Reviews

Works released in 1988

“11001001” (1988)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Above the Law (1988)
Akira (1988)
Alice (1988)
Alien III (1988)
- Version: Alien 3 (1992)
- Adaptation: Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay (2019)
Aliens (1988)
- Entry: Aliens: Outbreak (1988)
- Entry: Aliens: Nightmare Asylum (1989)
- Entry: Aliens: Earth War (1990)
- Spin-off: “Aliens: Lucky” (1996)
Reprise: Aliens: Outbreak (1988)
“Angel One” (1988)
Appleseed (1988)
Armor Hunter Mellowlink (1988)
As Tears Go By (1988)
Beaches (1988)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Big (1988)
“Blackadder’s Christmas Carol” (1988)
“Cane Toads: An Unnatural History” (1988)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Cocktail (1988)
Colors (1988)
“Coming of Age” (1988)
Coming to America (1988)
“Conspiracy” (1988)
Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
Damnation (1988)
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
- Same source material: Cruel Intentions (1999)
“Datalore” (1988)
Dead Ringers (1988)
Demon City Shinjuku (1988)
Die Hard (1988)
- Sequel: Die Hard 2 (1990)
- Sequel: Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
- Sequel: Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Dominion Tank Police (1988)
- Sequel: “New Dominion Tank Police” (1993)
Dragons Forever (1988)
“Elementary, Dear Data” (1988)
“Feelings from Mountain and Water” (1988)
“Gall Force: Stardust War” (1988)
Ghosts of the Civil Dead (1988)
Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
- Same source material: Grave of the Fireflies (2005)
Gunbuster: Aim for the Top! (1988)
- Bonus material: Science Lectures (1988)
- Sequel: Diebuster (2004)
- Bonus material: Gunbuster Renewal EX (2004)
Hairspray (1988)
“Heart of Glory” (1988)
Heathers (1988)
Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
High Spirits (1988)
“Home Soil” (1988)
“How to Kiss” (1988)
“Innocence and Garbage” (1988)
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988)
- Remake: The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: The New Thesis – Encounter (2018)
“Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars” (1988)
- Sequel (reprise): Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988)
- Same source material: Golden Wings (1992)
- Remake: Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War (1993)
  - Prequel: Legend of the Galactic Heroes: A Hundred Billion Stars, A Hundred Billion Lights (1998)
    - Sequel: Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Spiral Labyrinth (1999)
“Lilla syster Kanin” (1988)
Midnight Run (1988)
Miracle Mile (1988)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Mobile Police Patlabor (1988)
- Remake: Mobile Police Patlabor on Television (1989)
- Sequel: Mobile Police Patlabor: The Movie (1989)
- Sequel: Mobile Police Patlabor: The New Files (1990)
- Sequel: Mobile Police Patlabor: The Movie 2 (1993)
- Spin-off: WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 (2002)
- Spin-off: MiniPato: Mobile Police Patlabor Minimum (2003)
  - Documentary: The Consolidated Design of the Creating Process for Mini Pato (2003)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack (1988)
Monkey Shines (1988)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
- Sequel: “Mei and the Kitten Bus” (2002)
My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988)
- Sequel: Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)
Oliver & Company (1988)
- Same source material: Oliver Twist (2005)
On the Silver Globe (1988)
Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach (1988)
Powaqqatsi (1988)
“Project A-Ko 3: Cinderella Rhapsody” (1988)
Rain Man (1988)
Red Dwarf (1988)
Red Sorghum (1988)
Return of the Living Dead II (1988)
Sagolandet (1988)
Reprise: Science Lectures (1988)
Scrooged (1988)
“Skin of Evil” (1988)
Stand and Deliver (1988)
Starship Troopers (1988)
Strul (1988)
“Symbiosis” (1988)
“Ten Little Gall Force” (1988)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
“The Arsenal of Freedom” (1988)
The Big Blue (1988)
“The Big Goodbye” (1988)
The Blob (1988)
“The Cat Came Back” (1988)
“The Child” (1988)
“The Cowboy and the Frenchman” (1988)
The Dead Pool (1988)
The Land Before Time (1988)
The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe (1988)
- Same source material: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
  - Sequel: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)
- Adaptation: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (2016)
The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
- Sequel: The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
- Sequel: Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)
“The Neutral Zone” (1988)
“The Outrageous Okona” (1988)
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
They Live (1988)
Tillbaka till Jordbro (1988)
Time of the Gypsies (1988)
“Too Short a Season” (1988)
Twins (1988)
Urusei Yatsura 5: The Final Chapter (1988)
“We’ll Always Have Paris” (1988)
“When the Bough Breaks” (1988)
“Where Silence Has Lease” (1988)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
- Fan film: “Where Are They Now?” (2014)
Willow (1988)
Working Girl (1988)
Wyrd Sisters (1988)
- Adaptation: Wyrd Sisters (1997)