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Barry Paris

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 95% 2.5/4 EDIT “Jackson's touch is not what you'd call light-handed. His "Two Towers," while full of grandeur, lacks charming whimsy of the book. But it is a gigantic and serious effort.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Return of the Living Dead (1985) 71% EDIT “Though it's advertised more as fun than horror, you've got to have a stomach stronger than mine to find it all a laugh riot.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Starman (1984) 83% EDIT “Alien visitors on celluloid are becoming as regular as the Avon lady. This one's yarn turns out to be a fairly enjoyable bit of nonsense.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 13, 2025 Full Review American Psycho (2000) 68% EDIT “I hated "American Psycho," even as I admired its acting and technical virtuosity. ” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Smoke Signals (1998) 90% EDIT “You couldn't ask for a more soulful, enjoyable enlightenment than this beautiful film provides.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Nov 8, 2023 Full Review Moulin Rouge (2001) 75% EDIT “We're pulling for Luhrmann's audacious extravaganza. At the start, we feel this crazy celluloid can-can, concept can work. By the end, we feel maybe it just can't-can't.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sep 5, 2023 Full Review The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) 82% 2.5/4 EDIT “ The emotional candy that sustains this “Sisterhood” is too artificially sweetened to be filling, unless you really believe that one sentimental size fits all.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Mar 14, 2023 Full Review Eve's Bayou (1997) 83% 3/4 EDIT “These characters sound suspiciously like southern Californians to me, and it's a lapse in authenticity. Otherwise, Eve's story is warmly believable. It's enhanced, and we're entranced, by the backdrop bayou beauty.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Jan 10, 2023 Full Review Peter Pan (1924) 98% 4/4 EDIT “Peter Pan demonstrated once and for all that film was no mere sub-branch of photography or theater -- that its art went above and beyond realism.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Oct 20, 2022 Full Review Transsiberian (2008) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Writer-director Brad Anderson provides his Hitchcockian thriller with an increasingly startling plot that is nothing if not unpredictable.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 5, 2020 Full Review Holy Motors (2012) 91% 3.5/4 EDIT “A mindblowing explosion of imagination and virtuosic technique from French auteur Leos Carax.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Apr 29, 2020 Full Review 1917 (2019) 88% EDIT “"1917" is much elevated by its visual and aural elements, most notably the superb production design, sound mixing/editing and Thomas Newman's tense score, enhancing the key moments.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Jan 10, 2020 Full Review The Irishman (2019) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “The performances, as you might expect, are magnificent.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Nov 22, 2019 Full Review Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019) 87% 3.5/4 EDIT “Director Matt Tyrnauer (previous documentaries include "Valentino: The Last Emperor" and "Studio 54") makes fine use of archival materials.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Oct 25, 2019 Full Review The Lighthouse (2019) 90% 2.5/4 EDIT “Their fights are amazingly physical and psychological in a horror picture that ends more or less like Kubrick's "2001."” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Oct 25, 2019 Full Review Mr. Klein (1976) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “Dark forces shaped the life and brilliant career of director Joseph Losey. Even darker forces shape the life of Mr. Klein, the title character of his last great film.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Oct 14, 2019 Full Review The Addams Family (2019) 46% 2.5/4 EDIT “I can't help feeling (and saying) that the 1991 live-action version... was better and much funnier.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Oct 11, 2019 Full Review Downton Abbey (2019) 84% 3/4 EDIT “The cinematic Downton looks and feels quite like the televised Downton, extended in length and enhanced by the more sumptuous production values the film medium affords.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sep 20, 2019 Full Review Hustlers (2019) 88% 3/4 EDIT “The movie is better than the sleazy promo: fast-paced female empowerment, with magnetic J-Lo in the driver's seat.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sep 13, 2019 Full Review The Nightingale (2018) 87% 3/4 EDIT “All hail the shocking boldness of contemporary Australian filmmaking. See it at your own emotional risk.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Aug 30, 2019 Full Review The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) 95% 3/4 EDIT “What it lacks in originality, it makes up for in refreshingly empathetic charm.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Aug 23, 2019 Full Review The Kitchen (2019) 24% 2.5/4 EDIT “There's a lot of chemistry in their ill-fated, semi-Bonnie and Clyde relationship.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Aug 9, 2019 Full Review The Farewell (2019) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “"Farewell" tugs at the heartstrings in many funny, bittersweet, touching ways.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Aug 2, 2019 Full Review The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) 93% EDIT “It's exultant in its chaotic excess, visually beautiful, emotionally rich and psychologically fascinating, proving both the truth - and the falsehood - that you can't go home again.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Jul 5, 2019 Full Review Yesterday (2019) 63% 2.5/4 EDIT “I can't help thinking it might've been better - and more fun - had it eschewed the alternate time-space continuum and just chronicled the real-life electromagnetic evolution of a tune called "Scrambled Eggs."” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Jun 28, 2019 Full Review
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