Tomato |
12 Monkeys (1995) |
"Though it takes a while to get moving, Twelve Monkeys becomes a thrilling, haunting and exceedingly well-acted film." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 4/10 |
The 13th Floor (1999) |
"This is genre film-making at its most superficially plot-driven, compounding its shallow characterizations with a ridiculous degree of self-importance." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 5/10 |
The 13th Warrior (1999) |
"The whole mess is often too busy to get down to business." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 5/10 |
54 (1998) |
"The plotting and pacing are so relentlessly predictable that the film doesn't even work well as a sociology lesson." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 8/10 |
American Beauty (1999) |
"Simultaneously gripping and frustrating, American Beauty is the best film of the year that irritated the hell out of me." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 5/10 |
American Pie (1999) |
"In 1999, apparently, you need to be more socially responsible in your portrayals of high school horn-dogs." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato |
The American President (1995) |
"An extremely savvy observation on politics in the media age." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 5/10 |
Analyze This (1998) |
"A series of botched opportunities." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 7/10 |
Angela's Ashes (1999) |
"Too much of it is admirable without necessarily being engaging, serving as a mere litany of childhood miseries." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 8/10 |
Antz (1998) |
"A clever and appealing piece of work!" |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato |
Apollo 13 (1995) |
"There is no denying that on many levels it is an extremely taut piece of filmmaking, but frequently it is too much about a situation and too little about the people in the situation." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 7/10 |
Apt Pupil (1998) |
"Morbidly intriguing!" |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 6/10 |
Armageddon (1998) |
"For all the uneven visceral enjoyment that it's worth, Touchstone Pictures proudly presents Armageddon: a blockbuster a la carte." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 7/10 |
As Good as It Gets (1997) |
"It's funny but fitful." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 5/10 |
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) |
"Myers and director Jay Roach seem to have no sense of how long is too long to stick with an extended gag." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 5/10 |
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) |
"When a satirical comedy loses its sense of discovery, there's not much reason for it to exist." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 5/10 |
Babe: Pig in the City (1998) |
"It's a nice change of pace to find a sequel that doesn't merely try to remake the original, but Babe: Pig in the City lacks any of the original's endearing gentle spirit." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 4/10 |
The Bachelor (1999) |
"The problem are a beginning and middle that are equally warm-n-fuzzy -- there's no spark, no energy, no humanity." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 6/10 |
The Beach (2000) |
"A lazy film that thinks it's being profound." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 9/10 |
Beloved (1998) |
"Full of cathartic emotion and earnest dignity!" |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 5/10 |
Bicentennial Man (1999) |
"Bicentennial Man's few simple pleasures can't make up for its shallow philosophizing." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 4/10 |
Big Daddy (1999) |
"Cheap emotions, sloppy writing." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 10/10 |
The Blair Witch Project (1999) |
"The Blair Witch Project is a work of genre-redefining brilliance, a strong early candidate for the best film of 1999, and one of the most unnerving psychological thrillers ever made." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 8/10 |
Blue (1993) |
"A complex and fascinating character study of grief, directed with a mesmerizing grace." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 4/10 |
Chill Factor (1999) |
"It's hard to believe that a film this weightless would waste so much time on setting up the premise, then never exploit the premise." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 6/10 |
The Cider House Rules (1999) |
"The Cider House Rules walks an awkward tightrope between edgy humanism and dangerous sentimentality." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 7/10 |
Committed (2000) |
"Actually, Committed only teases with subtext, since it's not much of a commentary on anything." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 6/10 |
Cradle Will Rock (1999) |
"A reach exceeding Robbins' grasp." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 8/10 |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (1999) |
"It's pure Indiana Jones fun with an unexpected sense of consequence." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 6/10 |
Croupier (1998) |
"It's a testimony to how well Croupier works for 90% of its running time that the train wreck of a conclusion can't derail the whole film." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 2/10 |
Cruel Intentions (1999) |
"A stupid and pandering film!" |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 6/10 |
Deep Blue Sea (1999) |
"Deep Blue Sea is full of half-completed characters doing generally stupid things." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 6/10 |
Dick (1999) |
"The stuff of fairly average entertainment." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 5/10 |
Dogma (1999) |
"Dogma should be offensive to anyone who expects more from a movie than two hours of a filmmaker's musings on every religious notion that ever came into his head." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 7/10 |
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) |
"When it's funny, it's quite entertaining, but there's always the suspicion that it could have been hilarious with a bit of care." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 6/10 |
Enemy of the State (1998) |
"A solid thriller!" |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 4/10 |
Entrapment (1999) |
"It's about theft, all right...of your money, your time, and the devices of a dozen other trite Hollywood star projects." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 8/10 |
Erin Brockovich (2000) |
"Erin Brockovich always seems to find an unexpected angle just when it's most necessary." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 7/10 |
Forrest Gump (1994) |
"Good but flawed." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato |
The Fugitive (1993) |
"In a genre where one is almost always asked to allow leaps of logic, the script repeatedly astonished me with its intelligence, its attention to detail and its respect for the audience." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 6/10 |
The Green Mile (1999) |
"The Green Mile is a well-crafted film." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 5/10 |
Groove (2000) |
"Harrison is too serious about this milieu; he seems to be making the suggestion that kids really have found party nirvana this time." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 8/10 |
High Fidelity (2000) |
"Thoroughly entertaining." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 7/10 |
Hilary and Jackie (1998) |
"A revelation when it allows us to see what people surrender for art, as well as why people surrender their art." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 1/10 |
Idle Hands (1999) |
"Idle Hands is either idiotic or pandering, when it isn't both." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 7/10 |
The Insider (1999) |
"Mann does know how to make a moment of truth crackle; he knows how to create compelling human stories." |
Scott Renshaw |
Tomato 7/10 |
The Iron Giant (1999) |
"Entertaining!" |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 5/10 |
Jack Frost (1998) |
"What makes it hard to swallow is that it's utterly inconsequential while pretending to be both hipper and more emotional than it really is." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 5/10 |
Jakob the Liar (1999) |
"I am of the depressing opinion that Williams is growing less assured as an actor in his 'serious' roles with every passing year." |
Scott Renshaw |
Splat 5/10 |
Jawbreaker (1998) |
"Another teen-sploitation flick!" |
Scott Renshaw |
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