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2000

A+ / ****

Dancer in the Dark ( Lars von Trier )
Requiem for a Dream ( Darren Aronofsky )
Traffic ( Steven Soderbergh )
Yi Yi (A One and a Two...) ( Edward Yang )

A / ****

Almost Famous ( Cameron Crowe )
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ( Ang Lee )
Gladiator ( Ridley Scott )
House of Mirth ( Terence Davies )
Quills ( Philip Kaufman )
Virgin Suicides, The ( Sofia Coppola )
Wonder Boys ( Curtis Hanson )

A- / ***1/2

Before Night Falls ( Julian Schnabel )
Billy Elliot ( Stephen Daldry )
Cast Away ( Robert Zemeckis )
Chicken Run ( Peter Lord & Nick Parks )
Claim, The ( Michael Winterbottom )
Fantasia/2000 ( D. Hahn, P. Hunt, H. Butoy, E. Goldberg, J. Algar, F. Glebas, and G. Brizzi )
42 Up ( Michael Apted )
George Washington ( David Gordon Green )
Girlfight ( Karyn Kusama )
Legend of Bagger Vance, The ( Robert Redford )
Pollock ( Ed Harris )
Sound and Fury ( Josh Aronson )

B+ / ***1/2

Affair of Love, An ( Frédéric Fonteyne )
American Psycho ( Mary Herron )
Croupier ( Mike Hodges )
Erin Brockovich ( Steven Soderbergh )
Filth and the Fury, The ( Julien Temple )
Five Senses, The ( Jeremy Podeswa )
Hamlet ( Michael Almereyda )
High Fidelity ( Stephen Frears )
Jesus' Son ( Alison Maclean )
Mifune ( Søren Kragh-Jacobsen )
Perfect Storm, The ( Wolfgang Petersen )
Ratcatcher ( Lynne Ramsay )
Scream 3 ( Wes Craven)
Shadow of the Vampire ( E. Elias Merhige )
State and Main ( David Mamet )
Sunshine ( István Szabó )
Terrorist, The ( Santosh Sivan )
Tigerland ( Joel Schumacher )
You Can Count on Me ( Kenneth Lonergan )

B / ***

Alice et Martin ( André Téchiné )
All the Pretty Horses ( Billy Bob Thornton )
American Pimp ( Allen & Albert Hughes )
Best in Show ( Christopher Guest )
Beyond the Mat ( Barry W. Blaustein )
Black and White ( James Toback )
Boiler Room ( Ben Younger )
Bounce ( Don Roos )
Cell, The ( Tarsem Singh )
Charlie's Angels ( McG )
Chuck & Buck ( Miguel Arteta )
Color of Paradise, The ( Majid Majidi )
Dark Days ( Marc Singer )
Dr. T & the Women ( Robert Altman )
Eyes of Tammy Faye, The ( Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato )
Finding Forrester ( Gus Van Sant )
Frequency ( Gregory Hoblit )
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai ( Jim Jarmusch )
Gift, The ( Sam Raimi )
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport ( Mark Jonathan Harris )
Joe Gould's Secret ( Stanley Tucci )
Keeping the Faith ( Edward Norton )
Kikujiro ( Takeshi Kitano )
Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, The ( Aviva Kempner )
Love & Basketball ( Gina Pierce )
Madadayo ( Akira Kurosawa )
Me & Isaac Newton ( Michael Apted )
Meet the Parents ( Jay Roach )
My Dog Skip ( Jay Russell )
Ninth Gate, The ( Roman Polanski )
Nurse Betty ( Neil LaBute )
Original Kings of Comedy, The ( Spike Lee )
Place Vendôme ( Nicole Garcia )
Return to Me ( Bonnie Hunt )
Scary Movie ( Keenan Ivory Wayans )
Shower ( Zhang Yang )
Small Time Crooks (Woody Allen )
Tao of Steve, The ( Jenniphr Goodman )
Thirteen Days ( Roger Donaldson )
Time Code ( Mike Figgis )
Time for Drunken Horses, A ( Bahman Ghobadi )
Titan A.E. ( Don Bluth & Gary Goldman )
Unbreakable ( M. Night Shyamalan )
Waking the Dead ( Keith Gordon )
What Lies Beneath ( Robert Zemeckis )
Where the Money Is ( Marek Kanievska )
Wisdom of Crocodiles, The ( Po-Chih Leong )
X-Men ( Bryan Singer )

