| Title | Year | Director | Cast | Score | Comments | IMDB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 Reykjavík | 2000 | KORMAKUR, Baltasar | GUONASON, Hilmir; ABRIL, Victoria; KARLSDOTTIR, Hanna Maria; KORMAKUR; Baltasar | 9.00 | Fabulous! Makes me want to go to Iceland and party. Colorful. Very well made. | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0237993 |
| 12 Angry Men | 1957 | LUMET, Sidney | FONDA, Henry; KLUGMAN, Jack; BEGLEY, Ed… | 8.25 | Strong courtroom drama. Well done, but proceeds too smoothly to conclusion once path | http://us.imdb.com/Title?12+Angry+Men+(1957) |
| 15 Minutes | 2001 | HERZFELD, John | De NIRO, Robert; BURNS (I), Edward; GRAMMER, Kelsey | 7.25 | Slightly far-fetched but interesting slam on the media - yeah! | http://us.imdb.com/Details?0179626 |
| 2 Days in the Valley | 1996 | John Herzfeld | James Spader, Eric Stoltz, Jeff Daniels, Marsha Mason, Danny Aiello, Teri Hatcher, Peter Horton, Glen Cruttwell, glenne Heady, Paul Mazursky, Charlize Theru | 8.25 | Excelent interconnected plot - nearly the next 'Pulp Fiction'. Wonderfully shot. | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0115438 |
| 21 Grams | 2003 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | PENN, Sean; WATTS, Naomi; DEL TORO, Benicio; GAINSBOURG, Charlotte; LEO, Melissa | 9.00 | Inticate structure creates suspense until it unfolds. Great acting. Nice style. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0315733/ |
| 28 Days Later | 2002 | BOYLE, Danny | MURPHY, Cillian; HARRIS, Naomie; BURNS, Megan; GLEESON, Brendan | 8.25 | Clever thiller | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0289043 |
| 32 Short Films about Glen Gould | 1993 | GIRARD, Francois | Colm Feore, Gale Garnett, David Hughes | 8.00 | Wonderful snippits, delightfully unstructured. A novel way of providing a credible insight. | |
| 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, The | 1953 | ROWLAND, Roy | Peter Lind Hayes, Tommy Rettig, Mary Healy, Hans Conried | 6.00 | Dr Seus' written, campy, perhaps unwittingly funny. Interesting styles. Homoerotic???? | |
| 8 Milr | 2002 | HANSON, Curtis | EMINEM; BASINGER, Kim | 8.00 | Very good dramatization. Not necessarily an acting stretch but believable and pointed | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0298203 |
| 84 Charing Cross Rd. | 1986 | JONES, David | Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bankroft, Judi Dench | 7.50 | Charming transatlantic comparison (exagerated differences?) | |
| About Schmidt | 2002 | PAYNE, Alexander | NICHOLSON, Jack; | 8.50 | Wonderful ensemble | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0257360/ |
| Addams Family Values | 1993 | SONNENFELD, Barry | Anjelica Huston, Raoul Julia (r.i.p.), Joan Cusak, Christopher Lloyd | 7.25 | Great comedy. Possibly not as good as original but very nearly. Both leads excellent. | |
| Addams Family, The | 1991 | SONNENFELD, Barry | Anjelica Huston, Rauul Julia, Christopher Lloyd | 8.00 | ? | |
| Adicted to Love | 1997 | DUNNE, Griffin | BRODERICK, Mathew; RYAN, Meg | 6.75 | A few interesting twists but basically a silly romantic movie | http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?Addicted+to+Love+(1997) |
| Adjuster, The | 1991 | EGOYAN, Atom | KOTEAS, Elias; KHANJIAN, Arsinee; CHEYKIN, Maurey; ROSE, Gabrielle; DALE, Jennifer | 8.25 | Brilliant layered thoughtful | http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?Adjuster%2C+The+(1991) |
| Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The | 1994 | ELLIOT, Stephen | STAMP, Terence, WEAVING, Hugo, PEARCE, Guy | 7.00 | Funny, scenic. Weak writing, good performances. Thought final act should have been classier. | |
| Against the Ropes | 0 | 8.25 | ||||
| Age of Innocence, The | 1993 | SCORSESE, Martin | Michelle Pfeiffer, Daniel Day Lewis, RYDER, Winona | 8.00 | Pfeiffer excellent, Lewis great but annoying speach. Horrible but prob. authentic costumes. Supurb cinematography, including courageous non-period-stereotypical violent pans, stop-action. | |
