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North
(1994)
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Joe Baltake
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An achingly bad movie in which adult filmmakers project their own cynicism, psychological problems and twisted values onto children.
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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3/4
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Misery
(1990)
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Joe Baltake
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Even though it takes down to its audience, its material is rich with possibilities, and Reiner and company make the most of it.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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Bite the Bullet
(1975)
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Charles Johnson
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Some of the photography and editing is inept and even when beautiful effects are achieved one resents the facility with which they are achieved.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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4/4
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Sid & Nancy
(1986)
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George Williams
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This is a movie with nothing on its mind but telling the truth.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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3/4
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The Fly
(1986)
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George Williams
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"The Fly" is a good movie because Jeff Goldblum plays the scientist with such marvelous ease and a grand sense of humor, and because David Cronenberg directs with sure-fire skill.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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4/4
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A Few Good Men
(1992)
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Joe Baltake
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[The cast] all work well together in this thoughtful consideration of a society that creates bullies and, alas, only a few good men.
Posted Jan 08, 2026
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1/4
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The Sure Thing
(1985)
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George Williams
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A meathead piece of work.
Posted Jan 08, 2026
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2/4
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The Princess Bride
(1987)
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Joe Baltake
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The Princess Bride is exactly what the little boy suspects it will be -- a dull "kissy book." It's a good argument for playing with a Spiderman video game or watching Ron Howard in American Graffiti for the umpteenth time.
Posted Jan 07, 2026
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
(1939)
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Ronald D. Scofield
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The director has carefully avoided the usual melodramatic touches of fictitious spy pictures, with the result that it is entirely convincing and much more dramatically effective.
Posted Jan 03, 2026
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2/4
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Hook
(1991)
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Joe Baltake
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One of those slick, expensive novelty items that looks good in the showroom but proves to be virtually useless once you get it home. You can't play with it. There's nothing to do with it, but just stand there and admire how bright and shiny it is.
Posted Dec 19, 2025
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Christine
(1983)
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George Williams
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Under John Carpenter's direction, the movie is a superb thriller.
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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2/4
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Big Top Pee-wee
(1988)
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Joe Baltake
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Very little is funny about the movie's second half.
Posted Dec 13, 2025
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0/4
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True Lies
(1994)
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Joe Baltake
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So bad and plays to such a low common denominator that it just may be a hit.
Posted Dec 10, 2025
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4/4
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The Abyss
(1989)
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Joe Baltake
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It is a genuinely grown-up entertainment, picking up and producing emotional steam as it moves along.
Posted Dec 09, 2025
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3/4
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The Terminator
(1984)
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George Williams
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The stiffness that Schwarzenegger carries around not only makes him more believable, it helps to set off his tongue-in-cheek comedy style. His funny lines are inventive; even a computer should get a belly laugh out of them.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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A Christmas Carol
(1984)
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Bob Wisehart
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It's filled with suspense and wonder, warmth and humor, and bids fair to become the definitive version of Charles Dickens' yarn for as long as we celebrate the holiday and keep its spirit.
Posted Dec 04, 2025
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Journey Back to Oz
(1974)
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Stanley Gilliam
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This cartoon version is original, imaginative and exciting.
Posted Nov 21, 2025
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The Wiz
(1978)
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Mel Assagai
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There are powerful, soulful, performances in this movie, sometimes overshadowing the plot, but never really detracting from it.
Posted Nov 17, 2025
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2/4
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The Running Man
(1987)
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Joe Baltake
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It is quickly deadened by one predictable, repetitious confrontation after another.
Posted Nov 06, 2025
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1.5/4
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Predator 2
(1990)
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Joe Baltake
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Glover has said this is "more cerebral" than the original; it would have to be.
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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3/4
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Predator
(1987)
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George Williams
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There are some gaping holes in the plot toward the end when Dutch comes face to face with the Predator. But you tend to overlook them when you're getting a first-rate action film that keeps you on the edge from start to finish.
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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Dracula
(1979)
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Zenobia Jonell Gerald
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The production is a beautifully photographed thriller which manages to turn that 19th century forbidding creature into a somewhat appealing soul.
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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Stephen King's It
(1990)
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Bob Wisehart
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"IT" does pull a few punches, but it still packs a lot of clout.
Posted Oct 14, 2025
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Born Yesterday
(1950)
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William C. Glackin
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Playwright Garson Kanin made this tale primarily the source of a lot of good, fast fun, and George Cukor, who directed the movie, plays it that way.
Posted Oct 13, 2025
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3/4
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Desert Hearts
(1985)
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George Williams
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The two leads are perfectly cast, giving us the feeling they worked night and day to get every scene just right. In Charbonneau, we discover a future star of unlimited potential.
Posted Oct 13, 2025
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3/5
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My Beautiful Laundrette
(1985)
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George Williams
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Some movies are like powerful detergents. They enable you to wash dirty windows of the world to uncover wondrous slices of life you never knew existed. My Beautiful Laundrette... is one of these.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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2/4
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Casper
(1995)
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Joe Baltake
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[Casper is] also pointless - and the only reason for its existence is that Hollywood has both too much time and too much money on its hands.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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4/4
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To Sleep With Anger
(1990)
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Joe Baltake
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Like Harry Mention, "To Sleep With Anger" successfully gets under your skin. Its denouement is appropriately, well, demonic.
