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Tim Appelo

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The American President (1995) 90% 3/4 EDIT “Bening escape husband Warren Beatty's career death grip by delivering some of the whipcrack sass of Katharine Hepburn in her heyday. And Douglas, a modest talent and world-class magnet, sketches a nifty left-leaning ideological portrait. ” – Oregonian Jan 21, 2026 Full Review The Celluloid Closet (1995) 96% 4/5 EDIT “The Celluloid Closet is so good because it's less preoccupied with who's in closets than it is with what's on celluloid. This film is an eye-opener.” – Oregonian Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% 1.5/4 EDIT “If you want an exhilarating fantasy, don't call Casper.” – Oregonian Sep 30, 2025 Full Review Braveheart (1995) 76% 2.5/4 EDIT “Gibson learned a thing or two working for geniuses such as George Miller and Peter Weir, but he never grasped how to build suspense by delayed revelation of plot information... He has an eye -- or Toll does -- but not a thought in his head.” – Oregonian Aug 7, 2025 Full Review Waterworld (1995) 60% 3/4 EDIT “Waterworld may not be the smartest or tightest of action pictures, but it is the splashiest. ” – Oregonian Jul 28, 2025 Full Review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 57% 3/4 EDIT “It's a pretty good dinosaur-tantrum movie, but it's not a great dinosaur-tantrum movie. In fact, The Lost World: Jurassic World starts out as the worst movie Steven Spielberg has ever made.” – Oregonian Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Apollo 13 (1995) 94% 3/4 EDIT “Besides the filmic thrills, this movie made me feel something I haven't felt in a while: proud to be an American.” – AARP Movies for Grownups Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible (1996) 67% 3/4 EDIT “The nutty, herky-jerky plot somehow manages to keep us tensely tuned in.” – Oregonian May 6, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% 5/5 EDIT “It’s a period Western, a musical, a vampire movie, an action picture, a revenge film akin to Inglourious Basterds, and a deep meditation on history. Don’t miss it. ” – AARP Movies for Grownups May 2, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “What is good about The Empire Strikes Back is even better than its more cheaply produced prequel. ” – Oregonian Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% 4/4 EDIT “Perhaps you haven't seen Star Wars yet. If not, you are the envy of everyone you know over the age of 30. Because the melancholy fact is, no matter how much Lucas buffs it up, when it comes to seeing Star Wars, there's no time like the first time.” – Oregonian Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Neil Young: Coastal (2025) 80% 4/5 EDIT “Non-fans may get a bit bored watching Young josh with his tour bus driver, but Young-ophiles will feel that the film, and his career, are, to quote a Crazy Horse song he sings, “A Dream That Can Last."” – AARP Movies for Grownups Apr 18, 2025 Full Review The Alto Knights (2025) 40% 4/5 EDIT “It mostly and sadly lacks the propulsive energy of Goodfellas, but it's an impressive acting exercise, and the scenes of Congressional hearings grilling the goombahs are terrific. ” – AARP Movies for Grownups Mar 21, 2025 Full Review My Dead Friend Zoe (2024) 94% EDIT “Here’s a scrappy indie flick that delivers an important message and packs an emotional punch. ” – AARP Movies for Grownups Mar 1, 2025 Full Review Nickel Boys (2024) 92% 4/5 EDIT “It’s bizarrely shot from the characters’ point of view, sometimes behind their heads. The storytelling is irritatingly elliptical, but it’s highly poetic and haunting.” – AARP Movies for Grownups Jan 10, 2025 Full Review Maria (2024) 76% 4/5 EDIT “Jolie’s voice blends with Callas’s in the singing scenes, which soar. Her performance is better than the movie.” – AARP Movies for Grownups Dec 20, 2024 Full Review September 5 (2024) 92% 5/5 EDIT “Steven Spielberg’s 2005 Munich dramatized the hunt for the terrorists who struck the 1972 Munich Olympics, but this riveting pulse-pounder puts you in the hearts and minds of the ABC Sports news crew who had to show it to the world... It's even better.” – AARP Movies for Grownups Dec 20, 2024 Full Review The Room Next Door (2024) 80% 4/5 EDIT “The dialogue is a bit stilted, the storytelling drifty and detached. But he couldn't have cast subtler, deeper actresses in his high-IQ meditation on mortality.” – AARP Movies for Grownups Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Hercules (1997) 83% 4/4 EDIT “Hercules isn't quite as good as the best Disney cartoons. But it does represent the studio up to its good old tricks, and destroys this summer's blockbuster competition as effortlessly as a cooing baby strangling a snake in each fist.” – Oregonian Dec 18, 2024 Full Review The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) 80% 3.5/4 EDIT “That's right, Disney has made a cartoon about God and justice, about sin and sex and civil disobedience. And it's not just hollow posturing... "Hunchback" has the courage to risk hundreds of millions of dollars to break with Disney formula.” – Oregonian Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Pocahontas (1995) 59% 1.5/4 EDIT “Everything about it is too well-behaved, calculated to deflect any potential objections, artfully constructed to contain every element of previous Disney-toon triumphs except the crucial one: irreverence.” – Oregonian Dec 17, 2024 Full Review The Six Triple Eight (2024) 56% 4/5 EDIT “Director Tyler Perry, 55, doesn’t do subtle, and the story’s only big surprise is… it’s all true, and inspiring.” – AARP Movies for Grownups Dec 6, 2024 Full Review Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. (2024) 66% 4/5 EDIT “The storyline leapfrogs in time confusingly, but Komarnicki did his homework and packs in plenty of the drama of Bonhoeffer's fascinating and spiritually exemplary life.” – AARP Movies for Grownups Nov 22, 2024 Full Review Emilia Pérez (2024) 71% 5/5 EDIT “Who knew Saldaña was such a terrific singer? And who says a violent gangster film can’t also be a musical, and more over the top than any opera? ” – AARP Movies for Grownups Nov 15, 2024 Full Review Girls Town (1996) 81% 2.5/4 EDIT “A story more or less made up by the actors as they went along. This adds vivid spontaneity, but it makes the strongest actor stand out more than she should, and it makes the movie disjointed to the point of incoherence. ” – Oregonian Nov 14, 2024 Full Review
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