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Michael Blowen

Michael Blowen's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Tron (1982) 60% EDIT “"Tron" is as interesting as being stuck in a video arcade without any quarters.” – Boston Globe Oct 6, 2025 Full Review Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996) 39% EDIT “One "Darkman" was enough. This one substitutes effects for character development, and it's a poor trade-off.” – Boston Globe Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1995) 48% EDIT “For crazed horror fans only.” – Boston Globe Sep 12, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% EDIT “Priscilla Presley is surprisingly good, and that may be the most hilarious idea in the picture.” – Boston Globe Jul 24, 2025 Full Review DuckTales, the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) 66% EDIT “Does an admirable job of spoofing "Indiana Jones."” – Boston Globe Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Superman III (1983) 31% EDIT “Despite superb performances from Reeve, Pryor and Vaughn, Superman dies. Not from Kryptonite, but from directorial neglect. ” – Boston Globe Jul 7, 2025 Full Review Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) 15% EDIT “In many sequences Reeve looks as if he's pink-faced from embarrassment as he flies through the air looking like a cardboard cut-out.” – Boston Globe Jul 2, 2025 Full Review Supergirl (1984) 19% EDIT “"Supergirl" doesn't fly.” – Boston Globe Jun 27, 2025 Full Review Day of the Dead (1985) 61% EDIT “Even for fans of the genre, "Day of the Dead" has absolutely no frightening moments.” – Boston Globe Jun 25, 2025 Full Review The Karate Kid Part II (1986) 49% EDIT “In the so-called creative mix, this second-rate retelling has completely lost the innocence that made the original such a popular success. ” – Boston Globe May 27, 2025 Full Review Starman (1984) 83% EDIT “"Starman" is a close encounter of the most curious kind that never sacrifices hardware for humanity, intelligence for action or character for caricature.” – Boston Globe May 13, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 83% EDIT “Return of the Jedi, the final act of George Lucas' first Star Wars trilogy, is the best one yet.” – Boston Globe Apr 25, 2025 Full Review A Room With a View (1986) 100% EDIT “The performances -- particularly by Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter and Denholm Elliot -- are superbly wrought in this tale of conflicting cultures, embattled sexes and changing values.” – Boston Globe Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Letter to Brezhnev (1985) 100% EDIT “A low-budget, tart-tongued comedy as audacious as it is funny.” – Boston Globe Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Heartburn (1986) 46% EDIT “So far it's the best American movie of the year.” – Boston Globe Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) 83% EDIT “A sparkling comedy that skips along on the strength of Matthew Broderick's deceptively difficult performance.” – Boston Globe Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Aliens (1986) 94% EDIT “Even though it's too long, director James Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's Alien is a worthy successor. ” – Boston Globe Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 96% EDIT “Pacino's inner alienation transforms this film into something far beyond a simple historical recreation of an "actual" event.” – Boston Globe Apr 7, 2024 Full Review The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) 52% EDIT “The producers have transformed a gentle, well-meaning, satirical Broadway musical into a parody of itself.” – Boston Globe Dec 31, 2023 Full Review The Duellists (1977) 74% EDIT “Overall, the lavish mixture of painfully slow pictorial scenes, historical authenticity, and a few interesting duels never coalesce into an effective pattern.” – Boston Globe Nov 20, 2023 Full Review The Legend of Billie Jean (1985) 39% EDIT “The Legend of Billie Jean, while neither as grotesque as Rambo nor as sleazy as a slasher movie, is repulsive in its vacuous cheerleading for an empty heroine and her ridiculous escapades.” – Boston Globe Nov 17, 2023 Full Review Alien (1979) 93% EDIT “Alien is another triumph of technology over art. It is also a horror movie set in space -- and it just doesn't work. ” – Boston Globe Nov 16, 2023 Full Review The Color Purple (1985) 73% EDIT “Spielberg's The Color Purple seems as close to the real, American black experience as Disney World's Frontierland is to the American West. ” – Boston Globe May 25, 2023 Full Review To Be or Not to Be (1942) 96% EDIT “The running gags, swift direction, and concise script makes it the best comedy about Fascism since Chaplin's The Great Dictator. ” – Boston Globe May 17, 2023 Full Review Evil Dead II (1987) 88% EDIT “Raimi combines animation, models and process photography with dazzling camera angles and sharp cutting to create a marvelous collection of tricks. I hope someone gives him a chance to make a better movie some day.” – Boston Globe Mar 29, 2023 Full Review
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