Gavin Bainbridge

"The pace never slows, the jokes never miss and the stunts never disappoint (…) Rating: **** (out of 5)"  

"None of the energy of Mick Dundee's first foray has crept into this sequel, despite it being so close on the heels of the original (…) Rating: ** (out of 5)"  

"[It] keeps you laughing not with it's originality (of which there is little) but with it's confidence to out-joke it's predecessors on this much-trodden ground (…) Rating: *** (out of 5)"  

"Safe, sentimental, and loved by kids, 'Short Circuit' never tries to dissect it's predecessor (E.T.) nor outdo it in any way. Would have been nice to see a human-robot love triangle. (…) Rating: ** (out of 5)"  

"[Huston] creates enough on-field magic and nostalgia for the beautiful game (...) you can almost forgive the boss's choice of goalkeeper. Almost (…) Rating: *** (out of 5)"  

"A warm, mature offering from Hughes, with Martin's restraint a perfect counterpoint to Candy's enormous (and enormously amusing) fooling around (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"  

"A sharp, far-reaching sci-fi that will be remembered for Brynner's monotone maniac (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"  

"Toying with themes too serious for it and stars too big for it, this fantasy is incalculably less than the sum of it's parts (...) Rating: * (out of 5)"  

"Can't Buy Me Love is sharp in its focus and, whilst leaving the darker moral issues untapped, it undoubtedly works as Pretty Woman for teens."  

"Thankfully this film doesn't look for too many answers, and leaves us undecided as it closes as to how bad of a film it really is. The answer: not that bad."  

"Another aching heartbreaker of a film by Berri that absorbs and rewards the audience"