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Houston Post (Texas) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Joe Leydon.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3/4
Misery (1990) Joe Leydon Reiner is impressively skillful at sustaining an air of claustrophobic terror throughout Misery, and Barry Sonnenfeld's evocative cinematography enhances the tension.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Stand by Me (1986) Joe Leydon The film is generally entertaining. But if often gets unduly solemn about the deep significance of adolescent male bonding.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The Sure Thing (1985) Joe Leydon The Sure Thing is a nice, sweet-natured, generally unremarkable movie that's as comfy-cozy and satisfying as a warm bath.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
A Few Good Men (1992) Joe Leydon A Few Good Men is a smartly written and strongly acted film that represents a high-water mark of Hollywood-style professionalism.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Princess Bride (1987) Joe Leydon William Goldman's spirited screenplay, based on his own novel, jokes with the adventure genre without ever stooping to mean-spirited mockery. In fact, there are times when "Princess Bride" could pass for the genuine article.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
Hook (1991) Joe Leydon Fitfully amusing but oppressively overproduced, Steven Spielberg's Hook has all the technique that money can buy, but not enough of the magic that a fairy tale needs.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Christine (1983) Joe Leydon Christine is a first-class trip along a highway through hell.
Posted Dec 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Abyss (1989) Joe Leydon In short, The Abyss has everything a good thriller needs to thrill.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Joe Leydon Terminator 2 is a dazzling display of special effects for which the term state of the art seems too mild by half.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Terminator (1984) Joe Leydon From the very beginning, we know we're in the hands of master moviemakers with a knack for low-rent, high-velocity, full-throttle entertainment. The Terminator may well be the best Saturday night movie of the year.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Running Man (1987) Joe Leydon Steven E. de Souza's screenplay underscores its slam-bang thrills and spills with some pointed sociopolitical observations.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Predator (1987) Joe Leydon ...the movie remains a dim, distasteful bloodbath, not helped at all by the sluggish direction of John McTiernan.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Desert Hearts (1985) Joe Leydon A minor film, topped off with a less than convincing happy ending. But it has been directed with warmth and compassion, and acted with great skill and credibility.
Posted Oct 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) Joe Leydon An intimate, small-scale work, originally conceived as a television production for Britain's Channel 4. But the film has a remarkable amount of depth and texture, and often is as rich in incident and character as a Dickens novel.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Night of the Living Dead (1990) Joe Leydon This new Night of the Living Dead is neither strikingly good nor spectacularly bad. Rather, it is, quite simply, unnecessary.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) Joe Leydon This Is Spinal Tap is outrageously, incessantly, rolling-in-the-aisles funny.
Posted Sep 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) Joe Leydon Silly and slackly paced, this film exists solely to wring the last few bucks from an exploitable title. This is a trick, and it's no treat.
Posted Aug 27, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Darkman (1990) Joe Leydon Darkman is one of the best comic-book movies ever made, even though, strictly speaking, it's not based on a comic book at all.
Posted Aug 27, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Wedding Banquet (1993) Joe Leydon All the performances are first-rate.
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
DuckTales, the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) Joe Leydon The picture is much wilder and woolier than any cartoon feature to come from the Disney studio in many years.
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Explorers (1985) Joe Leydon As a whole, Explorers is a mildly diverting trifle that begins to evaporate in your mind before you leave [the] theater. But at least it doesn't insult your intelligence.
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Red Rock West (1993) Joe Leydon Red Rock West is a solid, well-crafted and consistently involving thriller.
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Starman (1984) Joe Leydon Starman is so good, you want it to be better, to be the pop classic it obviously could have been.
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
C.H.U.D. (1984) Joe Leydon In its over-acted, unpretentious, unabashedly hokey way, it has more than its share of charm.
Posted Aug 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Return to Oz (1985) Joe Leydon The dazzling sets, the generally impressive visual effects, and David Watkins' moody cinematography enhance Return to Oz.
Posted Aug 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
High and Low (1963) Joe Leydon Once Gondo leaves his mansion, High and Low smoothly switches gears and becomes a gripping, documentary-style account of a police investigation.
Posted Aug 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Return of the Living Dead (1985) Joe Leydon Some genuine suspense is generated, and quite a few performances are impressive.
Posted Aug 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) Joe Leydon From beginning to end, The Naked Gun is a great big goofy grin... If this movie made your sides ache any worse, the Surgeon General might have to slap a warning label on it.
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) Joe Leydon Naked Gun 2½ is a move where anything goes. Come to think of it, it's a movie where anything goes, comes back again, and then runs off into the ozone.
Posted Jul 23, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
To Sleep With Anger (1990) Joe Leydon To Sleep With Anger is a film of impressive originality and imagination, it brings out the best in everybody involved.
Posted Jun 16, 2021  Edit critic review
1/4
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) Joe Leydon Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, a confused and cheap-looking movie that evidently was butchered in the editing room, would be better titled Superman Farce: The Search for a Quick Buck.
Posted Jul 09, 2020  Edit critic review
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