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69%
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You've Got Mail (1998)
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"Another problem is chemistry; remarkably, Hanks and Ryan haven't any until the last few scenes."
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Lawrence Toppman
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68%
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Unbreakable (2000)
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"Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan has imagination and flair, and he''ll probably tell us engrossing stories for years to come. Unbreakable just isn''t one of them."
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Lawrence Toppman
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57%
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
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"The technology is state-of-the-art, but the people around it are far from state-of-the-heart."
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Lawrence Toppman
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81%
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South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999)
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"Park is %!*?!# profane, but, boy, is it funny!"
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Lawrence Toppman
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53%
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Payback (1999)
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"Pointless!"
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Lawrence Toppman
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19%
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Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)
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"Williamson breaks a cardinal rule of good writing: Audiences will play by any rules you choose to establish, but you can't change them in the bottom of the ninth inning."
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Lawrence Toppman
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40%
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Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
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"My butt was a little numb, but my brain was engaged."
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Lawrence Toppman
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46%
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What Lies Beneath (2000)
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"A picture sufficiently shallow that you'll discover everything that lies beneath it well before the end."
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Lawrence Toppman
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20%
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Practical Magic (1998)
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"The film creaked to a halt like a 1956 Buick running on fumes!"
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Lawrence Toppman
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63%
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Saving Grace (2000)
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"Modestly funny all the way through but too cozy."
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Lawrence Toppman
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9%
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I Dreamed of Africa (2000)
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"Like the star's acting, the movie is bland, full of good intentions and generally as stiff as a fireplace poker."
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Lawrence Toppman
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52%
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The Muse (1999)
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"Too quirky to satisfy the undemanding and too flabby to satisfy people who have appreciated the star-director's previous work."
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Lawrence Toppman
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54%
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Scary Movie (2000)
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"Might have been funnier if it had been put together with more care."
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Lawrence Toppman
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36%
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In Too Deep (1999)
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"Epps comes off best!"
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Lawrence Toppman
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43%
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The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
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"[Redford] tells this superficial fairy tale with warmth and expert care."
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Lawrence Toppman
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61%
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American Pie (1999)
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"The story was primitive, the characters unmemorable, the direction unsophisticated, the writing cliched, the photography and music drab, the pacing uneven, the acting varying from adroitly funny to exaggerated."
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Lawrence Toppman
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32%
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Superstar (1999)
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"The script by Steven Wayne Koren bumps along, using musical numbers and fantasy sequences as filler in a thin plot."
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Lawrence Toppman
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23%
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Patch Adams (1998)
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"If you can suspend disbelief at every odds-defying incident and mind-blowing improbability, the inspirational message may work on you like magic. If not, the film falls flat as a 60-second souffle."
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Lawrence Toppman
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77%
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Gladiator (2000)
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"This isn't a movie to challenge convention."
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Lawrence Toppman
|
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12%
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Play It to the Bone (1999)
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"Play it to the Bone is a punch-drunk lightweight."
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Lawrence Toppman
|
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33%
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The 13th Warrior (1999)
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"Character development? Nil. Plot twists? Zip. Emotional involvement with anyone in the movie? Nada."
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Lawrence Toppman
|
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67%
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Charlie's Angels (2000)
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"You may enjoy Charlie's Angels if you shut down enough brain cells. I turned off all except the ones needed to remember where I parked my car, and I still couldn't quite dig the experience."
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Lawrence Toppman
|
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90%
|
October Sky (1999)
|
"As rewarding and uplifting as pictures from half a century ago!"
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
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80%
|
The Green Mile (1999)
|
"Frank Darabont is the world's greatest director of movies taken from Stephen King prison books."
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Lawrence Toppman
|
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63%
|
Music of the Heart (1999)
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"A generic story of triumph as unengaging as it is unbelievable in its details."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
80%
|
Bowfinger (1999)
|
"An amiable bundle of broad, easy laughs, rather than the bitingly fierce satire it might have been."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
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27%
|
Instinct (1999)
|
"Two terrific performances!"
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
49%
|
The Road to El Dorado (2000)
|
"Teachers won't accept such disconnected slackness from students, and you shouldn't accept it from movies."
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Lawrence Toppman
|
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46%
|
Runaway Bride (1999)
|
"The film has a lot of sweetness, some honest emotion and one scene between Cusack and Roberts that can stand with the best drama Hollywood produces nowadays."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
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55%
|
Blade (1998)
|
"Glittering and gruesome, slickly assembled and strangely silly."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
67%
|
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
|
"Sunny, fast and funny!"
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
88%
|
Tarzan (1999)
|
"Mainstream American animation hasn't produced anything this memorable since Aladdin."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
28%
|
Snow Day (2000)
|
"Adults might prefer to spend their time at home with a cup of instant cocoa and some long-awaited video."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
84%
|
Nurse Betty (2000)
|
"The movie would be difficult to imagine without Zellweger, who can show exultation and heartbreak without exaggerating either."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
20%
|
Next Friday (2000)
|
"When you feel like you have to explain the pop culture references in your gags, your movie is in trouble."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
73%
|
My Dog Skip (2000)
|
"It's gently funny, modestly scary in spots, full of valuable but low-key observations about life."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
40%
|
Varsity Blues (1999)
|
"The movie panders to its teen audience with typical crudeness and excessively lewd behavior."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
92%
|
A Bug's Life (1998)
|
"Disney has shown good taste by releasing a full-length animated feature without songs."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
86%
|
The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)
|
"The show has class."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
53%
|
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
|
"A shrill, frantic, soulless, overlong - am I hyperventilating yet? - unfunny, unnecessary product of the Hollywood Hype factory."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
93%
|
The Limey (1999)
|
"Steven Soderbergh is my hero."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
48%
|
Bamboozled (2000)
|
"Fueled mostly by Lee's anger at racial stereotypes, but it can't run smoothly for 140 minutes on rage alone."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
76%
|
The Contender (2000)
|
"Contender supplies the three key elements of the best political thrillers: suspense, credibility and the feeling that you're really sitting in the Oval Office while the big fish prepare to eat the little fish."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
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28%
|
The Bone Collector (1999)
|
"If you want to watch a wheelchair-bound man solve a murder, rent Rear Window."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
82%
|
Love and Basketball (2000)
|
"Familiar but appealing ground."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
56%
|
Mumford (1999)
|
"Clever dialogue."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
54%
|
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
|
"You have the main difference between book and movie: One remains pointed and specific, the other broad and generalized."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
45%
|
Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)
|
"Grant handles the slapstick humor gracefully and speaks his lines with sincerity and warmth."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
68%
|
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
|
"[Bjork] encompasses all the aspects of this stubborn, sweet, unprotected woman, and she gives the kind of performance that makes it impossible to imagine anyone else in this role."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
|
25%
|
Reindeer Games (Deception) (2000)
|
"As leaden as a Civil War fruitcake."
|
Lawrence Toppman
|
87%
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