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Richard Williams

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Boogie Nights (1997) 91% EDIT “Hugely entertaining, full of surprises, critical of its subject but never lacking in humanity, this is a real epic of small lives.” – Guardian Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997) 47% EDIT “Scenery, plot, actors, direction and happy ending are all above reproach in a story given a surprising moral depth. ” – Guardian Sep 22, 2025 Full Review A Simple Wish (1997) 21% EDIT “Creating Murray as a kind of sociopathic Ken Dodd might have seemed a good wheeze, but he is so authentically loathsome. ” – Guardian Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Shooting Fish (1997) 52% EDIT “Shooting Fish seems a bit of a mess... Imagine Trainspotting in the hands of Dick Lester, and you might get the idea.” – Guardian Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Suburbia (1996) 68% EDIT “There is affection in Linklater's eye, but no comfort in his conclusion. SubUrbia can only advance his reputation as the Eric Rohmer of the strip-malls.” – Guardian Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Hard Eight (1996) 82% 4/5 EDIT “Here is a modern film noir of modest ambition and sure touch pivoting around one remarkable performance, given by Philip Baker Hall as Sydney.” – Guardian Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Scream 2 (1997) 83% EDIT “Switch off your mind, relax, and let Wes Craven twiddle your buttons with the sequel to the self-ironising slasher movie that even the theorists of Cahiers du Cinéma couldn't resist. ” – Guardian Feb 5, 2025 Full Review Hercules (1997) 83% EDIT “The songs are wretchedly saccharine, but the combination of Gerald Scarfe's exuberant designs, the labour of a legion of computer-graphics artists, and a slangy script result in an energetic entertainment. ” – Guardian Dec 18, 2024 Full Review 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997) 7% EDIT “Every Mexican in the film is portrayed as crooked, stupid or servile. Hilarious! ” – Guardian Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Def Jam's How to Be a Player (1997) 14% EDIT “The rap-heavy soundtrack is the real point. But at least it has jokes.” – Guardian Aug 6, 2024 Full Review A Merry War (1997) 69% EDIT “Drains the novel of its class anger and turns it into a celebration of the joys of capitalism. ” – Guardian Aug 6, 2024 Full Review The Myth of Fingerprints (1997) 63% EDIT “A pleasantly straightforward movie about the sort of mind-games played when the members of a dispersed New England family gather to celebrate Thanksgiving. ” – Guardian Aug 6, 2024 Full Review The Tango Lesson (1997) 52% EDIT “Potter dances very well, but acts her scenes with the vacant half-smile of someone kidnapped by Moonies and force-fed Prozac. ” – Guardian Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Alien Resurrection (1997) 56% EDIT “[Jean-Pierre Jeunet] mounts a sensational underwater chase through a flooded cargo hold, and reveals a ghastly room full of failed genetic experiments. The finale... is every bit as disgusting as he intended.” – Guardian Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Armageddon (1998) 43% 3/5 EDIT “The special effects really are awesome. Just leave your brain at home while America saves the world again. ” – Guardian Jun 21, 2023 Full Review The Kingdom II (1997) EDIT “"Twin Peaks meets Casualty" is the conventional capsule definition, but it's a whole lot weirder -- and funnier, and scarier -- than that.” – Guardian Feb 2, 2023 Full Review Deep Impact (1998) 45% EDIT “The vision of Morgan Freeman as the next President of the United States is virtually the only worthwhile idea to be found in Deep Impact. ” – Guardian Feb 2, 2023 Full Review The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) 38% EDIT “An hour and a half of unsophisticated satire. ” – Guardian Feb 2, 2023 Full Review Liar (1997) 42% EDIT “The Pates... can clearly construct a creepy mood, greatly assisted by Bill Butler's low-light but gorgeously textured photography. Less secure is their command of a labyrinthine plot.” – Guardian Feb 2, 2023 Full Review Wild Things (1998) 65% EDIT “Blending the superheated emotions of Douglas Sirk with the soft-porn high-jinks of Russ Meyer, the result is steamy, ludicrous and very entertaining. ” – Guardian Feb 2, 2023 Full Review U-Turn (1997) 59% EDIT “Those who have learnt to distrust this director will hardly be surprised to learn that here is a film giving murder a bad name. ” – Guardian Jan 20, 2023 Full Review Happy Together (1997) 85% EDIT “Some of its images are so polished in their beauty that they could have been taken from the many TV ads already influenced by Wong and his team. But Happy Together also turns out to be the most thoughtful and philosophically rewarding of his films.” – Guardian Jan 20, 2023 Full Review The Big Lebowski (1998) 79% EDIT “It's a bunch of ideas shoveled into a bag and allowed to spill out at random. The film is infuriating, and will win no prizes. But it does have some terrific jokes. ” – Guardian Jan 20, 2023 Full Review Eve's Bayou (1997) 83% EDIT “Eve's Bayou is not just a black film aimed at the mainstream, but a black woman's film aimed at the mainstream which makes it a rare thing indeed. ” – Guardian Jan 9, 2023 Full Review Titanic (1997) 88% EDIT “Titanic is, in the end, and despite being prohibited to those under 12 years old, a film for children of all ages, for those ready to gasp at a parade of wonders and eager to be swept away.” – Guardian Mar 17, 2022 Full Review
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