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Review of A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 07 Jul 2014

This lame effort, Disney's latest live-action motion picture for children, owes a big, fat nod for its plot to Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee…

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Review of My Own Private Idaho (1991)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 01 Jun 2014

The two actors create vivid characters, but they're so unsympathetic and Van Sant drags them through so many tiresome, pretentious scenes that…

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Review of The Sandlot (1993)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 06 May 2014

Any of Charles Schulz's baseball-oriented Peanuts strips contains more understanding of baseball and more insight into children, as well as…

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Review of The Natural (1984)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 05 May 2014

The scouting report on The Natural has to read: lots of tools but no heart…

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Review of Cobb (1994)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 05 May 2014

A curiously gripping amalgam of Patton, Citizen Kane and Melvin and Howard…

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Review of Field of Dreams (1989)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 05 May 2014

Alden's script goes from charming to preposterous to preachy…

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Review of A League of Their Own (1992)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 05 May 2014

The movie drones along uninvolvingly, as if it were erecting a monument, not telling a story…

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Review of Problem Child (1954)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 29 Apr 2014

The end is refreshingly less sentimental than it seems to be shaping up to be, but the film's ugly moments can't help but leave a bad taste…

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Review of Problem Child (1990)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 29 Apr 2014

The end is refreshingly less sentimental than it seems to be shaping up to be, but the film's ugly moments can't help but leave a bad taste…

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Review of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 24 Apr 2014

This is a big, colorful, sharp-witted and beautifully photographed rendering of the tale of the olde English guerrilla fighter -- two solidly…

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Review of Robin Hood (2009)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 24 Apr 2014

This is a big, colorful, sharp-witted and beautifully photographed rendering of the tale of the olde English guerrilla fighter -- two solidly…

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Review of Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 21 Apr 2014

The film, photographed by Tonino Delli Colli, is striking to look at, especially its New York street scenes, which were shot in Manhattan,…

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Review of Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 17 Jan 2014

There is so seldom even one great performance in a movie that three is too much to expect…

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Review of The Deer Hunter (1978)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 16 Jan 2014

Robert De Niro is, once again, explosive in this stunning Vietnam movie…

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Review of Dances with Wolves (1990)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 13 Jan 2014

To say this movie is sporadically artful is to say that it is more interesting than most films around these days…

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Review of The English Patient (1996)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 06 Jan 2014

When the movie penetrates to the heart of their buried past, Patient becomes even stronger, stranger, grander -- a threnody beneath a cloudless…

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Review of Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 06 Jan 2014

[Tandy and Freeman] are so affecting they turn what could have been merely well-meant hokum into a touching tribute to compassion and human dignity…

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Review of Driving Miss Daisy (2015)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 06 Jan 2014

[Tandy and Freeman] are so affecting they turn what could have been merely well-meant hokum into a touching tribute to compassion and human dignity…

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Review of Lethal Weapon (1987)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 06 Dec 2013

Thanks to a peculiar chemistry and a terrific script, Mel Gibson and Danny Glover lift this movie above mere TV-cop fodder…

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Review of The Ref (1994)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 06 Dec 2013

While director Ted Demme seems to be trying to impose a Home Alone tone, he only succeeds in lending an air of desperation, with lame subplots…

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