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Philip French

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Canadian Bacon (1995) 19% EDIT “The film is only sporadically funny, though it never pulls its punches. ” – Observer (UK) Feb 22, 2026 Full Review Mortal Kombat (1995) 43% EDIT “This picture is based on a best-selling video game, though I could believe that it was inspired by Jayne Austin's novel "Sententiousness and Insensitivity."” – Observer (UK) Feb 22, 2026 Full Review Nine Months (1995) 24% EDIT “Dull, frenetic and forced, it's one of the unfunniest comedies of recent years. ” – Observer (UK) Feb 22, 2026 Full Review Clueless (1995) 82% EDIT “Heckerling does not labour the parallels with "Emma," but they give an extra dimension to her buoyant flm and suggest the nature of the enterprise. ” – Observer (UK) Feb 22, 2026 Full Review The Postman (1994) 92% EDIT “Il Postino is Radford's best film since his feature debut, Another Time, Another Place. At times a trifle sentimental, and rather drawn out towards the end, it is a warm and generous picture. ” – Observer (UK) Feb 22, 2026 Full Review Chocolat (2000) 64% EDIT “Everything comes easy in this movie -- love, reconciliation, redemption, re-creation and even death. It's also an easy film to enjoy. ” – Observer (UK) Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Pretty in Pink (1986) 75% EDIT “There are some good lines and uniformly strong performances. ” – Observer (UK) Feb 14, 2026 Full Review Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) 96% EDIT “What makes it an exciting kinetic experience in the cinema is the epic sweep, the contrast between the serene beauty of the settings and the astonishing action sequences. ” – Observer (UK) Feb 10, 2026 Full Review Erin Brockovich (2000) 87% EDIT “It has a sparkling script by Susannah Grant, is superbly photographed by Ed Lachman and gracefully edited by Anne V. Coates. But the movie is dominated by Julia Roberts as Erin.” – Observer (UK) Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Days of Heaven (1978) 93% EDIT “It is through objects and through the physical world that this wonderfully contrived picture moves us, not through its characters, who remain distant and shadowy.” – Observer (UK) Feb 4, 2026 Full Review House (1985) 49% EDIT “Despite the genial presence as a sceptical neighbour of George Wendt, one ends up almost hating this film for its insensitivity.” – Observer (UK) Jan 30, 2026 Full Review My Bloody Valentine (1981) 39% EDIT “The Canadian producers of George Mihalka's My Bloody Valentine do everything they can to make us believe that the grisly events depicted... are happening in America and not the Maritime Provinces. Their reasons are not patriotic.” – Observer (UK) Jan 29, 2026 Full Review North (1994) 12% EDIT “North the boy has everything and faces no real threat, while North the movie is a parasitic ragbag of movie references.” – Observer (UK) Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Misery (1990) 86% EDIT “At once wonderfully original and aware of its ancestry, this astonishing film is a taut, darkly comic thriller.” – Observer (UK) Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The American President (1995) 90% EDIT “This is a romantic fairy-tale intended to amuse, inspire and get Clinton re-elected, not to raise questions, and as such it's a smooth entertainment. ” – Observer (UK) Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 93% EDIT “A challenge to McCarthyism as the cold war was hotting up, it has a striking score by Bernard Hermann, whom Wise met on Citizen Cane. ” – Guardian Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 88% EDIT “Stand By Me is an economical, gentle, truthful tale.” – Observer (UK) Jan 14, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% EDIT “Certainly it poses some important questions. But because the authors are so intent on creating an exciting melodrama that appeals alike to hawks and doves, the issues are fudged and no one really gets his way in court. ” – Observer (UK) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Sure Thing (1985) 84% EDIT “A dissappointing campus comedy. ” – Observer (UK) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Out of the Past (1947) 87% EDIT “The script is dense, subtly shaped, and bristles with stylised, often witty hard-boiled dialogue and voice-over narration.” – Guardian Jan 7, 2026 Full Review *batteries not Included (1987) 55% EDIT “I found the film highly resistible. ” – Observer (UK) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Empire of the Sun (1987) 75% EDIT “Even though you might be impressed by the portentous mood, you'll wonder how a film that comes to look like a sanitised fusion of The Go-Between and Tenko can have been derived from a novel that has been favorably compared to A High Wind in Jamaica. ” – Observer (UK) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% EDIT “A captivating, wonderfully witty swashbuckling fairy-tale. ” – Observer (UK) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Re-Animator (1985) 88% EDIT “Neither really funny nor truly frightening, it is too self-consciously bent on acquiring instant cult status.” – Observer (UK) Jan 5, 2026 Full Review At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991) 67% EDIT “The week's only movie with a moderately compelling narrative, serious subject matter and interesting characters. ” – Observer (UK) Dec 19, 2025 Full Review
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