| Air Force One | 1997 | PETERSEN, Wolfgang | FORD, Harrison; CLOSE, Glenn; OLDMAN, Gary; CREWSON, Wendy; MATTHEWS, Liesel; STOCKWELL, Dean; MACY, William H. | 6.50 | better than normal believability, poorer than normal affects | |
| Albino Aligator | 1996 | SPACEY, Kevin | DILLAN, Matt; DUNNAWAY, Faye; SINISE, Gary; FICHTNER, William; MORTENSEN, Viggio; MANTEGNIA, Joe | 7.75 | Interesting, puzzling. Could have been more slickly directed, but good spoof/homage to Hollywood. | http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?Albino+Alligator+(1996) |
| All About My Mother | 1999 | ALDOMOVAR, Pedro | ROTH, Cecilia; AZORIN, Eloy; PARADES, Marisa; CRUZ, Penélope | 8.25 | Brilliantly styled, written, and directed | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0185125 |
| Amadeus | 1984 | FORMAN, Milos | ABRAHAM, F. Murray; HULCE, Tom; BERRIDGE, Elizabeth; CALLOW, Simon; DOTRICE, Roy; EBERSOLE, Christine; JONES, Jeffrey | 8.50 | ABRAHAM is wonderful. Script great too. | |
| American Beauty | 1999 | MENDES, Sam | SPACEY, Kevin; BENING, Annette; BIRCH, Thora; BENTLEY, Wes; SUVARI, Mena; GALLAGHER, Peter; COOPER (I), Chris | 9.50 | Mesmerizing in its perfection - performances, story, direction, courage | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0169547 |
| American Buffalo | 1996 | CORRENTE, Michael | Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz, Sean Nelson | 8.25 | Excelent David Mamet 'play'; great performances and script. | |
| American History X | 1998 | KAYE, Tony | NORTON, Edward; FURLONG, Edward; D'ANGELO, Beverly; LIEN, Jennifer | 9.00 | Amazingly well done - Norton is fantastic | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120586 |
| American President, The | 1995 | REINER, Rob | Michael Douglas, Annette Bening | 8.25 | Very funny | |
| American Psycho | 2000 | HARRON, Mary | BALE, Christian; DAFOE, Willem; SEVIGNY, Chloë | 7.75 | Surprisingly good, allows thoughtful interpretation | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0144084 |
| American Splendor | 2003 | BERMAN, Shari Springer; PULCINI, Robert | GIAMATTI, Paul; DAVIS, Hope | 8.50 | Very interesting mixture of documentary and dramatization; actors and characters playing themselves | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0305206/ |
| An Ideal Husband | 1999 | PARKER (II), Oliver | EVERETT, Rupert; MOORE, Julianne; NORTHAM, Jeremy; BLANCHET, Cate; DRIVER, Minnie | 9.00 | Superbly made, perfect performances, a triumph. | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122541 |
| An Officer and A Gentleman | 1982 | HACKFORD, Tayler | Debra Winger, David Kieth, Richard Gere, Louis Gossett Jr. | 8.00 | Excellent script, Winger and Gossett Jr. great. (course he got Oscar) | |
| Analyze This | 0 | q | DeNIRO, Robert; CRYSTAL, Billy | 7.75 | Hilarious mixture of sensitivity and vilolence, a great take on Mob movies | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0122933 |
| Anchoress | 1994 | NEWBY, Chris | Natalie Morese, Eugene Bervoets, Toyah Willcox, Peter Postlethwaite, Christopher Eccleston | 8.00 | Beautiflly shot, acted, sensuous & textual film | |
| Angels and Insects | 1995 | HAAS, Philip | ? | 8.25 | ? | |
| Angels in the Outfield | 1994 | DEAR, William | Danny Glover, Jay O. Sullivan (?) | 6.00 | ? | |
| Angie | 1994 | COOLIDGE, Martha | Geena Davis | 6.75 | over-done, medium quality acting. | |
| Anne Frank Remembered | 1995 | BLAIR, Jon | [Kenneth Branagh, Glenn Close, and the real historic characters] | 8.00 | Good documentary. Some overly contrived stuff; too glitzy motion control camera work; Kenneth's narration too like a fairy story in inflection | |
| Another Stakeout | 1993 | BADHAM, John | Emilio Estevez, Richard Drafuss, Rosie O'Neil (?) | 6.75 | Dissapointingly improbable, but frequently funny | |
