Year 2000 Movies
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Story
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Acting
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Imagery
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Music
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Overall
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Cast Away - Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt
Lost on a tropical island for 4 years, he returns to a world that changed.
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Good
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Good
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B
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Men of Honor - Cuba Gooding, Jr., Robert De Niro, Charlize Theron
A dramatization of the true story of Navy Master Diver Carl Brashear.
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Good
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Good
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B
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Big Daddy - Adam Sandler
A small boy helps a grown man grow up -- actually a cute movie.
Notting Hill - Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant
An impressive love story with a brilliant touch of English humor.
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Excellent
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Good
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Good
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Excellent
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B
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Crazy in Alabama - Melanie Griffith, David Morse, Lucas Black, Robert Wagner, Rod Steiger
"You can bury freedom, but you can't kill it. Life and death are temporary, but freedom goes on forever."
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Good
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A-
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What Lies Beneath - Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford
The consequences of infidelity taken into the realm of the supernatural, a spirit comes to the rescue of the innocent.
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Good
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Good
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B+
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Return to Paradise - Anne Heche, Vince Vaughn, Jaoquin Phoenix
The struggle of two men who must confront their drug use in Malasia.
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Good
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Excellent
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Good
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Average
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B-
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Coyote Ugly - Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia, John Goodman
Another hardship-of-obstacles-on-the-path-to-your-dreams kind of movie in the form of raucous bar tending.
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Good
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Good
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Good
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Excellent
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B
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Any Given Sunday - Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid
Oliver Stone's interpretation of the NFL.
Three Kings - George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube
A small band of Gulf War rogues turn good guys in the aftermath of the war.
Dogma - Linda Fiorentno, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Chris Rock, Alan Rickman
The essence of religious faith through the twists & turns of humor.
The Confession - Alec Baldwin, Amy Irving, Ben Kingsley
The reflection of right and justice in manifestation of crime and punishment.
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Good
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Good
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Good
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Average
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C+
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Nuremberg - Alec Bladwin, Albert Finney, among so many others
An intriguing storyline attempting to understand the reasons why intelligent Germans followed Hitler into infamy.
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Good
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Excellent
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Good
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Good
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B
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Music of the Heart - Merle Streep, Aidan Quinn, Gloria Estefan, Angela Bassett
The triumph of one woman's commitment to the discipline of music and the young lives in her charge.
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Good
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Excellent
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Good
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Excellent
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B
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Mission to Mars - Gary Sinise, Connie Nielsen, Tim Robbins
Shades of the renown 2001 - A Space Odyssey, the connection with extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Average
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Average
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Excellent
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Good
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C+
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The Whole Nine Yards - Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Rosanna Arquette
Believe it or not, humor can be found in the web of contract killers.
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Good
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Average
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Good
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Average
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C
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The Patriot - Mel Gibson
The epic story of the American Revolution and the War for Independence on a grand scale
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Good
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A-
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The Talented Mr. Ripley - Matt Damon, Gywneth Paltrow, Jude Law
Oh what a tangled web we weave when we first practice to deceive.
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Good
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Good
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Good
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Average
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B-
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Hanging Up - Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton, Lisa Kudrow, Walter Mathau
Three sisters find their own solace from the trauma of a dysfunctional family.
Boys Don't Cry - Hilary Swank
The drive of a young, conflicted woman to live her young life as a male -- an identity crisis at its ultimate. The worst of what intolerance of those who are different can do to a human being.
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Good
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Excellent+
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Good
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Good
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B
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Gone in 60 Seconds - Nicholas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Robert Duvall
An impressive movie that actually finds good in crime. The strength of family to overcome all.
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Good
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B+
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Girl Interrupted - Wynona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg
A dark drama enveloping a young woman's descent & rising from mental illness.
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Good
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Excellent+
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OK
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Excellent
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B
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U-571 - Michael McConnahey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel
A small band of intrepid submariners board a disabled Nazi sub to capture the Enigma device. Action packed.
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Good
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A-
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Gladiator - Russell Crowe, Richard Harris, Jaoquin Phoenix
The politics of ancient Rome mixed with the honor of the warrior class.
