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58%
|
Another Day In Paradise (1997) |
"
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."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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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."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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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."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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64%
|
All The Little Animals (1999) |
"
Odd and banal."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
|
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48%
|
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."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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68%
|
Analyze This (1999) |
"
What De Niro ends up doing is simply burlesquing himself, much as he would do if he were guest-hosting Saturday Night Live."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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71%
|
eXistenZ (1999) |
"
It's good art direction in search of an idea."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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15%
|
Idle Hands (1999) |
"
Maybe 90 seconds of viable and sustained humor at the end."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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7%
|
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."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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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."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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38%
|
20 Dates (1999) |
"
Berkowitz is a rather annoying person."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
|
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9%
|
Eye of the Beholder (2000) |
"
Remove the directorial flash and filigree, and its narrative would be easier to track."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
|
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7%
|
Jawbreaker (1999) |
"
The producers of this film, which depicts teen-age girls as an assemblage of negative stereotypes, are female. Can females practice misogyny?"
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
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22%
|
8MM (1999) |
"
Want to know what happens when an A-list director and A-list movie star attach themselves to a direct-to-cable screenplay? This."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 21, 2005
|
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53%
|
Escape from L.A. (1996) |
"
The special effects vary from OK to lame to very lame."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jul 5, 2002
|
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13%
|
54 (1998) |
"
The party never gets started."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
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19%
|
The Next Best Thing (2000) |
"
It's sort of like two baseball teams going out to the parking lot to play the ninth inning of a tied ballgame, then coming back onto the field to announce the score."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
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83%
|
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) |
"
Perhaps at 90 or so minutes, it would have been the Hitchcockian thriller that it isn't at the beginning but turns into. At two hours and 20 minutes, there's too much of the film that feels like reiteration."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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7%
|
Chill Factor (1999) |
"
The comedy is lame, the action tired, tired, tired."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
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71%
|
The Cider House Rules (1999) |
"
A bit too still, and so predictable that some part of me kept saying I had read the book when memory told me I hadn't."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
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26%
|
Mary Reilly (1996) |
"
Director Frears seems more interested in the atmosphere than the narrative."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
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40%
|
Wide Awake (1998) |
"
The fact is, just too many of the characters and plot points are right out of the stock room: the obligatory fat kid; the obligatory bully; the obligatory kid whose parents can't really afford Catholic school tuition ..."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
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69%
|
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) |
"
Even at its best, it's not very funny."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
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4%
|
Mr. Magoo (1997) |
"
Here's where I'm supposed to suggest how the film might be better. But I can't think of anything to say other than to make the film again, with different writers and a new director."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
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74%
|
Next Stop Wonderland (1998) |
"
There's not much to stop for in Wonderland."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
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25%
|
Isn't She Great (2000) |
"
Only funny if you enjoy going out and paying for the kind of comedy writing you can stay at home and get free on sitcoms."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
50%
|
Outside Providence (1999) |
"
I must admit I didn't hear every word. Some were muffled by my groans."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
23%
|
The General's Daughter (1999) |
"
When there's nothing to blow up, the movie sort of blows itself up."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
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|
22%
|
Stigmata (1999) |
"
Unless you are an admirer of splicing, production design and cinematography, there's not much point in seeing the film."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
91%
|
Irma Vep (1996) |
"
Movies about making movies are never quite as interesting as the people who make them think they're going to be."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
36%
|
Blue Streak (1999) |
"
Blue Streak falls victim to bad cliches."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
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16%
|
Chain Reaction (1996) |
"
The narrative is very complex, but what's on the screen is little more than generic, non-narrative-specific, guy-being-chased stuff."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
30%
|
Jakob the Liar (1999) |
"
The film leans from the comedic to the near-mawkish."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
27%
|
The End of Violence (1997) |
"
This goes on for two hours and two minutes. When I staggered out of the theater, I asked if Clinton was still president."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
15%
|
Random Hearts (1999) |
"
I'd rather see the thriller in the trailer, about a plane crash, infidelity and scandal."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
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28%
|
The Story of Us (1999) |
"
The film wants us to think that it's insightful and deeper than the usual domestic comedy-drama. It's not."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
62%
|
Man on the Moon (1999) |
"
The problem with this film is that the filmmakers want Kaufman to emerge as a kind of innocent while their biographical due diligence indicates that Kaufman was a head case."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
13%
|
Vegas Vacation (1997) |
"
The film's only life is provided by Randy Quaid, back as Ellen's redneck cousin."
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Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
9%
|
The Bachelor (1999) |
"
Steve Cohen's screenplay, is pretty much DOA."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
38%
|
Mystery, Alaska (1999) |
"
Overpopulated with characters."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
50%
|
Summer of Sam (1999) |
"
If Lee could swap background with foreground, this would be a sensational film."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
80%
|
Primary Colors (1998) |
"
May and Nichols may not be right for the material, especially the Searching for Jimmy Stewart component, which feels more labored as the film proceeds."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
50%
|
Any Given Sunday (1999) |
"
Action largely undifferentiated."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
90%
|
Beautiful Thing (1996) |
"
If Beautiful Thing were any more sensitive, it would faint."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
83%
|
The Flower of My Secret (La Flor de mi secreto) (1995) |
"
If Leo appears to be doing some more or less orthodox movie-style suffering -- crying jags, a suicide attempt and the like -- perhaps that's just what she's supposed to be doing."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
10%
|
Supernova (2000) |
"
Avoid."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
76%
|
Kundun (1997) |
"
Kundun is ceaselessly lovely to look at. But it is also exquisitely, meticulously, intently (gulp) ... dull."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
55%
|
Pitch Black (2000) |
"
The screenplay, credited to Twohy with Jim and Ken Wheat, for a scary movie hasn't a scary idea on any of its pages."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
23%
|
Simpatico (1999) |
"
Stone doesn't show up until the film is half over and seems to be trying rather hard to make up for the lost time."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
|
28%
|
Black Sheep (1996) |
"
Yeah, I giggled a couple of times. But I suspect you will giggle more if you are male, age 15-27ish."
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
79%
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