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Mike Clark

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Misery (1990) 87% 3/4 EDIT “Rob Reiner's competent-plus wax job on William Goldman's script is keenly orchestrated manipulation.” – USA Today Jan 21, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% 3/4 EDIT “Like 1954's The Caine Mutiny, which was equally slick and imperfect, it's finally put over by a money cast and killer courtroom climax. ” – USA Today Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Out of the Past (1947) 87% EDIT “This is just about everything a noir screen experience should be, even down to a title that has really plays on the imagination.” – Home Media Magazine Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% 2/4 EDIT “Don't blame perfectly cast Williams for Hook's lack of charm. He fares better than Hoffman, who gives a technically precise -- but mirthless -- performance. Astonishingly, even the sets (which look like sets) are ugly -- drab and overlit. ” – USA Today Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% 3/4 EDIT “Most of this underwater blockbuster is "good," and at least two action set pieces are great. But the dopey wrap-up sinks the rest 20,000 leagues.” – USA Today Dec 5, 2025 Full Review From Beyond (1986) 74% 3/4 EDIT “As crazed as [Re-Animator] after a slower start.” – USA Today Oct 19, 2025 Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% 2/4 EDIT “A monotonous comedy-drama, though the setting is a plus. ” – USA Today Oct 13, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “The most original '86 movie to date...” – USA Today Oct 10, 2025 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% 4/4 EDIT “Beyond the gay writers and historians who offer their own essential perspectives, the film is packed with savvily chosen screen scenes and just about every straight performer who ought to be here -- from Shirley MacLaine to Tom Hanks. ” – USA Today Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% 3/4 EDIT “Raimi delivers a high-octane revenge piece.” – USA Today Aug 24, 2025 Full Review Requiem for a Dream (2000) 80% 2/4 EDIT “The fidgety style that can energize a fairly lively debut cheapie doesn't work very well with a cast of familiar faces. It detracts from a movie whose historically capable and seemingly well-cast actors might have carried the show by themselves...” – USA Today Aug 23, 2025 Full Review Starman (1984) 83% 2/4 EDIT “Starman is a film without a single surprise or suspenseful moment.” – USA Today Aug 22, 2025 Full Review High and Low (1963) 97% 4/4 EDIT “Just to prove he could do any kind of film, Akira Kurosawa adapted Ed McBain's "King's Ransom"; the result is my favorite detective movie ever.” – Gannett News Service Aug 13, 2025 Full Review The Return of the Living Dead (1985) 71% 2.5/4 EDIT “It ultimately proves the futility of satirizing a satire.” – USA Today Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) 78% 4/4 EDIT “Pee-wee's Big Adventure should captivate 4-year-olds, 40-year-olds and anyone else whose heart is beating.” – USA Today Jul 29, 2025 Full Review Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen (2000) 88% 3/4 EDIT “It's puzzling why the original passed up the chance to include a rather amazing shot of the possessed Regan walking downstairs while bent over backward like a crab.” – USA Today Jul 29, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% 3/4 EDIT “"Airplane!" creators Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker may spoof cliches, but this often uproarious elaboration on ABC's short-lived 1982 series never stoops to the trite.” – Gannett News Service Jul 24, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) 77% 3/4 EDIT “Though admittedly a minor delight, this is the only movie whose end credits identify the film's grip, then credit Martha Raye for Poli-grip, then define "grip" for millions who wants to know just what a grip does.” – USA Today Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Jurassic Park (1993) 91% 3.5/4 EDIT “On a "people" level, "Park" isn't Jaws, but on a jolt level -- oh, yes, it is.” – USA Today Jul 1, 2025 Full Review Day of the Dead (1985) 61% 2/4 EDIT “To give Dead its due, the final reel has some punch because of Tom Savini's super effects.” – USA Today Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Return to Oz (1985) 59% 3.5/4 EDIT “Will Vinton's Claymation effects manage to look both primitive and cool.” – USA Today Jun 17, 2025 Full Review Night Moves (1975) 78% 4/4 EDIT “Screenwriter Alan Sharp's dialogue, as edgy as his name, combines with Penn's incisive direction to create memorable characters.” – USA Today May 23, 2025 Full Review Dirty Work (1998) 21% 1.5/4 EDIT “Norm Macdonald stars in a crude assemblage of sketches (it would be misleading to call this a movie).” – Gannett News Service May 15, 2025 Full Review Report to the Commissioner (1975) 55% EDIT “This one has the feel of a movie that’s coming near a cycle’s end, and director Milton Katselas (the famed acting teacher) isn’t as good at setting up a seamless A-to-B-to-C narrative the way Don Siegel, William Friedkin and Sidney Lumet were.” – Home Media Magazine Mar 12, 2025 Full Review Mr. Ricco (1975) 30% EDIT “Mr. Ricco is kind of a footnote.” – Home Media Magazine Mar 7, 2025 Full Review
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