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3/4
New Jack City (1991) Terry Francis It's a mess, but there's so much raw talent on display in this movie that I urge you to see it.
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1/4
The Doors (1991) Terry Francis A bomb.
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3/4
Longtime Companion (1990) Terry Francis It's an ambitious approach... but Rene and Lucas gamble that by dramatizing the effects of AIDS on singular characters rather than generic representations, they will humanize the disease in a way that statistics cannot. Their gamble pays off.
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2.5/4
A Rage in Harlem (1991) Terry Francis Givens is nothing short of spectacular.
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3.5/4
Impromptu (1991) Terry Francis Pure pleasure.
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0/4
Switch (1991) Terry Francis Switch represents a new low for all concerned.
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3/4
Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) Terry Francis Decadent good fun.
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2/4
Dead Again (1991) Terry Francis A considerable disappointment.
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3.5/4
The Freshman (1990) Terry Francis The process of our watching the film is happy acquiescence.
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1.5/4
Mobsters (1991) Terry Francis A kiddie gangster movie that appears to have been cast by the Ford Modeling Agency, dressed by the editors of GQ, and written by the marketing department of some cheesy brokerage house currently under investigation.
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0.5/4
Point Break (1991) Terry Francis Moronic West Coast dialogue, the very latest in MTV editing, and a young woman surfer abducted from her bedroom in a clinging white slip, who gets threatened with being "gutted" unless a man can save her.
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1.5/4
Regarding Henry (1991) Terry Francis Nichols, who directed Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Graduate, takes grave and serious issues and gives them the West Coast treatment, placing him within hailing distance of becoming an industry-for-hire hack.
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3/4
Tatie Danielle (1990) Terry Francis Hard as a diamond.
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1.5/4
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Terry Francis The movie amounts to one long, long chase scene, and damned if the American public isn't lapping it up as if it were something special.
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2.5/4
Defending Your Life (1991) Terry Francis Brooks manages to wring some laughs out of admittedly banal material, and the film is socially on target in some of its satire. The casting is very fine. Meryl Streep brings humor and flashes of authentic feeling to her role.
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Terry Francis Most books, plays or films never give us even this much. Yet The Silence of the Lambs gives us so much that it's a shame the film doesn't find ways to deepen its concentration on the colossal aberrance of the minds of its complementary terrors.
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1/4
The Marrying Man (1991) Terry Francis Baldwin and Basinger, for all the passion of their reported off screen romance, have virtually no rapport together on screen. They appear to express their contempt for the material by simply walking through their roles.
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2/4
The Godfather, Part III (1990) Terry Francis Starts off strong, becomes bogged down in expository dialogue, and finishes with an anti-climactic climax.
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0/4
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) Terry Francis Destroys the form of the original alright, but it also destroys the book's themes in their entirety.
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3.5/4
Metropolitan (1990) Terry Francis The writer-director Whit Stillman achieves a rarified atmosphere in his first film: the intellectual and social interaction among a group of Park Avenue socialites during the Christmas debutante season.
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3.5/4
The Witches (1990) Terry Francis Anjelica Huston is an extravagantly gifted actress.
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1.5/4
After Dark, My Sweet (1990) Terry Francis The film gets mired in unbelievable plot twists, and the screenplay wallows in a lot of phony angst.
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0.5/4
Days of Thunder (1990) Terry Francis Some members of the audience I attended for Days of Thunder snickered at the mythologizing of the young actor on the screen. Tom Cruise would be wise to pay heed to such derision.
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2/4
Betsy's Wedding (1990) Terry Francis Nothing in this film is new, original or convincing. It carries a strong whiff of Neil Simon's dreadful Plaza Suite in both its plotting and its dialogue, which are overarch by half. But Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy as her sister are lovely.
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1.5/4
The Sheltering Sky (1990) Terry Francis The picture is cleanly directed but lacks the visual excitement and emotional resonance of even lesser Bertuloci Films.
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2.5/4
Dick Tracy (1990) Terry Francis There's something painful about a movie that fails on an artistic plane as high as the one touched by this film, but uncomplying characters do not a successful film make.
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3.5/4
Pathfinder (1987) Terry Francis Pathfinder is a sturdy epic that restores moral weight to the violence borne of philosophical confrontation.