| Antonia's Line | 1995 | GORRIS, Marleen | Willeke Van Ammelrooy, Jan Decleir, Els Dottermans, Dora Van der Groen, Marina De Graaf, Mil Segers, | 8.75 | Great. | http://us.imdb.com/cache/title-exact/8353 |
| ANTZ | 0 | q | ALLEN, Woody; STALONE, Sylvester; LOPEZ, Jennifer; WALKEN, Christopher; ACKROYD, Dan | 7.00 | Very clever animation (very expressive ants, great manerisms); funny story | |
| Apocalypse Now | 1979 | COPPOLA, Frances Ford | Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, DUVAL, Robert | 9.00 | Awesome, fantastically well made, tremendously powerful. "The Horror..." | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0078788 |
| Apollo 13 | 1995 | HOWARD, Ron | Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, PAXTON, Bill | 8.00 | Great effects. Good drama | |
| Apostle, The | 1997 | DUVALL, Robert | DUVALL, Robert; FAWCETT, Farrah; THORNTON, Billy Bob; CASH, June Carter; RICHARDSON, Miranda | 7.75 | ||
| Arabian Nights | 0 | ? | ? | 6.00 | Pretty poor acting, filmmaking; but an unorthodox view of the arab world nonetheless. | |
| Ararat | 2002 | EGOYAN, Atom | ALPAY, David; KHANJIAN, Arsinéel; PLUMMER, Christopher; | 9.50 | Awsome - Perhaps Egoyan's best, and that's saying a lot. Intricate as always. Totally beautiful and thoughtful. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0273435/ |
| Architecture of Doom, The | 0 | ? | [documentary about art on Nazis, Nazis on art] | 7.00 | Possibly exagerated influences, undoubtably horrible consequences | |
| Arlington Road | 1999 | PELLINGTON, Mark | BRIDGES, Jeff; ROBBINS, Tim; CUSACK, Joan; DAVIS, Hope; GOSSIT, Robert | 8.00 | Quite well made, very high-tension thriller. Clever ending. [The preview had spoiled a lot of it.] | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0137363 |
| Armageddon | 1998 | BAY, Michael | WILLIS, Bruce; THORNTON, Billy Bob; TYLER, Liv; AFFLECK, Ben; PATTON, Will; BUSCEMI, Steve | 7.50 | Undeniably impressive effects, and fairly funny, but terribly sappy and pro-American | http://us.imdb.com/Title?Armageddon+(1998) |
| Arrow, The | 1997 | McBREARTY, John | AYKROYD, Dan, BOTSFORD, Sarah; FITCH, Katherine; PLUMMER; Christopher… | 7.00 | Over acted. Over dramatised. Great effects. | http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?Arrow%2C+The+(1997) http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?Arrow%2C+The+(1997) |
| Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed | 0 | KLUDGE, Alexander | ? | 8.00 | ? | |
| As Good as it Gets | 0 | q | NICHOLSON, Jack | 8.50 | q | |
| Austin Powers in Goldmember | 2002 | ROACH, M. Jay | MYERS, Mike; KNOWLES, Beyoncé; GREEN, Seth; YORK, Michael; CAINE, Michael | 6.50 | Horrible continuation of a series that should have stopped with the original | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0295178/ |
| Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery | 1997 | ROACH, M. Jay | MYERS, Mike | 7.25 | Some really hilarious parts, and very clever satire of James Bond | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118655 |
| Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | 1999 | ROACH, M. Jay | MYERS, Mike | 6.00 | Very dissapointing, after the first one. Bad taste, too long, and the schtick has gone | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0145660 |
| Autumn Tale | 1998 | ROHMER, Eric | RIVIERE, Marie; ROMAND, Beatrice; LIBOLT, Alain; SANDRE, Didier | 8.25 | Lovely, believable, realistic romantic comedy | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0137439 |
| Back to the Future | 1985 | FOX, Michael J.; LLOYD, Christopher; THOMPSON, Lea; GLOVER, Crispin | ZEMECKIS, Robert | 7.75 | Splendid thriller. Mainstream Hollywood at its best. Thoroughly enjoyable. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/ |
| Bad Girls | 1994 | KAPLAN, Jonathon | Andie MacDowell, Mary Stewart Masterson, Madeleine Stowe, Drew Barrymore | 5.00 | ? | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0109198 |
