Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| 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." Posted Feb 10, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 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." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| Another Day in Paradise (1998) | "
A well-executed scene can be followed by another where Clark shows no sense of the tone of which he'd just been in such tight control." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 54%
| 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." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 90%
| Show Me Love (1998) | "
Dahlström and especially Liljeberg are first-rate." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 2%
| Baby Geniuses (1999) | "
If the remainder of this century will bring a lamer film than Baby Geniuses, may I please be in Estonia when it comes." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| You've Got Mail (1998) | "
Mail may not be as romantic as Sleepless, but it's wittier." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Magnolia (1999) | "
All the work is top-notch." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Waking Ned Devine (1998) | "
Completely delightful movie." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Notting Hill (1999) | "
An exceptionally guy-friendly chick flick." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 89%
| Topsy-Turvy (1999) | "
If you are a Gilbert and Sullivan buff, you will be in heaven. If you are not, the first thing you will need to know is that the film is nearly three hours long." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Open Your Eyes (1997) | "
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." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| All the Little Animals (1999) | "
Odd and banal." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| Cruel Intentions (1999) | "
You sometimes have to giggle at this movie the way you do when you catch 4-year-olds playing dress-up in front of Mom's closet." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
— | Fresh 98%
| All About My Mother (1999) | "
Almodovar has called his near-unique creations 'screwball drama.' This finds him working at his best." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 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." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 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." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 56%
| The Rugrats Movie (1998) | "
Although it works on two levels, one thing makes it work for any age: the sense of the id unloosed." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Analyze This (1998) | "
What De Niro ends up doing is simply burlesquing himself, much as he would do if he were guest-hosting Saturday Night Live." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Eyes Wide Shut (1999) | "
Kubrick, exactly in character, has left us as the unchallengeable champion of the enigma." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
— | Fresh 70%
| Enemy of the State (1998) | "
Since Scott could not make this film snap, crackle or pop faster or more loudly, you might find the evening a bit light." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Tarzan (1999) | "
Simply a smashingly well-done example of animated storytelling." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| 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." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 31%
| The Waterboy (1998) | "
The film is amiably goofy." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| 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." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 40%
| Big Daddy (1999) | "
Funny-sweet, understand, not bleccchh sweet." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| eXistenZ (1999) | "
It's good art direction in search of an idea." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| Besieged (1998) | "
This is a deeply engrossing, often exquisite film by someone who knows visuals. It's sensory, sensual, handmade." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Idle Hands (1999) | "
Maybe 90 seconds of viable and sustained humor at the end." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Autumn Tale (1998) | "
The film is delightfully unpredictable, warm, nuanced. It's civilized entertainment." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 8%
| I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) | "
Neither Trey Callaway, who wrote the script, nor Danny Cannon, who directed the sequel, bring any new ideas to the genre. Cut 'em some slack: That surely was their marching orders." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 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." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 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." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| The 13th Warrior (1999) | "
The film is fascinating to watch, but I can hardly say what it's about, other than people killing each other." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| 20 Dates (1998) | "
Berkowitz is a rather annoying person." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) | "
If there is sacrilege afoot, I'm not enough of a scholar to spot it." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 9%
| Eye of the Beholder (1999) | "
Remove the directorial flash and filigree, and its narrative would be easier to track." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 26%
| Doug's 1st 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." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| Jawbreaker (1998) | "
The producers of this film, which depicts teen-age girls as an assemblage of negative stereotypes, are female. Can females practice misogyny?" Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 22%
| 8MM (1998) | "
Want to know what happens when an A-list director and A-list movie star attach themselves to a direct-to-cable screenplay? This." Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| Escape From L.A. (1996) | "
The special effects vary from OK to lame to very lame." Posted Jul 5, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Das Boot (1982) | "
The film reaches right out to grab us by the neck and squeeze hard." Posted Feb 2, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 12%
| Batman & Robin (1997) | "
If you like 'em busy, this sequel is for you." Posted Jul 24, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| 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." Posted Feb 21, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| 2 Days In The Valley (1996) | "
This produces some rather nasty-funny surprises." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| 54 (1998) | "
The party never gets started." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Air Force One (1997) | "
Air Force One gets the job done." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| American Beauty (1999) | "
I can't remember the last time I've seen a mainstream, big-studio release this well-acted." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| Amistad (1997) | "
Halfway into Amistad comes the point where Steven Spielberg pulls the lever, and the stink and horror and bestialities of slavery spill around our ankles. We can't look away." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Antonia's Line (1995) | "
Odd feminist fun." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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