Category: Review
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‘Summertime’ is an All-Time-Great Romantic Film
An American touching foreign land and getting “healed” in some way is a tired trope. But ‘Summertime’ energizes it.
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‘On the Beach’: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
The end of the world looms over Stanley Kramer’s ‘On the Beach.’
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A Vacation from Hell in ‘A Perfect Getaway’
‘The Perfect Getaway’ isn’t perfect, but no vacations are.
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‘Cabin Fever’ Never Quite Comes Together
The one truly effective thing about ‘Cabin Fever’ is Scott Kevan’s cinematography.
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‘The Right Stuff’ Feels Earthbound Even When It’s Shooting Toward the Moon
‘The Right Stuff’ frequently feels like a marvel.
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You Forget ‘UFOria’ as Soon As It’s Over
I’m sure, though, I’ll remember the joy I felt first seeing character-actor greats Harry Dean Stanton and Fred Ward not just in the same movie but seated at its front, for once not confined to the thankless background of a better movie.
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‘A Stolen Life’ is a Fun Good-Twin-Bad-Twin Melodrama
Evil twins: you can’t live with them, and you can’t live without them.
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‘Dual’: A Flat, Opaque Dark Comedy with an Intriguing Premise
Writer-director Stearns doesn’t quite pull everything off.
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‘Thunderheart’ is a Forceful Police Drama
‘Thunderheart’ is initially positioned as a noirish mystery. But as it unravels its attention shifts.
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‘Peppermint Frappé’ Makes You Long for ‘Vertigo’
‘Peppermint Frappé’ is unsurprisingly not as good as its spiritual predecessor — any movie taking after Hitchcock’s masterpiece is foredoomed — but it isn’t by any means a shoddy-quality knockoff.
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‘Tremors II: Aftershocks’ is a Better-Than-Average Direct-to-Video Sequel — Which Isn’t Saying Much
Beyond not being irredeemably terrible, ‘Tremors 2’ doesn’t have too much to distinguish itself from its lots-of-fun predecessor.
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