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Scott Cain

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Peeper (1975) 30% EDIT “Caine looks great in "Peeper." He also gives a beautifully modulated and believable performance.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Nov 22, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (1987) 59% EDIT “Action sequences are colorful and efficiently handled, but scenes involving Dawson's studio audience are frenzied to a headache-inducing extent.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Nov 6, 2025 Full Review From Beyond (1986) 74% EDIT “For those who can stand the bloodshed, this is quite a trip.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Oct 20, 2025 Full Review Re-Animator (1985) 90% 3/5 EDIT “This variation on "Frankenstein" is a landmark of campiness, the kind of schlocky movie that you talk about for months afterward.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Tron (1982) 60% 3/4 EDIT “Eye-opening, but disappointing. Why isn't this movie any fun?” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “"Hard Times" is all right, though no more.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sep 25, 2025 Full Review This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 98% EDIT “For rock 'n' roll fans with a sense of humor, "Spinal Tap" is an essential event.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988) 10% EDIT “Both Mathews and Karen are poisoned by whiffs of the lethal gas and become corpses... they complain bitterly about the pain of being dead. They ought to complain even louder if they are asked to appear in "Part III."” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Aug 30, 2025 Full Review The Return of the Living Dead (1985) 71% EDIT “"Return of the Living Dead" lives down to the messy level of its predecessors. ” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) 78% 2/4 EDIT “Nearly all of the laughs occur in the first 10 minutes.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Explorers (1985) 49% EDIT “Some of the early jokes, when experiments go awry, are just right, but Dante hasn't learned when the time comes to stop being funny and get down to business.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) 16% EDIT “"Superman IV" comes across as decent but incomplete.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jul 2, 2025 Full Review Supergirl (1984) 19% EDIT “The film works largely on the basis of humor and the clash of wills.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jun 27, 2025 Full Review Day of the Dead (1985) 61% EDIT “The survivors as such a loathsome bunch that you don't care whether they escape.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Return to Oz (1985) 59% EDIT “"Return to Oz" is a lavish and worthy nonmusical sequel.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jun 19, 2025 Full Review The Karate Kid (1984) 81% EDIT “The Karate Kid is perhaps the worst advertisement that karate ever received in this country.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution May 27, 2025 Full Review Starman (1984) 83% EDIT “"Starman" is to "E.T." what "Romancing the Stone" is to "Raiders of the Lost Ark" -- decidedly more adult, quite exciting, generously entertaining but lacking wonderment and magic.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution May 14, 2025 Full Review Back to School (1986) 81% EDIT “To describe "Back to School" as a laugh-a-minute romp does not do it justice. Every 15 seconds is closer to the truth.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Feb 27, 2025 Full Review Aliens (1986) 94% EDIT “Let's not mince words: Aliens is the greatest horror movie since Frankenstein. Here is a rare instance in which a sequel is infinitely superior to the original. Alien, the 1979 thriller, now seems like a preliminary sketch.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jul 30, 2024 Full Review The Legend of Billie Jean (1985) 39% EDIT “It is very small potatoes.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Nov 17, 2023 Full Review Batman (1989) 77% 3/4 EDIT “Engaging, comic and non-threatening when it might have been dangerous and mesmerizingly hard to take. But given the current alternatives, we should be grateful for the pleasures provided, even as we indulge in little sighs of regret.” – News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Jul 25, 2023 Full Review The Color Purple (1985) 73% EDIT “The principal roles are marvelously cast and the main characters are superbly realized. Spielberg's direction is loving, but suffocating. He gives the audience no opportunity to form an opinion about anything. Every reaction is dictated. ” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution May 25, 2023 Full Review Christine (1983) 72% EDIT “Cinematically, the possibilities are enormous and Carpenter is equal to the occasion. Some of the visuals are eye-popping. ” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution May 12, 2023 Full Review Evil Dead II (1987) 88% EDIT “No matter how much money Bruce Campbell received to play Ash, one can't help feeling that he was underpaid. One wonders if any leading man, or even a stuntman, has ever had such a workout.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Mar 28, 2023 Full Review Amadeus (1984) 90% EDIT “Peter Shaffer's Amadeus is scrumptiously beautiful, sizzlingly alive and bristling with social comedy. His screenplay contains the most piercing account of deadly envy since Othello, and is a heartbreaking account of a good man's fall from grace.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jul 11, 2022 Full Review
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