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1999

A+ / ****

American Beauty ( Sam Mendes )
Eyes Wide Shut ( Stanley Kubrick )
Insider, The ( Michael Mann )
Talented Mr. Ripley, The ( Anthony Minghella )
 

A / ****

Being John Malkovich ( Spike Jonze )
Boys Don't Cry ( Kimberly Pierce )
eXistenZ ( David Cronenberg )
Fight Club ( David Fincher )
Limbo ( John Sayles )
Magnolia ( Paul Thomas Anderson )
Toy Story 2 ( John Lasseter )
War Zone, The ( Tim Roth )
 

A- / ***1/2

After Life ( Hirokazu Kore-eda )
All About My Mother ( Pedro Almodóvar )
Blair Witch Project, The ( Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez )
Election ( Alexander Payne )
Matrix, The ( Larry & Andy Wachowski )
Red Violin, The ( François Girard )
Run Lola Run ( Tom Tykwer )
Topsy-Turvy ( Mike Leigh )

B+ / ***1/2

American Movie ( Chris Smith )
Arlington Road ( Mark Pellington )
Bowfinger ( Frank Oz )
Bringing Out the Dead ( Martin Scorsese )
Cookie's Fortune ( Robert Altman )
Cradle Will Rock ( Tim Robbins )
Dreamlife of Angels, The ( Erick Zonca )
Felicia's Journey ( Atom Egoyan )
Go ( Doug Liman )
Harmonists, The ( Joseph Vilsmaier )
Ideal Husband, An ( Oliver Parker )
Iron Giant, The ( Brad Bird )
Last Days, The ( James Moll )
Limey, The ( Steven Soderbergh )
Man on the Moon ( Milos Forman )
Minus Man, The ( Hampton Fancher )
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. ( Errol Morris )
Princess Mononoke ( Hayao Miyazaki )
Straight Story, The ( David Lynch )
Sweet and Lowdown ( Woody Allen )

B / ***

Angela'a Ashes ( Alan Parker )
Anywhere But Here ( Wayne Wang )
Autumn Tale ( Eric Rohmer )
Blast from the Past ( Hugh Wilson )
Buena Vista Social Club ( Wim Wenders )
Castle, The ( Rob Sitch )
Cider House Rules, The ( Lasse Hallström )
Desert Blue ( Morgan J. Freeman )
Dinner Game, The ( Francis Veber )
Dogma ( Kevin Smith )
Get Real ( Simon Shore )
Green Mile, The ( Frank Darabont )
Guinevere ( Audrey Wells )
Hideous Kinky ( Gillies MacKinnon )
In Dreams ( Neil Jordan )
Liberty Heights ( Barry Levinson )
Muse, The ( Albert Brooks )
Never Been Kissed ( Raja Gosnell )
Pushing Tin ( Mike Newell )
School of Flesh, The ( Benoît Jacquot)
Sleepy Hollow ( Tim Burton )
Source, The ( Chuck Workman )
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut ( Trey Parker )
Snow Falling on Cedars ( Scott Hicks )
Three Kings ( David O. Russell )
Three Seasons ( Tony Bui )
True Crime ( Clint Eastwood )
Winslow Boy, The ( David Mamet )
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl ( Joan Chen )

B- / ***

Analyze This ( Harold Ramis )
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ( Jay Roach )
Breakfast of Champions ( Alan Rudolph )
Cruel Intentions ( Roger Kumble )
Dill Scallion ( Jordan Brady )
Dick ( Andrew Fleming )
Drop Dead Gorgeous ( Michael Patrick Jann )
End of the Affair, The ( Neil Jordan )
Flawless ( Joel Schumacher )
Galaxy Quest ( Dean Perisot )
Goodbye, Lover ( Roland Joffe )
Holy Smoke! ( Jane Campion )
Hurricane, The ( Norman Jewison )
Idle Hands ( Rodman Flender )
King of Masks, The ( Wu Tianming )
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels ( Guy Ritchie )
Mumford ( Lawrence Kasdan )
Music of the Heart ( Wes Craven )
My Life So Far ( Hugh Hudson )
Notting Hill ( Roger Michell )
Office Space ( Mike Judge )
Payback ( Brian Helgeland )
Random Hearts ( Sydney Pollack )
Sixth Sense, The ( M. Night Shyamalan )
S.L.C. Punk! ( James Merendino )
Sugar Town ( Alison Anders & Kurt Voss )
Tarzan ( Chris Buck & Kevin Lima )
This Is My Father ( Paul Quinn )
Tumbleweeds ( Gavin O'Connor )
Trekkies ( Roger Nygard )
Twin Dragons ( Ringo Lam & Hark Tsui )

C+ / **1/2

Bachelor, The ( Gary Sinyor )
Best Man, The ( Malcolm D. Lee )
Bicentennial Man ( Chris Columbus )
Blue Streak ( Les Mayfield )
Brokedown Palace ( Jonathan Kaplan )
Drive Me Crazy ( John Schultz )
General's Daughter, The ( Simon West )
Instinct ( Jon Turteltaub )
Mansfield Park ( Patricia Rozema )
Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace ( George Lucas )
Summer of Sam ( Spike Lee )
10 Things I Hate About You ( Gil Junger )
Twin Falls Idaho ( Michael Polish )

