Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| The Killing of Sister George (1968) | "
Robert Aldrich's "daring" 1968 mating of lesbianism and commerce was, as I recall, considered pretty tame even then; lord knows what it looks like today." Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 73%
| The Living Daylights (1987) | "
Expect the expected." Posted Oct 13, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| An American Tail (1986) | "
The overall quality of the animation -- baroquely executed if rather conventionally conceived -- makes it worth a look" Posted Sep 10, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 46%
| Dragnet (1987) | "
Most of the time it's fresh, funny, and surprising." Posted May 20, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Transformers: The Movie (1986) | "
A 1986 computer-animated feature based on a popular TV cartoon show, further inspired, no doubt, by the philanthropic desire of Japanese and American toy manufacturers to keep their kiddie customers rolling in robots." Posted May 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Sid & Nancy (1986) | "
A few too many moralistic foreshadowings, but most of the time Cox's situations and characters develop on their own eloquently entropic terms." Posted Apr 28, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Round Midnight (1986) | "
The director's perenially heavy mood seems especially well suited to this indigo-shaded story of a black American saxman (Dexter Gordon) living and performing in Paris in the late 50s." Posted Apr 8, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Hollywood Shuffle (1987) | "
Improv talent Robert Townsend is pretty much the whole show." Posted Mar 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 91%
| Brian's Song (1971) | "
Made-for-TV eyewash for disheartened Bears fans to drown their sorrows in." Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| A Man and a Woman - 20 Years Later (1986) | "
Twenty years later and none the wiser for it." Posted Jan 15, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| Down by Law (1986) | "
On the whole I've had more fun in Cleveland." Posted Jan 11, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) | "
It's grave, lumbering, arrhythmic, and bloated, an emotional hogwallow of catchpenny insights and easy sentimentality." Posted Dec 11, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 90%
| Lethal Weapon (1987) | "
Empty glitz in search of a style." Posted Nov 27, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Raising Arizona (1987) | "
The cartoon vision of southwestern tackiness doesn't cut very deep, but the mise-en-scene is packed with clever clutter." Posted Nov 6, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 94%
| Come and See (1985) | "
I suppose that never forgetting has its place, but not when it insists on such narrowly righteous fantasies of revenge." Posted Oct 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Evil Dead (1979) | "
Sam Raimi directed this 1983 horror feature fresh out of film school, and his anything-for-an-effect enthusiasm pays off in lots of formally inventive bits." Posted Sep 24, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 98%
| Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987) | "
The pop-up humor and smirkiness suggest Raimi's aspiring to the fashionable company of the brothers Coen, though on the basis of this strained effort I'd say he's overshot the mark." Posted Sep 21, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| One Crazy Summer (1986) | "
[A] bright, occasionally imbecilic teen comedy." Posted Jul 25, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) | "
Assembly-line feature from the John Hughes teen factory." Posted Jul 24, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| River's Edge (1987) | "
It's more a success than a failure, if only because the confusions are so protean." Posted Jul 18, 2007 |
Fresh
| N/A | Nayak: the Hero (1966) | "
Satyajit Ray's 1966 feature comes at the tail end of his early realist period, which included most of the films that won him his reputation in the West." Posted Jul 14, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| Innerspace (1987) | "
The plot is standard fantasy-adventure pulp, though director Joe Dante has so many screwball things going on in it that the comedy all but overwhelms the formulaic line of action." Posted Jun 8, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 84%
| Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) | "
I suspect the unconverted will want to be beamed up pronto." Posted Jun 6, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Robocop (1987) | "
There's a brooding, agonized quality to the violence that almost seems subversive, as if Verhoeven were both appalled and fascinated by his complicity in the toxic action rot." Posted Jun 5, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 91%
| The Fly (1986) | "
Image so much subverts intention that Jeff Goldblum's tragic flyperson finally seems more ludicrous than affecting, voyeuristically bizarre." Posted Jun 5, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 76%
| Predator (1987) | "
Despite the off-rhythm styling, there's not a lot going on." Posted Jun 5, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 89%
| Planet of the Apes (1968) | "
Dismal SF deep think (1968) that gave birth to an equally dismal string of sequels and TV series spin-offs." Posted May 30, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| Howard the Duck (1986) | "
The duck doesn't fly, but did anyone ever really think it would?" Posted Apr 25, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 11%
| Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) | "
By ordinary movie standards it's awful, but fans of cinematic dementia should have fun for about half an hour." Posted Apr 17, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 59%
| Q - The Winged Serpent (1983) | "
Cohen's obviously having fun with the cheesy clay animation, and Michael Moriarty delivers an inspired, whacked-out performance as a small-time operater who tries to turn the monster into his own private bonanza, but the rest... is disengaged and sloppy." Posted Mar 28, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| The Color of Money (1986) | "
A solidly crafted entertainment that, for the most part, strikes a successful balance between commercial necessity and personal expression." Posted Mar 26, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 90%
| Hoosiers (1987) | "
Bobby Knight would not be amused, though Tark the Shark might've had a good laugh at the naive masquerade." Posted Mar 21, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Mafioso (1962) | "
Filmed in Milan, Sicily, and New York, Alberto Lattuada's 1962 black comedy is one of his most critically suc" Posted Mar 10, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Manhunter (1986) | "
I'm intrigued by that stylistic envelope: simultaneously hypnotic and enervating, meditative and empty." Posted Feb 7, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 85%
| Platoon (1986) | "
For all the purported naturalism, the film seems resolutely schematic, and the attitudes shaping the drama are far from open-ended." Posted Feb 5, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Something Wild (1986) | "
Jonathan Demme's picaresque joyride across the American landscape is still arguably the best thing he's ever done." Posted Dec 26, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) | "
It won best-picture Oscar for 1952, but God (De Mille's favorite walk-on, strangely absent here) only knows why." Posted Dec 12, 2006 |
— | N/A | Point of Order (1964) |
Click here to read article Posted Jan 14, 2006 |
— | N/A | Flowing (1956) |
Click here to read article Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
— | N/A | Steele Justice (1987) |
Click here to read article Posted Sep 18, 2005 |
— | N/A | Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981) |
Click here to read article Posted Jul 5, 2005 |
— | N/A | Restless Natives (1985) |
Click here to read article Posted May 14, 2005 |
— | N/A | Crime in the Streets (1956) |
Click here to read article Posted Apr 30, 2005 |
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