Best of 1987
Worst of 1987
The Couch Trip, For Keeps, Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, Rent-a-Cop, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Shoot to Kill, The Serpent and the Rainbow, She’s Having a Baby, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, School Daze
Oscar Nomination Surprises for 1987
Switching Channels, And God Created Woman, The House on Carroll Street, Shy People
What’s Wrong with Home Video and How It Might Be Improved
Little Nikita, Vice Versa, D.O.A., Off Limits, Stand and Deliver (incomplete)
If We Picked the Winners
Beetlejuice, Bright Lights Big City, The Seventh Sign, Babette’s Feast
Colors, 18 Again!, Above the Law, Bad Dreams
Willow, Jack’s Back, Assault of The Killer Bimbos, Powaqqatsi, Da
Funny Farm, Rambo III, Big, Call Me, Crocodile Dundee II
Big Business, A Taxing Woman, The Presidio, Bull Durham, Travelling North
Red Heat, A World Apart, Rikky and Pete, Poltergeist III, Wings of Desire
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Great Outdoors, Aria
What Has Been Wrong and What Has Been Right – Robin Williams’ Film Career
Arthur 2: On the Rocks, Short Circuit 2, Coming to America, A Handful of Dust, License to Drive
Die Hard, The Dead Pool, Phantasm II, Midnight Run, Boyfriends and Girlfriends
Big Top Pee-wee, Monkey Shines, A Fish Called Wanda, Mr. North, Bambi
Betrayed, Stealing Home, The Last Temptation of Christ, Married to the Mob, Hero and the Terror
They’ll Do It Every Time: Things Critics Get Tired of Hearing and Seeing (Movie Clichés)
Alien Nation, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Imagine, Salaam Bombay!, Track 29
Hidden Horrors – Cat People, The Hidden, Re-Animator, Fright Night
Everybody’s All-American, U2: Rattle and Hum, The Good Mother, Little Dorrit, A Cry in the Dark
The Movies That Made Us Critics
Last Rites, Oliver & Company, The Land Before Time, Far North, Child’s Play
Scrooged, Buster, Cocoon: The Return, Full Moon in Blue Water, Hanna’s War
Holiday Video Gift Guide
The Naked Gun, Dakota, Mississippi Burning, Vincent
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Tequila Sunrise, Twins, My Stepmother Is an Alien
Rain Man, Working Girl, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Torch Song Trilogy, Haunted Summer
Talk Radio, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, The Accidental Tourist, The Boost, Pelle The Conqueror
Best of 1988
Tucker, Vibes, Cocktail, Clean and Sober, Bagdad Café