C / **

Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, The ( Gary Halvorson )
American Pie ( Paul Weitz )
Double Jeopardy ( Bruce Beresford )
Entrapment ( Jon Amiel )
Happy, Texas ( Mark Illsley )
Haunting, The ( Jan de Bont )
In Too Deep ( Michael Rymer )
Last Night ( Don McKellar )
Legend of 1900, The ( Giuseppe Tornatore )
Messenger, The: The Story of Joan of Arc ( Luc Besson )
Midsummer Night's Dream, A ( Michael Hoffman )
Mystery Men ( Kinka Usher )
Stir of Echoes ( David Koepp )
Tango ( Carlos Saura )
Tea with Mussolini ( Franco Zeffirelli )
Three to Tango ( Damon Santostefano )
24 Hour Woman, The ( Nancy Savoca )
Wood, The ( Rick Famuyiwa )

C- / **

Any Given Sunday ( Oliver Stone )
At First Sight ( Irwin Winkler )
Besieged ( Bernardo Bertolucci )
Big Daddy ( Dennis Dugan )
Body Shots ( Michael Cristofer )
Crazy in Alabama ( Antonio Banderas )
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo ( Mike Mitchell )
EDtv ( Ron Howard )
8mm ( Joel Schumacher )
For Love of the Game ( Sam Raimi )
Gloria ( Sidney Lumet )
Girl, Interrupted ( James Mangold )
Lake Placid ( Steve Miner )
Life ( Ted Demme )
Message in a Bottle ( Luis Mandoki )
Mickey Blue Eyes ( Kelly Makin )
October Sky ( Joe Johnston )
Plunkett & Macleane ( Jake Scott )
Pokémon the First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back ( Takeshi Shudo & Norman J. Grossfield )
Ride with the Devil ( Ang Lee )
Stigmata ( Rupert Wainwright )
Stuart Little ( Rob Minkoff )
Thomas Crown Affair, The ( John McTiernan )
Wild Wild West ( Barry Sonnenfeld )
World Is Not Enough, The ( Michael Apted )

D+ / *1/2

Anna and the King ( Andy Tennant )
Better Than Chocolate ( Anne Wheeler )
Deep End of the Ocean, The ( Ulu Grosbard )
Dog of Flanders, A ( Kevin Brodie )
Dog Park ( Bruce McCulloch )
Edge of Seventeen ( David Moreton )
End of Days ( Peter Hyams )
Grizzly Falls ( Stewart Rafill )
Hunter's Moon ( Richard Weinman )
Inspector Gadget ( David Kellogg )
Muppets from Space (Tim Hill )
Mystery, Alaska ( Jay Roach )
Outside Providence ( Michael Corrente )
Play It to the Bone ( Ron Shelton )
Runaway Bride ( Garry Marshall )
Simply Irresistible ( Mark Tarlov )
Southern Heart ( John DeLouise )
Story of Us, The ( Rob Reiner )
Thirteenth Floor, The ( Josef Rusnak )
13th Warrior, The ( John McTiernan )
Varsity Blues ( Brian Robbins )

D / *

Bone Collector, The ( Phillip Noyce )
Corruptor, The ( James Foley )
Diamonds ( John Mallory Ascher )
Dudley Do-Right ( Hugh Wilson )
Forces of Nature ( Bronwen Hughes )
Jakob the Liar ( Peter Kassovitz )
Loss of Sexual Innocence, The ( Mike Figgis )
Love Letter, The ( Peter Ho-Sun Chan )
Mod Squad, The ( Scott Silver )
Mummy, The ( Stephen Sommers )
My Favorite Martian ( Donald Petrie )
Out-of-Towners, The ( Sam Weisman )
Rage, The: Carrie II ( Katt Shea )
Teaching Mrs. Tingle ( Kevin Williamson )
trick ( Jim Fall )
200 Cigarettes ( Risa Bramon Garcia )
Walk on the Moon, A ( Tony Goldwyn )

D- / 1/2

Black Mask ( Daniel Lee )
Chill Factor ( Hugh Johnson )
Deep Blue Sea ( Renny Harlin )
Doug's 1st Movie ( Maurice Joyce )
House on Haunted Hill, The ( William Malone )
King and I, The ( Richard Rich )
Light It Up ( Craig Bolotin )
Love Stinks ( Jeff Franklin )
Omega Code, The ( Robert Marcarelli )
Other Sister, The ( Garry Marshall )
Ravenous ( Antonia Bird )
Relax ... It's Just Sex ( P.J. Castellaneta )
She's All That ( Robert Iscove )
Superstar ( Bruce McCulloch )

F / NO STARS

Astronaut's Wife, The ( Rand Ravich )
Baby Geniuses ( Bob Clark )
Bats ( Louis Morneau )
Detroit Rock City ( Adam Rifkin )
Existo ( Coke Sams )
Foolish ( Dave Meyers )
Jawbreaker ( Darren Stein )
Lost & Found ( Jeff Pollack )
Trippin' ( David Raynr )
Univeral Solder: The Return ( Mic Rodgers )
Virus ( John Bruno )
Wing Commander ( Chris Roberts )

Reviews by:
David Perry
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