B- / ***

Big Kahuna, The ( John Swanbeck )
Bring It On ( Payton Reed )
Chocolat ( Lasse Hallström )
Committed ( Lisa Krueger )
Disney's The Kid ( Joe Cherbanac )
Final Destination ( James Wong )
Human Resources ( Laurent Cantet )
Me, Myself & Irene ( Peter & Bobby Farrelly )
Me Myself I ( Pip Karmel )
Pola X ( Léos Carax )
Replacements, The ( Howard Deutch )
Road to El Dorado, The ( Bibo Bergeron and Don Paul )
Shanghai Noon ( Tom Dey )
28 Days ( Betty Thomas )
U-571 ( Jonathan Mostow )
Visit, The ( Jordan Walker-Pierce )
What Women Want ( Nancy Meyer )
Whole Nine Yards, The ( Jonathan Lynn )

C+ / **1/2

East-West ( Régis Wargnier )
Gone in Sixty Seconds ( Dominic Sena )
O Brother, Where Art Thou? ( Joel Coen )
Patriot, The ( Rolan Emmerich )
Two Family House ( Raymond De Felitta )

C / **

Bait ( Antoine Fuqua )
Bedazzled ( Harold Ramis )
Contender, The ( Rod Lurie )
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas ( Ron Howard )
Emperor's New Groove, The ( Mark Dindal )
Family Man, The ( Brett Ratner )
Gossip ( Davis Guggenheim )
Malèna ( Giuseppe Tornatore )
Men of Honor ( George Tillman, Jr. )
Michael Jordan to the Max ( Don Kempf and James D. Stern )
Mission: Impossible 2 ( John Woo )
Next Best Thing, The ( John Schlesinger )
Not One Less ( Zhang Yimou )
Onegin ( Marth Fiennes )
Proof of Life ( Taylor Hackford )
Rules of Engagement ( William Friedkin )
Saving Grace ( Nigel Cole )
Space Cowboys ( Clint Eastwood )
Under Suspicion ( Stephen Hopkins )
Up at the Villa ( Philip Haas )

C- / **

Beach, The ( Danny Boyle )
Beau Travail ( Claire Denis )
Coyote Ugly ( David McNally )
Deterrence ( Rod Lurie )
Dinosaur ( Eric Leighton and Ralph Zondag )
Drowning Mona ( Nick Gomez )
Eye of the Beholder ( Stephan Elliott )
Loser ( Amy Heckerling )
Love's Labour's Lost ( Kenneth Branagh )
Mad About Mambo ( John Forte )
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps ( Peter Segal )
One ( Tony Barbieri )
102 Dalmatians ( Kevin Lima )
Pay It Forward ( Mimi Leder )
Red Planet ( Antony Hoffman )
Remember the Titans ( Boaz Yakin )
Romeo Must Die ( Andrzej Bartkoziak )
Shaft ( John Singleton )
6th Day, The ( Roger Spottiswoode )
Skulls, The ( Rob Cohen )
Urban Legends: Final Cut ( John Ottman )
Vertical Limit ( Martin Campbell )
Yards, The ( James Gray )

D+ / *1/2

Auteur Theory, The ( Evan Oppenheimer )
Autumn in New York ( Joan Chen )
Cecil B. Demented ( John Waters )
Down to You ( Kris Isacsson )
8½ Women ( Peter Greenaway )
Idiots, The ( Lars von Trier )
Lost Souls ( Janusz Kaminski )
Lucky Numbers ( Nora Ephron )
Mission to Mars ( Brian De Palma )
Road Trip ( Todd Phillipps )
Snatch ( Guy Ritchie )

D / *

Get Carter ( Stephen T. Kay )
In Crowd, The ( Mary Lambert )
Reindeer Games ( John Frankenheimer )
Watcher, The ( Joe Charbanic )
What Planet Are You From? ( Mike Nichols )

D- / 1/2

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 ( Joe Berlinger )
Boricua's Bond ( Val Lik )
Gun Shy ( Eric Blakeney )
Hollow Man ( Paul Verhoevan )
Little Nicky ( Steven Brill )
Way of the Gun, The ( Christopher McQuarrie )
Whipped ( Peter M. Cohen )

F / NO STARS

Art of War, The ( Christian Duguay )
Battlefield Earth ( Roger Christian )
Dracula 2000 ( Patrick Lussier )
Dungeons & Dragons ( Courtney Solomon )
Highlander: Endgame ( Douglas Aarniokoski )
Next Friday ( Steve Carr )
Supernova ( Thomas Lee )

Reviews by:
David Perry
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