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Malcolm Johnson

Malcolm Johnson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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North (1994) 12% 1.5/4 EDIT “Reiner's foray into the world of childhood turns into an effort that will please neither North's contemporaries nor their parents and grandparents.” – Hartford Courant Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Misery (1990) 87% 2.5/4 EDIT “This psychological thriller tightens its grip slowly but compellingly as it intensifies to its brutal climax and hallucinatory aftermath.” – Hartford Courant Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The American President (1995) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “Reiner and Sorkin have contrived a series of situations for Douglas and Bening that build into something rare of the screen today: a relationship between two intelligent adults who somehow connect.” – Hartford Courant Jan 20, 2026 Full Review Bite the Bullet (1975) 69% EDIT “Brooks struggles to create a rough mise en scene of the frontier.” – Hartford Courant Jan 15, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 95% 3/4 EDIT “For lovers of medieval mayhem, this second film of the mythical trilogy with present a surfeit of riches. The art of hand-to-hand combat and the assaults and defenses of castle fortresses have rarely enjoyed such spectacular manifestations on film.” – Hartford Courant Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Above all... this faithful tribute to Tolkien unfolds as a celebration of the natural beauties of the director's native New Zealand. ” – Hartford Courant Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Sure Thing (1985) 84% EDIT “Cusack, Zuniga and Reiner all contrive to give real feeling to a comedy that grows in you as the kids roll west. At last, the teenage lust story genre has produced a fine romance for kids.” – Hartford Courant Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “The Princess Bride is an instant classic, an original film with the good parts of Mel Brooks, Monty Python, The Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn, and The Three Musketeers with Gene Kelly. ” – Hartford Courant Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) 78% EDIT “Director Blake Edwards can't sustain the pace no matter how hard he tries.” – Hartford Courant Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Christine (1983) 72% EDIT “The film seems to sputter at times, though it never stalls out completely.” – Hartford Courant Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Big Top Pee-wee (1988) 31% 1/4 EDIT “In "Big Top," Pee-wee hits the bottom.” – Hartford Courant Dec 11, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% 2.5/4 EDIT “While Cameron's film is a life-and-death struggle in the darkness of the deep, however, it creates an absorbing world of danger and tension.” – Hartford Courant Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 91% 1.5/4 EDIT “..."Terminator 2" plays much better as a weapons demonstration/truck-o-rama than as a telling collision of the future and now.” – Hartford Courant Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Terminator (1984) 90% EDIT “Under Cameron's slam-bang direction, the automotive mayhem is fast and exciting and Schwarzenegger stalks through it all with glowering malice. ” – Hartford Courant Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Wiz (1978) 38% EDIT “Most of the cast of "The Wiz" looks flat or desperate.” – Hartford Courant Nov 17, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (1987) 59% 2/4 EDIT “All of this is predictable, but exciting and occasionally amusing as Schwarzenegger mutters his sadistic jokes while dispatching his foes.” – Hartford Courant Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Predator 2 (1990) 36% 0.5/4 EDIT “A senseless and offensive orgy of violence.” – Hartford Courant Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Predator (1987) 64% 1/5 EDIT “In "Predator," a Teutonic Rambo meets an alien that sometimes disguises itself as a walking fern bar. The results are the dumbest, most lumbering Arnold Schwarzenegger blood-and-guts outing yet.” – Hartford Courant Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Dracula (1979) 64% EDIT “Langella's haunted, yet fiery presence casts a chill air of bemused nobility over an otherwise overblown vampire chase.” – Hartford Courant Oct 21, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% 3/4 EDIT “Although the focus of the film is on Omar, played by Gordon Warnecke with a boyish charm that turns opaque and cold, Johnny [Dey-Lewis] is the film's most intriguing and charismatic character. ” – Hartford Courant Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% 2.5/4 EDIT “Though enjoyable in a juvenile sort of way, there is too much "unfinished business" here.” – Hartford Courant Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Tron (1982) 60% EDIT “It's strictly a picture for computer and video-game freaks and it ought to send the Disney people rushing back to their drawing boards.” – Hartford Courant Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “The main problem is that "Hard Times" has no recognizable point.” – Hartford Courant Sep 26, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Anderson has created a sleaze human comedy -- though with an un-Altman-like sympathy for his people.” – Hartford Courant Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Spider-Man (2002) 90% 3/4 EDIT “Spider-Man has a generally sunny, bright look, kind of like Superman. ” – Hartford Courant Sep 24, 2025 Full Review
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