Robert Zemeckis

Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Jul 6, 1999Time Travel
The first of the Back to the Future sequels has a whiplash ingenuity that propels us through several different scenarios, including a trip to the future, a dark alternate present and requiring Michael J. Fox to duck unseen in and around the margins of the first film
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Tales from the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood (1996)

Tales from the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood (1996)
Rating: ★
Dec 16, 2001Vampire Brothel
The second of the films spun off from tv’s Tales from the Crypt. While the first film Demon Knight took itself seriously, this does not and is killed by a campy tone and a miscast Dennis Miller keeping up a running barrage of excruciating one-liners
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The Frighteners (1996)

The Frighteners (1996)
Rating: ★★
Dec 6, 2000Medium vs Ghostly Serial Killer Comedy
Before The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson flopped badly with this ghost comedy. Jackson allows his obsession with the effects technology to take over at the expense of much else and provides little that is funny
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Contact (1997)

Contact (1997)
Rating: ★★★½
May 25, 2009Communications from Space
Carl Sagan's novel about SETI is inflated into a big budget film determined to impress even though the story did not need it. Sagan's interesting debate about religion and science is emasculated so as not to offend any religious groups
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What Lies Beneath (2000)

What Lies Beneath (2000)
Rating: ★★★½
Jul 23, 2000Ghost Story
Robert Zemeckis takes on the ghost story with uncommon effectiveness. While this is average on a story level, Zemeckis's directorial approach pushes it to the unnervingly spooky, with the last fifteen minutes being one of the most suspense-filled sequences in recent memory
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Beowulf (2007)

Beowulf (2007)
Rating: ★★★½
Dec 2, 2007Epic Legend/Animation
After the success of the motion captured animated The Polar Express, Robert Zemeckis turned his attentions to the classic legend. Armed with a Neil Gaiman script and a host of name actors in the mocap suits, the result is a soaring fantasy
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A Christmas Carol (2009)

A Christmas Carol (2009)
Rating: ★★★
Nov 14, 2009Miser's Redemption/Animation
Robert Zemeckis’s motion-capture animated adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic. The tale has gone through so many adaptations, it fee;s an uphill battle to find anything new in the story no matter the technical quality of the film
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Welcome to Marwen (2018)

Welcome to Marwen (2018)
Rating: ★★
Apr 12, 2019Man Builds a Fantasy Doll Village/True Story
Robert Zemeckis of Back to the Future and Forrest Gump fame makes a film of the true-life story of Mark Hogancamp who recovered from a brutal assault by building a fantasy village of dolls. The results are bizarre where Zemeckis seems more interested in making a Sucker Punch-like fantasy where the dolls come to life
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