| Bamboozled | 2000 | LEE, Spike | WAYANS, Damon; GLOVER, Savion; SMITH, Jada Pinkett; DAVIDSON, Tommy; RAPAPORT, Michael; JEFFERSON BYRD, Thomas | 8.00 | Powerful but challenging | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0215545 |
| Barb Wire | 1995 | HOGAN, David | Pamela Anderson (Lee) | 6.00 | In some ways surprisingly good 'Casablanca' adaptation. Sexpoitational nonetheless. Good camera work, stylish design. Critics were too harsh. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0115624/ |
| Barcelona | 1994 | STILLMAN, Whit | Taylor Nichols, Tushka Bergan, Pep Munne, Hellena Schneid, Thomas Gibson, Chris Eigeman, Mira Sorvino, Nuria Badia, Francis Creization, Jack Gilpen | 8.75 | Slightly slow, and slightly stiff acting, but good in many ways. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0109219/ |
| Basquiat | 1996 | SCHNABEL, Julianl | Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Courtney Love | 7.25 | Generally well made film about art world, but fails to get to root of Basquiat's character | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0115632/ |
| Bean | 1997 | SMITH, Mel | ATKINSON, Rowland; REYNOLDS, Bert | 7.50 | Clever physical humour. A bit long. Good take on Americans. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0118689/ |
| Beautiful Girls | 1996 | DEMME, Ted | DYLAN, Matt; HUTTON, Timmothy, THURMAN, Uma | 7.75 | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0115639/ | |
| Beautiful Mind, A | 2001 | HOWARD, Ron | CROWE, Russell; HARRIS, Ed; CONNOLY, Jennifer | 9.00 | Powerful and moving. Slightly subtler acting (and makeup) would have been good. Nice saturated but dark pallate. | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0268978 |
| Being at home with Claude | 1992 | BEAUDIN, Jean | DUPUIS, Roy; GAUDIN, Jacques, PICHETTE, Jean-Francois | 7.50 | Honest, unapologetic revelation of gay lifestyle and desparaton | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0103787/ |
| Being John Malkovitch | 1999 | JONZE, Spike | CUSACK, John; DIAZ, Cameron; KEENER, Catherine; BEAN, Orson; PLACE, Mary Kay, MALKOVICH, John | 8.00 | Hilarious and very clever concept. Keener's performance particularly good. | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120601 |
| Being Julia | 2004 | Szabó István | BENNING, Annette; IRONS, Jeremy | 8.75 | Splendid. Terrific ensemble but Julia is divine | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0340012/ |
| Belle de Jour | 1967 | BUNUEL, Luis | DENEUVE, Cathereine, SOREL, Jean, PICCOLI, Michel | 8.00 | Interesting view of an escapist fantasy life. Too slow. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0061395/ |
| Belle Epoque | 1992 | TRUEBA, Fernando | Fernando Fernan Gomez, Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdu, Ariadna Gil, Miriam Diaz-Aroca, Mary Carmen Ramirez, Gabino Diego, Penelope Cruz, Michel Galabro | 8.50 | Wonderfully filmed, written, acted (especially by the father). Perfect amount of predictability. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0103791/ |
| Bend it Like Beckham | 2002 | CHADHA, Gurinder | NAGRA, Parminder K; KNIGHTLEY, Keira; RHYS-MEYERS, Jonathan; KHER, Anupam; | 8.25 | Surprisingly deep and meaningful. Some unanticipated surprises | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0286499 |
| Best In Show | 2000 | GUEST, Christopher | LEVY, Eugene; O'HARA, Catherine | 8.50 | Hilarious - but clearly Guest follows a formula in his portrayal of mediocrity | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0218839 |
| Big Chill, The | 1983 | KASDAN, Lawrence | BERRINGER, Tom; CLOSE, Glenn; GOLDBLUM, Jeff; HURT, William; KLINE, Kevin; PLACE, Mary Kay; TILLY, Meg; WILLIAMS, JoBeth | 8.25 | Fantastically well-made and even more believable. Essenital viewing | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085244 |
