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Bill DuPre

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The Postman (1994) 92% 4/4 EDIT “"Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to those who need it." The great pleasure of The Postman is that it reminds us all how much we all need it.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Feb 22, 2026 Full Review Erin Brockovich (2000) 87% 2.5/4 EDIT “Julia Roberts delivers a satisfyingly gritty performance in an otherwise plodding and prosaic film from onetime indie prince Steven Soderbergh. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Feb 6, 2026 Full Review North (1994) 12% 1.5/4 EDIT “Hype and extravagant production can't save this unfunny and unaffecting movie.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Misery (1990) 86% 1.5/4 EDIT “A bit of comic relief is fine in any film, but Mr. Reiner and his cast smirk their way through this production. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's all too much like a fairy tale -- we want to believe, but are we being manipulated? Probably. But put your guard down and see this one: it's a rich and royal hoot with a final scene that will make you feel good for going. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% 3/4 EDIT “True Lies is a sly bit of movie making, a romantic comedy action flick -- something for everybody. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Dec 10, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% 3/4 EDIT “Every performance is on key.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Babe (1995) 98% 3/4 EDIT “The wonder of "Babe" is that, for all this manipulation, the movie has a feeling of spontaneous warmth. Even very small children will be enchanted with the charming cast of characters in "Babe." But be warned: Your kids may never let you eat bacon again.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jul 29, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “Its gags are funny enough, but they lack the sting of satire that made "Airplane!" such a romp.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jul 24, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) 77% 3/4 EDIT “A movie of no redeeming value. And if isn't the most fun you've had all week, you've had a very good week. Or maybe you're a stump.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Red Rock West (1993) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “"Red Rock West" is a rollicking ballad of greed and grief. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jul 15, 2025 Full Review Jurassic Park (1993) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Jurassic Park is great fun. It's not a great movie -- technical gimcrackery by itself ain't art. This is despite Spielberg's sporadic attempts at inserting deeper meaning... Forget it, Steven. You've made a nifty monster movie here. And that's enough. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jul 1, 2025 Full Review Jurassic Park III (2001) 49% 3/4 EDIT “Despite the weak script, the cast of JP III comes across as individuals with personality. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Apollo 13 (1995) 94% 4/4 EDIT “The magnificent obsession of the men who put footsteps on the moon is given its most elegant and elegiac treatment yet in Apollo 13.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jun 25, 2025 Full Review The Next Karate Kid (1994) 20% 2/4 EDIT “The Next Karate Kid is a pleasant little surprise: not because it's great -- it's very good in places but falters badly under an insecure director -- but simply because it's better than you expect it to be. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) May 29, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible II (2000) 58% 3/4 EDIT “Director John Woo puts a deft spin on a formula that seemed tired after just one movie and gives Mission: Impossible 2 a sharper, simpler story line than its predecessor, as well as the saving grace of self-mockery. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) May 8, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) 54% 3/4 EDIT “"Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" is, even more than its predecessor-sequels, a visual phantasmagoria. And it works best at simply that level.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Apr 16, 2025 Full Review A Goofy Movie (1995) 64% 3/4 EDIT “...the characters in "A Goofy Movie," for all their cartoonish ways, are a lot like you and me. And that's what gives the movie its depth and resonance. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Apr 2, 2025 Full Review Scream 2 (1997) 83% 3/4 EDIT “Sometimes a sequel is better than the original, and that's the happy scenario with Scream 2. ” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Feb 6, 2025 Full Review Aladdin (1992) 96% 3/4 EDIT “This is an astonishingly free-spirited work, one that synthesizes an ancient fairy tale with mall-smart heroes and a hipster genie who can switch images faster than a couch potato with 90-channel cable and remote control.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (1991) 95% 3/4 EDIT “Screenwriter Linda Woolverton has managed to free the Disney studio from the saccharine-heroine syndrome.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Dec 16, 2024 Full Review When Harry Met Sally... (1989) 90% 3/4 EDIT “When Harry Met Sally... is a terrific movie: smart, funny and wonderfully acted.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jul 9, 2024 Full Review Planet of the Apes (2001) 42% 2/4 EDIT “Run-of-the-mill summer multiplex fodder -- quite a disappointment from a director who has brought some of the more peculiar and interesting Hollywood movies to the screen in recent years.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) May 1, 2024 Full Review Seven (1995) 84% 1/4 EDIT “All the literary allusions and cinema school self-consciousness can't save Fincher from drowning in the tawdry waste of this dreadful, brutal, abusive movie. Go, our little moviemaker, and sin no more.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Mar 29, 2024 Full Review The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 89% 2.5/4 EDIT “Freeman and Robbins have done wonders, giving Red and Andy nuances that render them memorable, even in the context of a forgettable and formulaic film.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Mar 4, 2024 Full Review
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