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John Anderson Newsday 6 days ago 3/4 William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet is electric, frenetic, inventive and fresh. Its energy is palpable... But like the Montagues and Capulets, there's also an unhealthy tension between director Baz Luhrmann and his material. Go to Full Review William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) 79% 77%

John Anderson Newsday Oct 26, 2026 3.5/4 So the Kubrickian message is: If movies are fantasy and the active pursuit of fantasy is evil, then movie directors are evil. Sydney Pollack, call your agent. Go to Full Review Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 79% 74%

Mike McGrady Newsday Oct 20, 2026 4/4 The picture of basic training and beyond is nightmarish, scathing, haunting, unforgettable, a brilliant piece of moviemaking you'll talk about for days and think about for weeks. Go to Full Review Full Metal Jacket (1987) 84% 94%

Joseph Gelmis Newsday Oct 19, 2026 3/4 Stanley Kubrick's The Shining falls short -- both as the masterpiece of horror it was expected to be and as the allegory about the arrogance of power that it apparently intends to be. Go to Full Review The Shining (1980) 74% 90%

Mike McGrady Newsday Oct 16, 2026 One is tempted to get cute here and call it a megaton of laughs. But this is a film that merits more than cuteness. It's the funniest American film in years. And one of the scariest. And one of the most important. Go to Full Review Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 97% 94%

Ben Kubasik Newsday Oct 16, 2026 It's a shame that the film as a whole flops, because Nabokov's adaptation and Stanley Kubrick's direction look for maybe half the movie like they'll combine to make a tersely-humorous winner. Go to Full Review Lolita (1962) 82% 84%

Ben Kubasik Newsday Oct 14, 2026 It's good to see Trumbo being able to work again under his own name, but he might have been better off if nobody had ever known he did write the screenplay. Go to Full Review Spartacus (1960) 89% 87%

Gene Seymour Newsday Oct 14, 2026 1.5/4 It's like an under-rehearsed dinner-theater version of the "Alien" movies without the good grooming. Go to Full Review Jason X (2002) 27% 25%

Bill Kaufman Newsday Oct 3, 2026 0.5/4 The entire movie has a low-budget look that only adds to the visual offensiveness. Some of the special effects turn out to be not so special. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) 39% 53%

Gene Seymour Newsday Sep 30, 2026 2/4 ...it's the cinematic equivalent of one of those big, shiny, unwieldy contraptions your parents used to spend hours putting together only to shatter within seconds of your first touch. Go to Full Review Street Fighter (1994) 20% 20%

Terry Kelleher Newsday Sep 28, 2026 0.5/4 "Part VIII" offers only a smidgen of humor -- about half a star's worth if you're scoring. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) 8% 27%

Rafer Guzman Newsday Sep 25, 2026 3.5/4 Part thriller, part media indictment, driven by a sleazy-good Pattinson as "Dateline" host Chris Hansen. Go to Full Review Primetime (2026) 86% - -

Mike McGrady Newsday Sep 23, 2026 3/4 It's equal parts bawdiness and innocence, a knee-slapper of a movie that leaves you feeling good. Go to Full Review Crocodile Dundee (1986) 87% 59%

Joseph Gelmis Newsday Sep 21, 2026 "Friday the 13th" is a primitive shocker that works on its own simplistic terms. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th (1980) 49% 60%

Noel Holston Newsday Sep 19, 2026 It has little of the earlier version's directorial fluidity, and the production values look, if any thing, cheaper. Go to Full Review Carrie (2002) 32% 49%

Joseph Gelmis Newsday Sep 17, 2026 0.5/4 The dialogue is tacky and the film technique is shoddy. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part III (1982) 17% 42%

Joseph Gelmis Newsday Sep 14, 2026 0.5/4 This movie looks like it cost $2.98. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985) 11% 26%

Terry Kelleher Newsday Sep 9, 2026 1.5/4 A movie that's awfully difficult to follow. Go to Full Review Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) 11% 24%

Joseph Gelmis Newsday Aug 31, 2026 The mechanical quality of the drama reduced the movie to a glitzy update of the TV series that inspired it. Go to Full Review Mission: Impossible (1996) 65% 73%

Jan Stuart Newsday Aug 24, 2026 Resident Evil is easily as mindless as last year's drag-racing sleeper and at least as much guilt-ridden fun. Go to Full Review Resident Evil (2002) 36% 67%