Quotes

For those with the temerity to follow it anywhere, Blue Velvet (1986) is as fascinating as it is freakish. It confirms Mr. Lynch's stature as an innovator, a superb technician, and someone best not encountered in a dark alley.

[reviewing Freejack (1992)] Mr. Jagger, managing to combine a sneer and a monotone, and revealing only the occasional flash of humor, is fun to watch but lucky to have other employment.

[reviewing Waterworld (1995)] James Newton Howard's score is so swellingly effusive that it pronounces the film awesome long before the audience can.

St. Elmo's Fire (1985) is most appealing when it simply gives the actors a chance to flirt with the camera, and with one another. When it attempts to take seriously the problems of characters who are spoiled, affluent and unbearably smug, it becomes considerably less attractive.