| Big Easy, The | 1987 | McBRIDE, Jim | QUAID, Dennis; BARKIN, Ellen; BEATTY, Ned; GOODMAN, John; | 8.00 | Intelligent, atmospheric drama. Maybe the Barken character is unbelievably forgiving; very end corny | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0092654/ |
| Big Green, The | 1995 | SLOAN, Holly Goldberg | GUTTENBERG, Steve | 6.00 | predictable. Some interesting action photography | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0112499/ |
| Big Lebowski, The | 1998 | COEN, Joel | GOODMAN, John; BRIDGES, Jeff | 9.00 | Hilarious and clever | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118715 |
| Big Night | 1996 | TUCCI, Stanley; SCOTT, Campbell | Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Ian Holm, Minnie Driver, Isabella Rossellini, Allison Janney, Campbell Scott, Marc Anthony | 9.25 | One of the most nearly perfect films made in the U.S. Perfect textures and tension. (Eat well before or after!) | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0115678 |
| Big Trouble | 2002 | SONNENFELD, Barry | ALLEN, Tim; EPPS, Omar; FARINA, Dennis; FOSTER, Ben; GAROFALO, Janeane; LEE (I), Jason; RUSSO, Rene | 7.75 | Really good, really funny comedy. A nice surprise. | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0246464 |
| Bitter Moon | 1994 | POLANSKI, Roman | COYOTE, Peter; SEIGNER, Emmanuelle, GRANT, Hugh. | 8.00 | Clever characterizations, very believable drama. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0104779/ |
| Black Orpheus | 1959 | CAMUS, Marcel | MELLO, Breno | 8.00 | Splendid comic tragedy. Atmospheric, poignant | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0053146 |
| Blade Runner (Director's cut) | 1982 | SCOTT, Ridley | Harrison Ford, Rutgar Hauer, Daryl Hannah | 7.00 | superb style/architecture/sets, weak story | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/ |
| Blair Witch Project, The | 1999 | MYRICK, Daniel; SANCHEZ (II), Eduardo | DONAHUE, Heather; WILLIAMS, Michael C; LEONARD, Joshua | 8.00 | Refreshingly un-silly horror movie. A triumph of low-budget, independent film-making. Very well directed. | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0185937 |
| Blow | 2001 | DEMME, Ted | DEPP, Johnny; CRUZ, Penélope | 7.75 | Well made but completely failing to draw any compassion | http://us.imdb.com/Details?0221027 |
| Blowfinger | 1999 | OZ, Frank | MARTIN, Steve; MURPHY, Eddie | 7.25 | Clever comedy; probably has a lot of truth about the movie industry. Hilarious | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0131325 |
| Blowup | 1966 | q ANTONIONI, Michelangelo |
REDGRAVE, Vanessa; MILES, Sarah; HEMMINGS, David | 7.75 | Probably very cool sixties film with symbology etc. but pretty boring actually. | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0060176 |
| Blue in the Face | 1995 | WANG, Wayne; AUSTER, Paul | Harvey Keitel, Madonna, Lily Tomlin, Michael J. Fox, Lou Reed, Roseanne, Jim Jarmush | 7.50 | Irreverent sequel to Smoke. Funny, atmospheric. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0112541/ |
| Blue Velvet | 1986 | LYNCH, David | Dennis Hopper, Isablla Rossellini, MacLACHLAN, Kyle | 8.00 | Nicely weird, symbolic. Slight temporal anachronisms? (cool!) | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0090756 |
| Blues Brothers, The | 1980 | LANDIS, John | AYKROYD, Dan; BELUSHI, John, plus cast of many stars | 7.50 | Slightly slow but often funny, great dancing and hits, great chases and stunts. cool flick. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0080455/ |
| Bodies, Rest & Motion | 1993 | STEINBERG, Michael | Phobie Cates, Brigitte Fonda, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz | 7.75 | Very well shot, quite deep views of relationships too. Stoltz is wonderful. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0106447/ |
| Body Heat | 1981 | KASDAN, Lawrence | Kathleen Turner, William Hurt, Micky Rourk, Richard Crenna | 8.50 | Excellent thriller plus sex. Works again because you see the hints of betrayal. | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0082089 |
