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Matthew Sweet

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Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996) EDIT “Its scenes of lunatic brutality are nastily authentic.” – Independent on Sunday Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis (1998) EDIT “A stumbling, dismal comedy... The government should requisition this movie and burn it. ” – Independent on Sunday Sep 24, 2025 Full Review The Devil's Advocate (1997) 65% EDIT “Devil-as-lawyer is perhaps too obvious. But Devil-as-hairdresser -- now that's genuinely terrifying.” – Independent on Sunday Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Devil's Island (1997) EDIT “An untidy, enthralling and frequently hilarious string of anecdotes about the Tomasson family. ” – Independent on Sunday Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% EDIT “Reynold's air of romantic certitude is perfectly judged, his subsequent decline into enervated disillusion the kind of acting that rescues careers.” – Independent on Sunday Sep 24, 2025 Full Review A Simple Wish (1997) 21% EDIT “If Martin Short appeared in my bedroom in the middle of the night, I'd jump on a chair and scream.” – Independent on Sunday Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997) 47% EDIT “Well-managed cetacean sentimentalism -- buoyed up by a faux-Enya soundtrack -- will get its constituency blubbering in the aisles.” – Independent on Sunday Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Shooting Fish (1997) 52% EDIT “This looks like a cynical stab at the buttons pushed by jilting and deafness in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Assume that any similarity is purely coincidental, however, and the film delivers a formidable payload of dippy humour. ” – Independent on Sunday Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Wilde (1997) 72% EDIT “Although Fry manages to make something of the film's emphasis on Wilde's conventional streak, this seems to be more than his director can manage.” – Independent on Sunday Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Suburbia (1996) 68% EDIT “[Richard Linklater's] cinema has always been -- programmatically -- an endurance test, but this new entry really tries the patience. ” – Independent on Sunday Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Hard Eight (1996) 82% EDIT “The motive behind Sydney's patronage is the film's central mystery, one made fascinating by Philip Baker Hall, whose performance is aided by a voice like a bonfire of crisp dollar bills.” – Independent on Sunday Sep 22, 2025 Full Review The Butterfly Effect (1995) EDIT “The Butterfly Effect is a very small film, and won't change the face of movie comedy, but it's bright, well-constructed, truly funny, and has the good sense to motivate the movements of its plot.” – Independent on Sunday Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Remember Me? (1997) EDIT “The plot's complications are strained and tiresome, and the actors seem to struggle through its paltry 81 minutes.” – Independent on Sunday Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Lady and the Tramp (1955) 91% EDIT “No one's expecting consciousness-raising or cinema verité, but this is canine whimsy leashed by suffocating conservatism.” – Independent on Sunday Jun 30, 2025 Full Review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 57% EDIT “Like most summer-holiday blockbusters, there's not much going on between The Lost World's ears. That said, many of its scenes kick like a mule, and the film peddles a simple-but-palatable eco-message about leaving wild animals to their own devices.” – Independent on Sunday Jun 28, 2025 Full Review Def Jam's How to Be a Player (1997) 14% EDIT “These reflections are illuminating, but the gags don't venture beyond crassness.” – Independent on Sunday Aug 6, 2024 Full Review 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997) 7% EDIT “Joe Pesci plays the mild-manner sadist on his trail, and judging by the credits, seems to have assembled his little on-set gang of mafiosi... Audiences will feel a lot less pampered. ” – Independent on Sunday Aug 6, 2024 Full Review The Myth of Fingerprints (1997) 63% EDIT “Efficient performances from Blythe Danner and ER's Noah Wyle can't lift the atmosphere of ponderous self-absorption. ” – Independent on Sunday Aug 6, 2024 Full Review The Tango Lesson (1997) 52% EDIT “The effect is like being told an immensely long, shamelessly self-congratulatory anecdote by someone so deeply in love with herself that she has lost all sense of irony or humility.” – Independent on Sunday Aug 6, 2024 Full Review A Merry War (1997) 69% EDIT “Unremarkable but efficient period film-making, crucially energised by a performance of battery-acid tartness by the incomparable Richard E. Grant.” – Independent on Sunday Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Under the Skin (1997) 90% EDIT “A frank, fearless film from a director carving out her place in a strong British tradition. ” – Independent on Sunday Aug 6, 2024 Full Review One Night Stand (1997) 34% EDIT “Figgis seems unable to escape the magnetic field of Eszterhas's influence. ” – Independent on Sunday Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Alien Resurrection (1997) 56% EDIT “Joss Whedon's script is clunkily pedestrian, as if it was written in gravity many times greater than that of Earth. ” – Independent on Sunday Aug 6, 2024 Full Review The Traveler (1992) EDIT “It's a fine example of how truthful cinema can be when it rejects melodrama and empty gesture in order to concentrate on the bare essentials of character and plot. It's sweetly observed, morally coherent, utterly simple and fiercely economical. ” – Independent on Sunday Jun 21, 2023 Full Review To Have & to Hold (1996) EDIT “If it were not so pretentious, Hillcoat's film might have made effective horror schlock. In its current form, it's probably best left to disappear, glugging, into the morass. ” – Independent on Sunday Jun 21, 2023 Full Review
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