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Good
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B+
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The Matrix - Keanu Reeves, Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie-Anne Moss
What is real, what is not? This movie will be a classic of science-fiction. The ultimate in imagination.
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Excellent
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Good
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Excellent +
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Good
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B
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Entrapment - Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta Jones
The twists and counter-twists of two master thieves in a complex set of events.
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Good
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Excellent
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Good
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Good
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C+
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The Straight Story - Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spascek
An old man, Alvin Straight, on a lawn mower riding trek defines life, friendship, family and commitment.
Bicentennial Man - Robin Williams
What does it mean to be human...as seen through the eyes of someone who is not?
Erin Brockovich - Julia Roberts, Albert Finney
One, attractive, feisty woman with attitude finds her path to helping those in need. Impressive.
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Good
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A-
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For Love of the Game - Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston
The trials and tribulations, rewards and elation of life seen through the lens of a single baseball game.
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Excellent
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Good
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Excellent
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Good
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B+
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Anna and the King - Jodie Foster, Chow Yung Fat
The story of the King and I retold with modern flair.
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Good
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Good
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Excellent
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Good
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B-
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The Bone Collector - Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie
Forensics, in an intriguing form, serve as the basis for this crime thriller.
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Good
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Excellent
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Good
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Excellent
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B
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The World is Not Enough - Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Denise Richards
Another 007 adventure. The specter of global oil market domination by a strategic placed nuclear accident.
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Average
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Average
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Good
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OK
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C
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Pushing Tin - John Cusack, Billy Bob Thorton
An over-the-top portrayal of the intensity of air traffic controllers; mix in infidelity & there you have it.
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Average
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Average
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Good
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Average
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C+
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True Crimes - Clint Eastwood, James Woods
An over-the-hill reporter living on his past becomes possessed with an impending convict's execution.
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Good
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Good
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Average
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Average
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B-
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American Beauty - Annette Bening, Kevin Spacey
The flaws, foibles and tragedy of a couple of dysfunctional American families -- dark, real dark.
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Good
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Excellent
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Average
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Good
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B
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Fight Club - Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helen Bonham Carter
I'm embarrassed to even admit I saw part of this thing. There is no socially redeeming value with this sensorial onslaught of gratuitous violence and anti-social behavior. This is not a legitimate movie.
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Terrible
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Poor
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Terrible
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Terrible
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F-
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Stigmata - Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne
A young woman is possessed with the manifestations of Jesus' crucifixion
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Good
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Good
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Average
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Average
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B-
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Random Hearts - Harrison Ford, Kristen Scott Thomas
The tangles and collateral damage of infidelity in the guise of a suspense thriller
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Average
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Good
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Average
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OK
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C
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Double Jeopardy - Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones
What an idea...a woman framed & convicted for a murder she did not commit, then wants to use the law
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Excellent
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Good
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Good
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Average
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B
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The Nephew - Donal McCann, Pierce Brosnan
The complexities of small town relationships perorate with an unexpected catalyst
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Good
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Good
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Excellent
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Average
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B-
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Mystery, Alaska - Mary McCormick
What sports should always be about as told in the form of a hockey obsessed, remote town
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Good
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Good
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Average
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Average
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B-
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Tomorrow Never Dies - Pierce Brosnan, Teri Hatcher, Michelle Yeoh
Yet one more Bond adventure, this time against a media mogul bent upon world domination
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Average
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Average
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Good
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Good
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C
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BEST: Cider House Rules - Toby MacQuire, Charlize Theron, Michael Caine
A young man's growth beyond the orphanage only to see his future returning to the orphanage
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Good
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A-
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The Muse - Sharon Stone, Albert Brooks
A typical Brooks comedy in a lame attempt to connect the classical mythology Muse to screenwriting
Eyes Wide Shut - Tom Cruise, Nicole Kiddman
The tickling of infidelity grows from his doubt
Man in the Moon - Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito
An attempt to explain Andy Kaufman, the subject was difficult and the attempt was worse
Titanic - Leonardo Di Caprio, Kate Winslett
An impressive love story set amid the tragedy of one of the last century's infamous disasters
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent+
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Excellent
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A+
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Dances with Wolves - Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Mary McDowell
The glorious story of the Great Plains
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent
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A+
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Cap's favorite
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