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Sheila Benson

Film Critic

United States

Beaches (1988)

Publish Date: December 23, 1988
"The most shamelessly manipulative movie since they shot the dog in 'The Biscuit Eater.'"

Los Angeles Times
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

Publish Date: December 21, 1988
"You’d think that sexual deceit, treachery and betrayal would need new twists to appall us today, but the ones dreamed up by Choderlos de Laclos in 1792 do perfectly well."

Los Angeles Times
Rain Man (1988)

Publish Date: December 16, 1988
"'Rain Man' will disappoint no one (...) Hoffman makes all this hypnotically interesting, and, through impeccable timing, sometimes terribly funny"

Los Angeles Times
Punchline (1988)

Publish Date: September 30, 1988
"Bold, sneaky, brilliant (...) I can’t remember laughing this much with tears still streaming down my face"

Los Angeles Times
Betrayed (1988)

Publish Date: August 26, 1988
"Winger is radiantly warm, smart and, against all odds, believable as a woman (...) but she is sunk by the growing improbabilities of the story."

Los Angeles Times
Cocktail (1988)

Publish Date: July 29, 1988
"'Cocktail' may seem a retreat for Donaldson"

Los Angeles Times
Stars and Bars (1988)

Publish Date: April 15, 1988
"It is impossible to delineate properly all the ways in which 'Stars and Bars' derails, but it does. Dear heaven, it does (...) I cannot recall ever having felt such pity for an actor in my life."

Los Angeles Times
Bright Lights, Big City (1988)

Publish Date: April 1, 1988
"While Bridges is a capital stylist, 'Bright Lights' needed a great deal more than style (...) You may want to care about Fox, but it’s absolutely impossible to believe him"

Los Angeles Times
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1987)

Publish Date: February 5, 1988
"The film ultimately adds up to the unbearable heaviness of movie-making."

Los Angeles Times
The Dead (1987)

Publish Date: December 17, 1987
"Huston’s presentation of the story, a work which flows like music to its great and enveloping close, is impeccable"

Los Angeles Times
Empire of the Sun (1987)

Publish Date: December 9, 1987
"For all its good intentions, for the thrillingly staged moments (...) and for all its not-inconsiderable craft, the film's grave problem is a lack of central heating: We don't have a single character to warm up to"

Los Angeles Times
The Last Emperor (1987)

Publish Date: November 20, 1987
"An intoxicating visual rush"

Los Angeles Times
Dirty Dancing (1987)

Publish Date: August 21, 1987
"Smart and funny, touching and unabashedly sensual."

Los Angeles Times
No Way Out (1987)

Publish Date: August 14, 1987
"No Way Out's greatest prize is Costner, a leading man at last: fiercely good, intelligent, appreciatively sensual in a performance balanced perfectly between action and introspection."

Los Angeles Times
Rosa Luxemburg (1986)

Publish Date: June 5, 1987
"But Sukowa's towering performance aside (...) it is still more a film to admire than to embrace"

Los Angeles Times
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

Publish Date: May 20, 1987
"The writers have been so busy making Axel infallible that he’s barely any fun"

Los Angeles Times
Working Girls (1986)

Publish Date: March 27, 1987
"Well photographed by Judy Irola ('Northern Lights') [the film] will keep you brooding about its issues for days afterward"

Los Angeles Times
Angel Heart (1987)

Publish Date: March 6, 1987
"Pure film noir , you might say. But even for that genre, this slender plot thread--and our willingness to follow it--almost snaps."

Los Angeles Times
Platoon (1986)

Publish Date: December 19, 1986
"[Stone] clearly wants us to understand what fighting in that war was like. He succeeds with an immediacy that is frightening."

Los Angeles Times
Smooth Talk (1985)

Publish Date: November 14, 1986
"The shiveringly memorable 'Smooth Talk' (...) may be the first film to get adolescence in America right, down to the last, delicate seismographic tremor"

Los Angeles Times

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