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Stephen Hunter

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The American President (1995) 90% 3/4 EDIT “Politics aside, The American President is a delightful romantic comedy in which boy president meets girl... But it's so hard to put the politics aside because the movie doesn't want to put the politics aside. ” – Baltimore Sun Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Misery (1990) 87% 3/4 EDIT “Quite an amusing, nasty little piece of work.” – Baltimore Sun Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% EDIT “The story is painfully clumsy as it labors to insert various props and symbols.” – Baltimore Sun Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Sure Thing (1985) 84% EDIT “Reiner never forces things. He's got the same sense of understood humor in the brilliant This is Spinal Tap.” – Baltimore Sun Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% 2/4 EDIT “The first half is much better than the second, by which time Reiner and Goldman's hip-facetious style and fondness for in-jokes has worn quite thin.” – Baltimore Sun Jan 7, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% 3/4 EDIT “It's everything a movie should be, except thought-provoking. Sit back and enjoy the ride; just don't expect to get anywhere.” – Baltimore Sun Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Christine (1983) 72% EDIT “It zips along so efficiently, fueled primarily by excellent performances and witty visual flourishes, that one never stops to analyze just how patently absurd the premise is.” – Baltimore Sun Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Big Top Pee-wee (1988) 31% 2.5/4 EDIT “In strictly dramatic terms, the movie gets less funny as it proceeds, and particularly the climatic circus performance really doesn't deliver the crescendo needed to close out the film, which seems to end with less oomph than it needs.” – Baltimore Sun Dec 11, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% 3.5/4 EDIT “The three principals are dynamic.” – Baltimore Sun Dec 10, 2025 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% 3/4 EDIT “The movie is literally relentless in its hold on certain parts of your anatomy... but I defy you to deny its power. ” – Baltimore Sun Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Resonant and sweet, as well as thunderously violent, "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" is terrific.” – Baltimore Sun Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Terminator (1984) 90% EDIT “The Terminator is as violent as a cockfight, but of its sleazy kind, it's terrific, a new trashclassic.” – Baltimore Sun Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (1987) 59% 2.5/4 EDIT “Cheesy and mindless as it is, it's so remorselessly zippy that it's a pretty good time.” – Baltimore Sun Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Predator 2 (1990) 36% 3/4 EDIT “It's thoroughly professional, it knows what it wants to do, and without a lot of hemming and hawing, it does it.” – Baltimore Sun Oct 30, 2025 Full Review From Beyond (1986) 74% EDIT “Gordon works out his premise in leaden, uncompelling ways.” – Baltimore Sun Oct 20, 2025 Full Review Re-Animator (1985) 88% EDIT “It's a mordant, witty, outrageous gross-out, an exercise in what might be called viscera slapstick. In other words, you either have to get with it or get out of it.” – Baltimore Sun Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% EDIT “Desert Hearts is well acted, and it sports a beautiful soundtrack of late-'50s music, but its curious ambivalence toward the subject it pretends to study is extremely irritating. ” – Baltimore Sun Oct 12, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% EDIT “It's stunning how much passion and deceit can be generated from such a banal venue as a laundrette. But what is fascinating about the film is the clarity by which director Stephen Frears keeps track of the plots and counterplots.” – Baltimore Sun Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Tron (1982) 60% EDIT “Murky, poorly organized, frequently only numbing where it should be awesome, "Tron" is circuit-blowing disappointment, a systems crash, two hours of down time.” – Baltimore Sun Oct 6, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “"To Sleep With Anger" is a wonderful little movie.” – Baltimore Sun Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Night of the Living Dead (1990) 57% 3/4 EDIT “It's an extremely intense film.” – Baltimore Sun Sep 17, 2025 Full Review This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 98% EDIT “What we have here is that rarest of birds, the sustained and nearly pitch-perfect parody.” – Baltimore Sun Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Toy Story (1995) 100% 4/4 EDIT “It's that rarest of all films, the one that can unify, not divide, the generations, as both jaded teen-agers and their more innocent parents can connect with it. And of course for the kids, it's pure balm from heaven.” – Baltimore Sun Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% 3/4 EDIT “Eerily derivative, the movie still has enough energy and wit to make it a worthy investment.” – Baltimore Sun Aug 26, 2025 Full Review American Psycho (2000) 68% EDIT “It's about as violent as any R-rated movie in America. But it's a lot more boring.” – Washington Post Aug 21, 2025 Full Review
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