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Bernard Zuel

Bernard Zuel's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Alien Resurrection (1997) 55% EDIT “The plot lines are way too familiar and the ending is merely an invitation for Alien 5.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 29, 2026 Full Review A Hard Day's Night (1964) 98% EDIT “The movie itself manages to be both sweet and subversive.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Primary Colors (1998) 80% EDIT “John Travolta could have not have pulled it off any better.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 29, 2026 Full Review GoldenEye (1995) 81% EDIT “The difficult for Brosnan and director Martin Campbell is that we are looking for more from the thrills and spills genre now than when Dr No could survive on a smile and a nod.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Grease (1978) 65% EDIT “Yes, it's a stupid film and not one to overly praise but, gee, it's often a lot of fun.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Dumb & Dumber (1994) 69% EDIT “I counted two sniggers and a laugh during the whole film.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Help! (1965) 86% EDIT “The Goonish humour beloved by the Liverpudlians is mixed with a greater degree of the Marx Brothers quasi-slapstick and more willingness to lair about.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Jumanji (1995) 56% EDIT “Well, the special effects are impressive but what wins you here is a theme-park ride, twisting and turning, making you laugh one minutes and duck the next.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Mars Attacks! (1996) 57% EDIT “You watch this understanding that the ready irony and lampooning of American mores here is exactly what the makers of Independence Day forgot.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Hamlet (1996) 95% EDIT “This is not a Hamlet to redefine the play for this generation. It is flawed. But it also gives us more than the essence of one of the great plays.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 29, 2026 Full Review The Lion King (1994) 92% EDIT “The beauty and precision of the animation in this Disney film is its most obvious feature. You find yourself praising the lighting and cinematography before realising it's all in the drawings.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Killing Zoe (1994) 34% EDIT “The final shootout almost recovers it for Avary. Its excess and deliberate stupidity -- in slow-mo would you believe? -- make for an almost Peckinpah moment. Almost.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Jackie Brown (1997) 88% EDIT “Quentin Tarantino wisely decidedly not top Pulp Fiction's film gymnastic, choosing instead a quieter, more considered and, yes, more mature film.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Reservoir Dogs (1992) 90% EDIT “It's a funny, nasty, brutal, tense and invigorating film.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 29, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% EDIT “taking parodic elements, but retaining too much affection to parody, The Princess Bride has everything you could ask for in a movie.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 28, 2026 Full Review Eraserhead (1977) 87% EDIT “It feels like the very best of student film, but with more vivid imagination, more skill at the edges, more craft at the core.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 24, 2026 Full Review Dave (1993) 95% EDIT “What saves the movie is [a] neatly balanced performances by Kevin Kline, who mixes the charm with restraint, the silliness with a believable core.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 24, 2026 Full Review Re-Animator (1985) 88% EDIT “This is a grisly, bizarre and breathless jaunt.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 23, 2026 Full Review The Shining (1980) 84% EDIT “With the classic scenario of the corruption of good, director Stanley Kubrick doesn't rush the pace, nor the evolution of Nicholson's character.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Wolf (1994) 62% EDIT “The pop psychology in Wolf is much more interesting than the horror and bloodfest which struggles to get above B-grade, particularly in the final third when symbolism goes over the top.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Night of the Creeps (1986) 75% EDIT “Very silly, very funny.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Red Rock West (1993) 95% EDIT “John Dahl's seductive, sly thriller never takes a false step.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 23, 2026 Full Review American Psycho (2000) 69% EDIT “As a satire of the '80s... the film does the book justice.” – Sydney Morning Herald Apr 4, 2025 Full Review
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