| 101 Dalmations (1996) | terrible - Disney rips off its own material and ruins it |
| A Little Princess | an excellent picture, not just for kids |
| A Taxing Woman | kinda fun, not nearly as good as Tampopo |
| Absolute Power | not terribly well-written, interesting performance from Clint |
| Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | REALLY stupid, but funny - watched in hospital waiting for Sarah to arrive |
| Addicted To Love | moderately unhinged, quasi-screwball - doesn't quite reach "giddy" or "inspired" but still pretty good |
| Air Force One | standard stuff, but still pretty exciting |
| Albino Alligator | a real mess, goes nowhere slowly |
| Anastasia | really enjoyed it, very entertaining |
| Angie | not too good |
| As Good As It Gets | great characters, great dialogue, fairly pedestrian story, but still loved it |
| Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | somewhat entertaining, lots of lame stuff though |
| Basquiat | sad story, good movie |
| Beautiful Girls | pretty bad, hack writing |
| Beavis and Butthead Do America | very funny |
| Before and After | pretty good |
| Being Human | wonderful movie |
| Big Night | expectations too high for this one - a few interesting moments, but nothing much going on |
| Billy Madison | moronic, especially early on, but funny |
| Blink | pretty creepy, effective thriller |
| Blood of a Poet | pretentious amateur surrealism |
| Blue Chips | pretty good, for what it was |
| Blue Sky | good, Jessica deserved the Oscar |
| Boogie Nights | outstanding, great performances, a movie about redemption for the dumb and talentless |
| Brassed Off! | Maudlin, depressing, manipulative, predictable |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's | wistful and sort of odd |
| Brewster McLoud | pretty silly, and not very well made |
| Bullets Over Broadway | entertaining as it went along, but strangely unsatisfying at the end, like the ending was tacked on |
| Carlito's Way | too sentimental for DePalma |
| Casino | disappointing retread of Goodfellas |
| Ciao, Profesore | very sweet and funny |
| Cold Comfort Farm | very funny, an excellent comedy |
| Cold Fever | very good, but sort of an unsatisfying ending |
| Contact | nowhere near as good as it could have been, but still some great sequences |
| Copycat | not too good, hack script |
| Corrina, Corrina | sweet and fun |
| Cosi | hilarious, a superb little movie |
| Country Life | disappointing, depressing |
| Crumb | amazing to watch |
| Dangerous Minds | very good, a pleasant surprise |
| Dave | kinda cute |
| Dead Man | eerie and sad, better on second viewing |
| Dead Man Walking | a great movie |
| Deconstructing Harry | I give up! I can't stand any more of Woody Allen's sophomoric self-abuse! |
| Donnie Brasco | very good, well done, a bit sad |
| Ed Wood | very funny, very good |
| Fast, Cheap and Out of Control | another brilliant piece of work by Errol Morris, perhaps his best |
| Fearless | excellent |
| Fierce Creatures | it has a few good moments, but nothing like "A Fish..." |
| Forrest Gump | most enjoyable |
| Four Weddings & A Funeral | funny, very entertaining |
| Georgia | not too good, depressing, painful |
| Get On The Bus | contrived, over-directed |
| Get Shorty | really funny, loved it |
| Glen or Glenda | abominable, worse than Plan 9 |
| Good Will Hunting | pretty well done, but with a few believability problems |
| Grosse Pointe Blank | fun to watch, but the plot is underdeveloped |
| Guarding Tess | pacing bad, dull |
| Heart & Souls | cute, funny |
| I Shot Andy Warhol | good, a bizarre story |
| I'll Do Anything | really good! |
| Il Postino | Sweet, sentimental. Best Picture - I don't *think* so! |
| In The Company Of Men | horrifying and original - a monster movie? |
| In the Name of the Father | terrific, one of the best |
| Independence Day | a terrible, preposterous movie |
| It Could Happen to You | really sweet |
| Jack | kind of nice, but nothing special |
| Jail Bait | high production values for Ed Wood, but still preposterously bad |
| Jerry Maguire | fairly entertaining, though Cruise still annoys me most of the time |
| King of the Hill | depressing |
| Kingpin | big holes in the script, but also some very funny bits |
| Larger Than Life | funny in parts, pointless in others |
| Leaving Las Vegas | extraordinary |
| Liar Liar | very funny |
| Little Big League | cute, kind of slow |
| Little Rascals | goofy, cute |
| Lone Star | very good, typically off-beat Sayles story-telling |
| Lost Highway | unintelligible rubbish |
| Mars Attacks! | a few funny bits that go nowhere - worth seeing just the same |
| Maverick | so-so |
| Men in Black | absolutely hilarious |
| Mighty Aphrodite | pretty disappointing - how long will Woody continue to recycle his own material? and how long will people like Roger Ebert continue to be taken in by him? |
