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Dracula
(1979)
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Madeleine Harmsworth
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Director John Badham and his marvellous cast subtly convey the story's underlying and disturbing eroticism as well as its obvious malevolence.
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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Desert Hearts
(1985)
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Madeleine Harmsworth
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A film made mostly by women, about women. Blessedly, it is impressive.
Posted Oct 13, 2025
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My Beautiful Laundrette
(1985)
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Madeleine Harmsworth
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The love between Omar's rich opportunist uncle and his glamorous aging white mistress is exquisitely observed.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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4/5
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Casper
(1995)
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Ian Lyness
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Kids will love the visual surprises, while there's a smattering of witty lines to keep parents amused.
Posted Sep 29, 2025
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Toy Story
(1995)
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Quentin Falk
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Toys will be toys and for anyone who enjoyed pitched battles with plastic soldiers and crating bizarre faces with Mr. Potato Head, Disney's latest extravaganza is a fun-filled feast.
Posted Sep 10, 2025
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4/5
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Darkman
(1990)
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Madeleine Harmsworth
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It successfully combines the spectacle of Superman with the sentiment of Phantom of The Opera.
Posted Aug 26, 2025
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2/5
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Predator 2
(1990)
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Quentin Falk
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No amount of glossy violence can disguise that this is a deeply shallow sequel.
Posted Aug 26, 2025
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2/5
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Nine Months
(1995)
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Quentin Falk
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It would be good to report that this frantic farce is so brilliant that it puts all those blazing headlines in the shade but frankly the real-life story of Hugh's drive-by is a lot funnier than this contrived comedy.
Posted Aug 19, 2025
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3/5
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Clueless
(1995)
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Quentin Falk
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Here's a smart twist on the 90210 set and it's not difficult to see why young Ms Silverstone has become such a star.
Posted Aug 19, 2025
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3/5
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Mortal Kombat
(1995)
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Quentin Falk
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The action is explosive, the special effects fun, the dialogue ludicrous and you'll probably go along with our hero Cage when he asks "I give up, what's going on?" Don't ask!
Posted Aug 19, 2025
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Waterworld
(1995)
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Quentin Falk
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Waterworld proves to be a lavish, stunt-packed epic.
Posted Jul 28, 2025
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
(1988)
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Madeleine Harmsworth
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Most of the jokes are expertly delivered by a straight-faced cast headed by Leslie Nielsen.
Posted Jul 24, 2025
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2/5
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Navy SEALS
(1990)
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Madeleine Harmsworth
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A simple-minded slice of jingoistic propaganda.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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4/5
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The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
(1991)
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Madeleine Harmsworth
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Among the many happy lunacies in The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear is an hilarious scene set in a blues night-club for the suicidally depressed.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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3/5
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Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
(1992)
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Keith Richmond
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The script is daft, but the Hell On Earth special effects are stunning.
Posted Jul 15, 2025
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3/5
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Red Rock West
(1993)
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Quentin Falk
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A clever, if complicated, black comedy-thriller.
Posted Jul 15, 2025
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Superman: The Movie
(1978)
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Madeleine Harmsworth
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When he's swirling like a bird round New York scryscrapers, or shooting like a cannonball to save the day, the film is fun. But when we trace the character's origins it becomes slow, tedious and silly.
Posted Jul 08, 2025
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3/5
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Baraka
(1992)
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Quentin Falk
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The stunning, if overlong, visual essay on the current state of our planet uses every kind of gimmick, including slow-motion and time-lapse techniques. Quite mind-boggling.
Posted Jul 01, 2025
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4/5
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Jurassic Park
(1993)
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Quentin Falk
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Trailing more hype than any other movie in recent memory, Jurassic Park delivers monstrous special effects on an extraordinary scale. And it's scaly enough to satisfy even the most hardened dino-buffs.
Posted Jul 01, 2025
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5/5
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Lady and the Tramp
(1955)
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Quentin Falk
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It may be more than 40 years old, but this is still one of Disney's best-ever films.
Posted Jun 30, 2025
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2/5
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Remember Me?
(1997)
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Quentin Falk
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With such a fine comedy cast and a script by farce master Michael Frayn, this super-annuated small-screen sitcom should have been a lot funnier and a lot less frenzied.
Posted Jun 30, 2025
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3/5
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park
(1997)
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Quentin Falk
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What Steven Spielberg achieves in tension with a slowly cracking sheet of glass has to be seen to be believed.
Posted Jun 30, 2025
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Supergirl
(1984)
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Madeleine Harmsworth
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The talents of Faye Dunaway, Peter Cook and Brenda Vaccaro are wasted.
Posted Jun 27, 2025
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3/5
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The Quick and the Dead
(1995)
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Quentin Falk
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All the Western clichés are here, but they are served up so entertainingly that you almost feel you're seeing them for the first time.
