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7%
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Jawbreaker (1999)
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"Stupid and pointless!"
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Jennifer Nowitzky
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39%
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Lake Placid (1999)
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"Lake Placid is worth paying full admission price alone just to see Golden Girl sweetie Betty White feed a blind-folded cow to the croc and cuss out the feds."
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Christopher Brandon
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2%
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The In Crowd (2000)
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"A teen screamer with enough implants for the boys and enough bitchiness for the girls to leave its target demographic lusting and screaming happily."
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Susannah Breslin
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67%
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Sleepy Hollow (1999)
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"Sleepy Hollow can be fun, usually whenever the Headless Horseman shows up for swordplay that's better than anything in The Phantom Menace."
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Christopher Brandon
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63%
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Saving Grace (2000)
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"It's a feel-good British movie ideal for gangs of middle-aged, middle-minded women on bored afternoons, and toxically saccharine to anyone else."
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Susannah Breslin
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38%
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Entrapment (1999)
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"Director Jon Amiel apparently spent more time lighting close-ups of Zeta-Jones' writhing butt than trying to pull some chemistry or humor from our self-centered good-bad guys."
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Graham Verdon
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2%
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Battlefield Earth (2000)
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"Don't see this movie."
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J. Rentilly
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89%
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Hilary and Jackie (1998)
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"It's an artsy soap opera that would serve as a monumental TV movie, but shines dimly as a feature film."
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Sjohnna McCray
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71%
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Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
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"Fans of the greatest working film director will be pleased."
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Christopher Brandon
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53%
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
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"The main show here is Jim Carrey. And he does a frankly brilliant job."
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Andy Klein
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76%
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The Contender (2000)
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"Individual performances in The Contender go from good to great."
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Susannah Breslin
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47%
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The Perfect Storm (2000)
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"The Perfect Storm makers forgot the best part of a true story is always the true story."
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Susannah Breslin
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55%
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Hamlet (2000)
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"One of this year's great films, a worthy addition in every way to the cinematic sub-genre that is Hamlet itself."
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J. Rentilly
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41%
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The 6th Day (2000)
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"A competent, uninspired run-through of the same action routine Arnold has been doing for years."
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Andy Klein
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94%
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Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime) (1999)
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"Powerful, gorgeous."
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Christopher Brandon
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34%
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Woman on Top (2000)
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"As close to a total wipeout as can be imagined."
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Andy Klein
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25%
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Digimon - The Movie (2000)
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"I found the movie exciting enough to keep me interested."
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Darrius Pelissier
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68%
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Dancer in the Dark (2000)
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"Is Dancer in the Dark worth the ride? The brutal emotional wringing it visits upon viewers? Despite its flaws, yes."
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Andy Klein
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70%
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
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"One of the year's best comedies!"
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Graham Verdon
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12%
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Play It to the Bone (1999)
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"If the slow moving pace of this movie (from the road to the ring) doesn't get to you, an annoying performance by Lolita Davidovich will."
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Kellam Eanes
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83%
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The Hurricane (1999)
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"If you aren't compelled to re-examine your conclusions on crime and punishment, then you need to see the film again until you are."
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Morgan Fouch
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57%
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Road Trip (2000)
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"What Road Trip's filmmakers forget is that even gross-out humor needs a soul."
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J. Rentilly
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85%
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Billy Elliot (2000)
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"The thing that makes it all somewhat tolerable is that Billy Elliot maintains a sense of grittiness throughout."
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Susannah Breslin
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64%
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Bring It On (2000)
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"It brings on jokes, it brings on cheerleading routines, it brings on the love story and does the best that it can do with the material."
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Margueritte Pelissier
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52%
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What's Cooking? (2000)
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"Many of the ingredients in this movie melting-pot quickly become so sweet as to spoil the soup."
|
Susannah Breslin
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93%
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Saving Private Ryan (1998)
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"Spectacular, wrenching masterpiece that unflinchingly documents the random horror, the grisly spectacle and the ugliness of war."
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Andy Jones
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51%
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Cecil B. Demented (2000)
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"One of the year's best, a whole lotta laughs, and 4-stars all rolled into one."
|
Susannah Breslin
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|
84%
|
Nurse Betty (2000)
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"We are constantly fearful for Betty -- less worried that the evil killers will catch up with her than that reality will. Despite this basic uneasiness, there is much to enjoy in Nurse Betty."
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Andy Klein
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82%
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Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai (2000)
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"Jim Jarmusch is perhaps the only director who could pull off a film that mixes excerpts from the text of Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai with Mafioso entanglements, and hip-hop street knowledgry."
|
Spencer H. Abbott
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31%
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Crazy in Alabama (1999)
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"Banderas has taken a brilliant novel and made a small movie with lots of bright moments."
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10%
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The Watcher (2000)
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"The Watcher brings nothing new to the party. It's an uninspired, standard-issue mimeo whose only distinguishing feature is a reversal in its casting."
|
Andy Klein
|
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10%
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The Watcher (2000)
|
"[James Spader] is eminently, um, watchable."
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J. Rentilly
|
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95%
|
Best in Show (2000)
|
"Provides a never indulgent, always electrifying carte blanche to some of the most gifted screen comedians working today."
|
J. Rentilly
|
|
68%
|
U-571 (2000)
|
"A gripping piece of historical fiction."
|
Pauline Adamek
|
|
95%
|
Best in Show (2000)
|
"One of Best in Show's great triumphs is its remarkable generosity of spirit."
|
Andy Klein
|
|
35%
|
Where the Heart Is (2000)
|
"Unfortunately, Where the Heart Is collapses under its own codependent weight of taking on too much at once."
|
Sarah Raskin
|
|
84%
|
Meet the Parents (2000)
|
"Never before have two such skilled actors been so monstrously squandered in a movie so replete with failed gags and pathetic gaffs."
|
Susannah Breslin
|
|
82%
|
X-Men (2000)
|
"A rousing, crowd-pleaser that explodes with the meaningful heroics of flawed individuals struggling to save themselves."
|
J. Rentilly
|
|
49%
|
The Road to El Dorado (2000)
|
"Has neither the charm, plot nor visual splendor of its predecessors."
|
Morgan Fouch
|
|
50%
|
Summer of Sam (1999)
|
"A visually stunning depiction of what paranoia and violence can do to a town that thrives on normalcy and order."
|
Morgan Fouch
|
78%
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