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★ Beautiful Thing B+
dir Hettie MacDonald; with Glen Berry, Linda Henry, Scott Neal, Tameka Empson
★ Cemetery Man B–
dir. Michèle Soavi; with Rupert Everett, Francois Hadji-Lazaro, Anna Falchi
★ Citizen Ruth C+
dir. Alexander Payne; with Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz, Mary Kay Place
★ Flirting with Disaster B–
dir. David O. Russell; with Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni
★ The Portrait of a Lady A–
dir. Jane Campion; with Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey
★ Ransom B–
dir. Ron Howard; with Mel Gibson, Gary Sinise, René Russo
★ Schizopolis B
dir. Steven Soderbergh; with Steven Soderbergh, Betsy Brantley, David Jensen
★ Surviving Picasso D+
dir. James Ivory; with Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone, Julianne Moore
★ Trainspotting B
dir. Danny Boyle; with Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle
  • Angels & Insects B+
    dir. Philip Haas; with Mark Rylance, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patsy Kensit
  • Basquiat B+
    dir. Julian Schnabel; with Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Claire Forlani
  • Beautiful Girls B–
    dir. Ted Demme; with Timothy Hutton, Matt Dillon, Natalie Portman
  • Beavis and Butt-head Do
          America     C–
    dir. Mike Judge; animated; voices of Mike Judge, Robert Stack
  • Big Night A–
    dirs. Stanley Tucci & Campbell Scott; with Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Ian Holm
  • The Birdcage B–
    dir. Mike Nichols; with Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman
  • Bound A–
    dirs. Lana and Lilly Wachowski; with Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly
  • Breaking the Waves B+
    dir. Lars von Trier; with Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge
  • Butterfly Kiss C+
    dir. Michael Winterbottom; with Amanda Plummer, Saskia Reeves, Ricky Tomlinson
  • The Celluloid Closet B
    dirs. Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman; documentary about gay images on film
  • Cold Comfort Farm B–
    dir. John Schlesinger; with Kate Beckinsale, Eileen Atkins, Rufus Sewell
  • Courage Under Fire C+
    dir. Edward Zwick; with Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Matt Damon
  • The Crucible B+
    dir. Nicholas Hytner; with Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Joan Allen, Paul Scofield
  • Dadetown B
    dir. Russ Hexter; with Bill Garrison, Edith Meeks, David Phelps
  • Dead Man C
    dir. Jim Jarmusch; with Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen
  • Diabolique B
    dir. Jeremiah Chechik; with Isabelle Adjani, Sharon Stone, Chazz Palminteri
  • Emma B–
    dir. Douglas McGrath; with Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Toni Collette
  • The English Patient A
    dir. Anthony Minghella; with Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Everyone Says I Love You B+
    dir. Woody Allen; with Woody Allen, Goldie Hawn, Natasha Lyonne, Alan Alda
  • Evita B+
    dir. Alan Parker; with Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce
  • Executive Decision F
    dir. Stuart Baird; with Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, Steven Seagal
  • Fargo A
    dir. Joel Coen; with Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi
  • The Film of Her C+
    dir. Bill Morrison; experimental collage of found footage
  • Fire B–
    dir. Deepa Mehta; with Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi, Kulbushan Kharbanda
  • The First Wives Club B
    dir. Hugh Wilson; with Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler
  • Ghosts of Mississippi C–
    dir. Rob Reiner; with Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Whoopi Goldberg
  • Gray's Anatomy C–
    dir. Steven Soderbergh; with Spalding Gray
  • Hamlet B–
    dir. Kenneth Branagh; with Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi
  • The Hunchback of Notre
          Dame     A–
    dirs. Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise; animated; voice of Tom Hulce
  • I Love You, I Love You Not D
    dir. Billy Hopkins; with Claire Danes, Jeanne Moreau, Jude Law
  • I Shot Andy Warhol B
    dir. Mary Harron; with Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Stephen Dorff
  • If These Walls Could Talk C+
    TV Movie; dirs. Nancy Savoca, Cher; with Demi Moore, Sissy Spacek, Cher
  • Independence Day C–
    dir. Roland Emmerich; with Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum
  • Jane Eyre C–
    dir. Franco Zeffirelli; with Charlotte Gainsbourg, William Hurt, Joan Plowright
  • Jerry Maguire A–
    dir. Cameron Crowe; with Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger, Cuba Gooding Jr.
