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Review of Moonstruck (1987)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 07 Feb 2014

There's an old-fashioned romanticism about the picture, a sweet, gentle approach to love and family life…

Review of Color of Night (1994)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 31 Jan 2014

Color me dissatisfied with Color of Night. For starters, it's a murder mystery with a really obvious solution. How obvious…

Review of American Beauty (1999)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 28 Jan 2014

[The filmmakers'] attacks on real-estate agents, corporate America and suburbia aren't so much shooting fish in a barrel as they are shooting…

Review of The Lost Boys (1987)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 21 Jan 2014

The Lost Boys, which attempts to be funny while preserving the shock value of the vampire legend, aims somewhat higher... and misses…

Review of Forrest Gump (1994)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 07 Jan 2014

The movie's technical tricks are great fun, as is its musical soundtrack, which captures the essences of the eras it traverses…

Review of The English Patient (1996)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 06 Jan 2014

It's the sort of solemn production that is often mentioned as an Academy Award contender.This says less about the quality of the film than…

Review of Out of Africa (1985)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 06 Jan 2014

This good and gentle film, directed by Sydney Pollack (Tootsie), might have been fashioned to make the most of Streep's natural qualities of…

Review of The Santa Clause (1994)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 06 Dec 2013

I was surprised to find The Santa Clause rather easier to take than anticipated…

Review of Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 20 Nov 2013

Sister Act 2 is pretty much a mess. It takes forever to get on its feet and doesn’t make a lot of sense once it does…

Review of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 15 Nov 2013

The king is completely out-of-control, and so was Gilliam in making this film. Neither has much of a sense of proportion, but both are hard to ignore…

Review of River's Edge (1986)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 11 Nov 2013

The triumph of this bleak, unsettling picture is that, no matter how grim it gets, it's far too involving for you to turn away…

Review of The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 08 Oct 2013

Director Michael Chapman, an experienced cinematographer, is skilled in conveying ideas through pictures -- quite an advantage in a movie about…

Review of Toy Soldiers (1991)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 02 Sep 2013

Toy Soldiers is a crisp, suspenseful thriller well tailored to the tastes of teen-age audiences, who will doubtless appreciate such touches…

Review of The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 11 Aug 2013

Demme comes at Harris' material from another angle: His movie may deal with madness, but his perspective is mercifully sane…

Review of Cliffhanger (1993)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 02 Aug 2013

Some movies get you so excited - so revved up on action and thrills -- that you almost feel like you're flying…

Review of Saving Private Ryan (1998)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 01 Aug 2013

The cast functions as an effective and believable unit. And Hanks gives a strong, increasingly solemn performance as its mysterious leader…

Review of Unforgiven (1992)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 01 Aug 2013

Unforgiven ain't nuthin' new, y'unnerstan', but it's a good, old-fashioned western-type pitcher with plenty o' rootin' tootin' action 'n' big…

Review of The Lion King (1994)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 30 Jul 2013

The rest of The Lion King alternates between grand-opera melodrama and low-comedy hi-jinks, superbly blending the two approaches…

Review of Parenthood (1989)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 30 Jul 2013

There's not a scene in Parenthood that isn't involving: The actors keep reaching into themselves and coming up with gold…

Review of Speed (1994)

By Jay Boyar (463) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 29 Jul 2013

Believe it or not, the most exciting movie of the year takes place mainly in an elevator, on a city bus and on a train car…

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