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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4/4
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Boogie Nights
(1997)
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Joe Baltake
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A film that had the potential to be as questionable as its subject matter gently swirls instead into something unexpectedly sweet and sweet-natured -- and very appealing. Anderson doesn't judge his character but rather has great compassion for them.
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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Toy Story
(1995)
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Joe Baltake
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What's stirring about this film isn't how big and special it is, but how small and simple it is.
Posted Sep 10, 2025
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This Is Spinal Tap
(1984)
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George Williams
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"This is Spinal Tap" shines with subtlety and an irresistible style.
Posted Sep 09, 2025
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1/4
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Return of the Living Dead Part II
(1988)
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Joe Baltake
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"Return of the Living Dead II" doesn't bother to raise a lot of important moral questions. It's too busy trying to get us to barf and, when it doesn't doing that, it makes with bad jokes.
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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4/4
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Darkman
(1990)
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Joe Baltake
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It's a luridly funny and violent comic-book fantasy that comes with a conspicuous flash of political guts.
Posted Aug 26, 2025
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3/4
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Pumpkinhead
(1988)
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Joe Baltake
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Winston, the special effects wizard of Alien and Aliens in his directorial debut here, has conjured up clear, crisp compositions that are wonderfully pictorial.
Posted Aug 14, 2025
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4/4
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High and Low
(1963)
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George Williams
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As usual, it is Kurosawa who steals the show. His grasp of human behavior that is consistently persuasive, investing this rather mundane source material with the breadth of an epic vision, is breathtaking.
Posted Aug 13, 2025
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3/4
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The Return of the Living Dead
(1985)
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George Williams
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O’Bannon’s film is a slickly made thriller, a first-rate example of the horror genre.
Posted Aug 13, 2025
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4/4
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Babe
(1995)
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Joe Baltake
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A small film with a big heart, "Babe" is about those barriers that keep us all back and the one small pig who bravely decides to stand up to the stereotypes and tear down the identity in which he has pigeonholed. Lovely.
Posted Jul 30, 2025
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3/4
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure
(1985)
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George Williams
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Watching Pee-wee Herman's first movie, you're struck by how well prepared he is. You get the feeling you're in on the birth of a comic superstar.
Posted Jul 30, 2025
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3/4
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The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
(1991)
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Joe Baltake
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The jokes really aren't funny, just obvious. What's so pleasurable about this movie is the notion of laughing at a bad movie. It's never been so much fun.
Posted Jul 23, 2025
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1/4
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Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
(1994)
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Joe Baltake
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You expect hit-and-miss humor from a film of this nature. However, while some jokes do work,...overall the movie exploits our affection for the series (and Nielsen) - as well as our eagerness to be pleased.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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2/4
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DuckTales, the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
(1990)
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Joe Baltake
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I found it to be a tranquilized waste.
Posted Jul 17, 2025
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Red Rock West
(1993)
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Joe Baltake
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Cage radiates an animal magnetism that's offset by the actor's same penchant for going soft in the clinch.
Posted Jul 15, 2025
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Superman III
(1983)
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George Williams
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It has a disjointed script that manages to transform the Man of Steel into a first-class dope. And it misuses a strong performer like Richard Pryor in a way that any 12-year-old movie fan could have predicted would leave an audience cold.
Posted Jul 08, 2025
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4/4
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Jurassic Park
(1993)
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Joe Baltake
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This is a truly cinematic film, excitingly so -- a primal-terror comedy about dinosaurs, resurrected and rampaging, done in such meticulously realistic and terrifying terms that the effect is more joyous than anything else.
Posted Jul 01, 2025
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3.5/4
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park
(1997)
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Joe Baltake
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It takes a half hour for The Lost World to get started, but once it does, like its imposing dinosaur society, there's simply no stopping it. It produces a rush with its relentlessness.
Posted Jun 30, 2025
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3/4
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Supergirl
(1984)
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George Williams
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What I especially liked, apart from the dazzling, almost seamless special effects, was director Jeannot Szwarc's ability to keep the story on a simple course.
Posted Jun 27, 2025
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4/4
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Apollo 13
(1995)
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Joe Baltake
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It is about the beginning of the end, and so, when it talks about winning and not giving up, when it brings up ideas about bravery and courage, when it even takes on a whiff of patriotism, it is never corny but actually rather touching.
Posted Jun 25, 2025
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Rollerball
(1975)
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Charles Johnson
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At least half the film is devoted to the game -- much more than is necessary to get the point across. As a consequence, a great many necessary connections in the film's argument are left out.
Posted Jun 05, 2025
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Night Moves
(1975)
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Charles Johnson
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There are some too-fast cuts, too-glib lines, too-obvious situations, but by and large this is handled sensitively in the writing, in the acting.
Posted May 28, 2025
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2/4
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The Karate Kid Part II
(1986)
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George Williams
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The script is weak, never giving the new characters enough room to develop so we can care about them.
Posted May 28, 2025
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