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Review of Fireworks (1998)

By Melanie Mcfarland (38) for The Seattle Times (964) on 17 May 2005

It's another extraordinary film with a quality of stillness about it, but combined, as usual, with brief bursts of explosive violence and Kitano's…

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Review of Heart and Souls (1993)

By John Hartl (735) for The Seattle Times (964) on 02 Apr 2005

Unashamedly sentimental, but all the better for it…

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Review of Class Act (1992)

By Jeff Shannon (255) for The Seattle Times (964) on 14 Jan 2005

A good-looking movie with hard-working performances and a bubble-brained script, which nevertheless stumbles over a truth from time to time…

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Review of The Jungle Book (1994)

By John Hartl (735) for The Seattle Times (964) on 12 Dec 2004

Sommers is so busy spinning his camera, crowding the soundtrack with animal noises and piling on the cheesy visual effects that he can't stop…

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Review of One Eight Seven (1997)

By John Hartl (735) for The Seattle Times (964) on 09 Dec 2004

Though positioned as a glum expose of America's violent schools (a cause for hand-wringing at least as far back as 1955's The Blackboard Jungle),…

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Review of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)

By Janet I-Chin Tu (1) for The Seattle Times (964) on 03 Nov 2004

The charm of MST3K has always been in its self-mocking, cheap, we-just-threw-it-all-together sort of feel…

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Review of Fresh (1994)

By John Hartl (735) for The Seattle Times (964) on 25 Jun 2004

You may not buy the plot of this gripping little movie about a 12-year-old Brooklyn drug runner who finds a novel way of escaping the crack…

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Review of Shane (1953)

By John Hartl (735) for The Seattle Times (964) on 20 May 2004

George Stevens handles the story and players in a manner that gives his production and direction a tremendous integrity…

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Review of The Craft (1996)

By John Hartl (735) for The Seattle Times (964) on 02 Apr 2004

Despite all their toil and trouble, the tale leaves us more bothered than bewitched…

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Review of Avalon (1990)

By John Hartl (735) for The Seattle Times (964) on 17 Feb 2004

Levinson wants nothing less than to capture the hope and despair of the American dream through the saga of one family — his family…

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Review of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

By Jeff Shannon (255) for The Seattle Times (964) on 31 Jan 2004

A largely incoherent movie that generates little suspense and relies for the majority of its thrills on close-up gore…

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Review of The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)

By Jeff Shannon (255) for The Seattle Times (964) on 10 Dec 2003

It’s thin stuff, but the ingratiating naivete of the characters and the aw-shucks friendliness of the cast are disarming, and it becomes…

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Review of Casper (1995)

By Jeff Shannon (255) for The Seattle Times (964) on 09 Dec 2003

Casper is not the kind of smartly written movie that works on children's and adult levels at once…

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Review of Internal Affairs (1990)

By John Hartl (735) for The Seattle Times (964) on 29 Nov 2003

Figgis again aims for sensual moodiness, but so many clashing tones clamor for the viewer's attention that the result is a noisy mishmash…

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Review of 3 Ninjas (1992)

By John Hartl (735) for The Seattle Times (964) on 11 Nov 2003

The director, Jon Turtletaub, completely misses the character-driven appeal of the Karate Kid series, and there's no Macauley Culkin in this…

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Review of Cobb (1994)

By John Hartl (735) for The Seattle Times (964) on 30 Jul 2003

The script by sports-movie veteran Ron Shelton is an understandable but rather monotonous attempt to deal with the differences between hard…

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Review of Getting Even with Dad (1994)

By John Hartl (735) for The Seattle Times (964) on 18 Jun 2003

The picture is part slapstick comedy, part tearjerker, but the mixture rarely works, and sometimes it's actively irritating…

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Review of Black Sheep (1996)

By John Hartl (735) for The Seattle Times (964) on 18 May 2003

Production values could not be cheaper for a major-studio film…

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Review of Major Payne (1995)

By John Hartl (735) for The Seattle Times (964) on 29 Jan 2003

It’s an unmitigated nightmare of crude, boorish tripe-and woe unto our nation’s future if kids find it hilarious…

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Review of Striking Distance (1993)

By John Hartl (735) for The Seattle Times (964) on 04 Dec 2002

Bruce Willis is at his most morose in this flat, dankly lit, grindingly inept thriller about a serial killer whose victims all turn out to…

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