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Sheila Johnston

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A Few Good Men (1992) 85% EDIT “...[the film] grips a series of big issues - patriotism, justice, accountability - by the throat without, however, squeezing too much out of any of them.” – Independent (UK) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% EDIT “Spielberg's world has none of the constrictions and conflicts of Edwardian England, no rigid class codes, no dreams that money can't buy. The only poverty is in its imagination.” – Independent (UK) Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 75% EDIT “The underwater sequences warrant the price of admission alone.” – Independent (UK) Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Predator 2 (1990) 36% EDIT “The alien proves a disappointment but the special effects are otherwise the highlights of an incoherent and baffling plot.” – Independent (UK) Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% EDIT “Deitch makes effective use of the tinselly setting, taking the casinos as a visual metaphor for Shaver's emotional gamble; she treats the subject sexily, but without fuss or agonizing. ” – Independent (UK) Oct 12, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% EDIT “The film is a little overlong, but in all, a poetic and sophisticated portrait of family relations.” – Independent (UK) Sep 23, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% EDIT “The end credits, remind you that ZAZ's forte is sight gags, not verbal jokes. These are predictably spotty, lacking the surreal wildness of the earlier films.” – Independent (UK) Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Fresh Bait (1995) EDIT “Disappointingly glib and banal. ” – Independent (UK) Jun 25, 2025 Full Review A Simple Twist of Fate (1994) 48% EDIT “This is yet another new Hollywood film about parenting where mothers are apparently superfluous. ” – Independent (UK) Jun 25, 2025 Full Review The Quick and the Dead (1995) 62% EDIT “After Army of Darkness and Darkman, Sam Raimi, the once-promising director of The Evil Dead, needs a good movie. The Quick and the Dead isn't that exactly, but it is a playful and moderately enjoyable homage to the spaghetti Western.” – Independent (UK) Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Apollo 13 (1995) 94% EDIT “Let's hear it, gentlemen, for nerd power.” – Independent (UK) Jun 25, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (1993) 94% EDIT “Although it's very plainly short -- the real pleasure is in the subtle minutely-observed characterisations.” – Independent (UK) Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Do the Right Thing (1989) 92% EDIT “The strengths of Do the Right Thing lie firstly in its stylishness - its brash energy, its bright, primary palette, its technical virtuosity...and, secondly, in Lee's moral generosity.” – Independent (UK) Mar 20, 2025 Full Review Funny Man (1994) EDIT “The story quickly degenerates into coarse, repetitive stuff. ” – Independent (UK) Dec 19, 2024 Full Review Mina Tannenbaum (1993) EDIT “A bright, unpredictable piece, with dollops of fantasy and fast changes of mood, although it adds up to less than the sum of its parts. ” – Independent (UK) Dec 19, 2024 Full Review The Lion King (1994) 92% EDIT “For all the surface sense of fun and brio, great tracts of the film are reactionary drivel of a high order. ” – Independent (UK) Dec 19, 2024 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (1991) 95% EDIT “If political correctness is a turn-off, there's plenty more to commend this, from the animation to the sophisticated adult lyrics.” – Independent (UK) Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Mannequin: On the Move (1991) 12% EDIT “A valueless sequel to the valueless 1987 comedy Mannequin and similarly targeted at those who like their women blank, passive and none too bright.” – Independent (UK) Dec 14, 2024 Full Review Femme Fatale (1991) EDIT “An unintentionally comic maelstrom of drugs, pornography, lesbianism, schizophrenia and experimental art.” – Independent (UK) Dec 14, 2024 Full Review Chattahoochee (1989) 9% EDIT “The film is hard to lock into, however, partly because it's shot in a low-key drama-documentary style, but mainly because its muffled storyline bears the marks of severe re-editing. ” – Independent (UK) Dec 14, 2024 Full Review Doc Hollywood (1991) 66% EDIT “Doc Hollywood is directed by a Brit but remains at heart one of Los Angeles's periodic half-hearted diatribes against itself.” – Independent (UK) Dec 14, 2024 Full Review City Slickers (1991) 87% EDIT “The film's rot sets in when the meaning of life appears on the horizon and all is lost by the time that Crystal helps to birth Norman, a baby calf.” – Independent (UK) Dec 14, 2024 Full Review The Rescuers Down Under (1990) 85% EDIT “This is a sequel to the 1977 Disney cartoon, and vastly superior... The craftsmanship is of a high standard, including some breathtaking flying sequences; the message immaculately Green.” – Independent (UK) Dec 14, 2024 Full Review Def Jam's How to Be a Player (1997) 14% EDIT “The sexual politics of this shrill, dim-witted yarn would have looked passé in the blaxploitation films of the early 1970s.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 6, 2024 Full Review 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997) 7% EDIT “A mixture of screeching farce and grinding puns.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 6, 2024 Full Review
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