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Richard Freedman

Richard Freedman's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Southern Comfort (1981) 79% EDIT “It is a taut, occasionally gruesome, account of inadequate men in the grip of overwhelming panic against a background of awesome natural indifference to their plight.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Take This Job and Shove It (1981) EDIT “"Take This Job And Shove it" is that rarity among Hollywood productions: A picture about how blue-collar workers really live.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Witchboard (1986) 50% EDIT “Lethargically directed by Kevin S. Tenney, who also wrote the screenplay, "Witchboard" proves you don't need to drink decaffeinated coffee to sleep like a baby -- from frame one on.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Near Dark (1987) 81% 2/4 EDIT “A stylish but silly vampire epic.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Like Father, Like Son (1987) 0/4 EDIT “The comic potentialities raised by this premise are thoroughly exploited in about three minutes.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Frantic (1988) 77% 2.5/4 EDIT “There are so many good things in "Frantic" that one feels irritated the movie as a whole isn't better than it is. ” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Suspect (1987) 71% 3/4 EDIT “"Suspect" is a thoroughly enjoyable example of an overworked genre.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Anguish (1987) 57% 2/4 EDIT “"Anguish" is just what we needed to wile the rest of the winter away: a slasher movie with metaphysical pretensions.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Sylvia (1985) EDIT “Pleasantly informative, if dramatically rather dim.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Pirates (1986) 25% EDIT “Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of Maa lox for "Pirates," the sorriest movie ever to fly the Jolly Roger.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Gallipoli (1981) 91% EDIT “It maintains interest throughout, without ever being a particularly gripping, dramatic experience.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Stakeout (1987) 89% EDIT “The liveliest buddy movie -- police division -- in years.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Moving (1988) 33% 2/4 EDIT “While Pryor is perfectly adequate in the role, it hardly does justice to his talents, which here are largely confined to rolling his eyes in mute agony.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 16, 2026 Full Review For Keeps (1988) 17% 2/4 EDIT “The result is essentially the pilot for a sentimentally sweet TV sitcom machine-tooled for the current craze of baby-boom movies.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Big Trouble (1986) 14% EDIT “What starts out as a merry enough jape soon runs out of steam and becomes painfully labored.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 14, 2026 Full Review The Monster Squad (1987) 54% EDIT “Severed from the stories and atmosphere that first gave them birth, the monsters only get in each other's way and are rendered completely ineffective.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 14, 2026 Full Review North Shore (1987) EDIT “"North Shore" keeps threatening to expire from sheer brainlessness. But then along comes an evening vista that shows how Sunset Beach got its name, or a crash of waves that looks like a living Hokusai, and you realize summer is still very much with us.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Barfly (1987) 76% 3/4 EDIT “[Mickey Rourke] gives a bravura performance.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Overboard (1987) 46% 1/4 EDIT “Merely sour and sadistic.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Man on Fire (1987) EDIT “As lush and lavish as the scenery surrounding Italy's Lake Como, where much of the film takes place, "Man on Fire" is nonetheless a lethargic bore.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Spaceballs (1987) 52% EDIT “With his incomparably vulgar Borsht Belt sense of humor, leave it to Mel Brooks to kid the pants off such adolescent cosmic debris as the "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" epics in "Spaceballs."” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Roxanne (1987) 88% EDIT “Martin is very funny in the role, and most ingenious about finding modern equivalents for the various bits of business in the original play. Yet the nagging question remains: Why?” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 14, 2026 Full Review The Big Easy (1986) 89% EDIT “There is nothing easy about its own attitude, which is moral without being censorious.... with actors as engaging as Barkin and Quaid to say nothing of the ever-reliable Beatty the process is a delight to watch.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 14, 2026 Full Review The Sicilian (1987) 10% 2/4 EDIT “"The Sicilian" comes perilously close to Cimino's epic disaster "Heaven's Gate."” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Less Than Zero (1987) 50% 3/4 EDIT “The film "Less Than Zero" actually makes you care a bit about its three central characters.” – Newark Star-Ledger Jan 14, 2026 Full Review
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