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On Moonlight Bay (1951) Harold Whitehead Doris Day's latest film will undoubtedly please anyone who happens to like movie musicals, and it is, it must be admitted, a mild-mannered, pleasantly nostalgic bit of froth.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Mouthpiece (1932) Gazette Staff William is something of a combination of the Barrymores. He has John's looks in a measure, and Lionel's acting ability. An excellent introduction has been provided for his talents in The Mouthpiece.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Muppet Movie (1979) Dave Chenoweth It's a civilized, entertaining and sometimes delightful film in which Kermit the Frog and crew easily outclass the human performers.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Patsy (1928) Gazette Staff Opportunity is given to Miss Davies to demonstrate her talent for mimicry, and she does three excellent imitations... An excellent performance is also given by Marie Dressler in the part of the domineering mother.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Phantom of the Paradise (1974) Jack Kapica Filmed with skill, it's certainly one of the more original movies of the year, and worth a look.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
The Savage Is Loose (1974) Jack Kapica What Scott has created here is a lie, not an incisive statement into the nature of the family.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
The Towering Inferno (1974) Jack Kapica Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain, Jennifer Jones, Robert Dagner, Robert Vaughan and a cast of thousands commit artistic suicide in The Towering Inferno.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Pal Joey (1957) Harold Whitehead This is a much laundered version of the show mind you. The movies are still not prepared to go as far as the stage in presenting some people as rough as they are. But it is a very entertaining production.
Posted Mar 31, 2026  Edit critic review
The Howling (1981) Bruce Bailey Its sense of the ridiculous is complemented by a few relatively bloodless jolts and astounding special effects that billow and distort human bodies into the most horrifying werewolves you've ever seen.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 3 (1993) John Griffin Robocop 3 collapses with a bad case of mental metal fatigue.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
RoboCop 2 (1990) John Griffin RoboCop 2 is a winner.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Anastasia (1956) Harold Whitehead The story of how the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of Tzar Nicholas was supposed to be found after the revolution turns out to be a better movie than it was a play.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Phantom Lady (1944) Gazette Staff Mood is assured by virtue of the fact that all of the action, except for one brief street scene and a courtroom sequence, takes place at night. That the mysterious killer is a psychopathic intellectual also helps.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
RoboCop (1987) Bruce Bailey By the time we finally get some indication that Robocop does indeed have an Achilles heel, we've already been bored to oily tears by shoot-outs with bad guys who can't shoot straight.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Sense and Sensibility (1995) Paul Delean At two hours and 15 minutes, Sense and Sensibility is a good 20 minutes too long. You can sense it beginning to drag in the final half. But it's still splendid entertainment, sharply written and performed.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Postman (1994) John Griffin The Postman will go down in history as the movie that killed Italian star Massimi Troisi. It's sad, too bad, and true.
Posted Feb 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Chocolat (2000) Mark Lepage [Juliette Binoche] possesses that quality which the ancients called "radiance" and studio bosses name "star quality." And here's another quality she shares with this film's central conceit: taste.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Pretty in Pink (1986) Bill Brownstein Isn't it about time that 35-year-old John Hughes graduated from high achool?
