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Noel Taylor

Noel Taylor's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Misery (1990) 87% 3.5/5 EDIT “Reiner builds a devastating momentum.” – Ottawa Citizen Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% EDIT “It is a rare and charming film.” – Ottawa Citizen Jan 13, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% 4.5/5 EDIT “It's a movie with so much moral force that it could almost direct itself, if [Rob] Reiner hadn't done it so methodically. ” – Ottawa Citizen Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Sure Thing (1985) 84% EDIT “Reiner packages the whole trip neatly to include oddball encounters with roadside flotsam, and spices it with the mellowing relationship of the two youngsters. ” – Ottawa Citizen Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Death Race 2000 (1975) 80% EDIT “Death Race has the look of a low-cost film with none of the responsibilities of moviemakers who get all indignant about hypothetical horrors of the next century.” – Ottawa Citizen Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% 3/5 EDIT “It's the ultimate Spielberg, a technical triumph, and that will see it through the Christmas parade. ” – Ottawa Citizen Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Christine (1983) 72% 3.5/5 EDIT “Super 1950s rock score and some suggestive automobile imagery add up to slick entertainment.” – Ottawa Citizen Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 91% 3/5 EDIT “For sheer, stupefying, screen-filling destructive size, Terminator 2 is the ultimate weapon. Movies won't (can't?) come any bigger, louder or expend so much technical sweat as this - and all over a couple of cyborgs trying to terminate each other.” – Ottawa Citizen Dec 9, 2025 Full Review The Terminator (1984) 90% EDIT “There's no real suspense to The Terminator, just one long bloody, pointless and rather boring massacre.” – Ottawa Citizen Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Peeper (1975) 30% EDIT “This one sets out to be a brain twister... but it contorts itself out of existence.” – Ottawa Citizen Nov 22, 2025 Full Review The Wiz (1978) 38% EDIT “It's all packaged spectacularly by Sidney Lumet.” – Ottawa Citizen Nov 17, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (1987) 59% EDIT “Since Arnie never loses there's not much tension and there's an awful lot of mutilation. ” – Ottawa Citizen Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Predator 2 (1990) 36% 1/5 EDIT “Street fights, chases and all-round carnage make sleazy flick.” – Ottawa Citizen Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Dracula (1979) 64% EDIT “It's a handsome production which hardly seems worth all the creative effort and costly attention lavish on it.” – Ottawa Citizen Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% EDIT “The seeker of cinematic truth will applaud its boldness and the honesty of Deitch's treatment. ” – Ottawa Citizen Oct 12, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% EDIT “Prepare to be amused, moved, outraged -- and occasionally shocked. ” – Ottawa Citizen Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Farewell, My Lovely (1975) 76% EDIT “It all adds up to a calculated recollection and a modestly exciting entertainment, enough to offer a tantalizing taste of Chandler but not the full-bodied flavor.” – Ottawa Citizen Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “There is a curious combination here of good intention and superficiality which lands Hard Times somewhere between raw adventure and near-realism -- but satisfying the demands of neither.” – Ottawa Citizen Sep 26, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Burnett, who is making his feature film debut is a film-maker under control. Nothing gets away from him.” – Ottawa Citizen Sep 25, 2025 Full Review This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 98% EDIT “The fine line between parodied nonsense and phoney reality has always been a bit thin in the pop business; Reiner makes it a hair's breadth.” – Ottawa Citizen Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Cooley High (1975) 83% EDIT “It is tuned into the youth market but more as a rather frantic diversion, than as an honest reflection of life in a harsher world.” – Ottawa Citizen Aug 15, 2025 Full Review Pumpkinhead (1988) 51% 1/5 EDIT “Winston's way with tension is about as crude as his special effects. ” – Ottawa Citizen Aug 14, 2025 Full Review Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) 78% EDIT “Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is not like any comedy you'll have seen on the screen for the last decade or two. ” – Ottawa Citizen Jul 30, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% 3/5 EDIT “The Naked Gun is for clowns and is best enjoyed in the company of other clowns so that no one really notices how awful some of the gags are because they're so busy splitting their sides over the one that didn't get away. ” – Ottawa Citizen Jul 24, 2025 Full Review DuckTales, the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) 66% 3/5 EDIT “The animation isn't stellar, but small children will like it.” – Ottawa Citizen Jul 17, 2025 Full Review
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