dead corpse.” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Return to Oz (1985) 59% EDIT “Even if "Return to Oz" is a less than classic sequel to a classic movie, it's still the best family entertainment that Hollywood has come up with this year.” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Jun 19, 2025 Full Review Child's Play (1988) 64% 2/4 EDIT “Though the human actors are good, the real star of Child's Play is Chucky, a Cabbage patch clone who's been cleverly animated by a small army of technicians. ” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Jun 5, 2025 Full Review The Karate Kid Part II (1986) 49% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's a worthy children's entertainment, especially since Kamen more clearly makes the point that violence is something to be employed only as a last resort. ” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) May 27, 2025 Full Review The Karate Kid (1984) 81% EDIT “A languidly paced film that drones on for more than two hours, careening like a punch-drunk fighter around plot twists that frequently turn into cul-de-sacs. ” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) May 27, 2025 Full Review Starman (1984) 83% EDIT “While the movie is extremely well acted and paced, director Carpenter is never able to impose his own style on such blatantly second-hand material.” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) May 13, 2025 Full Review Do the Right Thing (1989) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “By not presuming to offer facile solutions to problems that have confounded generations of Americans, Lee has done the right thing.” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Mar 13, 2025 Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% EDIT “For Beatty buffs, it's just great. For anybody else, this "Shampoo" goes down the drain.” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Feb 10, 2025 Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 91% 2/4 EDIT “The problem is that Blue Velvet doesn't even follow its own perverse rules of logic. It's a jumble of styles and scenes, none of which follows from, or builds towards, anything. ” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Jan 22, 2025 Full Review Night Zoo (1987) 2.5/4 EDIT “Night Zoo holds the interest because of the tension between its utterly incongruous elements...” – Bergen Record (New Jersey) Aug 21, 2024 Full Review
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