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
4/4
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) John Griffin While it could hardly be assumed "Crouching Tiger" is cinéma realité (the gravity thing), there's more hard-core human truth in this fabulous fantasy than in a hundred kitchen-sink melodramas.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
4/4
Erin Brockovich (2000) John Griffin What lifts it above the pack, and to an orbiting space station away from the Rockys of this world, is Soderbergh's compassion and restraint, his rhythm and his art in assembling the whole from its parts.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Blonde Venus (1932) Gazette Staff This picture gives Miss Dietrich a real down-to-earth story and a character to portray that is worthy of her talent.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
A Face in the Crowd (1957) Harold Whitehead Andy Griffith is a most impressive figure as Lonesome Rhodes, the bum turned showman. He makes the character so hateful you are ready to leap out of the theater seat and claw at the screen.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Vanishing Point (1971) Dane Lanken Vanishing Point may not have all the makings of a great movie, but it does have excitement.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Days of Heaven (1978) Elizabeth Smith Every frame of Days of Heaven is like a beautiful painting. At first, this lush beauty is relaxing to passively watch. Shortly, it becomes boring.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Camille (1936) Gazette Staff Lionel Barrymore is in his element as old Duval.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Arabesque (1966) Cynthia Kelly Arabesque is an endless, scrumptious visual banquet.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Iron Man (1951) Harold Whitehead Another story of a boxer who reaches the top by fair means or foul turns up here and proves to be a quite entertaining and exciting film.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Ace in the Hole (1951) Harold Whitehead The picture is one of the best-produced we have seen in a long time and no one should miss it. Kirk Douglas is superb as the reporter and Jan Sterling plays beautifully as the no-good tramp.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
House (1985) Bruce Bailey The sole guiding principle seems to have been a desire to toss in as many scares as possible.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
My Bloody Valentine (1981) Bruce Bailey The film's main problem, apart from an awkward script, is that it's just not tenable.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
North (1994) Paul Delean It seems too old for pre-schoolers, too tame for teenagers and too obvious for adults.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The American President (1995) Paul Delean Bening's role seems a little too calculated; she goes from hard-nosed critic to giddy escort virtually overnight. Still, she can light up a screen like few actresses on the planet.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Bite the Bullet (1975) Jack Kapica A remarkably different kind of western, one which may be flawed but is still the lush and sensitive movie Brooks has obviously intended it to be.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Gaslight (1944) Herbert Whittaker The film has excitement enough and to spare, with acting opportunities almost as generous.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) John Griffin For a movie without a beginning or end, The Two Towers is a near-total triumph.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) John Griffin Put simply, The Fellowship of the Ring is the rare movie that matches the power of our literary imaginations. As fairy tale, action adventure, vision quest, parable and act of pure mythological recreation, it towers over anything since [Star Wars].
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Out of the Past (1947) Herbert Whittaker It is a slow-moving story, and the one thing that redeems it is the suspense endangered by wondering whether the hero will live to marry the girl in the small town.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Peking Express (1951) Thomas Archer It's a patched up affair but it has the merit of plenty of action and it moves fairly fast.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Cattle Drive (1951) Thomas Archer There is some truly great photography of a wild stallion who is the only villain in the piece. Kurt Neumann's direction here is masterly.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
On the Riviera (1951) Thomas Archer Without Kaye it would fall to pieces, with him it adds up to some 90 minutes of acceptable entertainment.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Alice in Wonderland (1951) Thomas Archer As adults we would have liked a simpler Alice in Wonderland. But when we went yesterday we were youngsters in company and we were compelled to agree that it was best to feel as a youngster.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
A Few Good Men (1992) John Griffin Rob Reiner's holiday offering is the kind of old-fashioned military courtroom drama Hollywood just doesn't make any more. It's driven by a strong story, big stars, fine performances and enough gold braid for a Third World dictatorship.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sure Thing (1985) Bruce Bailey It's a passable, fairly amusing piece of work.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Princess Bride (1987) Bruce Bailey This charming and gently humorous excursion into the land of monsters and stereotypes is one of the more palatable things ever made for the dread "children of all ages."
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) Herbert Whittaker It lives up to the promise of its yellow-press title with an exceptionally well-produced, biased and exciting "expose of methods now being used to undermine American democracy."
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Hook (1991) John Griffin Get right down to it, and this is a sentimental $60-to-$90-million plug for having kids. But at least it's fun to watch.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Big Top Pee-wee (1988) Bill Brownstein Unlike his zany film debut, there is no semblance of an adventure here.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Abyss (1989) John Griffin The Abyss bogs down in a mush-brained love match, thoroughly unbelievable developments, howlingly cliched dialogue, and the bizarre introduction of lovable all-wise aliens doing their best to save mankind from itself.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
The Terminator (1984) Bill Brownstein To be sure, this film does furnish its fair share of frightening jolts; but they come mostly when the forever-menacing Arnie opens his mouth. No confusing this one for an Olivier -- the man is as subtle as an exploding buzz bomb.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Peeper (1975) Dane Lanken It's not perfect -- there are holes in the story, or least moments that let down. But it's good. Caine in a bowtie and a fedora is terrific.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
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