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Hal Lipper

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Legend (1985) 33% 3/5 EDIT “Legend pales in comparison with Scott's Alien, Blade Runner and The Duellists. But then, it has no pretensions other than to dazzle the eye and jolt the senses. It succeeds handsomely, although a bit more depth would have been welcomed.” – Tampa Bay Times Apr 18, 2026 Full Review RoboCop 2 (1990) 31% 3/5 EDIT “RoboCop 2 moves fast and looks great.” – Tampa Bay Times Mar 10, 2026 Full Review RoboCop (1987) 84% 2/5 EDIT “This is one ugly picture.” – Tampa Bay Times Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Pretty in Pink (1986) 75% 3/5 EDIT “Characters convey their insecurities with eloquence. And despite Hughes' tendency to pigeonhole their behavior, they act like real teenagers. ” – Tampa Bay Times Feb 14, 2026 Full Review Misery (1990) 86% 3/5 EDIT “Misery's plotline is fairly thin. Yet, the performances, the comedic elements in Goldman's script and Reiner's direction generate the requisite suspense with a minimum of flourish.” – Tampa Bay Times Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 89% 4/5 EDIT “What Stand By Me lacks in subtlety, it make up with feeling. The strong, honest emotions coupled with long-buried memories makes this film a satisfying experience.” – Tampa Bay Times Jan 14, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% 3/5 EDIT “A Few Good Men has a whole cast of good men - and one good woman - and it's this ensemble that makes director Rob Reiner's conventional courtroom drama so enthralling. ” – Tampa Bay Times Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% 4/5 EDIT “A magical motion picture that can whisk viewers from reality to fantasy, and back again, with the greatest of ease. ” – Tampa Bay Times Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% 2/5 EDIT “It is too calculated, too sprawling and emotionally bare when characters interact. Hook has dozens of sterling cameos, but only a few wondrous shared moments.” – Tampa Bay Times Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Christine (1983) 69% EDIT “It's an extremely well-crafted thriller, but it never manages to shift into third gear.” – Tampa Bay Times Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Big Top Pee-wee (1988) 30% 2/5 EDIT “Gone are Pee-wee's innocence, his rouged cheeks, his glossy lips and a good deal of the twisted tongue-in-cheek humor that made Pee-wee's Big Adventure so appealing.” – Tampa Bay Times Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Terminator 2: Judgment Day is louder, flashier and deeper than its predecessor. But no better. What it gains in power and technical prowess it loses through its gargantuan size. Terminator 2 lumbers while the first movie sprints.” – Tampa Bay Times Dec 9, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (1987) 59% 3/5 EDIT “While The Running Man feels rushed and never lives up to its promise -- except in terms of its body count -- it has enough style and action to satisfy most B-movie buffs.” – Tampa Bay Times Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Predator (1987) 64% 2/5 EDIT “Although the genre may be new and its special effects impressive, Predator's story is predictable summer fare.” – Tampa Bay Times Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Desert Hearts (1985) 77% 3/5 EDIT “Deitch demonstrates enough style and sense of character to turn Desert Hearts into a satisfying, though flawed, romance. Her frankness concerning homosexuality is to be lauded. ” – Tampa Bay Times Oct 13, 2025 Full Review My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 95% 2/4 EDIT “While My Beautiful Laundrette is involving and compassionate, it doesn't take enough chances. ” – Tampa Bay Times Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% 1/5 EDIT “Neeson overacts, trying to suppress his Irish accent and compensate for the bandages shrouding his face.” – Tampa Bay Times Aug 25, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% 3/5 EDIT “Director David Zucker loses a bit of pacing around the seventh-inning stretch, but The Naked Gun is more consistently funny than anything he, his brother and best friend Abrahams have put together since 1980's Airplane!” – Tampa Bay Times Jul 24, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) 77% 2/5 EDIT “Too often, The Naked Gun 2½ is deja vu. It's practically the same live-action cartoon as the original.” – Tampa Bay Times Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Day of the Dead (1985) 61% 1/5 EDIT “It lacks the apocalyptic humor and satirical flourishes of Dawn of the Dead.” – Tampa Bay Times Jun 25, 2025 Full Review The Karate Kid Part II (1986) 49% 3/5 EDIT “The Karate Kid II is a better picture than its title indicated. It has warmth, intelligence and a sense of human relationships. ” – Tampa Bay Times May 28, 2025 Full Review Withnail and I (1987) 84% 2/5 EDIT “One of those pictures that manages to be consistently amusing and grating at the same time.” – Tampa Bay Times Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Do the Right Thing (1989) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing is the most poignant, disturbing and frighteningly real film about race relations ever made by a black American film maker.” – Tampa Bay Times Mar 21, 2025 Full Review Back to School (1986) 81% 2/5 EDIT “Back to School is not a great movie. It's simple-minded and simplistic.” – Tampa Bay Times Feb 27, 2025 Full Review Aladdin (1992) 96% 4/5 EDIT “With the hilarious, bounds-breaking animated fairy tale Aladdin, Walt Disney proves once again that the best movies can be drawn. ” – Tampa Bay Times Dec 16, 2024 Full Review
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