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Review of Drop Dead Fred (1991)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 04 May 2014

Drop Dead Fred wants to be an offbeat cross between Harvey and Beetlejuice, but it is more like a shrill, interminable episode of I Dream of Jeannie…

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Review of Cool World (1992)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 03 May 2014

The movie has no internal logic. It's a mess…

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Review of A Stranger Among Us (1992)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 02 May 2014

Scenes of life among the Hasidim are soft and amber-tinged, in keeping with Lumet's idealized conception of their lives…

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Review of Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 01 May 2014

Beverly Hills Cop III -- a movie trying to exploit what's left of a 10-year-old idea -- has some nerve satirizing Disney World's money-grubbing…

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Review of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 01 May 2014

Spider-Man seems to exist only because the studio would otherwise lose the option to make more…

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Review of My Cousin Vinny (1992)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 29 Apr 2014

For all of its grossly stereotypical characterizations and cheap laughs, My Cousin Vinny does benefit from Pesci's characteristically energetic…

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Review of Heat (1995)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 28 Apr 2014

A movie with two powerhouse performances and enough bad dialogue (it runs two hours, 45 minutes) to clog a Pentium processor…

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Review of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 24 Apr 2014

Costner is not a Robin Hood for the ages, but in this expensively mounted production, he'll do as a Robin Hood for the summer…

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Review of Robin Hood (2009)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 24 Apr 2014

Costner is not a Robin Hood for the ages, but in this expensively mounted production, he'll do as a Robin Hood for the summer…

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Review of Cuban Fury (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 10 Apr 2014

There are moments in Cuban Fury, lots of them, when you wish it had been about an old Plymouth making taxi runs in Havana…

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Review of Rio 2 (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 10 Apr 2014

The Rio movies seem to me a little too conventional in terms of story and especially in terms of character - never have animated movies had…

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Review of Dom Hemingway (2013)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 10 Apr 2014

The movie itself seems to crash ... settles for sentimentality…

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Review of The Raid 2 (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 10 Apr 2014

In extending the reach of his concept, Evans feels like he's reaching, and after 2 1/2 hours of mayhem, you may be homesick for the appealing…

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Review of Oculus (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 10 Apr 2014

The movie's game of gotcha grows wearying, or at least it did to me…

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Review of Oculus (2013)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 10 Apr 2014

The movie's game of gotcha grows wearying, or at least it did to me…

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Review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 03 Apr 2014

The movie's a bit overstuffed with action - even though the sequences themselves are abbreviated with staccato editing that condenses and quickens…

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Review of White Men Can't Jump (1992)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 01 Apr 2014

The verbal interplay between the characters appears to be intentionally improvised, but the scenes come off as cumbersome and off-kilter…

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Review of Legends of the Fall (1994)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 01 Apr 2014

A weird melodramatic epic -- Bonanza crossbred with the kind of novel that uses Fabio on the cover…

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Review of Flight of the Navigator (1986)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 31 Mar 2014

The brain-assaulting sci-fi second half of Flight of the Navigator is made palpable by Cramer, who deftly conveys anguish during the first…

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Review of Se7en (1995)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 25 Mar 2014

For all of the portentous atmosphere, Seven runs on a routine cop-show plot…

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