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Tom Ryan

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The Abyss (1989) 76% EDIT “Cameron offers a spectacular nothing, a close encounter of the banal kind.” – The Sunday Age Dec 9, 2025 Full Review True Lies (1994) 77% EDIT “A slick but shallow mix of espionage adventure and romantic comedy. ” – The Age (Australia) Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 91% 3/3 EDIT “The message is certainly not a new one. But the pleasures of 'Terminator 2' are to be found in the way it is delivered. It is one of the rare sequels that lives up to the standard of the original. ” – The Sunday Age Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Casper (1995) 59% 2/4 EDIT “The effects...are certainly convincing, the gadgetry is ingenious, and 'Casper' is fascinating as a result. ” – The Sunday Age Sep 29, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% 2.5/4 EDIT “Reynolds has always been the kind of actor who's allowed his characters to seep through the bemused-eyebrow pauses between the lines. Except that they're not really pauses at all: they're expressive and eloquent in the way that words can never be.” – The Sunday Age Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Night of the Living Dead (1990) 57% EDIT “An intelligent splatter movie, if you're game.” – The Sunday Age Sep 17, 2025 Full Review Darkman (1990) 80% 2/4 EDIT “The film's mythic foundations are clear enough, but Raimi and his team of screenwriters have failed to build on them.” – The Sunday Age Aug 25, 2025 Full Review Babe (1995) 98% EDIT “'Babe' is a true original, astonishing in its inventiveness, enchanting in its simplicity. ” – The Age (Australia) Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Red Rock West (1993) 95% 4/4 EDIT “The suspense works well enough, and both Walsh and the estimable Hopper bring a hardish edge to the film's cyclical sequence of deals and counter deals.” – The Sunday Age Jul 15, 2025 Full Review Jurassic Park (1993) 91% 3/3 EDIT “Frankly, I don't care how the film-makers did it, just that they did... In Jurassic Park, disbelief is suspended gratefully.” – The Sunday Age Jul 1, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible (1996) 67% 3/4 EDIT “Stylistically exuberant and irrepressibly playful, Brian De Palma's action-packed espionage adventure is loads of fun.” – The Sunday Age May 6, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (2025) 94% 3/4 EDIT “It is largely due to the efforts of an appealing cast and Lee's unqualified affection for their characters that 'The Wedding Banquet' works as well as it does.” – The Sunday Age Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Hercules (1997) 83% EDIT “While much of the animation is curiously sombre, even bland, everything else about the film comes with considerable flourish. The dialogue crackles, the voices are just right and a couple of those delightfully eccentric little creatures... sparkle. ” – The Sunday Age Dec 18, 2024 Full Review The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) 80% 4/5 EDIT “Three years in the making, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is Disney's 34th animated feature and one of its best. ” – The Sunday Age Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Apollo 13 (1995) 94% 3/4 EDIT “Apollo 13, an unequivocal celebration of its heroes' struggles against their own frailty and against conspiracies of the universe, belongs to a characteristically American strand of story-telling. It even manages to turn defeat into victory.” – The Sunday Age Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Pocahontas (1995) 58% 2/4 EDIT “Aside from an occasional flourish of wit in the writing, there's not much to enthuse about here, and any sense that something substantial is at stake in the inter-racial relationship at the heart of the tale has been Disneyfied out of existence.” – The Sunday Age Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Aladdin (1992) 96% 2/4 EDIT “The film-makers have adopted a snappy visual style in the MTV mode and the animation skills are undeniable. But the result is off-putting, an ancient fable frenetically modernised. ” – The Age (Australia) Dec 16, 2024 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (1991) 95% 4/4 EDIT “If there is such a thing as "Disney genius," it surely resides in the way the animators are able to create a truly enchanted world. And in Beauty and the Beast, they are helped immeasurably by a collection of variously witty, exuberant and melodic songs.” – The Sunday Age Dec 16, 2024 Full Review The Wizard (1989) 29% EDIT “That the film is able to link family renewal and the product it is so capably marketing should only serve to remind us of what a valuable selling-point the family can be. ” – The Sunday Age Dec 13, 2024 Full Review The Little Mermaid (1989) 92% EDIT “The Little Mermaid is, more or less, a cross between Alice in Wonderland and Cinderella, pepped up with some terrific songs.” – The Sunday Age Dec 13, 2024 Full Review Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 69% 4/4 EDIT “Coppola has taken Bram Stoker's story and majestically adapted it with a masterful intelligence and a breathtaking intensity.” – The Sunday Age Sep 26, 2024 Full Review The Devil's Advocate (1997) 65% 3/4 EDIT “Helped by some very snappy dialogue, Pacino makes The Devil's Advocate his own.” – The Sunday Age Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Fargo (1996) 94% 4/4 EDIT “Immaculately plotted, beautifully written and superbly shot by British cinematography Roger Deakins, a longtime Coen collaborator, Fargo is a treasure.” – The Sunday Age Jul 16, 2024 Full Review Twister (1996) 68% 3/4 EDIT “Even if its gusto sometimes feels very manufactured, and even if one laments the bland predictability of the film's romantic triangle, the sheer apocalyptic bravura of the storm sequences in Twister will still blow you away.” – The Sunday Age Jul 16, 2024 Full Review On the Adamant (2023) 97% EDIT “Few will be able to watch On the Adamant without being deeply moved and inspired by what they see. ” – Sydney Morning Herald May 16, 2024 Full Review
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