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Neil Jillett

Neil Jillett's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Misery (1990) 87% EDIT “Bates, keeping caricature within almost plausible limits, is wonderfully funny and threatening as the unpredictable Annie.” – The Age (Australia) Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% EDIT “Superb ensemble work by its four young stars rarely masks the fact that "Stand By Me" is a wetly self-conscious little movie.” – The Age (Australia) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Time Guardian (1987) EDIT “This Australian farrago, with American mini-stars Carrie Fisher and Dean Stockwell clumsily grated on to it, has an incomprehensible plot. ” – The Age (Australia) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% EDIT “This is a lively, genial film that never pushes its fun too hard. It provides excitement without nastiness, vigor without vicious violence. ” – The Age (Australia) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% EDIT “[Rob Reiner] pushes this film along with an energetic confidence that gives an audience little time to ponder the improbabilities and ambiguities before another lively clash of characters comes along.” – The Age (Australia) Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) 17% EDIT “Compared with many films around at the moment, this comedy shows some imagination and is mildly entertaining.” – The Age (Australia) Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Bloodlust (1992) EDIT “The swings in style, from deadpan to contemporary Gothic, are more inept than funny.” – The Age (Australia) Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% EDIT “Hook lacks fun and tension (the reliance on John Williams's bombastic score is another give-away that Spielberg knows everything is going wrong). The film staggers along and regularly comes to a complete stop.” – The Age (Australia) Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% EDIT “It is hard to feel any interest in the fate of people who, you suspect, will be hauled out of unexciting predicaments by supernatural forces.” – The Age (Australia) Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 91% EDIT “[James Cameron's] screenplay...is confusingly plotted, despite the skinniness and unoriginality of its ideas.” – The Age (Australia) Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Re-Animator (1985) 88% EDIT “I found it thoroughly enjoyable garbage, a comic exercise in shlock.” – The Age (Australia) Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% EDIT “Desert Hearts has political and humanist value in its argument that lesbians are people, too. But it has the air of expecting to get by on good intentions rather than on solid merit, and it could have done with more humor to lighten its solemnity. ” – The Age (Australia) Oct 12, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% EDIT “It is rare to find a film that has something fresh to say about religion, politics, sex, or race. Laundrette takes on all four with entertaining intelligence, and that is just for starters. ” – The Age (Australia) Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Tron (1982) 60% EDIT “Writer-director Steven Lisberger manages to put across his fairly complex plot with great speed and bold simplicity.” – The Age (Australia) Oct 3, 2025 Full Review This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 98% EDIT “'This Is Spinal Tap' is a work of barbed affection.” – The Age (Australia) Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% EDIT “Sam Raimi gives 'Darkman' plenty of energy. ” – The Age (Australia) Aug 25, 2025 Full Review Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) 78% EDIT “Reubens seems to be aiming for an impression of child-like innocence, but the effect more often is grotesquely childish. ” – The Age (Australia) Jul 30, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% EDIT “The satire may look genial, but its accuracy is savage. ” – The Age (Australia) Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Bingo (1991) EDIT “It is hard to say which age group the American children's film Bingo is aimed at, but it should appeal to adults willing to put themselves in a childish frame of mind for 90 minutes or so.” – The Age (Australia) Jul 22, 2025 Full Review A Woman's Tale (1991) 100% EDIT “There is a jerkiness about the way the film is put together, as if it has not been fully thought out. But, whatever its faults, A Woman's Tale does have a persuasive concern with the troubles and concerns of its central character, Martha.” – The Age (Australia) Jul 22, 2025 Full Review The Commitments (1991) 90% EDIT “The story is compelling but thin... But the colorful characters, and the way Parker has them interacting against the grottier corners of Dublin, give the film an enormous vitality, brisk and raucous, that never tips over into larger-than-life pandemonium.” – The Age (Australia) Jul 22, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) 77% EDIT “Although The Naked Gun 2½ is a farce, the film-makers show considerable skill in espousing a fashionable and worthy cause without demeaning it. ” – The Age (Australia) Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Red Rock West (1993) 95% EDIT “Although 'Red Rock West' is a pastiche of two movie styles rather than an original creation, it is put together with an entertaining cleverness that makes it look fresh.” – The Age (Australia) Jul 15, 2025 Full Review Explorers (1985) 49% EDIT “Even with the handicaps of excessive length and underdeveloped themes, it is still a children's holiday entertainment of considerable charm and originality.” – The Age (Australia) Jul 9, 2025 Full Review Jurassic Park (1993) 91% EDIT “The special-effects dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are as good as the publicity has claimed, but otherwise this mixture of prehistoric fantasy and contemporary adventure is a fairly run-of-the-mill effort by director Steven Spielberg.” – The Age (Australia) Jul 1, 2025 Full Review
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