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X-Men (2000)

Trust a few. Fear the rest.

Filmmaker(s): Bryan Singer

Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.

30 Sep X-Men (2000)

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Missed a Chance nice thing about this is the casting of McKellan and Stewart. Despite the latter's adventures with the stupid StarTrek, he is an intelligent actor, as is McKellan. They tower over the amateurs in this film as their characters should. About bad acting,...

Published September 30, 2024

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Gladiator (2000)

What we do in life echoes in eternity.

Filmmaker(s): Ridley Scott

Action

Drama

Adventure

After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.

30 Nov Gladiator (2000)

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The Illusionist and the Ventriloquist things about this film intrigue me: the novel integrated talents of Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe. We are creatures who depend on idea fragments in everything we do. Virtually everything is a rehash, sometimes creative but mostly not. When someone or...

Published November 30, 2024

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Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

Filmmaker(s): Woody Allen

Comedy

Drama

Music

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.

04 Dec Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

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Sweet is uneven to say the least. His most celebrated films strike me as failures by overreaching. But here the aspirations are slight and the result is rather winning. All of Woody's pictures are self-referential in the sense that they are about him, his foibles and...

Published December 4, 2024

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Tagged: 1990s, f1999, p2000

8 1/2 Women (1999)

If every man thinks of sex once every nine minutes, what does he think of the other eight?

Filmmaker(s): Peter Greenaway

Drama

Comedy

Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up their very own harem in their Genevan estate after watching 8½.

30 Dec 8 1/2 Women (1999)

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Women: Types and Missteps master visual allegorist reaches farther and fails. But not for the reasons others claim here. Greenaway has never centred his films in the narrative — we'd always be frustrated to look for satisfaction there. (‘Drowning' which among his works most delivers...

Published December 30, 2024

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Snake Eyes (1998)

Believe everything except your eyes.

Filmmaker(s): Brian De Palma

All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. It's up to him and lifelong friend, Naval intelligence agent Kevin Dunne to uncover the conspiracy behind the killing. At every turn, Santoro makes increasingly shocking discoveries that even he can't turn a blind eye to.

13 May Snake Eyes (1998)

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The Eye That Lies is a wonderful experience. Never mind that the acting is poor and the story weak — that was never the point. This film was made because DePalma knows how to make his camera dance and wanted to make a film based...

Published May 13, 2022

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Tagged: 1990s, f1998, p2000

Tango (1998)

Tango: do not ever leave me

Filmmaker(s): Carlos Saura

Drama

Romance

A dangerous love affair inspires a director to create the most spectacular and boldly seductive dance film ever made.

05 Dec Tango (1998)

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Making Film Dance love this stuff. This film has weaknesses, but the ambition is so grand one can forgive, at least in deciding to watch. The general problem is mixing film and dance. Rarely, oh so rarely is it done well. The stock choices are two:...

Published December 5, 2023

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Tagged: 1990s, f1998, p2000

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Some people can never believe in themselves, until someone believes in them.

Filmmaker(s): Gus Van Sant

Drama

When professors discover that an aimless janitor is also a math genius, a therapist helps the young man confront the demons that are holding him back.

13 May Good Will Hunting (1997)

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Snark Hunting admire films that shoot high and miss. But it really rankles me when a film pretends to shoot high, avoids doing so because of lack of talent, and lies to us in the process. There's great drama in the mere existence of an idiot...

Published May 13, 2022

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The Pillow Book (1995)

Filmmaker(s): Peter Greenaway

Drama

Romance

A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

04 Dec The Pillow Book (1995)

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Stop Making Sense think Greenaway makes very smart films, and I'm really glad he's around. His intellect is always tuned to ideas about the visual, so we get a double measure: his images and his commentary on those same images. You should see this film...

Published December 4, 2024

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Tagged: 1990s, f1995, p2000

Chungking Express (1994)

What a difference a day makes.

Filmmaker(s): Wong Kar-wai

Drama

Comedy

Romance

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.

17 Jun Chungking Express (1994)

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Discontinuous experiments in this film, and I took some trouble in sorting them out. The first thing you'll notice is the discontinuous camerawork, accentuated by low (never high) angles and strobeflashframes. This element by itself is sophomoric filmschoolism. Then you have the plot tags and storyline. The...

Published June 17, 2025

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Prospero’s Books (1991)

A magician's spell, the innocence of young love and a dream of revenge unite to create a tempest.

Filmmaker(s): Peter Greenaway

Fantasy

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.

06 Dec Prospero’s Books (1991)

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Amazing Scholarship is without peer, the man of whom Harold Bloom said he invented humanity. ‘The Tempest' is his richest and essentially his last play, clearly about himself and his career. John Gielgud is the finest Shakespearean actor of our age. Greenaway is the most...

Published December 6, 2024

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Tagged: 1990s, f1991, p2000