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Asbury Park Press (NJ) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Eleanor O'Sullivan.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3/4
The American President (1995) Eleanor O'Sullivan Being Capraesque is hardly a bad thing, but The American President is a self-conscious copy of same. It survives, even thrives now and then, by being charming and by having a terrific leading man.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Misery (1990) Eleanor O'Sullivan In director Rob Reiner's hands, and with a witty, darkly comic script by William Goldman, "Misery" becomes a tour de force for Kathy Bates; she's amazing as the wacko Annie.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Eleanor O'Sullivan The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is everything the hype says: grand in scale, massive in emotional pitch, and towering in technical achievement.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Stand by Me (1986) Eleanor O'Sullivan The performances are marvelous.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Eleanor O'Sullivan I can't think of a recent movie that so definitively etched itself into your brain and heart and would not let go, but it is not for the easily disturbed or violence-phobic.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Eleanor O'Sullivan The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring succeeds because it has good bones, created by Tolkien, that are honored by the filmmakers. It is unapologetic about celebrating mysticism, romanticism, spiritualism and heroism.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
The Princess Bride (1987) Eleanor O'Sullivan Short of being just plain lousy, there's nothing worse about a movie than when it tries too hard. The Princess Bride, Rob Reiner's new movie, is too dear and cute for its own good and rarely as funny as it intends.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
A Few Good Men (1992) Eleanor O'Sullivan Director Rob Reiner...has a deft handle on the ins and outs of making courtroom drama pulsate; his movie is almost always absorbing...
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Hook (1991) Eleanor O'Sullivan Hook flies, but it sure doesn't soar. Maybe there's a lesson here, something about profligate spending not being able to buy you greatness.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Big Top Pee-wee (1988) Eleanor O'Sullivan The bizarre circus folks give "Big Top Pee-wee" an intriguing dark edge but provide insufficient contrast to Pee-wee.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Abyss (1989) Eleanor O'Sullivan "The Abyss" is Cameron's first personable film; he never lets the swirling events and special effects, played out underwater, overcome the nuts and bolts of his story.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
True Lies (1994) Eleanor O'Sullivan At two hours and 21 minutes, the barrage of blasts, killings, crashes and fires grows numbing.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator (1987) Eleanor O'Sullivan "Predator" may be a re-tread, but it's a gruesomely effective one.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) Eleanor O'Sullivan Laundrette is a lucid, uncompromising look at how certain people live, but some audiences may find it unpalatable because of its universal relevance. The washing machine metaphor is apt: Many of us spin along, our control largely in other’s hands.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Celluloid Closet (1995) Eleanor O'Sullivan Celluloid Closet reminds us of how quantum a leap filmmakers made from the balting, self-conscious "Making Love" (1982) to the Vibrant and risky "Parting Glances" (1986) and "Go Fish" (1994)
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Casper (1995) Eleanor O'Sullivan It's a cute comedy with animation for kids, but with naughty double-entendres that adults will find choice, as well as drama with Freudian overtones about father-daughter love and...a somber tract on love and loss...
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Spider-Man (2002) Eleanor O'Sullivan It's good. In fact, it's very good. And there is one obvious reason why: Spider-Man has a ton of heart.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Boogie Nights (1997) Eleanor O'Sullivan It's true that Anderson's movie does not have the satisfying smoothness of [Short Cuts]. But it does feel right in capturing the aimlessness of young people who are not blessed with beauty, intelligence or good luck.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Night of the Living Dead (1990) Eleanor O'Sullivan In clean, bright and, for heaven's sake, warm color, it just doesn't deliver.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) Eleanor O'Sullivan David Zucker, directing, is on a roll that but for a bare few minutes toward the end, never flags.
Posted Jul 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) Eleanor O'Sullivan Most men suffering from the Peter Pan syndrome make you cringe. With Zucker and Proft, you're thankful they won't grow up.
Posted Jul 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Explorers (1985) Eleanor O'Sullivan The soapy finish doesn't alter the fact the most of the "Explorers" trip is well worth the ride.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Superman Returns (2006) Eleanor O'Sullivan Video-age audiences won't find the visual bombardment off-putting, and Superman fans will probably be happy just having a big screen Superman back. Still, the narrative cohesion of Christopher Reeve era Superman is missing, in favor of extravaganza.
Posted Jul 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) Eleanor O'Sullivan Our hero contends with a galaxy of problems, including a new foe named Nuclear Man and a script sorely in need of Kryptonian vitality.
Posted Jul 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Jurassic Park (1993) Eleanor O'Sullivan He's back. And they're back, too. For the first time since E.T., Steven Spielberg hits almost all the right notes in his violent roller coaster entertainment Jurassic Park, a theme park movie with a mean but funny twist.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) Eleanor O'Sullivan Now he's really gone and done it. Steven Spielberg, with the help of hundreds of technical wizards, has crafted the definitive pop culture entertainment, The Lost World: Jurassic Park. From a grownup's point of view, it's better than Jurassic Park.
