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Review of The Freshman (1990)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 31 Jul 2013

In the case of this inspired comedy, the plot is a dignified bonkers combination of The Graduate, The Sting, The Godfather and The Producers…

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Review of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 30 Jul 2013

The merely curious are warned…

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Review of Presumed Innocent (1990)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 30 Jul 2013

Pakula keeps the suspense level high throughout and effectively brings off a series of twists at the end…

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Review of An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 30 Jul 2013

An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1980s version that doesn't tamper much with the formula, but it does revitalize it, thanks to the erotic teamwork…

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Review of Jurassic Park (1993)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 30 Jul 2013

Despite the presence of all this acting talent, it is the film's special effects, especially the work of dinosaur supervisor Phil Tippett,…

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Review of Ruthless People (1986)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 30 Jul 2013

At its considerable best, Ruthless People is a riotous anomaly: a very good farce about very bad taste…

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Review of The Real Jurassic Park (1993)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 30 Jul 2013

Despite the presence of all this acting talent, it is the film's special effects, especially the work of dinosaur supervisor Phil Tippett,…

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Review of Thelma & Louise (1991)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 29 Jul 2013

Any movie that went as far out of its way to trash women as this female chauvinist sow of a film does to trash men would be universally, and…

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Review of In the Line of Fire (1993)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 29 Jul 2013

Preposterous but still thoroughly involving, this tense, kinetic, ingenious thriller is the thinking fan's action movie…

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Review of Apollo 13 (1995)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 29 Jul 2013

Tense as the best murder mysteries and as kinetic as the most exciting action films, this space adventure is as thrilling as movies get…

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Review of When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 29 Jul 2013

By the end, when everyone should be rooting for Crystal and Ryan to get together, the whole enterprise has long since soured…

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Review of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 28 Jul 2013

Shamefully sadistic, achingly dull and totally predictable, it rehashes the far superior 1984 original…

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Review of The Fugitive (1993)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 28 Jul 2013

The film treats this profoundly preposterous plot as if it were a serious idea…

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Review of Dying Young (1991)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 30 Jun 2013

This is an upsetting, moving film -- not one for the weak of stomach, mind or heart…

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Review of Flatliners (1990)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 30 Jun 2013

The death trips are part travelogue, part bad dream, and they quickly start to pall with the same scene basically being repeated five times…

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Review of A Rage in Harlem (1991)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 30 Jun 2013

That extraordinary cast, directed by Bill Duke, has little to do other than idle between sporadic outbursts of sadistic violence…

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Review of The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 27 Jun 2013

Brian DePalma lapses into idle, slapsticky digressions. You don't get angry at what he's attacking, or defensive; you just get weary…

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Review of Reservoir Dogs (1992)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 25 Jun 2013

The film ends without a satisfying resolution, since these characters are so ugly only an agonizing affliction would qualify as just deserts…

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Review of Ghost Dad (1990)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 24 Jun 2013

Why are Cosby and Poitier wasting their time -- and ours -- with this twaddle…

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Review of The Untouchables (1987)

By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 24 Jun 2013

From a director of De Palma's resources -- both aesthetic and, these days, financial -- it's fair to expect something more than just not being bored…

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