| Mother | a sweet story |
| Mouse Hunt | a laff riot, terrific slapstick, very entertaining |
| Mr Holland's Opus | first half OK, then it breaks down into manipulation and naked plot devices |
| Mr. Hulot's Holiday | the wistful Mr Hulot, he's overly mannered yet boorish - he never quite fits in |
| Mrs. Doubtfire | really good, fun & sweet |
| Multiplicity | very funny |
| Murder at 1600 | moderately effective thriller |
| My Fellow Americans | pretty good, better than it had a right to be |
| Natural Born Killers | horrific and terrific |
| Nell | could have been better - we predicted Jodie would get the Oscar, but we were wrong |
| Night of the Ghouls | completely ludicrous - the floating trumpet, Dr Acula ??? |
| Nothing To Lose | a fairly funny Summer Movie |
| Phenomenon | interesting, but a very muddled story |
| Philadelphia | we didn't much care for it! |
| Please Don't Eat the Daisies | a real mess - marital drama masquerading as screwball domestic comedy - lame songs too |
| Primal Fear | Gere was good, Laura Linney was awful, Edward Norton was scary, pretty engaging story with some nice twists |
| Pulp Fiction | fun but not great - better in retrospect |
| Quiz Show | very good, disturbing |
| Reality Bites | yes, it does |
| Remains of the Day | very good |
| Reservoir Dogs | nice piece of work |
| Romeo Is Bleeding | sick, a little sad, but good |
| Ruby in Paradise | bad TV movie |
| Rumble in the Bronx | a waste of time, except for the action sequences, which are fun |
| Schindler's List | tremendous |
| Secret of Roan Inish | family fun |
| Secrets & Lies | typical Leigh picture, several good performances in search of a movie |
| Sense and Sensibility | very good |
| Seven | disturbing, very effective |
| Shadowlands | slow, poor storytelling, good ending |
| She's So Lovely | kind of messy, but entertaining, Penn is terrific |
| Shine | very good, but exploitative |
| Sirens | interesting, good movie |
| Six Degrees of Separation | a terrific picture |
| Sling Blade | I can't find fault with it - a great movie |
| Smoke | very good, offbeat, engaging |
| Soul Food | not particularly good, stereotyped characters, cliched situations |
| Speed | quite a ride |
| Stuart Saves His Family | funny, a sweet story |
| Swingers | moderately amusing |
| The American President | very entertaining and enjoyable |
| The Daytrippers | loved it, perfect ending |
| The English Patient | tremendous, a great movie |
| The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down A Mountain | pretty disappointing |
| The Hudsucker Proxy | great, really funny |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | the Disney animated version (1996); very good |
| The Ice Storm | excellent adaptation of a novel that Updike never wrote, but could have |
| The Making of Short Cuts | compelling documentary |
| The Mask | funny and cute |
| The Nasty Girl | interesting |
| The People vs Larry Flynt | pretty good |
| The Ref | very funny |
| The Shawshank Redemption | a great movie |
| The Sheltering Sky | strange and confusing, book better |
| The Summer House | very good |
| The Truth About Cats and Dogs | a sweet story, nicely done |
| The Usual Suspects | entertaining but confusing, better the second time around |
| The War Room | good, worth seeing |
| The Wedding Banquet | funny and sweet |
| The Young Poisoner's Handbook | kind of pointless |
| Theremin: An Electronic Oddysey | amazing story |
| Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead | pretty bad - Critical Bill was funny though |
| Tin Cup | really good, a fun picture |
| Titanic | wherein it is revealed just how much $200 million WON'T buy |
| Tommy Boy | funnier than it should have been |
| Toy Story | very entertaining and captivating |
| Trainspotting | a little disturbing, but a good picture |
| Unhook the Stars | disappointing |
| Unstrung Heroes | kind of downbeat, not much fun |
| Wag The Dog | beyond cynical, in its own way almost as subversive as Weekend |
| Waiting For Guffman | very funny, almost brilliant, perhaps a little thin |
| Waterworld | The story is preposterous and full of holes, the tone is uneven, and it borrows heavily from the Road Warrior myth. All in all, though, it's not too bad. |
| Weekend | outrageous satire on the bourgeosie, revolutionaries, and film itself, amidst a noisy landscape of dead bodies and burning automobile wrecks |
| Welcome to the Dollhouse | well-made, but sort of a downer |
| What's Eating Gilbert Grape? | loved it |
| When We Were Kings | a brilliant, moving film |
| Widow's Peak | great, a delicious twist at the end |
| With Honors | pretty good, better than expected |
| Year of the Horse | very good, organic mixture of sound and image |
| Zeus and Roxanne | cute movie, but too much people action |