| Body of Evidence | 1993 | ULRICH, Edel | Madonna; DAFOE, Wilem | 5.00 | So boring I didn't finish it. The sex is laughably tame~ | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0106453 |
| Boiler Room | 2000 | YOUNGER, Ben | RIBISI, Geovanni; DIESEL, Vin; LONG, Via | 7.25 | Captivating but disappointingly formlaic | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0181984 |
| Bone Collector, The | 1999 | NOYCE, Phillip | WASHINGTON, Denzel; JOLIE, Angelina | 7.00 | Real anxiety, but too farfetched and predictable | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0145681 |
| Boogie Nights | 1997 | ANDERSON, Paul Thomas | WHALBERG, Mark; REYNOLDS, Burt | 8.00 | Very realistic performances. Good long shots. Almost a documentary of a bunch of losers in 70's/80's Pornographic movie world | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0118749/ |
| Boot, Das | 1981 | PETERSEN, Wolfgang | PROCHNOW, Jurgen; GRONEMEYER, Herbert | 8.50 | Riveting, classic u-boat movie. Unbeatable in the genre. | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0082096 |
| Bound | 1996 | WACHOWSKI, Larry and Andy | Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano | 8.75 | Absolutely excelent thriller with superb, suspensful plot, plus great style and cinematography. | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115736/ |
| Bowling for Columbine | 2002 | MOORE, Michael | MOORE, Michael et al | 8.50 | Although mared by credibility problems, a very important (and entertaining) documentary | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0310793 |
| Boxing Helena | 1993 | LYNCH, Jennifer | Julian Sands, Sherilyn Fenn, Art Garfunkel | 5.75 | Sands is a PATHETIC actor. Story is quite good but painfully acted and directed. | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0106471 |
| Boys Don't Cry | 1999 | PIERCE, Kimberly | SWANK, Hillery | 9.00 | Powerful, moving, superbly performed and made | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0171804 |
| Bram Stoker's Dracula | 1992 | COPPOLA, Frances Ford | Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves | 7.75 | Only 'good' story and acting but wonderful filming and make up. (the trains are models though!) | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0103874/ |
| Bridge Too Far, A | 1977 | ATENBOROUGH, Richard | Too many to list | 8.00 | War is Hell. Whatever. No real other meaning, except maybe the futility | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0075784 |
| Bridges of Madison County, The | 1995 | EASTWOOD, Clint | STREETP, Meryl; EASTWOOD, Clint; CORLEY, Annie | 8.75 | Excellently made. Performances, screenplay, direction. (Am I the only one too uptight to forgive the affair?) | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0112579/ |
| Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason | 2004 | KIDRON, Beeban | 8.00 | ZELLWEGER, Renne | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0317198/ | |
| Bridget Jones's Diary | 2001 | MCGUIRE, Sharon | ZELLWEGER, Renée; FIRTH, Colin; GRANT, Hugh; BROADBENT, Jim; JONES, Gemma | 8.25 | Really very pleasing adaptation. Yes, as far as I could tell, Texan Renée pulls the accent off | http://us.imdb.com/Details?0243155 |
| Bring It On | 2000 | REED, Payton | DUNST, Kirsten | 7.50 | Surprisingly good 'summer' movie. Predictable but not tacky or brainless | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0204946 |
| Bringing Down the House | 2003 | SHANKMAN, Adam | MARTIN, Steve; LATIFAH, Queen; LEVY, Eugene | 6.75 | Silly silly silly … and yet some of the humor is very good. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0305669/ |
| Broken Arrow | 1996 | WOO, John | Christian Slater, John Travolta, MATHIS, Samantha | 6.50 | Leads good but film spoilt by discontinuities, unbelievable situations. Some small but deep messages. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0115759/ |