Posted Jun 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Jurassic Park III (2001) Eleanor O'Sullivan Jurassic Park III probably won't win any prestigious awards, and it's not the best of the series, but it's an invigorating, diverting 85 minutes.
Posted Jun 25, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Apollo 13 (1995) Eleanor O'Sullivan It just nails the boyish American compulsion for risk and adventure with a mature, pained acceptance of limitations and failure.
Posted Jun 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Return to Oz (1985) Eleanor O'Sullivan Walter Murch's direction is sure and tasteful. "Return to Oz" loses its momentum here and there, but for the most part, it is amazingly on target.
Posted Jun 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Child's Play (1988) Eleanor O'Sullivan This is a 60-minute idea trapped in a 95-minute running time.
Posted Jun 05, 2025  Edit critic review
The Karate Kid Part II (1986) Eleanor O'Sullivan Audiences hoping for a repeat performance may be disappointed, depending on their tolerance for a single point being repeated with alarming frequency.
Posted May 27, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Mission: Impossible III (2006) Eleanor O'Sullivan The machines have won. The audiences hoping for sanity or logic have lost.
Posted May 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Mission: Impossible II (2000) Eleanor O'Sullivan Everybody connected with M:I-2 knocks themselves out, but since when did the audience have to do that too?
Posted May 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Mission: Impossible (1996) Eleanor O'Sullivan The fun of the movie is that the gadgets never overwhelm or undermine the characters of their story.
Posted May 06, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) Eleanor O'Sullivan The most startling disappointment of "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones" is its less-than-overpowering visual impact.
Posted Apr 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) Eleanor O'Sullivan It's all so American -- a modest idea that grows huge, becomes unstoppable, is corrupted a touch, regains its footing and leaves on a glorious but mellowed high note.
Posted Apr 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) Eleanor O'Sullivan So, in "The Phantom Menace" we have interesting relationships that don't quite go far enough. Dazzling special effects and Lucas' new baby - computer-generated characters - don't exactly overwhelm their stories but they certainly are distracting.
Posted Apr 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Wedding Banquet (1993) Eleanor O'Sullivan Lee goes beyond conventional expectations; his movie is imaginative in subtle ways, and deeper and more thoughtful than the standard screwball fare.
Posted Apr 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Do the Right Thing (1989) Eleanor O'Sullivan "Do the Right Thing" is striking visually, and it has a rhythmic, unsettling tone; if it fails to be entirely convincing or realistic, it is original and daring.
Posted Mar 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Back to School (1986) Eleanor O'Sullivan "Back to School" is loaded with bawdy, crude and hilarious one-liners, double entendres and sight gags that are sure to offend the uptight. But if you stay away because you hear it's raunchy, you'll miss a good and surprisingly sweet movie.
Posted Feb 27, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Scream 3 (2000) Eleanor O'Sullivan Of all the problems that dog Scream 3, the actual identity of the villain is the thorniest and, in that promised and very windy exposition scene, when the villain reveals its identity, it's a "Who cares?" moment.
Posted Feb 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Scream 2 (1997) Eleanor O'Sullivan Smarter, wittier and with enough inside jokes to keep buffs happy.
Posted Feb 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Blue Velvet (1986) Eleanor O'Sullivan Astonishing and so powerful it makes most other movies look like hack jobs, David Lynch's Blue Velvet leaves you limp as a wet wash rag and yet euphoric over the greatness you've just witnessed.
Posted Jan 22, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Tarzan (1999) Eleanor O'Sullivan We enter this Disney film, hoping to finally escape the cruelty and harshness of many mainstream films, and we find it's here, too.
Posted Dec 20, 2024  Edit critic review
4/4
The Lion King (1994) Eleanor O'Sullivan Excitement and tears, hummable songs, laughs and life lessons, The Lion King is splendid.
Posted Dec 19, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Hercules (1997) Eleanor O'Sullivan After a series of summer movies so busy visually they're nearly impenetrable, Hercules' crisp and uncluttered animation comes as a major relief.
Posted Dec 18, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) Eleanor O'Sullivan In the hands of the Walt Disney Studios, the darkness of The Hunchback of Notre Dame is virtually gone but the moral uplift is busting out all over. It's a big, bouncy, Broadway-styled entertainment now.
Posted Dec 18, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Pocahontas (1995) Eleanor O'Sullivan A rather slim offering with none of the dynamic sweep of Disney's best. Oddly, it feels generic, as if it might have come from another company with less money and less genius at work.
Posted Dec 17, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Aladdin (1992) Eleanor O'Sullivan The animation is outstanding, the songs are chipper and chirpy, and the characters surrounding Aladdin and the genie are bright, good company.
Posted Dec 16, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Beauty and the Beast (1991) Eleanor O'Sullivan If holding a child's attention is any measure of a movie's success, then Beauty and the Beast is a stunner.
Posted Dec 16, 2024  Edit critic review
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