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Michael Healy Denver Post Sep 14, 2026 This version of what amounts to one movie made five separate times is a little more foul-mouthed and crazy than the previous 13ths. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985) 11% 26%

John Wenzel Denver Post Aug 26, 2026 2/4 For all its technical confidence and pleasant faces, The Dog Stars squanders its actors’ talents and trades true insight for familiar action. There’s little to chew on after the camera pans up to the stars and the screen fades to black. Go to Full Review The Dog Stars (2026) 41% - -

Michael Healy Denver Post Jun 25, 2026 The movie lacks some of the original's ability to shock, but it makes up for it with great action. It is less horrific than "Alien," but more exciting. Go to Full Review Aliens (1986) 93% 94%

John Wenzel Denver Post May 19, 2026 3/4 It’s glorious high adventure that, like the original Star Wars trilogy, is both accessible and visually daring. Go to Full Review Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026) 60% - -

Michael Healy Denver Post May 11, 2026 John Landis directs with no vigor at all. The film is incredibly flat and full. Go to Full Review Three Amigos! (1986) 44% 67%

Michael Healy Denver Post May 11, 2026 Eddie Murphy upstaged by a soft-shoeing soft drink. There is something desperately wrong here. Go to Full Review The Golden Child (1986) 21% 47%

Michael Healy Denver Post May 7, 2026 Director Tony Scott gives the production a nicely polished sheen, although some of the scenes look and sound too much like a combination of Navy recruiting commercials and MTV videos. Go to Full Review Top Gun (1986) 58% 68%

Michael Healy Denver Post Apr 18, 2026 Perhaps it has not been conveyed how utterly boring this movie is, how devoid of cleverness, of characterization, plot and theme. Go to Full Review Legend (1985) 34% 73%

Michael Healy Denver Post Apr 8, 2026 The film eventually degenerates into nothing but noise. Go to Full Review Howard the Duck (1986) 14% 38%

John Wenzel Denver Post Dec 11, 2025 3/4 “Rebuilding” is rare in that it resists the pull of grim, prestige-picture drama, which would certainly be justified for the subject matter. Walker-Silverman instead steers toward the wistful and bucolic, depicting beauty and devastation at once. Go to Full Review Rebuilding (2025) 92% - -

Michael Healy Denver Post Oct 30, 2025 1/4 ...writers Jim and John Thomas just extract some of the larger cliches from the "War-is-fun" and science-fiction genres and toss them intermittently at the audience. The result is a stale bore. Go to Full Review Predator (1987) 65% 87%

Michael Healy Denver Post Aug 19, 2025 If there's a theme hidden somewhere in "Return to Oz," I couldn't find it. Go to Full Review Return to Oz (1985) 59% 71%

Michael Healy Denver Post Aug 19, 2025 "Beyond Thunderdome" is quite a bit smarter and more complex than its predecessor. Go to Full Review Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) 80% 49%

Michael Healy Denver Post Aug 13, 2025 That movie is extremely funny in parts -- so funny that it redeems itself from being an altogether repulsive exploitation film. Go to Full Review The Return of the Living Dead (1985) 71% 79%

Michael Healy Denver Post Jul 30, 2025 4/5 It is remarkable that Herman can carry a full-length picture all on his own. But he does, and the "Big Adventure" is consistently amusing. Go to Full Review Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) 78% 79%

Steven Rosen Denver Post Mar 26, 2024 3.5/4 Almost Famous hasn't a single discordant note of vanity. What it has, rather, are all the attributes that have made Crowe's movies enjoyable... You sense what you are watching is life as really lived, not plot contrivances in search of punch lines. Go to Full Review Almost Famous (2000) 91% 92%

John Wenzel Denver Post Aug 2, 2023 2/4 Simply being better than past failures does not make something good. While Mutant Mayhem does several things right, from its likeable voice cast to its refreshed version of the Turtles’ origin story, it also gets stuck in the same gunk as its forebears. Go to Full Review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) 95% 90%

John Wenzel Denver Post Jun 15, 2023 4/4 Past Lives feels so deliciously restrained that it makes even quiet dramas seem histrionic. And yet it’s a wide emotional field that gives its characters room to breathe... if Past Lives isn’t 2023’s best film, we’re in for an incredible year of cinema. Go to Full Review Past Lives (2023) 95% 86%

John Wenzel Denver Post Jun 15, 2023 2.5/4 Kudos to Pixar for telling a smaller story with big aspirations... Elemental has a big, beautiful heart and hyper-relevant message of tolerance and generational churn. It’s too bad that the rest of it often feels so wishy-washy and lukewarm. Go to Full Review Elemental (2023) 73% 93%

John Wenzel Denver Post Jun 7, 2023 2.5/4 It’s not a revolution, and it’s not trying to be. But it is proof that even the most one-dimensional concepts can connect on a deeper level if treated with care. Go to Full Review Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) 51% 40%