| Broken English | 1996 | NICHOLAS, Gregor | SETBEDZIJA, Rade; VUJCIC, Aleksandra; ARAHANGA, Julian; CSOKAS, Marton; McNAMARA, Madeline | 8.00 | Culture shock, hatred, love. More New Zealand disfunctionality | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0115760/ |
| Bronenosets Potyomkin | 1925 | ALEKSANDROV, Grigori; EISENSTEIN, Sergei M | ANTONOV, Aleksandr | 8.50 | Powerful propoganda film - slightly hard to follow details but unmistakable messge | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0015648 |
| Brothers McMullen, The | 1995 | BURNS II, Edward | BURNS, Edward | 8.25 | Well made and thought provoking analyses of love | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0115759/ |
| Browning Version, The | 1994 | FIGGIS, Mike | Albert Finney, Greta Scacci, Mathew Modine, Michael Gambon, Julian Sands | 8.25 | Finney excelent. Scaccia good (as major bitch). Sands not quite as pathetic as usual. Awful editing, good photography | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0043362/ |
| Bull Durham | 1988 | SHELTON, Ron | Susan Sarandon, Kevin Kostner, Tim Robbins | 8.50 | Works well second time! Funny, moving, well done. Costner's best. | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094812 |
| Bullets over Broadway | 1994 | ALLEN, Woody | John Cusak, Diedie Wiest, Jim Broadbent, TILLY, Jennifer | 8.25 | Hilarious, less subtle than Allen often is, still recognizably his (pace, dialogue), clever story, good performances | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0109348/ |
| Buried on Sunday | 1992 | DONOVAN, Paul | AKERMAN, Jeremy | 7.00 | Low-budget, some poor performances and some very good ones. Intriguing idea. Implausable but charming. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0106497/ |
| Burnt by the Sun | 1995 | MIKHALKOV, Nikita | Oleg Menchikov, Ingeborga Dapkounaite, Nikita & Nadia Mikhalkov | 8.25 | Beautiful, atmospheric elite Russian Dacha day, with simmering politics. Wonderfully made. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0111579/ |
| Cable Guy, The | 1996 | STILLER, Ben | Jim Carrey, Mathew Broderick, Leslie Mann, Jack Black, George Segal, Diane Baker, Ben Stiller, Eric Roberts, Janeane Garafalo, Andy Dick, Harry O'Reilly | 7.75 | Surprisingly good film really makes a point; Jim is extremely clever | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0115798/ |
| Calendar | 1993 | EGOYAN, Atom | Atom Egoyan, KHANJIAN, Arsinee, ADAMIAN, Ashot | 8.75 | Unusual cyclic film of loser Armenian photographer's lost love, pay-for-dates, and beautiful ruined churches | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0106504 |
| Canadian Bacon | 1995 | MOORE, Michael | CANDY, John; ALDA, Alan; PERLMAN, Rhea, TORN, Rip, AYKROYD, Dan | 7.00 | Hilarious low-budget political satire about Americans' view of Canada. Dr. Strangelover meets Jonny Canuck | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0109370/ |
| Cape Fear | 1962 | THOMPSON, J. Lee | Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, BERGEN, Polly | 7.25 | Somehow failed to swing my sympathies the way it intended. Ending seems tame after knowing remake. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0055824/ |
| Captain Corelli's Mandolin | 2001 | MADDEN, John | CAGE, Nicolas; CRUZ, Penélope; HURT, John | 7.75 | Charming but formulastic and unoriginal | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0238112 |
| Career Girls | 1997 | LEIGH, Mike | CARTLIDGE, Katrin; STEADMAN, Lynda | 9.00 | Excelent, funny. Extraordinarily well directed, written, and acted. | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118818 |
| Caro Diario | 1993 | MORETTI, Nanni | Nanni Moretti, Renato Carpentieri, Antonio Neiwiller | 7.00 | Funny, puzzling film. Confusing symbolism. Pleasant | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0109382/ |
| Carrington | 1995 | HAMPTON, Christopher | THOMPSON, Emma; PRYCE, Jonathan; WADDINGTON, Steven; WEST, Samuel | 7.50 | ? | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0112637/ |
