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John Laycock Windsor Star Oct 20, 2026 There is black humor, tinging the tragedy, while the documentary attitude is magnified to a certain degree, becoming both bigger and less than life. Without vagueness or obscurity, Kubrick forces each view to make up his own mind. Go to Full Review Full Metal Jacket (1987) 84% 94%

John Laycock Windsor Star Oct 19, 2026 Slow to the point of sleep, pretentious, vapid -- but grand, too, in its gorgeous way. I loved it -- but as a marvellous toy. Go to Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 77% 92%

John Laycock Windsor Star Oct 19, 2026 Kubrick has used many of the standard suspense-movie techniques, yet with such ingenuity that they often seem new. Even the grotesque takes an erotic edge, a neat display of a fundamental appeal. Go to Full Review The Shining (1980) 75% 90%

John Laycock Windsor Star Oct 18, 2026 Peopling the film with clowns, Kubrick has created a circus. A singularly unfunny act, too, considering his mammoth reputation for comedy... So near, yet so far. Could it be Kubrick gets away with too much? A victim of his own reputation? Go to Full Review A Clockwork Orange (1971) 83% 93%

John Gardiner Windsor Star Oct 14, 2026 Spartacus reaches a new high in motion picture production. It predominates the category of classics. Go to Full Review Spartacus (1960) 90% 87%

John Laycock Windsor Star Oct 2, 2026 As to the technical evaluation, the pacing of the death-march is tidy this time but the slaughter seems slightly less imaginative. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) 39% 53%

John Laycock Windsor Star Oct 2, 2026 Even the old axe-in-the-head has lost its punch. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) 20% 51%

John Laycock Windsor Star Sep 30, 2026 Everything in Part 2 is second hand, carried out with no ingenuity and little technical skill. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) 28% 48%

Ted Shaw Windsor Star Sep 22, 2026 Crocodile Dundee will charm the pants off you. Go to Full Review Crocodile Dundee (1986) 87% 59%

John Laycock Windsor Star Sep 21, 2026 You know you're being scared on purpose, but at least it's a skilful scaring. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th (1980) 49% 60%

John Laycock Windsor Star Sep 18, 2026 It drives viewers away. Go to Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 87% 88%

John Laycock Windsor Star Sep 17, 2026 Body count replaces plot in the third instalment of the most successful axe-in-the-head gorings. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part III (1982) 17% 42%

John Laycock Windsor Star Sep 12, 2026 While it is certainly more of the same, the fifth edition of Jason's prowlings does amend the formula a little. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985) 11% 26%

Jack Meredith Windsor Star Aug 21, 2026 A wild miasma and panorama of the grotesque that leaves one slightly ill. Go to Full Review The Devils (1971) 55% 88%

John Laycock Windsor Star Aug 15, 2026 The movie freshens the crime-hunt tradition with high-tech vigor and disquieting psychological tension. It's a stunner, as close to transfixing as any cop/criminal movie since To Live and Die in L.A. last year -- and starring the same man. Go to Full Review Manhunter (1986) 82% 78%

John Laycock Windsor Star Aug 13, 2026 [Landis'] direction is more concerned with attitudes and effects than narration -- and his attitude, like his film's, is a raucous up-yours. Bad moon rising, indeed. Go to Full Review An American Werewolf in London (1981) 80% 81%

John Laycock Windsor Star Aug 10, 2026 Even under pounds of distorted latex, Goldblum manages not just to transmit some of his older personality, but to evolve the character. That's a feat akin to acting underwater. Go to Full Review The Fly (1986) 82% 83%

John Laycock Windsor Star Jul 29, 2026 Amazing -- here's a quiet college comedy. And warm, too. Intelligent. Even understanding. Which makes it even funnier. Go to Full Review The Sure Thing (1985) 81% 79%

John Laycock Windsor Star Jul 28, 2026 It works fine on screen, thanks to the frenetic energy and the explosive special effects from Lucas. Go to Full Review Howard the Duck (1986) 14% 38%

John Laycock Windsor Star Jul 22, 2026 The film-makers are nearly incoherent. Go to Full Review Halloween II (1981) 27% 63%