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Review of Batman Forever (1995)

By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 28 Jul 1999

Working as much like a circus ringmaster as a director, Joel Schumacher has brought several critical qualities to the mix, starting with much…

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Review of An Affair to Remember (1957)

By Susan King (28) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 26 Jul 1999

The principals are in such fine form, underplaying against their stagy backdrops, and the tragic turn of the plot is so gripping, that the…

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Review of Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996)

By David Chute (78) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 11 Jul 1999

When you watch this failed horror thriller -- which has been under studio doctors' care for some two years, undergoing futile title changes…

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Review of American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989)

By Chris Willman (63) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 09 Jul 1999

American Ninja 3 is a comic-book of a movie that goes too far to be a satisfying adventure and not far enough to be an entertaining parody…

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Review of Scream (1996)

By Kevin Thomas (1,201) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 06 Jul 1999

It's sensational in both senses of the word: a bravura, provocative sendup of horror pictures that's also scary and gruesome yet too swift-moving…

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Review of Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)

By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 04 Jul 1999

Walter Hill proves unexpectedly reluctant to force the story, but he makes the red earth of the Moab desert burn with blood and shame…

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Review of Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)

By Jack Mathews (1,044) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 28 Jun 1999

It feels like a vague, upscale knockoff of The Beverly Hillbillies, and Jenkins' eagerness to please with class-conscious jokiness often comes…

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Review of Desperado (1995)

By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 18 Jun 1999

A weakly comic splatter movie oversupplied with jokey, cartoonish violence…

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Review of Simon Birch (1998)

By Jack Mathews (1,044) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 15 Jun 1999

Johnson, on his maiden voyage as director, treats every scene as if it were a bonbon, almost too precious to consume, and Marc Shaiman's score…

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Review of SubUrbia (1997)

By Jack Mathews (1,044) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 10 Jun 1999

With each succeeding picture, Linklater seemed to grow as a filmmaker, just as his characters became more defined and developed…

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Review of The Great Escape (1963)

By Kevin Thomas (1,201) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 Jun 1999

The Great Escape is that rare war film that doesn’t fully indulge in assumed nationalism, save for the fact that everyone speaks English…

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Review of Hoop Dreams (1994)

By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 28 May 1999

By focusing on the personal side of the city game, Hoop Dreams tells us more about what works and what doesn't in our society than the proverbial…

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Review of Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)

By Chris Willman (63) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 20 May 1999

This follow-up is faster and campier than its mostly somber predecessor, but the basic grim tenets of British horror author Clive Barker's…

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Review of The Opposite of Sex (1998)

By Kristine Mckenna (2) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 17 May 1999

A brilliantly written black comedy in the tradition of To Die For and Flirting With Disaster, The Opposite of Sex was worth the wait…

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Review of Circle of Friends (1995)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 26 Apr 1999

Naturally charming without being beautiful, Driver brings extraordinary intensity and tenderness to a role that easily could have become sappy…

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Review of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)

By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 16 Apr 1999

Where drag is concerned, though, the film does anything but drag; Elliott has no compunction about restraint, and Priscilla gushes with bitchy…

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Review of A Night at the Roxbury (1998)

By Gene Seymour (406) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 14 Apr 1999

Kattan and Ferrell do their best to fill out the shallow Butabis…

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Review of The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 13 Apr 1999

Egoyan understands how potent a deliberate pace can be, how effective it is in making already powerful material strong enough to tear at your heart…

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Review of Wise Guys (1986)

By Patrick Goldstein (16) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 04 Apr 1999

Directed by Brian De Palma with an uncharacteristic twinkle in his eye, the film offers such a likable gallery of cement-heads that we're in…

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Review of Tin Men (1987)

By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 03 Apr 1999

The year's most pungently offbeat comedy and the most improbable love story since King Kong sighted Fay Wray…

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