Tag: 1990s
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‘Demon Knight’ is a Devilishly Good Time
The first cinematic extension of HBO’s ‘Tales from the Crypt’ is darkly funny and frequently thrilling.
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‘Baby Blood’ is Slippery, Gnarly Pregnancy Horror
Carrying a baby to term is already hard enough. What if you had to lug around a parasite forcing you to feed on human blood, too?
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‘Ghostwatch’ is a Masterwork of the Found-Footage Horror Subgenre
‘Ghostwatch’’s blacklisted quality only heightens the good time
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The Force and Fury of ‘The Last of the Mohicans’
Still unlike anything he’s ever done, Michael Mann’s 1992 historical epic is spectacular in a how-did-they-do-this kind of way without letting its astonishing presentation eclipse everything else.
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You Wish ‘Geronimo: An American Legend’ Unfolded from a Different Vantage Point
Walter Hill’s movie is both clear-eyed about the monstrousness of the American government and prone to preferencing the perspectives of white characters.
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‘Clearcut’ is Far Sharper Than Most Revenge Movies
Graham Greene is a force in Ryszard Bugajski’s chilling, thought-provoking 1991 thriller.
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‘Deep Rising’ is a Charmless Monster Movie
On Stephen Sommers’ post-‘Jurassic Park’ creature feature.
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Bombs Away
On ‘Cutthroat Island’ and ‘The Long Kiss Goodnight,’ two infamous collaborations between Renny Harlin and Geena Davis.
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Caped Crusaders
On the two movies that put a halt to the comic-strip movie boom of the early-to-mid-1990s.
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‘Primal Fear’ is Glossy Garbage
‘Primal Fear’ is cheaply fun, but some of that fun is weighed down by thoughts of the better movie it could have been.
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Turbulence
Two ‘90s gems — ‘Drylongso’ and ‘The Doom Generation’ — are restored and as invigorating as ever.
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‘8MM’ is Almost Comically Grim
‘8MM’’s portrayal of the underground-porn world conversely has the texture of one imagined by a well-off 60-something who wouldn’t know much about that kind of thing.
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