“The magic is still present, but it flickers more than it glows.”
Anonymous reviewer on Practical Magic 2, Los Angeles, CA Patch. Read the full review
Added by Johan de Groot on 13 October 2026.
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Critics: Marcel Reich-Ranicki on Ein weites Feld by Günter Grass (1995), Der Spiegel (in German)
“If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.”
Critics: Roger Ebert on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Chicago Sun-Times
“That makes ‘Hellbound: Hellraiser II’ an ideal movie for audiences with little taste and atrophied attention spans who want to glance at the screen occasionally and ascertain that something is still happening up there. If you fit that description, you have probably not read this far, but what the heck, we believe in full-service reviews around here. You’re welcome.”
Critics: Roger Ebert on Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), Chicago Sun-Times
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Critics: Roger Ebert on Battlefield Earth (2000), Chicago Sun-Times
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