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Review of For All Mankind (1989)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 11 Mar 2012

For All Mankind certainly succeeds at evoking the ironically serene aesthetics of space travel…

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Review of The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 17 Aug 2011

Despite the fantastic basis of the story, the movie isn't dominated by its effects, or even the eight-foot-tall robot Gort…

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Review of Thunder Road (1958)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 18 Mar 2011

Cheaply made, disreputable, and blatantly anti-authority, it's a winner all the way, what with a stunningly laconic performance from Mitchum,…

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Review of The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 23 Oct 2010

Drawing upon the novel with merciful selectivity, and adding such a contemporary flavor that the film's woodsmen often have a laid-back air,…

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Review of Memphis Belle (1990)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 07 Oct 2010

The direction by Michael Caton-Jones, the Englishman whose first theatrical feature was Scandal, is undistinguished here, but the material…

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Review of Millennium (1989)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 21 Apr 2010

The movie is so inept in almost every particular that even its love scenes, when a grimacing Kris Kristofferson mashes his grizzled face against…

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Review of Lantana (2001)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 21 Jan 2010

The story is ingeniously intricate but never gimmicky or implausible…

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Review of Always (1989)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 10 Feb 2009

In some ways this is as metaphysical as something like Close Encounters, it’s just lacking the tonal control of Spielberg at his best…

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Review of Oscar (1991)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 09 Jul 2008

Stallone makes good-hearted fun of his street-wise Italian-American persona and also of himself as big shot…

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Review of Lilies of the Field (1963)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 22 Feb 2008

Made on a modest budget and filmed entirely on location in Arizona, Lilies reveals Sidney Poitier as an actor with a sharp sense of humor…

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Review of Less Than Zero (1987)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 27 Feb 2007

Loosely based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis, LESS THAN ZERO refuses to take the risks necessary to capture the keen social observation…

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Review of Necessary Roughness (1991)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 05 Jun 2006

An infectious albeit formulaic game of Cinderella football, this happy athletic romp seems to know just how wheezy it is, but the team grunts…

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Review of Bedazzled (1967)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 19 Jan 2006

Cook and Moore brilliantly shift from character to character with just a change of voice (not unlike Peter Sellers), and the movie never flags…

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Review of The Perfect Weapon (1991)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 18 Jan 2006

It's a zippy melodrama for small-town America and small-towners at heart: well-executed kitsch for audiences that will still be amused at the…

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Review of We Were Soldiers (2002)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 28 May 2005

The film's soldiers are more the mom-and-apple-pie, God-fearing lads of World War II movies than the cynical grunts of Platoon (1986) and Full…

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Review of Alien Nation (1988)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 24 Feb 2005

Eventually, though it happens later rather than sooner, the conventional aspects of Alien Nation overwhelm the novelty…

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Review of Lisa (1990)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 03 Sep 2003

Lisa isn’t ineffective. It’s shaped in the usual sadistic way that leaves some audiences howling with blood-lust by the climax…

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Review of Point Break (1991)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 13 Aug 2003

What saves Point Break from wipeout is Kathryn Bigelow's direction…

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Review of The Man in the Moon (1991)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 07 Aug 2003

Mulligan has an impeccable sense of where to place the camera in each scene, positions that disclose without interfering and reveal without…

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Review of The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)

By Ted Mahar (70) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 05 Feb 2003

Murphy's comic brilliance is at the service of the story and he positively shines with a number of diverse and zany impersonations, most enjoyably…

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