  • Jingle All the Way F
    dir. Brian Levant; with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman
  • Jude B+
    dir. Michael Winterbottom; with Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet, Liam Cunningham
  • Kansas City B–
    dir. Robert Altman; with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte
  • Lone Star A–
    dir. John Sayles; with Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Kris Kristofferson
  • Mars Attacks! B
    dir. Tim Burton; with Jack Nicholson, Jim Brown, Annette Bening
  • Marvin's Room B
    dir. Jerry Zaks; with Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Mary Reilly B–
    dir. Stephen Frears; with Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, Glenn Close
  • The Mirror Has Two Faces C–
    dir. Barbra Streisand; with Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Lauren Bacall
  • Mission: Impossible B+
    dir. Brian De Palma; with Tom Cruise, Emmanuelle Béart, Jon Voight
  • A Moment of Innocence A–
    dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf; with Mirhadi Tayebi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  • Mother B–
    dir. Albert Brooks; with Albert Brooks, Debbie Reynolds, Rob Morrow
  • Mr. Wrong B–
    dir. Nick Castle; with Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Pullman, Joan Cusack
  • Nenette et Boni B–
    dir. Claire Denis; with Grégoire Colin, Alice Houri, Jacques Nolot
  • The Nutty Professor B+
    dir. Tom Shadyac; with Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett, Larry Miller
  • The Pallbearer B
    dir. Matt Reeves; with David Schwimmer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Barbara Hershey
  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders
          at Robin Hood Hills     B
    dirs. Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky; documentary about controversial murder trial
  • The People vs. Larry Flynt A–
    dir. Miloš Forman; with Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton
  • Primal Fear C+
    dir. Gregory Hoblit; with Richard Gere, Edward Norton, Laura Linney
  • The Rock B–
    dir. Michael Bay; with Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery, Ed Harris
  • Scorned 2 D+
    dir. Rodney McDonald; with Tane McClure, Myles O'Brien, Wendy Schumacher
  • Scream B
    dir. Wes Craven; with Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan
  • Secrets & Lies A–
    dir. Mike Leigh; with Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
  • Set It Off B–
    dir. F. Gary Gray; with Jada Pinkett, Vivica A. Fox, Queen Latifah
  • Shine B+
    dir. Scott Hicks; with Geoffrey Rush, Noah Taylor, Armin Mueller-Stahl
  • Sling Blade B+
    dir. Billy Bob Thornton; with Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, Dwight Yoakam
  • Stealing Beauty C
    dir. Bernardo Bertolucci; with Liv Tyler, Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack
  • Sweet Nothing B–
    dir. Gary Winick; with Michael Imperioli, Mira Sorvino, Paul Calderon
  • A Time to Kill C
    dir. Joel Schumacher; with Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson
  • The Truth About Cats & Dogs B+
    dir. Michael Lehmann; with Janeane Garofalo, Uma Thurman, Ben Chaplin
  • Twister C
    dir. Jan de Bont; with Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Jami Gertz
  • Unhook the Stars B
    dir. Nick Cassavetes; with Gena Rowlands, Marisa Tomei, Jake Lloyd
  • Les Voleurs B–
    dir. André Téchiné with Daniel Auteuil, Laurence Cote, Catherine Deneuve
  • Walking and Talking B+
    dir. Nicole Holofcener; with Catherine Keener, Anne Heche, Todd Field
  • Welcome to the Dollhouse B
    dir. Todd Solondz; with Heather Matarazzo, Brendan Sexton Jr., Matthew Faber
  • The Whole Wide World C
    dir. Dan Ireland; with Renée Zellweger, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ann Wedgeworth
  • William Shakespeare's Romeo +
          Juliet     B
    dir. Baz Luhrmann; with Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Harold Perrineau Jr.
  • You Don't Know Dick B
    dirs. Candace Schermerhorn & Bestor Cram; documentary about ftm transsexuals
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