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Nicole Peradotto Buffalo News 6 days ago 3/5 Credit must go to DiCaprio and Danes as salvagers of this two-hour traffic. Each seizes on the giddiness of first love and youthful passion. Go to Full Review William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) 79% 77%

Jeff Simon Buffalo News Oct 26, 2026 4/5 With Eyes Wide Shut, we can, again, remember what great films look like -- and how great filmmakers once made them. How nice, then, of movies to offer up one last great film by one of its masters before the century closes. Go to Full Review Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 79% 74%

Jeff Simon Buffalo News Oct 20, 2026 Full Metal Jacket was a film worth making; it was a film that deserved Kubrick's extraordinary film-making fits. Curiously, though, it isn't really a Vietnam film. It's a brilliant Stanley Kubrick war film based on a Vietnam novel and set in Vietnam. Go to Full Review Full Metal Jacket (1987) 84% 94%

Jeff Simon Buffalo News Oct 19, 2026 What one could have suspected in A Clockwork Orange and has been reasonably convinced of in Barry Lyndon becomes a certainty in The Shining: Kubrick no longer knows what to do with his own genius. Go to Full Review The Shining (1980) 74% 90%

Terry Doran Buffalo News Oct 18, 2026 Kubrick's achievement in A Clockwork Orange is the creation of the subtle conditions of nightmare fantasy in which the atmospherics overwhelm the audience, evoking in it a permeating sense of violence that supersedes what in fact it sees on the screen. Go to Full Review A Clockwork Orange (1971) 83% 93%

Ardis Smith Buffalo News Oct 16, 2026 Allowing that the annihilation of life on this pained planet is a subject for horseplay, a dubious proposition, you are likely to agree that Stanley Kubrick, who produced, directed and collaborated on the script, has fetched forth a brilliant chiller. Go to Full Review Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 97% 94%

Ron Maselka Buffalo News Oct 16, 2026 With stalwarts Mr. Mason, Mr. Sellers and Miss Winters, however, the film is not all dreary melodrama but is freely seasoned with humor. Go to Full Review Lolita (1962) 82% 84%

Ardis Smith Buffalo News Oct 14, 2026 The young director makes colossalism pay off in a prolonged spell of dread, suspense; and high emotion before the final battle is joined. You might call this the Kubrick answer to the celebrated chariot race. Go to Full Review Spartacus (1960) 89% 87%

Toni Ruberto Buffalo News Oct 14, 2026 2/5 If this long-await film had equaled the best from the two slasher franchises, this could have been a good time... It needs more creepiness and better use of its biggest asset -- Freddy. Go to Full Review Freddy vs. Jason (2003) 42% 50%

Ronald Ehmke Buffalo News Oct 14, 2026 1.5/5 Wake me up for "Part XI: Jason Moves to Cheektowaga." Go to Full Review Jason X (2002) 27% 25%

Ardis Smith Buffalo News Oct 13, 2026 War's causes seem rather more complex these days. And even such tough shows as the celebrated "Kwai" are touched with glamour and adventure. But on its own terms [Paths of Glory] is a brilliant, shattering show. Go to Full Review Paths of Glory (1957) 96% 95%

Ardis Smith Buffalo News Oct 13, 2026 Here is the work of a bizarre genius, a modern Stroheim, a poor man's Hitchcock, an heir of the first Lon Chaney or something, a Maestro Stanley Kubrick, who wrote, directed, photographed, and edited "KK." Go to Full Review Killer's Kiss (1955) 80% 58%

Jeff Simon Buffalo News Sep 30, 2026 The thing about 'Friday the 13th, Part 2' is that it's really THE EXACT SAME MOVIE AS 'FRIDAY THE 13th.' Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) 28% 48%

Eve Sterne Buffalo News Sep 28, 2026 When suspense lulls, special effects should take its place, but the film is disappointing even in this aspect. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) 8% 27%

Melinda Miller Buffalo News Sep 23, 2026 2/5 Billed as a starring vehicle for muscleman of the moment Jean-Claude Van Damme, "Street Fighter" is everything one would expect a film inspired by a violent video game to be. And no more. Go to Full Review Street Fighter (1994) 20% 20%

Jeff Simon Buffalo News Sep 23, 2026 "Crocodile Dundee" is not "cinema". It's a good-old fashioned movie-movie of the kind meant to go with popcorn and Jujubes rather than Perrier and herbal tea. Go to Full Review Crocodile Dundee (1986) 87% 59%

Jeff Simon Buffalo News Sep 21, 2026 The movie's sort of 'Halloween Meets Meatballs' or 'Little Darlings Go Psycho.' Go to Full Review Friday the 13th (1980) 49% 60%

Lauri Githens Buffalo News Sep 19, 2026 2.5/4 Appreciate its few good lines, and write 'em down for later use, even. But otherwise, appraise this one coolly. Very coolly. Go to Full Review The First Wives Club (1996) 56% 68%

Alan Pergament Buffalo News Sep 19, 2026 Though the TV version of "Carrie" has its moments, it isn't as powerful as the original. Go to Full Review Carrie (2002) 32% 49%

David R. Kocieniewski Buffalo News Sep 17, 2026 So the grisly stuff is all pretty scary. But the film has nothing else to offer. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part III (1982) 17% 42%