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4/5
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52%
|
Conspiracy Theory (1997) |
"
What makes Conspiracy Theory interesting beyond its cleverness and currency is how the filmmakers manipulate our feelings about its protagonist, Jerry, a New York City cab driver."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
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83%
|
The English Patient (1996) |
"
This is the real thing, and real things don't come along very often, so you'd better snap them up when they do."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Feb 10, 2007
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|
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100%
|
The Third Man (1949) |
"
Welles gives Harry a mask of irony that turns all moral judgment back on itself. He turns a mass murderer into a wry rogue, and makes his villainy all the more horrifying because we rather like him."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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|
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50%
|
Endurance (1999) |
"
I found the film engrossing, missing only the opportunity to spend more time with the mechanics of distance training and, perhaps through that, to learn how Gebrselassie became the world's best at what he does."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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3/4
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90%
|
Show Me Love (Fucking Amal) (1999) |
"
Dahlström and especially Liljeberg are first-rate."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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|
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68%
|
You've Got Mail (1998) |
"
Mail may not be as romantic as Sleepless, but it's wittier."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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|
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83%
|
Magnolia (1999) |
"
All the work is top-notch."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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|
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83%
|
Waking Ned Devine (1998) |
"
Completely delightful movie."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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|
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83%
|
Notting Hill (1999) |
"
An exceptionally guy-friendly chick flick."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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|
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85%
|
Open Your Eyes (Abre los ojos) (Permanent Midnight) (1999) |
"
If you're the type who doesn't mind jigsaw puzzles unassembling themselves as you assemble them, if you enjoy enigmas and don't need explanations, the film just might work for you."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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|
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92%
|
Being John Malkovich (1999) |
"
It is hard to mix moods -- the film is manic, subtle, comic and vaguely sad -- but [Jonze] does it masterfully."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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|
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93%
|
Shakespeare in Love (1998) |
"
It's a literary burlesque, remarkably clever and quick on its feet. It is ardently romantic but is at its best when it is funny. And it's funny."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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|
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59%
|
The Rugrats Movie (1998) |
"
Although it works on two levels, one thing makes it work for any age: the sense of the id unloosed."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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|
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77%
|
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) |
"
Kubrick, exactly in character, has left us as the unchallengeable champion of the enigma."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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|
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88%
|
Tarzan (1999) |
"
Simply a smashingly well-done example of animated storytelling."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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97%
|
Le Notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria) (1957) |
"
What makes the character so poignant is that her final fortification is not her street wisdom -- that's all surface -- but her innocence. Her ultimate protection is our sympathy for her."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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32%
|
The Waterboy (1998) |
"
The film is amiably goofy."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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|
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86%
|
An Ideal Husband (1999) |
"
Parker has made a sensible cinematic translation of Wilde's play, intercutting scenes which would have been played consecutively on the stage."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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|
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40%
|
Big Daddy (1999) |
"
Funny-sweet, understand, not bleccchh sweet."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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|
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75%
|
Besieged (1999) |
"
This is a deeply engrossing, often exquisite film by someone who knows visuals. It's sensory, sensual, handmade."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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94%
|
Autumn Tale (Conte d'Automne) (1999) |
"
The film is delightfully unpredictable, warm, nuanced. It's civilized entertainment."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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79%
|
The Prince of Egypt (1998) |
"
The handsomely animated Prince of Egypt is an amalgam of Hollywood biblical epic, Broadway supermusical and nice Sunday school lesson."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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|
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100%
|
Rear Window (1954) |
"
The deliciousness of watching the film as it's intended to be seen is that the big screen gives Rear Window back its claustrophobia."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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67%
|
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) |
"
If there is sacrilege afoot, I'm not enough of a scholar to spot it."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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26%
|
Doug's First Movie (1999) |
"
The film hasn't much entertainment value for those much over the age of 10. There's not a thing in the world wrong with that."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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|
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98%
|
Das Boot (The Boat) (1981) |
"
The film reaches right out to grab us by the neck and squeeze hard."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Feb 2, 2002
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13%
|
Batman & Robin (1997) |
"
If you like 'em busy, this sequel is for you."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 24, 2001
|
|
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95%
|
The Promise (La Promesse) (1996) |
"
The film is entirely within the caught-on-the-run tradition of cinema verite, which makes it all the grittier and its conclusion all the more wrenching."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Feb 21, 2001
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|
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77%
|
Your Friends & Neighbors (1998) |
"
Hilarious!"
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
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80%
|
Eve's Bayou (1996) |
"
The direction is unobtrusive, and Lemmons' performers are up to speed. This is Lemmons' first time out as a director. I'll be interested in what she does next."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
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89%
|
Galaxy Quest (1999) |
"
The film's warm-fuzzies are formulaic and not at all genuine. The humor, though, is clever and keenly satiric without being mean-spirited."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
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99%
|
L.A. Confidential (1997) |
"
Fun, if you have the stomach for it."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
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19%
|
Leave It to Beaver (1997) |
"
Credit the makers of Leave It to Beaver for their kindliness."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
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94%
|
Three Kings (1999) |
"
Vigor, intelligence and eyes kept open makes Three Kings a top-of-the-line war-action movie."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
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67%
|
Boiler Room (2000) |
"
Boiler Room is a new film that will yank anyone who's ever gotten a cold call from a chop shop."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
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83%
|
Underground (1995) |
"
The film can be both frenetic and strained. But it also has has a great deal of power and can be quite haunting."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
88%
|
Girls Town (1995) |
"
Features good work from its performers."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
45%
|
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) |
"
Funny and sharply satiric!"
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
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83%
|
Persuasion (1995) |
"
Persuasion is Jane without pain, E-Z Austen. It's a delight."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
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60%
|
The Gingerbread Man (1997) |
"
If you like movies more than you do John Grisham, you can leave the story behind and listen to the filmmaking master class that Altman conducts on the screen."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
|
59%
|
U Turn (1997) |
"
Stone has stretched this rubber band past the point where it should snap into parody, but it still holds the shape of a rubber band."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
|
86%
|
As Good As It Gets (1997) |
"
The film is hugely entertaining."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
67%
|
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) |
"
Very sexy and very smart!"
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
9%
|
The Pest (1997) |
"
This film is utterly without discipline or focus in a way that -- to one's shame --one eventually finds oddly endearing."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
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93%
|
La Cérémonie (A Judgement in Stone) (1995) |
"
An unconventional thriller, its climax being the result of the meeting of two largely inert elements that become explosive only when they are mixed."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
38%
|
Light It Up (2000) |
"
Strong acting, tense plot."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
57%
|
Deep Blue Sea (1999) |
"
A gross, flagrant, in-broad-daylight violation of the Law of Billing."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
62%
|
Manny & Lo (1996) |
"
It is a slight enterprise, not always expert in its construction, but it is sweet without being cloying, and it is sentimental in beneficial ways."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
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19%
|
The Beach (2000) |
"
The film does not aspire to sociology. It just wants to tell a story. And that it does well."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
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19%
|
If Lucy Fell (1996) |
"
If Lucy Fell is funnier more often than not, and when it's not being funny it's at least being strange. I'll take strange over what most major-distributor comedies are when they're not being funny."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
63%
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96%
