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Bergen Record (New Jersey)

Bergen Record (New Jersey) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Lou Lumenick.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2.5/4
The Princess Bride (1987) Lou Lumenick Neither terribly funny nor rousingly exciting, The Princess Bride tries to be both. It's sad to see a movie that's the victim of its own ambitiousness.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sure Thing (1985) Lou Lumenick Rob Reiner, who directed the brilliant This is Spinal Tap, lets things here lapse into sitcom tedium after a moderately bright beginning.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Christine (1983) Lou Lumenick In short, it's pretty low-octane fare.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Big Top Pee-wee (1988) Lou Lumenick Though "Big Top" has its share of moments, I don't think it will appeal to adults nearly as well as "Big Adventure"
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Abyss (1989) Lou Lumenick Ed Harris offers a flawless, Oscar-caliber lead performance.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Predator (1987) Lou Lumenick Unfortunately, this giddily entertaining half-hour is trapped in a noisy, incoherent, and lumbering 106-minute combat movie that will severely test the patience and eardrums of all but hard-core Schwarzenegger fans.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
From Beyond (1986) Lou Lumenick It's good-natured, moderately scary, and reasonably well acted.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Re-Animator (1985) Lou Lumenick [Re-Animator is] an unremittingly gory and silly horror movie.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
The Return of the Living Dead (1985) Lou Lumenick The acting is deliberately broad, the special effects are cheesy, and the humor runs to jokes about rigor mortis. The effect is deadening.
Posted Aug 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) Lou Lumenick Simultaneously dumb, silly, knowing, and utterly surreal, "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" is the sort of warped children's picture that might have resulted if the early Woody Allen had collaborated with Federico Fellini.
Posted Jul 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) Lou Lumenick "The Naked Gun" has more than enough bad jokes to keep you chuckling for its 89 minutes.
Posted Jul 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Explorers (1985) Lou Lumenick Joe Dante's "Explorers," for all its charm and amusing eccentricities, is a children's fantasy that never does manage to gets its act together.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman III (1983) Lou Lumenick Thanks to a witty script by David and Leslie Newman and Richard Lester's slap sticky direction, it's still a lot more fun than the frail romps that Pryor's fans have flocked to in the past.
Posted Jul 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Supergirl (1984) Lou Lumenick "Supergirl" is a puerile botch.
Posted Jun 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman II (1980) Lou Lumenick "Superman II" is a big film to see this summer, sophisticated enough to delight adult audiences while keeping the kids on the edge of their seats. It's at least as much fun as "Raiders of the Lost Ark," with characters that are much more involving.
Posted Jun 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Day of the Dead (1985) Lou Lumenick Talk about beating a dead corpse.
Posted Jun 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Return to Oz (1985) Lou Lumenick Even if "Return to Oz" is a less than classic sequel to a classic movie, it's still the best family entertainment that Hollywood has come up with this year.
Posted Jun 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Child's Play (1988) Lou Lumenick Though the human actors are good, the real star of Child's Play is Chucky, a Cabbage patch clone who's been cleverly animated by a small army of technicians.
Posted Jun 05, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Karate Kid Part II (1986) Lou Lumenick It's a worthy children's entertainment, especially since Kamen more clearly makes the point that violence is something to be employed only as a last resort.
Posted May 27, 2025  Edit critic review
The Karate Kid (1984) Lou Lumenick A languidly paced film that drones on for more than two hours, careening like a punch-drunk fighter around plot twists that frequently turn into cul-de-sacs.
Posted May 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Starman (1984) Lou Lumenick While the movie is extremely well acted and paced, director Carpenter is never able to impose his own style on such blatantly second-hand material.
Posted May 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Do the Right Thing (1989) Lou Lumenick By not presuming to offer facile solutions to problems that have confounded generations of Americans, Lee has done the right thing.
Posted Mar 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Shampoo (1975) Lou Lumenick For Beatty buffs, it's just great. For anybody else, this "Shampoo" goes down the drain.
