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Review of Ciao! Manhattan (1973)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 27 Nov 2007

Whether [Edie Sedgwick] is acting or stoned-for-real with a model's instincts propping her up, her performance is wonderful, highly amusing…

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Review of The Stepfather (1987)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 14 Jun 2007

The Stepfather makes use of a classic fairy tale device--the false parent--but it turns out to have a powerful effect upon one's involvement…

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Review of Performance. (1970)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 14 Jun 2007

The film reeks of Sixties avant garde style in an engaging sort of way and still comes across as a hip exploration of the kind of life us normal…

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Review of The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 14 Jun 2007

The 98 minute drama takes good advantage of the premise, however, to provide some simple intelligent lessons about tolerance…

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Review of Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 14 Jun 2007

A movie for people who love World's Fairs…

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Review of Critters (1986)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 14 Jun 2007

A variety of modest but well-executed special effects enlivens the otherwise run-of-the-mill effort about carnivorous aliens terrorizing a…

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Review of Village of the Damned (1995)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 14 Jun 2007

The story is set across a decade and would be easy to pick apart, but such activity would divert attention from the film’s chief asset, its…

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Review of Red Corner (1997)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 14 Jun 2007

Although there isn't much of a mystery, there is plenty of suspense and the film is a satisfying piece of exotic escapism, one that lets you…

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Review of Beyond Rangoon (1995)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 14 Jun 2007

An exotic adventure story with a political conscience…

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Review of Soylent Green (1973)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 14 Jun 2007

The film was a typical seventies sci-fi effort, scientifically illiterate and unimaginatively composed…

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Review of The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 14 Jun 2007

White comes across, even if one ignores his political and social opinions, as a Travis Bickle who used his outward persona to achieve the first…

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Review of The Comedy of Terrors (1964)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 14 Jun 2007

The film is grand slapstick, and the performances are funnier the more often you see it…

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Review of All the Right Moves (1983)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 14 Jun 2007

He 1983 film presents a fairly realistic portrait of high school life and is best at evoking the rhythm of emotions that come with overcast…

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Review of Code of Silence (1985)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 14 Jun 2007

The program, however, is by no means the worst effort Norris has ever participated in and the ending, in which he single-handedly wipes out…

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Review of Xtro (1982)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 14 Jun 2007

A cheap-looking amalgam of previously used horror effects, with not a single fresh idea of its own except to jam them together in one place…

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Review of The Chamber (1996)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 14 Jun 2007

The story, about a young lawyer handling the last appeals of his grandfather, who is on death row, has enough little surprises and mysteries…

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Review of Looking for Richard (1996)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 14 Jun 2007

The film is sloppily pieced together, as Pacino appears unsure of exactly what he wants to achieve…

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Review of To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 14 Jun 2007

Based upon a stageplay, the plot is very straightforward and predictable, and has no strong emotional payoffs, but the drama is stuffed with…

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Review of Fire Down Below (1997)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 13 Jun 2007

The eco-hero who strikes fear in the heart of every polluting industrialist and sighs of pity in the heart of every fashion designer, Steven…

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Review of Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

By Douglas Pratt (121) for DVDLaser (97) on 13 Jun 2007

Approached as a caper film or a revenge-and-murder thriller, the movie is unsatisfying, but seen as a love story in which criminal activities…

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