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Review of Lost in Space (1998)

By Ellen Vanstone (1) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 19 Jul 1998

This good movie could have been great if writer Akiva Goldsman had been able to -- or been permitted to -- dump the boundaries of the TV source…

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Review of Brubaker (1980)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 16 Jul 1998

Brubaker is an earnest, right-minded, consistently unsurprising movie about a penologist named Brubaker (Robert Redford), who sets out to reform…

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Review of Michael (1996)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 29 Jun 1998

But wouldn't it be heavenly if a like proportion of Tinseltown producers believed in an existing need for a good script…

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Review of Bright Lights, Big City (1988)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 30 May 1998

It may not capture Mr…

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Review of Dead of Winter (1987)

By Salem Alaton (12) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 25 May 1998

While beautifully shot, admirably old-fashioned (sexual violence and explicit gore are absent), and endowed with pleasing plot twists, the…

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Review of Bitter Moon (1992)

By Christopher Harris (24) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 04 Apr 1998

Recklessly perched on the edge of the ludicrous, this examination of a destructive erotic passion unfolds with an unsettling mixture of steam…

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Review of MouseHunt (1997)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 26 Mar 1998

If you're a five-year-old, or the mental equivalent thereof, and love Saturday morning cartoons, the more violent the better, then Mouse Hunt…

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Review of Rollerball (1975)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 22 Feb 1998

What's up with director John McTiernan? The man has got to get a career of his own -- sponging off the pale leavings of Norman Jewison just won't do…

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Review of Phantasm II (1988)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 29 Jan 1998

The target audience for Phantasm II obviously is teenagers, especially those with abbreviated attention spans, who require a thrill a minute…

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Review of The Final Countdown (1980)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 06 Dec 1997

As a documentary on the USS Nimitz, The Final Countdown is wonderful…

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Review of Jefferson in Paris (1995)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 16 Nov 1997

Jefferson in Paris is nevertheless a disaster, intellectually infuriating and thoughtlessly racist…

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Review of My Science Project (1985)

By Salem Alaton (12) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 02 Nov 1997

A cheerful teen-age adventure film that in its snappier moments resembles a far less clever and less expensive Back to the Future…

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Review of This Boy's Life (1993)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 31 Oct 1997

The process of remembering that drives the book is gone from the film, boiled away until all that's left is the mundane residue of memory -…

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Review of Short Circuit (1986)

By Salom Alaton (1) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 01 Oct 1997

Cuteness is never far off, though Badham has enough sense of pace, and the robotics are sufficiently inventive, to keep the laughs coming…

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Review of The Lion King (1994)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 25 Sep 1997

For all the undeniable merits, it somehow feels manufactured, and thus, to a degree, calculated - the product not of a collective imagination…

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Review of Best Defense (1984)

By John Haslett Cuff (7) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 04 Sep 1997

Not even a young Eddie Murphy is capable of generating hilarity out of thin air and Best Defense gives him nothing to work with…

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Review of License to Drive (1988)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 24 Jul 1997

I spent a lot of time during the new Corey Haim-Corey Feldman movie, License to Drive, trying to figure out where it is set. Then it hit me…

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Review of Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 08 Jul 1997

Part 2 seems even more like a Stallone vehicle than the first movie. I'm not even sure it's intended as a comedy…

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Review of Metro (1997)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 27 Jun 1997

Although it always moves and rarely labours, the film truly comes alive only in those fleeting moments when it departs from the safe formula…

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Review of Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)

By Christopher Harris (24) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 21 May 1997

Though not quite the fiasco of revved-up gunplay that Beverly Hills Cop II was, this new movie, directed by John ''Rock-'em Sock-'em'' Landis,…

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