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Burl Burlingame

Burl Burlingame's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Christine (1983) 72% 2.5/4 EDIT “Director John Carpenter has put it together with a great deal of tongue-in-fender wit and a kind of visual verve somewhere between "Rebel Without a Cause" and "The Exorcist."” – Honolulu Star-Bulletin Dec 16, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 75% 3.5/4 EDIT “It simply has Hollywood's myth-makers and magic-techs working on all cylinders, doing the best they're capable of, creating an enormous, stunning entertainment that will color your view of the world for a long time to come.” – Honolulu Star-Bulletin Dec 10, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) 77% 2/4 EDIT “If Naked Gun is about anything, it should be about excess. But the only excess in 2½ is Nielsen's muggery, which doesn't play off anything. ” – Honolulu Star-Advertiser Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Superman III (1983) 31% EDIT “It mainly works because of Christopher Reeve's entirely charming portrayal of the Man of Steel. ” – Honolulu Star-Bulletin Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Supergirl (1984) 19% 2/4 EDIT “Director Jeannot Szwarc seems to have handled everything over the telephone and the movies lurches when it should be revving up. It has no rhythm. ” – Honolulu Star-Bulletin Jun 27, 2025 Full Review Superman II (1980) 88% EDIT “Visually, [Superman II is] no match for the cool sleekness of the first film. Luckily, the subject of the film is more compelling than the way it is presented.” – Honolulu Star-Advertiser Jun 27, 2025 Full Review The Karate Kid (1984) 81% EDIT “The Karate Kid is something rare; a family film that does justice to the genre. ” – Honolulu Star-Advertiser May 27, 2025 Full Review Starman (1984) 83% 3/4 EDIT “Director John Carpenter keeps "Starman" on a cool visual level that fans the growing heat between the two main characters.” – Honolulu Star-Bulletin May 13, 2025 Full Review The Breakfast Club (1985) 87% 4/4 EDIT “Starts out as a typical teen farce and winds up a catalytic examination of life's unfair paths. Hughes doesn't make a misstep, even when the movie careens dangerously close to the cliches of teen-age angst.” – Honolulu Star-Bulletin Feb 14, 2025 Full Review Alien 3 (1992) 44% 1.5/4 EDIT “Autopsies are interesting. Autopsies are educational. Autopsies really put you in your place, mortality-wise. But autopsies aren't much fun, and Alien 3 is one long autopsy of a movie. You can almost smell the formaldehyde. ” – Honolulu Star-Advertiser Aug 5, 2024 Full Review Aliens (1986) 94% 3/4 EDIT “Aliens is a punch to the gut. The movie has your viscera targeted like a laser-guided smart bomb.” – Honolulu Star-Advertiser Jul 24, 2024 Full Review Dune (1984) 36% EDIT “There's no rationale for behavior, which makes us care nothing for the characters. They mouth policy statements, not dialogue.” – Honolulu Star-Bulletin Feb 14, 2024 Full Review Home Alone (1990) 66% EDIT “It's slickly commercial, set in the Midwest -- with Hughes peculiarly Great Plains sense of humor -- and at the heart of it, quite serious. Home Alone is a mediation on the prickly comforts and warm distractions of family. ” – Honolulu Star-Advertiser Nov 28, 2023 Full Review Moscow on the Hudson (1984) 74% 3/5 EDIT “It's one in which romance and simple respect for your fellow man are the overriding forces, and politics is something that recedes into the background, like wallpaper, or clouds on the horizon. ” – Honolulu Star-Bulletin Aug 21, 2023 Full Review Yentl (1983) 69% 2.5/4 EDIT “The movie obviously appealed to Streisand's own sense of Jewishness, and her need to express it. It's too bad that the movie lacks the punch of reality -- her lovingly detailed shtetl exists in a historical vacuum. ” – Honolulu Star-Bulletin May 12, 2023 Full Review Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 94% EDIT “Raiders of the Lost Ark has the texture of a film bursting with influences, and Lucas and Spielberg have managed to get them in without strain. ” – Honolulu Star-Advertiser May 4, 2023 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) 77% 3.5/4 EDIT “Through the grandiose tackiness and sheer, juggernaut weight of it, there runs a thoughtful thread. The movie seems to be a parable of the cost of adulthood.” – Honolulu Star-Bulletin Apr 18, 2023 Full Review Memphis Belle (1990) 68% 2.5/4 EDIT “What's memorable about the film is the high degree of accuracy. There are a number of gaffes, due primarily to filmmaking compromises.” – Honolulu Star-Advertiser Feb 8, 2019 Full Review Excalibur (1981) 73% 3.5/4 EDIT “There is no real difference between "Kagemusha" and "Excalibur" except for our inability to savor our heritage as much as the Japanese appreciate theirs.” – Honolulu Star-Advertiser Feb 1, 2019 Full Review AC/DC: Rock Power (2008) 2/4 EDIT “Retitled from earlier release: "A true AC/DC fan knows the volume has to be cranked up enough so that the bass notes can separate your vertebrae..."” – Honolulu Star-Advertiser Jan 24, 2019 Full Review The Final Countdown (1980) 52% 3/4 EDIT “Best bad movie of the year. Best because it's carefully crafted, streamlined entertainment, bad because it's monumentally silly. We know it's awful, but we have fun anyway.” – Honolulu Star-Advertiser Jan 23, 2019 Full Review Dunkirk (2017) 92% 4/4 EDIT “The pleasure in the storytelling arc is how elements move swiftly together. Nolan's biggest trick is the film starts out being epic and moves effortlessly to the intimate ....” – Honolulu Star-Advertiser Jul 20, 2017 Full Review Pali Road (2015) 55% 2/4 EDIT “We get the Chinese exports that are huge blockbusters, but there's clearly a market for a slight, romantic mystery that in the United States would air on the Lifetime channel.” – Honolulu Star-Advertiser Apr 29, 2016 Full Review Criminal (2016) 30% 2/4 EDIT “Seems part of his brain is missing, waiting to be filled. They might as well named his character Tabula Rasa.” – Honolulu Star-Advertiser Apr 14, 2016 Full Review The Jungle Book (2016) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “The point where it breaks loose is when the movie shifts mood and tone in order to reprise the cheesy pop songs from the 1967 animated film. Way to renew copyright, Disney!” – Honolulu Star-Advertiser Apr 13, 2016 Full Review
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