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Shelley Kesselman Winnipeg Sun Oct 20, 2026 Does the summer of 1987 movie-going crowd really want another examination of Vietnam? If they do, the desire is fueled mostly by two words: Stanley Kubrick. Go to Full Review Full Metal Jacket (1987) 84% 94%

Morley Walker Winnipeg Sun Oct 7, 2026 The sequel has that slick veneer only money can buy -- it looks like just another offering from the Hollywood fright mill. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) 28% 48%

Randall King Winnipeg Sun Oct 7, 2026 2/5 Every character is every bit as two-dimensional as they are in the video games. That would be acceptable if the movie's dozens of flight scenes were filmed with any flair. Instead, they're merely arduous. Go to Full Review Street Fighter (1994) 20% 20%

John Danakas Winnipeg Sun Oct 6, 2026 More pitiful bloodworks from Jason. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) 21% 37%

John Danakas Winnipeg Sun Oct 2, 2026 What ensues is one senseless gory murder after another, each punctuated with a tasteless joke. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) 39% 53%

John Danakas Winnipeg Sun Sep 27, 2026 Laced with tongue-in-cheek satire this is actually an insult to its audience. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) 8% 27%

Peter McPhee Winnipeg Sun Sep 23, 2026 Although we've seen the fish-out-of-water scenario a thousand times, Hogan somehow breathes new life into it as the Aussie in the city for the first time. Go to Full Review Crocodile Dundee (1986) 87% 59%

Randall King Winnipeg Sun Sep 19, 2026 2.5/5 So much of this movie consists of desperate padding. Go to Full Review The First Wives Club (1996) 56% 68%

John Danakas Winnipeg Sun Sep 18, 2026 Blue Velvet's lack of spontaneity finally does it in. Though it's interesting, something of an oddity as Hollywood movies go, it's not much more. Go to Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 87% 88%

Morley Walker Winnipeg Sun Sep 17, 2026 Slower than a corpse crawling across the Sahara. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part III (1982) 17% 42%

Morley Walker Winnipeg Sun Sep 14, 2026 It beyond my humble critical faculties to decide which sequel is worse, Porky's Revenge or Friday the 13th: A New Beginning. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985) 11% 26%

Morley Walker Winnipeg Sun Sep 14, 2026 The main revenge seems to have been taken on the audience. Go to Full Review Porky's Revenge (1985) 15% 33%

John Danakas Winnipeg Sun Aug 15, 2026 Petersen is no sinister Chuck Bronson or Sylvester Stallone. He's a very soft-spoken, almost misty-eyed actor with choirboy looks. When he's racked with the sordid thought of the killer, the effect is all the more potent. Go to Full Review Manhunter (1986) 82% 78%

Morley Walker Winnipeg Sun Aug 10, 2026 So much energy and imagination has been squandered on the makeup, as a movie The Fly couldn't harm a flea. Go to Full Review The Fly (1986) 82% 83%

Peter McPhee Winnipeg Sun Aug 10, 2026 It's an '80s version of the old B-flicks, tightly directed and with great special effects. Go to Full Review The Fly (1986) 82% 83%

John Danakas Winnipeg Sun Aug 8, 2026 She's Gotta Have It is a bright comedy coming to us foursquare from an American subculture that seldom gets to represent itself in the movies. Go to Full Review She's Gotta Have It (1986) 91% 72%

Peter McPhee Winnipeg Sun Aug 8, 2026 Stoltz and Zuniga are excellent in a wasted film, managing to get you interested in the characters despite the plot weaknesses. Go to Full Review The Fly II (1989) 24% 24%

Randall King Winnipeg Sun Aug 3, 2026 3.5/5 It's funny stuff; in fact, Escape from L.A. is actually more successful as a comedy than it is as an action movie. Go to Full Review Escape From L.A. (1996) 45% 39%

Randall King Winnipeg Sun Jul 31, 2026 The film transcends the issue of sexual orientation because it reflects any part of society with dreams of wealth and glamour and fame—just about all of us, in fact. Go to Full Review Paris Is Burning (1990) 99% 89%

Morley Walker Winnipeg Sun Jul 29, 2026 Too bad a filmmaker as promising as Reiner must succumb to recycling tired ideas. Go to Full Review The Sure Thing (1985) 81% 79%