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Review of Wall Street (1987)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 23 May 2006

Watching Oliver Stone's Wall Street is about as wordy and dreary as reading the financial papers accounts of the rise and fall of an Ivan Boesky-type…

Review of Memories of Me (1988)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 05 Apr 2006

In Memories of Me, nothing goes unsaid; its banalities are triumphant, its maudlin flourishes build to maudlin crescendos…

Review of Dances with Wolves (1990)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 22 Nov 2005

While no one is going to place Costner alongside Laurence Olivier in the acting department, he brings a likability to Dunbar that many better…

Review of Twice in a Lifetime (1985)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 24 Sep 2005

These characters need rescuing from screenwriter Colin Welland’s view of life in middle-class America as oppressively banal…

Review of Stick (1985)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 28 Jul 2005

It's deeply flawed by Reynolds' less than lustruous but screen-hogging performance, by a tortuous but dull plot, and by leaden direction…

Review of Working Girl (1988)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 08 Jun 2005

A delectable reworking of the ultimate girl's myth, a corporate Cinderella story with shades of a self-made Pygmalion…

Review of Punchline (1988)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 05 Jun 2005

It’s an uneven melodrama where Tom Hanks exhibits flashes of brilliance as a caustically tongued stand-up comic in a strange, undefinable…

Review of Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 31 May 2005

For all its genuinely funny moments and its mix of outrageousness and insights, Down and Out remains curiously unsatisfying in the way it resolves…

Review of Out of Africa (1985)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 19 May 2005

Unfortunately, and through no fault of Meryl Streep, there doesn't seem to be enough electricity generated out there in Africa to power a love…

Review of Blue Steel (1990)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 25 Dec 2004

Unfortunately, style needs a little substance to keep it from careening around looking empty, and the story of Blue Steel is lofty, implausible…

Review of The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 06 Dec 2004

For all its real achievements, including a stomach-clutching re-creation of the Soviet invasion of Prague, and for all its uncoy acknowledgment…

Review of Miller's Crossing (1990)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 15 Nov 2004

The double crosses are so intricate and the cynicism so enveloping that it becomes increasingly difficult to care about the characters…

Review of The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 13 Jul 2004

By the time their jaw-dropping story is over, you may feel you have traveled every inch of their journey with them, a downward spiral all the…

Review of Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 20 Feb 2004

Worst of all, the movie's conventional showbiz finale, brimming with false uplift, implies that the traumas of other mutilated and disillusioned…

Review of Ghostbusters II (1989)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 06 Sep 2003

Rather wan in its anything-goes spirit of invention, the movie has a surprisingly low number of laughs; some of the initial premises are good,…

Review of Hollywood Shuffle (1987)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 05 Sep 2003

Hollywood Shuffle is boisterous, out-at-the elbows movie making, an uneven series of skits, really, rather than a consistent whole…

Review of Betsy's Wedding (1990)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 28 May 2003

The cast is fine; Alda’s casts invariably are, but this collection has only stick figures to play…

Review of Down by Law (1986)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 15 May 2003

The humor of Down by Law is marginally easier to describe than Stranger Than Paradise, but only because, by now, we have a small idea of Jarmusch's…

Review of The Untouchables (1987)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 17 Jan 2003

It's strange that in this somber inspection of moral fiber and what causes it to fray, De Palma couldn't have made his hero at least as interesting…

Review of Last Resort (1986)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 Nov 2002

There are countless comic possibilities in Last Resort, most of them unrealized…

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