| Casablanca | 1942 | CURTIZ, Michael | Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Heinreid, Konrad Veidt, Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lore, Conrad Veidt, Dooley Wilson | 8.75 | Unbeatable romance, intrigue. part corny, but highly sentimental | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0034583 |
| Casino | 1995 | SCORCESE, Martin | Robert de Niro, Joe Pesci, Sharron Stone | 8.00 | Well made (violent) gangster Vegas movie. Clever double narration, montage. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0112641/ |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | BROKS, Richard (I) | TAYLOR, Elizabeth; NEWMAN, Paul; IVES, Burl | 8.25 | Great performances including several long and intense scenes | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0051459 |
| Cat People, The | 1942 | TOURNEUR, Jacques | Simon Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Kent Smith, Jack Holt | 7.50 | q | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0034587/ |
| Catch Me If You Can | 2002 | SPIELBERG, Steven | DiCAPRIO, Leonardo; HANKS, Tom; WALKEN, Christopher | 7.75 | Surprisingly good. Rather sychophantic extra features with real character. Over-the top lighting | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0264464 |
| Caught | 1949 | OPHULS, Max | BEL GEDDES, Barbara, MASON, James, RYAN, Robert | 8.25 | Excelent performances and direction. Very clever script. High tension with unpredicable but believable outcomes. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0040221/ |
| Chamber, The | 1996 | FOLEY, James | Chris O'Donnel, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunnoway | 8.00 | Good film about death penalty, guilt, family coming to grips with biggotted grandfather. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0115862/ |
| Chaplin | 1992 | ATENBOROUGH, Richard | Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Kline | 7.00 | Downey good; narative interview is embarrasingly predictable, unsubtle | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0103939/ |
| Chicken Run | 2000 | LORD (I), Peter; PARK, Nick | GIBSON, Mel; RICHARDSON, Miranda | 8.00 | Excelent - cleaver parallels with POW camps, very good for grown-ups and children alike. The 'acting' is wonderful! | http://us.imdb.com/Details?0120630 |
| China's Top Female Acrobats | 0 | Xia JueHua and Shun Yunxin | various | 5.00 | ? | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0051201/ |
| Chocolat | 2000 | HALLSTROM, Lasse | BINOCHE, Juliette; OLIN, Lena; DEPP, Johnny; DENCH, Judi; MOLINA, Alfred, MOSS, Carrie-Anne; CARON, Leslie | 8.25 | Wonderful and charming. Slightly formulated and predictable, but thoroughly lovely. Nice use of motifs (fire and wind) | http://us.imdb.com/Details?0241303 |
| Cider House Rules, The | 1999 | HALLSTROM, Lasse | q | 7.25 | Painfully boring. Michael Caine good but the film is just so uncaptivating | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0124315 |
| Citizen Kane | 1941 | WELLES, Orson | Orson Welles, Joseph cotton, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ruth Warwick | 8.25 | Expressionism, photography, flashback structure interesting. | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0033467 |
| Citizen Ruth | 1996 | PAYNE, Alexander | Laura Dern, Tippi Hedren, Burt Reynolds, Mary Kay Place | 7.25 | Laura's performance is excellent. Movie covers both sides of abortion issue, reveals fanatacism superceding caring for the woman on both sides. | http://us.imdb.com/Title?0115906 |
| City Hall | 1996 | BECKER, Harold | Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda... | 7.00 | ? | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0115907/ |
| Claire of the Moon | 1992 | CONN, Nicole | TODD, Tricha | 5.75 | Somewhat boring lesbian film; too issue-oriented; low on plain film quality. | http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0103977/ |