Movies Quiz / 1990s Best Pictures by Bad Review

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I could tell it was a putrid ideolodical tract posing as essential historical revisionism and even then, I thought Costner needed to be shot in the face with a ball of his own [deleted].
-Dan Jardine, Apollo Guide

The film, like its flesh-eating psycho, is more bent on exploiting its insights than on teaching us anything. Like all other slasher movies from Psycho on, this one “works” insofar as it plays on the desire to see victims, preferably women, get torn to pieces.
-Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

While Eastwood dedicates the film to Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, his early directors, he doesn’t seem to have learned all that much from them. If their action films had been this plodding, nobody would ever have heard of Clint Eastwood outside of television’s Rawhide.
-Ralph Novak, People Magazine

It is factually inaccurate, brazenly manipulative, and so capable of presenting [title character] as a saint that it allows the audience to feel alright about the horrors they have witnessed over the previous three hours.
-Jeremy Heilman, MovieMartyr.com

I can't see how people with low I.Q.s or those who love them are in any way comforted by all this hogwash. I can easily see how such people might be offended by its smug unreality.
-Stanley Kauffman, The New Republic

Gibson has extended his hair, but not his directorial range.
-Quentin Curtis, Independent on Sunday

Yes, it's beautifully shot, well-acted, and rich with history lessons. But how can we cheer for heroes who sell out their friends and nation for an extramarital affair?
-Jeffery Overstreet, Looking Closer

He tugs at our heart strings with melodramatic manipulative scenes that are intended to have a giant banner on the screen flashing “Cry Now!” to the crowd...I was almost expecting Cameron to feature an insert of a sad clown holding two puppies in his hands as he drowns in his cabin.
-Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed

Not even Stoppard is [title character], and the end result resembles one of Neil Simon's middlebrow romps more than it does As You Like It.
-Laura Miller, Salon.com

As faux-deep Oscar bait goes, _________ is as broad and predictable as an episode of Three’s Company. The Burnham family resembles the typical sitcom family — the sullen, schlubby Al Bundy-esque father, the nagging wife, the moody daughter.
-Steven Hyden, Uproxx