Rick's Reviews
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
A Review of “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”
I have to be honest. I had never seen the first “Beetlejuice” when I sat down to watch this sequel and it took me a while to process the manic energy...
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NO RIPLEY, BELIEVE IT OR NOT
A Review of “Alien: Romulus”
Back in 1979, when director Ridley Scott first sprang his sci-fi horror film on an unsuspecting public, no one could know that eventually it would spa...
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HERE WE GO AGAIN, AND AGAIN
A Review of Dune, Part Two
There’s no getting around the fact that this is one very long movie. Like its predecessor, Part One.
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A Review of “It Ends With Us”
This rom-com doesn’t begin with a “meet cute.” Instead the heroine watches at close range as her future beau blows open a door to a rooftop parking lo...
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TWIST AND SHOUT
A Review of “Twisters”
I remember as a child being traumatized by the tornado in “The Wizard of Oz.” Even today, the scene of Dorothy running for cover under threatening ski...
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REBELS WITH A CAUSE
A Review of “Deadpool & Wolverine”
This movie is Rated R
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THE LIFE OF RILEY
A Review of “Inside Out 2”
The hero of the story is the same Riley featured in the original “Inside Out,” only now she’s a 13-year-old high school student burdened with all the...
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PIZZA AND THE APOCALYPSE
A review of “A Quiet Place: Day One”
For those of you who have yet to watch the first two films in the Quiet Place series, a short introduction. Back in 2018, actor John Krasinski (“The O...
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A PANDORA’S BOX
A Review of “Avatar: The Way of Water”
That the sequel to the original Avatar would be a mind-blowing visual experience was always a given and that it would be a very long movie was also a...
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GUARD YOUR CHESTNUTS!
A Review of “Violent Night”
When it comes to Christmas movies, let’s be honest. The classics are few and far between. And with The Hallmark Channel churning out cookie-cutter, ho...
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LAST SUPPER
A Review of “The Menu”
A few years ago I was in Lima, Peru, on a Sunday afternoon.
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COASTING ON CHARISMA
A Review of “Ticket to Paradise”
The trailers have been running in theaters for months: Julia Roberts and George Clooney bickering and scheming to keep their law school-bound daughter...
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