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Review of Deep Cover (1992)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 02 Jun 1996

What emerges is a powerhouse thriller full of surprises, original touches, and rare political lucidity, including an impressive performance…

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Review of Suburbia (1984)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 28 Apr 1996

The picture often rambles as aimlessly as its characters, but its vivid depiction of alienation and self-destructiveness among suburban youth…

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Review of Clueless (1995)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 09 Apr 1996

For a while, it's like really cool, with lots of energy and stuff, but then it gets like major repetitious, and you wish it was like over,…

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Review of Gremlins (1984)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 24 Mar 1996

In many ways, though, Gremlins is ingenious…

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Review of Downtown '81 (2001)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 10 Mar 1996

Its main value is the prolonged look it gives of the late artist Basquiat…

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Review of Solarbabies (1986)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 22 Dec 1995

The acting is lame and the rehashed script is silly. The film drags on and on until its obvious and none-too-thrilling conclusion…

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Review of A Shock to the System (1990)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 18 Oct 1995

Andrew Klavan's screenplay, adapted from a novel by Simon Brett, comes up with funny lines now and then, but it never has any clear idea whether…

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Review of Crimson Tide (1995)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 29 Jun 1995

The movie has nothing intelligent to say about post-cold-war tensions or anything else, but it's great fun to watch Gene Hackman and Denzel…

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Review of Edward Scissorhands (1990)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 22 Apr 1995

Edward Scissorhands isn't perfect. It's something better: pure magic…

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Review of Pride and Prejudice (1940)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 18 Apr 1995

In the end, the finest achievement of Wright's movie is that it fully captures what Martin Amis, writing on Pride and Prejudice, said of Austen…

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Review of Big Top Pee-wee (1988)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 05 Feb 1995

Kleiser has no feel for comedy, and there's no affinity between him and his star…

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Review of Gladiator (1992)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 09 Jan 1995

Scott's filmmaking is as blunt and bullying as the mayhem it portrays…

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Review of Romancing the Stone (1984)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 08 Nov 1994

The filmmakers have devised some clever twists on the earlier films they recall - Raiders of the Lost Ark and Peter Pan among them - and they…

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Review of The Electric Horseman (1979)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 16 Oct 1994

With its good intentions and likable demeanor, The Electric Horseman is an engaging but minor movie…

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Review of Ruby in Paradise (1993)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 12 Oct 1994

A wonderfully expressive character study exhibiting a thoughtfulness and concern for real life rare in American cinema, Ruby in Paradise rewards…

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Review of The Black Stallion Returns (1983)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Sep 1994

It's picaresque, all right, but full of ethnic stereotypes, and filmed much too blandly to compete with the superb ''Black Stallion'' of a…

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Review of Faces (1968)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 01 Aug 1994

Faces is a long, long (at least an hour too long) look at a 36-hour splitup in the 14-year marriage of a middle-class couple…

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Review of The Best of Times (1986)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 04 Jun 1994

THE muddy football game that concludes The Best of Times is such a rouser that it almost makes up for the incomplete passes and stopped runs…

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Review of Reality Bites (1994)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 30 May 1994

At its best, this entertaining romance blends the zesty dialogue of a classic screwball comedy with the nonstop energy of a Post-Modern pastiche…

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Review of Silkwood (1983)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 11 Apr 1994

Despite the drawbacks of the Silkwood screenplay, written by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen, this is a directorial triumph for a filmmaker who…

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