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Review of Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)

By Christopher Harrison (1) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 25 Apr 1997

For a while, its crassness is amusing, but as the plot sets in, it gradually turns into a stultifying bore…

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Review of The Outsiders (1983)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 21 Jan 1997

The Outsiders works itself up into overstylized tizzies during things like the rumble sequence, but its overall energy level is alarmingly…

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Review of Gladiator (1992)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 10 Jan 1997

The upside? Visually polished, credibly acted and competently directed courtesy of Ridley Scott, the film is always likable. The downside…

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Review of Silkwood (1983)

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

Silkwood is a very moving work about the raising of the consciousness of one woman of independence, guts and sensitivity…

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Review of Pretty Woman (1990)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 18 Dec 1996

The intelligence and wit of this glass-slipper heart-of-gold fantasy are shocking…

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Review of Terms of Endearment (1983)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 16 Dec 1996

No film since Preston Sturges was a pup has so shrewdly appreciated the way the eccentric plays hide-and-seek with the respectable in the ordinary…

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Review of Somewhere in Time (1980)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 13 Oct 1996

Director Jeannot Szwarc strains hard for spectacular visual effects, though he's barely able to compose a competent close-up…

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Review of Stargate (1994)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 12 Aug 1996

The special effects turn out to be not very special and not very effective, and the movie never achieves the lunatic grandeur of the truly…

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Review of Dracula (1979)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 23 Jul 1996

Dracula has the nervy enthusiasm of the work of a precocious film student who has magically acquired a master's command of his craft…

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Review of Total Recall (1990)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 09 Jul 1996

Guilty of gross mellerdrammer & innocent of sophistication…

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Review of Little Women (1994)

By Elizabeth Renzetti (5) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 06 Jul 1996

Director Gillian Armstrong finds the serious themes and refuses to simplify the story into a family formula…

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Review of An Unmarried Woman (1978)

By Robert Martin (28) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 14 Jun 1996

Mazursky finds the politics in the wrinkles of human behavior, rather than contriving behavior to suit his politics…

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Review of Rich and Famous (1981)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 14 Jun 1996

The lead performances, by Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen as two college friends who become competing novelists in later life, have the…

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Review of Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 25 May 1996

If the publicity release can be believed, he worked an entire year undercover as a student to research teenage life…

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Review of The Goodbye Girl (1977)

By Robert Martin (28) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 04 Mar 1996

Standard Neil Simon stuff, full of cute grotesques, snappy one-liners, and cheap plays at pathos…

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Review of Risky Business (1983)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 20 Feb 1996

Risky Business is like a promising first novel, with all the pros and cons that come with that territory…

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Review of Nightbreed (1990)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 26 Jan 1996

Barker calls his shambolic, uninvolving narrative 'scattershot'; put less kindly, it's as explosive and directionless as a blunderbuss…

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Review of Untamed Heart (1993)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 10 Jan 1996

If Untamed Heart is often too precious for words, there’s one thing in it that feels miraculously fresh: the performance of Marisa Tomei,…

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Review of Mystic Pizza (1988)

By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 01 Jan 1996

Inoffensive in its simplicity; its high, if naive, spirits send viewers out into the all too real streets clothed in the glow of a fantasy well-spun…

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Review of Field of Dreams (1989)

By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 30 Dec 1995

Despite a few wrong turns early on, the movie gathers graceful momentum and heads straight to the warm heart of the book - that fond spot located…

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