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Los Angeles Herald Examiner is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Michael Sragow, Peter Rainer.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Blue Velvet (1986) Peter Rainer It gets into areas of dread and shock and torment that are so profoundly dislocating and dreamlike that, watching it, you feel as if you're coiled right up inside the vision of an artist with a live feed to the unconscious.
Posted Jan 22, 2025  Edit critic review
The Color Purple (1985) Peter Rainer Every scene is slicked up to be a stunner, no stop is left unpulled, no camera move is left untracked. What’s missing is a deep, resounding reason to have made this film for its own sweet self.
Posted May 31, 2023  Edit critic review
Dressed to Kill (1980) Michael Sragow Dressed to Kill will put those with a taste for Grand Guignol into a state of blissful delirium -- and most of the rest of us into a state of shock. But it's as sexy as it is shocking.
Posted Aug 09, 2022  Edit critic review
Lipstick (1976) Michael Sragow Lipstick is, on paper, nothing more than an exploitation movie... But on screen Lipstick is an incendiary exploitation movie.
Posted Aug 09, 2022  Edit critic review
Au Revoir, les enfants (1987) Peter Rainer Because his subject -- an eleven-year-old boy’s recognition of the horrors of the adult world -- is such a resonant one, the final effect of his bracing, unencumbered directness is overwhelming. Rarely have audiences’ tears been more honestly wrung.
Posted Aug 09, 2022  Edit critic review
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986) Peter Rainer Watching it is like overhearing the patter of a close friend coming out of a delirium.
Posted Aug 09, 2022  Edit critic review
Top Gun (1986) Peter Rainer Too bad the entire movie wasn’t airborne; whenever the story touches down, it falls apart in the hand like thousand-year-old parchment.
Posted Aug 09, 2022  Edit critic review
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) Peter Rainer Even if one accepts this movie’s percussive, brutal techniques, it really doesn’t work on its own terms. Indiana Jones wasn’t exactly a hero- for-the-ages in Raiders, but here, he’s not given much more to do than scowl and look raggedy.
Posted Aug 09, 2022  Edit critic review
Star 80 (1983) Peter Rainer Star 80 is a classic example of a movie that exemplifies what it attacks.
Posted Aug 09, 2022  Edit critic review
The Home and the World (1984) Peter Rainer More than any other director, Satyajit Ray is aware of the talismanic power in the ordinary. It’s not just the people in his film who carry mythic overtones; so do the objects -- the chairs, tables, rugs, clothing.
Posted Aug 09, 2022  Edit critic review
Full Metal Jacket (1987) Peter Rainer Kubrick is trying to make a movie about madness and chaos, but he won't give in to the chaos.
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Trouble in Mind (1985) Peter Rainer Trouble in Mind finally locates a filmic universe for Rudolph’s artificial-world gifts. He’s never seemed so at home.
Posted Aug 09, 2022  Edit critic review
A Cry in the Dark (1988) Peter Rainer Fred Schepisi’s A Cry in the Dark is an unremitting, almost magisterial vision of a horrific, true-to-life incident.
Posted Aug 09, 2022  Edit critic review
The Last Emperor (1987) Peter Rainer When this film really sings, it's as if Bertolucci had tapped the wellspring of cinema and, ecstatic, discovered the eroticism at its essence.
Posted Aug 08, 2022  Edit critic review
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