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Scott Rosenberg

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North (1994) 12% 1/4 EDIT “The movie resorts to a battery of unbelievably hackneyed devices to bring it story to a crisis.” – San Francisco Examiner Jan 26, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% 2/4 EDIT “But beneath its spiffy dress uniforms, snappy dialogue, professions of sincerity and outbursts of high-mindedness, "A Few Good Men" is surprisingly skimpy; mostly, it's an empty exercise in courtroom theatrics.” – San Francisco Examiner Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Jurassic Park (1993) 91% 3/4 EDIT “In a movie business that too often makes blockbusters out of mind-numbing, soul-souring trifles, Jurassic Park delivers a more substantial entertainment.” – San Francisco Examiner Jul 1, 2025 Full Review Aladdin (1992) 96% 3/4 EDIT “Williams has loaned his voice to the Genie in the ancient tale. But even more distinctively, he has loaned his quicksilver spirit to the character -- and it in turn gives everything else in the film a giddy lift.” – San Francisco Examiner Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 69% 2.5/4 EDIT “Bram Stoker's Dracula strives for operatic grandeur. But the lushness feels forced; it's at odds with the nocturnal astringency of Stoker's writing.” – San Francisco Examiner Sep 26, 2024 Full Review Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 92% 2.5/4 EDIT “Four Weddings and a Funeral could use more of Atkinson's comic spirit. But what really prevents the film from achieving the kind of touching amusement it aims at is MacDowell's ungainly performance.” – San Francisco Examiner Feb 29, 2024 Full Review Pulp Fiction (1994) 92% 2/4 EDIT “Pulp Fiction's bursts of ingenuity and wit are swimming in a big pool of screen time that's been awfully casually frittered away.” – San Francisco Examiner Feb 29, 2024 Full Review Dune (1984) 36% EDIT “In cramming a 500-page novel into a 140-million film, Lynch has salvaged the names and faces of Dune but lost its ideas, its social resonance, even its suspense. ” – Boston Phoenix Feb 14, 2024 Full Review The Last of the Mohicans (1992) 88% 2/4 EDIT “What stirred the soul of Michael Mann, chronicler of today's alienated urban criminals and their equally alienated opponents, to undertake this grand but ultimately foolish project about an alienated wilderness hero from two centuries ago?” – San Francisco Examiner Dec 15, 2023 Full Review The Day After (1983) 86% EDIT “It blends right in with the surrounding mediocrities on the TV schedule; and once you let it into your living room, it will turn off the lights, block the exits, and proceed to dismember your psychological defenses. ” – Boston Phoenix Nov 22, 2023 Full Review Heavenly Creatures (1994) 95% EDIT “Jackson plainly remembers what it's like to be a teenager. ” – San Francisco Examiner May 15, 2023 Full Review Army of Darkness (1992) 68% 2/4 EDIT “It sounds better in concept than in execution. It's not that Raimi has run out of cheerily spectacular effects and giddily dumb jokes... The trouble with the movie is that it parades its own lameness without ever finding a way to transcend it. ” – San Francisco Examiner Mar 31, 2023 Full Review Groundhog Day (1993) 94% 3/4 EDIT “Groundhog Day could have been a dull one-joke film, but Murray and Ramis make it work by doggedly pursuing the implications of their outlandish premise. ” – San Francisco Examiner Dec 21, 2022 Full Review Addams Family Values (1993) 76% 3/4 EDIT “It joins the select roster of sequels that defy the natural half-life of inspiration and somehow surpass their predecessors in quality... You won't mistake it for art, but you'll probably be tickled ghastly. ” – San Francisco Examiner Sep 22, 2022 Full Review Amadeus (1984) 90% EDIT “Forman's film is an improvement on Shaffer's play, but wherever Amadeus turns up, in whatever medium, it's a poor excuse for art. ” – Boston Phoenix Jul 11, 2022 Full Review El Mariachi (1992) 91% 2.5/4 EDIT “Rodriguez makes his limitations serve the film: The underpopulated landscape has a poetic feel, and the jittery hand-held shots add to the tension.” – San Francisco Examiner Sep 8, 2021 Full Review Schindler's List (1993) 98% 3.5/4 EDIT “A thoughtful, rigorous and thereby moving piece of work.” – San Francisco Examiner Apr 14, 2021 Full Review Bhaji on the Beach (1993) 88% 3/4 EDIT “Meera Syal's screenplay treads lightly through such potential melodramas, finding surprises and contradictions that add depth to' their colorful surfaces.” – San Francisco Examiner Mar 18, 2021 Full Review The Ballad of Little Jo (1993) 77% 2.5/4 EDIT “Little Jo is resolutely unsensationalistic about its material... Yet the movie's earnestness is also its biggest flaw: Writer-director Maggie Greenwald's manner is more that of a bright sociologist than that of a creative storyteller.” – San Francisco Examiner Mar 18, 2021 Full Review Starship Troopers (1997) 72% EDIT “Lacks the courage of the book's fascist conclusions.” – Salon.com May 29, 2002 Full Review I Am Cuba (1964) 100% EDIT “It still has power to surprise and, occasionally, to enchant.” – San Francisco Examiner Feb 21, 2001 Full Review Independence Day (1996) 69% EDIT “There's precious little reward in plumbing the world-historical implications of the screenplay.” – Salon.com Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Mars Attacks! (1996) 55% EDIT “A throwaway piece of pop ephemera, like a '90s Casino Royale, momentarily arresting and soon forgotten.” – Salon.com Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Living in Oblivion (1995) 86% EDIT “A smart, funny send-up of the trials and joys of filming on big egos and low budgets - subjects that writer-director Tom DiCillo and his collaborators presumably know first-hand.” – San Francisco Examiner Jan 1, 2000 Full Review The Quick and the Dead (1995) 62% EDIT “Perhaps another director could have gotten both tribute and parody to work together; in Raimi's hands, they instead cast doubt upon each other.” – San Francisco Examiner Jan 1, 2000 Full Review
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