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5/5
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97%
|
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) (2001) |
"
A truly stunning blend of classic Chinese martial-arts moviemaking and modern psychodrama."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Feb 7, 2001
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4/4
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76%
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The Virgin Suicides (2000) |
"
Cool, odd and languorous as its main characters, The Virgin Suicides provides a fittingly postmodern debut for screenwriter/director Sofia Coppola."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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5/5
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91%
|
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997) |
"
Under the shackles, the film implies, is an unbroken human spirit triumphantly determined to not only stay alive, but actually enjoy himself while doing so."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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5/5
|
93%
|
Shakespeare in Love (1998) |
"
A rollicking good time, full of genuine emotional pull and incandescent acting, and anchored by a passionate love for the theatre itself that puts to shame most human liaisons."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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4/4
|
45%
|
Holy Smoke! (2000) |
"
Not all of the ensuing psychodrama works completely, but as ever, it's just so pleasant to see someone making a movie that's about something"
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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4/4
|
81%
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Scream 2 (1997) |
"
[Screenwriter] Williamson's back in fine form."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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5/5
|
55%
|
Pitch Black (2000) |
"
The latest film from writer/ director David Twohy, a man whose career seems aimed at proving that low-budget genre-based entertainment can be just as inventive and character-driven as its big-budget competition can be lazy and boring."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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4/5
|
85%
|
The Exorcist (1973) |
"
A story whose archetypal pull and sheer visceral power can't be negated by even the worst audience behaviour."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Sep 21, 2007
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4/5
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87%
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Ginger Snaps (2001) |
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jun 4, 2001
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4/5
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81%
|
Shadow of the Vampire (2000) |
"
By turns hilarious and hypnotic."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Feb 7, 2001
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4/5
|
94%
|
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) |
"
It's all very impressive, though I think I'd probably appreciate it a little more if I hadn't literally grown up on Star Wars and its sequels."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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4/5
|
94%
|
Suspiria (1977) |
"
Brings together all the things Argento should be famous for: ultra-stylized visuals awash in eerie blue and febrile blood-red, juxtaposed against intense passages of all-out gore."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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4/5
|
95%
|
Gone With the Wind (1939) |
"
A seductive mish-mash of epic spectacle, social commentary and pure, character-driven enjoyment."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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4/5
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88%
|
Prisoner of the Mountains (Kavkazskiy Plennik) (1996) |
"
A varied and evocative treat, a poignant parable that doubles as a wisely non-judgmental political commentary."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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4/5
|
78%
|
Beloved (1998) |
"
Has tough truths to tell about the differences between affection and possession, memory and nightmare, freedom and revenge -- truths that none of the performers involved shy away from."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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4/5
|
80%
|
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) |
"
Raucous, poignant and hilariously frank about the ins and outs of budding female sexuality."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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4/5
|
55%
|
Blade (1998) |
"
A very welcome surprise."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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4/5
|
79%
|
Live Flesh (Carne trémula) (1998) |
"
Pedro Almodovar is finally back on track."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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4/5
|
85%
|
The Blair Witch Project (1999) |
"
Fear, real fear, is a damn difficult commodity to come by, these days, especially in so-called 'horror' movies."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
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69%
|
The Adventures of Felix (Drôle de Félix) (2001) |
"
A remarkably charming, laid-back, well-adjusted guy to find at the heart of any 21st-century comedy."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jun 6, 2001
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|
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58%
|
A Knight's Tale (2001) |
"
Will A Knight's Tale have a long shelf-life? Hell, no. But will it do for this Friday, preferably with a date? Hell, yes."
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Film.com
Posted May 10, 2001
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|
|
8%
|
The Forsaken (2001) |
"
Scary and sexy."
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Film.com
Posted Apr 27, 2001
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|
|
54%
|
Enemy at the Gates (2001) |
"
The new year's single most satisfying movie experience thus far."
—
Film.com
Posted Mar 15, 2001
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|
|
53%
|
Save the Last Dance (2001) |
"
Breaks virtually no new narrative ground, yet treads the familiar territory it does cover with grace, style, wit and fun."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 11, 2001
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|
|
14%
|
Dracula 2000 (2000) |
"
Dracula 2000 is nothing more or less than pure popcorn filmmaking, with an emphasis on the 'corn', and...apparently... proud of it."
—
Film.com
Posted Dec 22, 2000
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|
|
97%
|
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) (2001) |
"
A waking dream of truly operatic dimensions."