Posted Jun 24, 2025
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3/5
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Carrington
(1995)
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Quentin Falk
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It's a powerful and sexy portrait of a golden age before and after The Great War.
Posted Jun 24, 2025
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5/5
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Apollo 13
(1995)
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Quentin Falk
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Not so much a movie, more a breathtaking simulation, it comes closer than any other film in recreating the awesome power and excitement of space travel.
Posted Jun 24, 2025
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The Gold Rush
(1925)
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Walter Webster
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The Gold Rush contains many passages of delicious comedy, but the laughs are, like pearls on a cotton thread, strung on an inadequate melodrama, and are so widely spaced that at times you felt a Keystone comedy had been stretched out to ten reels.
Posted Jun 24, 2025
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Return to Oz
(1985)
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Albert Jacobs
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Technical feats such as a wise-cracking hen and rock faces that turn into talking human faces do not compensate for a lack of enchantment.
Posted Jun 17, 2025
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4/5
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
(1983)
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Quentin Falk
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The refreshed bits are pretty minimal except for a new, improved finale that is now extremely spectacular.
Posted Apr 25, 2025
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The Final Countdown
(1980)
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Madeleine Harmsworth
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The carrier has the power to divert history. But should it be done? For most of the film, this issue is sustained with surprising intelligence. Only the ending is something of a letdown.
Posted Apr 23, 2025
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
(1980)
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Madeleine Harmsworth
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The long-awaited sequel to Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, is even more imaginative than its predecessor.
Posted Apr 23, 2025
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2/5
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Trojan Eddie
(1996)
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Quentin Falk
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Slow-moving, gloomy and sporadically violent.
Posted Apr 22, 2025
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2/5
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Space Jam
(1996)
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Quentin Falk
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Not even state-of-the-art technology can stop this vanity project turning into a shameless parade of product placement and backslapping -- not to say endless high fives.
Posted Apr 22, 2025
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5/5
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
(1977)
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Quentin Falk
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The force is still with Star Wars.
Posted Apr 22, 2025
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2001: A Space Odyssey
(1968)
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Madeleine Harmsworth
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Somewhere among the millions of pounds and hard-spent effort a story to engage the likes of you and me has been lost, or forgotten.
Posted Apr 09, 2025
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Rancho Deluxe
(1975)
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Madeleine Harmsworth
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Rancho Deluxe is an amiable movie.
Posted Mar 27, 2025
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Tommy
(1975)
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Madeleine Harmsworth
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Russell has built a fabulous superstructure which contains some of the best and worst examples of his sensational brand of film-making.
Posted Mar 19, 2025
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Nashville
(1975)
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Madeleine Harmsworth
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The characters are so life-like the film has the air of a skilful documentary.
Posted Feb 27, 2025
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Barbarella
(1968)
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John Smith
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The fact that the whole film is so outrageous that you find yourself chortling cannot save it from turning out as a twisted tale which makes the activities of the Marquis de Sade look like good clean fun.
Posted Feb 12, 2025
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Scream 2
(1997)
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Quentin Falk
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I tend to agree with another character when he declared, "Sequels suck."
Posted Feb 06, 2025
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A Perfect Murder
(1998)
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Quentin Falk
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This loose reworking of Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder over-complicate that simple but chilling classic.
Posted Dec 19, 2024
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Mulan
(1998)
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Quentin Falk
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Disney is back to its best form with this fabulous cartoon retelling of a 2000-year-old Chinese legend.
Posted Dec 19, 2024
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1/5
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House of America
(1997)
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Quentin Falk
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[A] truly dreary tale of a dispossessed Welsh family in a no-hope valley village.
Posted Dec 18, 2024
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3/5
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Nil by Mouth
(1997)
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Quentin Falk
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The film is unsparing in its detail of domestic turmoil and savagery.
Posted Dec 18, 2024
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3/5
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Fathers' Day
(1997)
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Quentin Falk
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Madcap Williams and deadpan Crystal are good value as always, but they are partnered in a glossy farce about fatherhood which doesn't fully match up to their talents.
Posted Dec 18, 2024
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4/5
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The Game
(1997)
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Quentin Falk
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The plot develops into a nerve-tingling thriller of bluff and double bluff set in San Francisco.
Posted Dec 18, 2024
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4/5
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Hercules
(1997)
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Quentin Falk
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This is easily Disney's best effort since The Lion King.
Posted Dec 18, 2024
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1996)
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Quentin Falk
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It's going to be another Disney winner.
Posted Dec 18, 2024
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2/5
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Assassins
(1995)
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Quentin Falk
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[A] violent but overlong and wordy thriller.
Posted Dec 17, 2024
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3/5
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The Net
(1995)
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Quentin Falk
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An often powerful powerful techno-thriller.
Posted Dec 17, 2024
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