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1/4
Total Recall (1990) Terry Francis Undoubtedly the film will make millions, but Schwarzenegger still can't act worth a damn and neither he nor anyone associated with the film can ever buy what they don't have -- it's called class.
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3.5/4
The Grifters (1990) Terry Francis Wonderfully eccentric.
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4/4
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990) Terry Francis Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! is about the nature of romantic obsession, and it's the most subdued Almodóvar film I know. Yet the effrontery is there. It lies in the ironic tenderness with which Almodóvar handles his themes.
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1.5/4
The Lemon Sisters (1989) Terry Francis A well-intentioned bore.
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2/4
Awakenings (1990) Terry Francis Though the film is directed with elegant reticence by the gifted Penny Marshall, it's diminished somewhat by Zaillian's tissue-thin adaptation which relies heavily on formulaic comedy, on cliches of character and plot.
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1.5/4
Jesus of Montreal (1989) Terry Francis The whole film, apart from a few bits of keen social satire, is sophomoric and self-impressed in the worst way.
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0/4
Bird on a Wire (1990) Terry Francis Another homophobic Mel Gibson movie.
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2/4
Wild at Heart (1990) Terry Francis Wild at Heart's materials are so thin that the Lynchisms appear to be the film's principal reason for being. As the film runs on, the flaws accrue.
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4/4
Paris Is Burning (1990) Terry Francis Makes smashing use of the documentary form: it shares with the audience its knowledge of a glittering American subculture... that is little known to most of us.
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3/4
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) Terry Francis Everything here -- directing, acting, writing and visual effects -- is conventional but fine. It's an honorable and good-humored conclusion to this part of the Star Trek saga, as we await the next generation.
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3.5/4
The Company of Strangers (1990) Terry Francis It follows trail after glittering trail of pain and happiness left by lives nearing completion with honesty and simplicity. Director Cynthia Scott honors her subjects by permitting them to stand distinct in the radiance of their individual natures.
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3/4
Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? (1990) Terry Francis Flavorful hokum performed by a vivid cast and directed by Jack Fisk on an emotional level rare in American movies.
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2.5/4
Monsieur Hire (1989) Terry Francis Monsieur Hire is an impressive technical achievement. Leconte has visualized his story deftly, from the burgundy shadows of Denis Lenoir's photography, to the sad wit of Michael Nyman's music and the elliptical dash of Joelle Haches' editing.
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1/4
Ghost (1990) Terry Francis It conceives of an afterlife teeming with revenge, vigilantism and physical violence.
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4/4
Without You I'm Nothing (1990) Terry Francis Working with director John Boskovich and cinematographer Joseph Yacoe, Sandra Bernhardt adapts her one-woman New York show for the screen and the result is pungent, socially alert satire.
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2/4
The Guardian (1990) Terry Francis By imploding into self-satire, the film manages some inadvertent humor. And that's not nothing.
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1.5/4
Wild Orchid (1989) Terry Francis If you have a taste, as I do, for deliriously bad movies, Wild Orchid comes highly recommended. It's the most pretentiously ludicrous movie I've seen since Siesta.
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3/4
Cinema Paradiso (1988) Terry Francis The story is drawn from the director Giuseppe Tornatore's childhood memories, presented here as a series of loosely-linked episodes commemorating the importance of movies -- of art -- in the lives of people forced to manage on very little.
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2.5/4
The Handmaid's Tale (1990) Terry Francis The film raises grave issues without really dealing with them, and the result is a work that's thematically shallow. But it has power.
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0.5/4
Pretty Woman (1990) Terry Francis The impersonal direction is Garry Marshall's, whose work here amounts to a glistening mixture of sleaze and misogynist clichés.
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3.5/4
A Shock to the System (1990) Terry Francis A deceptively small, wickedly funny black comedy.
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The Player (1992) Terry Francis Part satire of Hollywood and its ever molting presence of dealmakers and sycophants, The Player is also a suspense film wickedly sure of its targets.
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Basic Instinct (1992) Terry Francis Basic Instinct is the work of fundamentally immature sensibilities. It uses women and differences in affectional preference as fodder for its misogynist, peek-a-boo mentality that views whatever it cannot understand as evil and threatening.
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