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The Amityville Horror
(2005)
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Kevin C. Johnson
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Reynolds and George are distractingly attractive leads, but they get the jobs done in this solids, unspectacular spook show that horror fans will revisit without hesitation.
Posted Aug 15, 2024
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Beetlejuice
(1988)
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Joe Pollack
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It's a movie that's mostly bright, witty and wry, and sometimes exceedingly funny.
Posted Aug 15, 2024
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3.5/4
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Telling Lies in America
(1997)
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Joe Holleman
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Bacon and Renfro are a perfect team.
Posted Aug 07, 2024
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1.5/4
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Alien Resurrection
(1997)
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Ellen Futterman
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Although Alien Resurrection offers some chills, it's low on thrills and even lower on creating any emotional center to hold the story together.
Posted Aug 07, 2024
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Alien 3
(1992)
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Joe Pollack
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It may be just another sequel, but Alien 3 is better than most, and follows nicely after the first two.
Posted Aug 05, 2024
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Trouble in Mind
(1985)
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Harper Barnes
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Trouble in Mind is a pleasure for the senses and the mind.
Posted Jul 30, 2024
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Aliens
(1986)
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Harper Barnes
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For sheer, unrelenting excitement that will leave you wrung out and gasping for breath, there has not been a movie like Aliens since Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Posted Jul 30, 2024
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Twister
(1996)
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Harper Barnes
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Watching estranged spouses Jo and Bill re-bond as they pursue killer tornadoes across Oklahoma is so much giddy fun that, once you let loose the grip of your critical faculties, you'll be gone with the wind.
Posted Jul 16, 2024
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When Harry Met Sally...
(1989)
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Joe Pollack
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Despite its flaws, I like When Harry Met Sally... a great deal. It has charm and wit and style, three ingredients too often missing from movies and more important, it's mostly very funny.
Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Jaws
(1975)
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Joe Pollack
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Jaws will make you go home and burn your bathing suits and stay away from the tub. But don't stay away from the film. It's a real blockbuster, alive with drama and excitement.
Posted Jul 02, 2024
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Steel Magnolias
(1989)
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Joe Pollack
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MacLaine is wonderful, and she ought to be. She has all the best lines, and is the freest spirit in the Louisiana community.
Posted May 03, 2024
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Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
(1968)
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Myles Standish
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Warm and innocuous.
Posted May 01, 2024
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Bonnie and Clyde
(1967)
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Myles Standish
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An exciting, sometimes gruesomely humorous play on violence.
Posted May 01, 2024
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The Graduate
(1967)
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Myles Standish
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A brilliant and funny satire on the affluent, materialistic society.
Posted May 01, 2024
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The Fox
(1968)
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Myles Standish
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A sensitive, moody and absorbing drama full of psychological nuances.
Posted May 01, 2024
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Guns for San Sebastian
(1968)
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Myles Standish
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French director Henri Verneuil has made this visually striking, with some rousing battle scenes, but the dialogue, as dubbed into English from the original French-Mexican-Italian production, is atrociously stilted.
Posted May 01, 2024
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Yours, Mine and Ours
(1968)
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Myles Standish
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Marred by several cornball scenes involving Lucille Ball, but on the whole it is warm, gently humorous and poignant.
Posted May 01, 2024
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Madigan
(1968)
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Myles Standish
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Hard-hitting, realistic detective melodrama.
Posted May 01, 2024
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Planet of the Apes
(1968)
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Myles Standish
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Interesting science fiction... Maurice Evans is good as [Charlton Heston's] persecutor, an orangutan minister of science.
Posted May 01, 2024
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3.5/4
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Planet of the Apes
(2001)
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Joe Williams
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Despite an undercooked script and the relative weakness of the main character, the movie delivers all the action and imagination you could ask from a summer blockbuster.
Posted May 01, 2024
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Postcards From the Edge
(1990)
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Martha K. Baker
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Postcards From the Edge is hardly a sob story, and not a "woman's movie" from the '40s. It's very savvy and snotty and a little sexy, too.
Posted Apr 30, 2024
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Only Yesterday
(1933)
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H.H. Niemeyer
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The picture introduces to the screen Margaret Sullavan, who plays the Southern girl so finely that she gives promise of stepping into the front ranks, immediately, of the Hollywood elect.
Posted Apr 23, 2024
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White Heat
(1949)
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Clarissa Start
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Margaret Wycherly steals the honors as Ma Jarrett. Of greatest interest are the complicated devices and crime-solving techniques which can locate a car, tail it unsuspectedly, and nab the evildoers all by electronics.
Posted Apr 22, 2024
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The Mad Miss Manton
(1938)
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Colvin McPherson
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[The Mad Miss Manton] has some brisk dialogue and all in all, is a pretty fair mystery farce.
Posted Apr 22, 2024
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The Lavender Hill Mob
(1951)
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Myles Standish
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A lark and a laugh from beginning to end.
Posted Apr 18, 2024
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Heavenly Bodies
(1985)
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Harper Barnes
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This Canadian movie consists essentially of an hour and a half of watching reasonably attractive people do aerobic dancing.
Posted Apr 15, 2024
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Spaceballs
(1987)
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Harper Barnes
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It probably will do fairly well with kids and younger adolescents, who haven't heard the bad puns and seen the sight gags a thousand times before.