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Film.com
Posted Dec 7, 2000
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|
|
97%
|
Good Will Hunting (1997) |
"
Executed with such maximum grace, style and heartfelt emotional realism that it's almost enough to make the concept of an 'uplifting' movie not seem like such a big fat cheat any more."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
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83%
|
Erin Brockovich (2000) |
"
[Roberts looks] spectacularly and movingly human even at the expense of her established persona."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
|
70%
|
Dick (1999) |
"
Fall-down funny laughs!"
—
Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
The Matrix (1999) |
"
And just what is the Matrix? Well, that would be telling. And it would effectively cut out what little conceptual guts power this latest exercise in pure, crazy, graphic novel-inflected cool."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
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55%
|
Pitch Black (2000) |
"
Proving that low-budget genre-based entertainment can be just as easily ferociously inventive and character-driven as its big-budget competition can be lazy and boring."
—
Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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3/4
|
100%
|
The Jaundiced Eye (2000) |
"
An uninventive but harrowing report from the front lines of a society whose attitudes toward homosexuality are changing faster than some might like -- but not quite fast enough to really make it count for others."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
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88%
|
Boys Don't Cry (1999) |
"
With its constant juxtaposition of blazing nighttime highwayscapes and the flat Nebraska skyline, Boys Don't Cry manages to perfectly evoke both a life spent in aimless forward motion and the stifling boredom Brandon was so desperate to escape."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
|
48%
|
The Way of the Gun (2000) |
"
The Way Of The Gun errs once or twice on the side of needless poetry -- like most screenwriter/directors, McQuarrie is in love with the sound of his own snappy dialogue -- but never breaks its own rules or betrays its own characters."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
|
87%
|
The Matrix (1999) |
"
The Matrix is mainly also an exercise in outrageous style over substance featuring flowing trenchcoats, sunglasses at night, and LOTS of guns."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
3/4
|
82%
|
Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai (2000) |
"
Ghost Dog ... is an early 21st century urban black man who's remodelled himself after the samurai warriors of Medieval Japan, adopting and embodying an alien culture through a weirdly admirable act of will."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
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36%
|
Scream 3 (2000) |
"
New-kid-on-the-block screenwriter Ethan Kruger acquits himself admirably in filling tapped-out creator Kevin Williamson's big, black boots."
—
Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
|
61%
|
Head On (1999) |
"
One of this year's most sensual tragic spectacles -- a tour-de-force on a thousand different levels, with no easy happy endings in sight."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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3/4
|
97%
|
Le Notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria) (1957) |
"
I'll go with the painfully obvious: people who already expect to love it probably will, but even those who have no expectations at all may be pleasantly surprised by its enduring resonance underneath the annoying period tics."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
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83%
|
The Legend of Drunken Master (Jui kuen II) (Drunken Fist II) (1994) |
"
Watching movies like this, you also understand exactly why the increasingly road-worn Chan simply can't do this kind of stuff anymore. But damn, you'll walk out glad he once could."
—
Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
|
40%
|
The 6th Day (2000) |
"
Far smarter and more airtight than almost any other Ahhh-nuld project since James Cameron's Terminator series."
—
Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
3/4
|
53%
|
Halloween H2O (1998) |
"
Yes, it's hokey stuff, and yes, the hundredth or so time they pull the "you turn around and there's someone right behind you!" scare, it does tend to wear. But what did you expect? Halloween?"
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
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88%
|
The Thief (Vor) (Вор) (1997) |
"
The Thief, Russian director Pavel Chukhrai's new film, is both a simple story simply told and an uneasy political fable."
—
eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
|
81%
|
Fight Club (1999) |
"
It always surprises, never bores."
—
Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
|
92%
|
Being John Malkovich (1999) |
"
Surreal to the point of poeticism."
—
Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
|
20%
|
The Crew (2000) |
"
No classic, but two hours well-spent nonetheless."
—
Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
|
69%
|
Keeping the Faith (2000) |
"
It's adult and humane, genuinely sexy, laugh-out-loud funny."
—
eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
|
82%
|
Love and Basketball (2000) |
"
A startling debut full of emotional depth and political punch."
—
Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
93%
|
Run Lola Run (Lola rennt) (1999) |
"
Run Lola Run is the feverish, wish-fulfillment embodiment of everyone's unspoken dream..."
—
Film.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
83%
|
Taste of Cherry (Ta'm e Guilass) (1998) |
"
Both purely human and ultimately humane, it's an elegant parable about a man who wants his death and his burial too."
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eye WEEKLY
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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68%
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