Posted Feb 10, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Blue Velvet (1986) Lou Lumenick The problem is that Blue Velvet doesn't even follow its own perverse rules of logic. It's a jumble of styles and scenes, none of which follows from, or builds towards, anything.
Posted Jan 22, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Night Zoo (1987) Lou Lumenick Night Zoo holds the interest because of the tension between its utterly incongruous elements...
Posted Aug 21, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Beetlejuice (1988) Lou Lumenick When Keaton is off-screen, watching Beetlejuice is a little like being in a coma where you're vaguely aware of what's going on around you, yet none of it makes a whole lot of sense.
Posted Aug 21, 2024  Edit critic review
Aliens (1986) Lou Lumenick What can I say? Aliens is the scariest and most exciting movie I've seen in several years. My adrenalin was still racing an hour later. It's involving. It has well-drawn characters. It has consistency. And Sigourney Weaver gives a dazzling performance.
Posted Jul 30, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
When Harry Met Sally... (1989) Lou Lumenick When Harry Met Sally... is this summer's date movie, well-made and entertaining but hardly brilliant.
Posted Jul 03, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Batman (1989) Lou Lumenick Batman is a feast for the eyes and ears, with Anton Furst's massive, elegantly ugly sets of Gotham City, Danny Elfman's lovely, classically-oriented score, and dazzling special effects. It is also one long gas, thanks to Jack Nicholson.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Lou Lumenick Raiders makes for a very entertaining summer afternoon, but it's ultimately a junk-food movie that will be forgotten long before either man's previous work.
Posted May 02, 2023  Edit critic review
2/4
Evil Dead II (1987) Lou Lumenick Raimi's style is very reminiscent of his previous collaborations with Joel and Ethan Coen... But while the Coens have found substance to fit their style in Raising Arizona, Raimi is still making glorified splatter movies, however fitfully amusing.
Posted Mar 29, 2023  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Platoon (1986) Lou Lumenick While Platoon is easily one of the year's finest films, I'm not sure if it's the long-awaited definitive Vietnam movie, as some early reviews have suggested. But it is the gamest attempt so far to explain how America suffered a humiliating defeat.
Posted Aug 16, 2022  Edit critic review
3/4
Rain Man (1988) Lou Lumenick Rain Man really belongs to Hoffman, whose precisely limned Raymond is in a class with his other amazing transformations in Tootsie, Little Big Man, and Midnight Cowboy. It really cries out to be seen rather than described.
Posted Aug 04, 2022  Edit critic review
Amadeus (1984) Lou Lumenick Mozart's subtle, timeless melodies are what sustains Amadeus over its dramatic rough spots, though Shaffer and Forman do manage to end things on a grace note.
Posted Aug 02, 2022  Edit critic review
Gandhi (1982) Lou Lumenick Given the inherent obstacles in Gandhi, Richard Attenborough has directed an astonishingly successful epic that pulls audiences along on an emotional tether for nearly 3.5 hours.
Posted Aug 02, 2022  Edit critic review
Testament (1983) Lou Lumenick Extraordinarily powerful.
Posted May 10, 2021  Edit critic review
Sugar Cane Alley (1983) Lou Lumenick Palcy's eye for detail and color make this film something quite special. She's elicited wonderful performances from an ensemble headed by Garry Cadenat as Jose and Darling Legitimus as his indomitable, pipe-smoking grandmother.
Posted May 07, 2021  Edit critic review
Out of Africa (1985) Lou Lumenick Considering the wealth of writings by Isak Dinesen and others that its makers had to draw on, this lumbering, $30-million prestige picture is astonishingly glossy, distressingly conventional, and grossly overlong.
Posted Mar 31, 2021  Edit critic review
4/4
Back to the Future (1985) Lou Lumenick Zemeckis and Gale have cannily chosen the time periods, which are funny as much for their similarities (political and materalistic) as their contrasts (music, fashions, language).
Posted Oct 21, 2015  Edit critic review
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