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Stephen Hunter Baltimore Sun Oct 20, 2026 4/5 Kubrick is not a traditional storyteller, and he resists providing viewers with simple attitudes. His goal -- he achieves it magnificently, though at some risk and high cost -- is to provoke and confound; the movie leaves you in turmoil. Go to Full Review Full Metal Jacket (1987) 84% 94%

R.H. Gardner Baltimore Sun Oct 19, 2026 The best thing about the film is the suspense Kubrick creates simply by moving his eloquent camera through the vast rooms... As a result The Shining is fascinating to watch, even when the story is at its silliest. Go to Full Review The Shining (1980) 75% 90%

R.H. Gardner Baltimore Sun Oct 18, 2026 Throughout, its hero seems more like clockwork than human, and his plight failed to move me, as drama should. Thus, despite all of Stanley Kubrick's frenetic imagery, I soon began to feel bored. Go to Full Review A Clockwork Orange (1971) 83% 93%

R.H. Gardner Baltimore Sun Oct 16, 2026 As a whole, Dr. Strangelove is a beautifully conceived and executed film -- one of the best to be produced in this country in the last twenty years. Go to Full Review Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 97% 94%

R.H. Gardner Baltimore Sun Oct 16, 2026 It is amazing, in view of its sordidness, that this story manages to be as entertaining and, even, hilarious as it is. The book was something of a tour de force, and the same is true of the film. Go to Full Review Lolita (1962) 83% 84%

R.H. Gardner Baltimore Sun Oct 14, 2026 The most one can say for Spartacus -- despite its spectacular color photography, its gifted staff and cast -- is that it starts out exceptionally well, goes quickly to pieces and never gets back together again. Go to Full Review Spartacus (1960) 90% 87%

R.H. Gardner Baltimore Sun Oct 13, 2026 Paths of Glory is a superb work of art. It may lack the sweep, the thematic grandeur of The Bridge on the River Kwai, but, in its own way, it's every bit as good. Its relation to the latter is, perhaps, the same as that of a sonnet to an epic poem. Go to Full Review Paths of Glory (1957) 96% 95%

Lou Cedrone Baltimore Sun Oct 6, 2026 0/4 How can the scriptwriters keep writing these lines? How can people keep wanting to see these things? Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) 21% 37%

Stephen Hunter Baltimore Sun Oct 6, 2026 1/4 Even now my mind boggles at the spectacle. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) 21% 37%

Stephen Hunter Baltimore Sun Oct 3, 2026 It's pretty funny. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) 39% 53%

Lou Cedrone Baltimore Sun Oct 3, 2026 0/4 It may be a little better than the others, but that doesn't say much. It's a little like saying one cesspool is more shallow than another. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) 39% 53%

Lou Cedrone Baltimore Sun Oct 2, 2026 The film is loaded with fake scares, so many that you tire of them very early, if you aren't already tired of them before you enter the theater. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) 20% 51%

Lou Cedrone Baltimore Sun Sep 30, 2026 Everything about it is an improvement, but most horror films, no matter the dressing, are still garbage, and this one is as smelly as the rest. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) 28% 48%

Lou Cedrone Baltimore Sun Sep 28, 2026 0/4 "Jason Takes Manhattan" insults the intelligence, but at this stage in the series, the film's worst sin is that it bores. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) 8% 27%

Stephen Hunter Baltimore Sun Sep 28, 2026 1/4 The big killer in the hockey mask doesn't set foot on that fabled isle until well past the 90-minute mark of the flick, and by that time hardly anyone else in the movie is left alive. By that time, the movie isn't even alive. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) 8% 27%

Lou Cedrone Baltimore Sun Sep 23, 2026 "Crocodile Dundee" plays a lot like the Thirties comedies. It is never as tight as those, but in its own way it charms, thanks to the star and his co-star. Go to Full Review Crocodile Dundee (1986) 87% 59%

Stephen Hunter Baltimore Sun Sep 23, 2026 The movie labors wretchedly to set up gags that have no payoff, or to delivers payoffs that have had no set-up. Go to Full Review Crocodile Dundee (1986) 87% 59%

Lou Cedrone Baltimore Sun Sep 21, 2026 It is a shamelessly bad film, but then Cunningham knows his audience. This is sad. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th (1980) 49% 60%

David Zurawik Baltimore Sun Sep 20, 2026 The best thing about this remake is the performance by Bettis as the emotionally maimed Carrie. Go to Full Review Carrie (2002) 32% 49%

Lou Cedrone Baltimore Sun Sep 18, 2026 1/4 The film is sometimes funny and sometimes just sick. More often, it is just sick. Go to Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 87% 88%