Posted Apr 12, 2024
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The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings
(1976)
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Joe Pollack
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A sparkling, brisk, very entertaining motion picture that deals with the adventures and misadventures of the league and a rebellious team.
Posted Apr 11, 2024
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The Big Heat
(1953)
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Myles Standish
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The melodrama is clipped and taut, well played by Ford, Miss Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby and others, and often erupts with shocking impact.
Posted Apr 11, 2024
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Little Women
(1994)
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Harper Barnes
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Armstrong working from a screenplay by Robin Swicord, stresses the proto-feminist elements in the book without making them intrude on what is essentially the warm story of the kind of family we all should be lucky enough to have grown up in.
Posted Apr 10, 2024
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Dog Day Afternoon
(1975)
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Joe Pollack
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An excellent motion picture... with Sidney Lumet's direction a gem and Al Pacino's performance one that covers the entire range of human emotion.
Posted Apr 07, 2024
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Lady Sings the Blues
(1972)
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Joe Pollack
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Furie does a generally good job, and it was cheering to see some of the old-fashioned techniques like railroad wheels, theater marquees and newspaper clippings used to show passage of time and space. They are corny, but they are effective.
Posted Apr 05, 2024
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(1977)
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Joe Pollack
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As a movie, it's fun. It isn't perfect, nor is it a classic film, but it's entertaining and enjoyable, especially in terms of some truly dazzling special effects from Douglas Trumbull.
Posted Apr 03, 2024
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Seven
(1995)
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Joe Pollack
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It's an exciting film, with some good performances and taut direction, though subject matter and visual approach often are stomach-turning.
Posted Mar 28, 2024
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Showgirls
(1995)
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Joe Pollack
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Whatever Eszterhas and director Paul Verhoeven may say about going behind the scenes in Vegas, they have made a film to highlight little more than prurient interest.
Posted Mar 27, 2024
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3/4
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Almost Famous
(2000)
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Joe Williams
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This potential classic is partially tamed by the dictates of big-budget Hollywood. While it's a heartfelt, smart and funny film, Almost Famous isn't quite tough or eccentric enough to supersede High Fidelity as the year's best movie about rock fandom.
Posted Mar 26, 2024
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The Searchers
(1956)
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Myles Standish
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The combination of Director John Ford and star John Wayne has again produced a crack Western, the best since Shane, in The Searchers.
Posted Mar 25, 2024
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Quincannon, Frontier Scout
(1956)
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Myles Standish
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There may be worse acted and produced Westerns than this, but, if so, I'd hate to have to sit through them.
Posted Mar 21, 2024
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U.F.O.
(1956)
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Myles Standish
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A remarkably well-made full length documentary.
Posted Mar 21, 2024
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Patterns
(1956)
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Myles Standish
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A strongly made, well-knit, and absorbing drama.
Posted Mar 21, 2024
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Sawdust and Tinsel
(1953)
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Myles Standish
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The whole thing, has been written and directed by Ingmar Bergman in a style so gloomily arty as to be indigestible.
Posted Mar 21, 2024
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Chinatown
(1974)
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Joe Pollack
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A stylish, beautiful, interesting, highly literate film that, like a great detective novel, leads one slowly and carefully through many twists to the final denouement.
Posted Mar 08, 2024
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Westward the Women
(1951)
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Myles Standish
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Director Willam Wellman has compromised some of his more vigorous scenes with touches of hokum, so instead of brutal realism, we have only a theatrical imitation thereof.
Posted Mar 02, 2024
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Forrest Gump
(1994)
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Harper Barnes
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Hanks never strikes a false note, never panders to his mentally slow character nor tries to make him more than he is, despite a script that occasionally calls on him to utter what presumably are intended to be simple profundities.
Posted Mar 01, 2024
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Pulp Fiction
(1994)
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Harper Barnes
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If you like crime fiction and enjoy superb acting, characters deep enough to bleed (sometimes excessively), suspenseful plots, masterly direction and brilliant colloquial dialogue, Pulp Fiction is definitely for you.
Posted Mar 01, 2024
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
(1994)
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Ellen Futterman
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Just in time for spring, brimming with frilly bonnets and gorgeous English countryside, comes Four Weddings and a Funeral, a winsome romantic comedy from Mike Newell.
Posted Feb 28, 2024
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The Sin of Nora Moran
(1933)
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H.H. Niemeyer
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A gripping drama.
Posted Feb 22, 2024
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Dune
(1984)
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Harper Barnes
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The special effects are mediocre -- the miniatures look like miniatures, the sets look like sets, the matte paintings look like matte painting. And even the much dreaded sand worms are about as scary as Missouri night crawlers.
Posted Feb 15, 2024
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Quiz Show
(1994)
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Joe Pollack
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It's a very good movie, just short of greatness, carried along on outstanding performances by John Turturro and Ralph Fiennes, and Robert Redford's simple, evocative direction.
Posted Feb 13, 2024
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Grease
(1978)
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John M. McGuire
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Many of the movies numbers were beautifully danced and choreographed but, unlike the stage version, they seem devoid of the rough edges that made the onstage Grease so delightful.
Posted Feb 08, 2024
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