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© Addicted to Love B
dir. Griffin Dunne; with Matthew Broderick, Meg Ryan, Tchéky Karyo
★ Afterglow D+
dir. Alan Rudolph; with Nick Nolte, Julie Christie, Jonny Lee Miller
© Air Force One C+
dir. Wolfgang Petersen; with Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close
© Alien: Resurrection B
dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet; with Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman
  • All Over Me B+
    dir. Alex Sichel; with Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Cole Hauser
    ★ Amistad B–
    dir. Steven Spielberg; with Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins
  • The Apostle A–
    dir. Robert Duvall; with Robert Duvall, John Beasley, Farrah Fawcett
    ★ As Good As It Gets C+
    dir. James L. Brooks; with Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear
  • Austin Powers: International Man
          of Mystery     B–
    dir. Jay Roach; with Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Robert Wagner
  • Bent B–
    dir. Sean Mathias; with Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Mick Jagger, Brian Webber
  • Bliss B
    dir. Lance Young; with Craig Sheffer, Sheryl Lee, Terence Stamp, Lois Chiles
    ★ Blood and Wine B+
    dir. Bob Rafelson; with Jack Nicholson, Stephen Dorff, Michael Caine
    ★ Boogie Nights A
    dir. Paul Thomas Anderson; with Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore
    ★ The Boxer D+
    dir. Jim Sheridan; with Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, Gerard McSorley
  • Breakdown B
    dir. Jonathan Mostow; with Kurt Russell, J.T. Walsh, Kathleen Quinlan
  • Career Girls B
    dir. Mike Leigh; with Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman, Mark Benton
  • Chasing Amy D+
    dir. Kevin Smith; with Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Lee
  • Children of the Revolution B–
    dir. Peter Duncan; with Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush, Richard Roxburgh
    © Conceiving Ada C
    dir. Lynn Hershmann-Leeson; with Tilda Swinton, Francesca Faridany, Karen Black
  • Conspiracy Theory B
    dir. Richard Donner; with Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart
  • Contact B
    dir. Robert Zemeckis; with Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt
  • A Couch in New York D–
    dir. Chantal Akerman; with Juliette Binoche, William Hurt, Stephanie Buttle
    ★ Crash A–
    dir. David Cronenberg; with James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Elias Koteas
  • Deconstructing Harry B
    dir. Woody Allen; with Woody Allen, Hazelle Goodman, Billy Crystal
  • Donnie Brasco A
    dir. Mike Newell; with Johnny Depp, Al Pacino, Michael Madsen, Anne Heche
  • Eve's Bayou A–
    dir. Kasi Lemmons; with Jurnee Smollett, Samuel L. Jackson, Debbi Morgan
    ★ Eye of God B
    dir. Tim Blake Nelson; with Martha Plimpton, Kevin Anderson, Nick Stahl
  • Face/Off A–
    dir. John Woo; with Nicolas Cage, John Travolta, Joan Allen
  • Fast, Cheap & Out of Control B+
    dir. Errol Morris; documentary about four men with bizarre occupations
  • Female Perversions B+
    dir. Susan Streitfeld; with Tilda Swinton, Amy Madigan, Karen Sillas
  • The Fifth Element C+
    dir. Luc Besson; with Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman
  • 4 Little Girls B+
    dir. Spike Lee; documentary about 1963 church bombing in Montgomery, Alabama
  • The Full Monty B
    dir. Peter Cattaneo; with Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, Tom Wilkinson
  • Funny Games B
    dir. Michael Haneke; with Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch
  • Gabbeh B+
    dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf; with Shaghayeh Djodat, Rogheih Moharami
  • The Game C
    dir. David Fincher; with Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Penn
  • Gattaca B+
    dir. Andrew Niccol; with Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Loren Dean
  • Good Will Hunting B+
    dir. Gus Van Sant; with Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Stellan Skarsgård
  • Grosse Pointe Blank C
    dir. George Armitage; with John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd
  • The Hanging Garden B–
    dir. Thom Fitzgerald; with Chris Leavins, Troy Veinotte, Kerry Fox, Peter MacNeill
  • Happy Together A
    dir. Wong Kar-wai; with Tony Leung, Leslie Cheung, Chang Chen
    ★ Hollow Reed B–
    dir. Angela Pope; with Martin Donovan, Joely Richardson, Sam Bould
  • The House of Yes F
    dir. Mark Waters; with Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton, Tori Spelling
    ★ I Know What You Did Last
          Summer     C
    dir. Jim Gillespie; with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr.
  • The Ice Storm C+
    dir. Ang Lee; with Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Christina Ricci
  • In & Out C+
    dir. Frank Oz; with Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Tom Selleck
  • In the Company of Men B
    dir. Neil LaBute; with Aaron Eckhart, Stacy Edwards, Matt Malloy
  • Irma Vep A
    dir. Olivier Assayas; with Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard
  • Jackie Brown A–
    dir. Quentin Tarantino; with Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster
  • John Grisham's
          The Rainmaker     B–
    dir. Francis Ford Coppola; with Matt Damon, Danny DeVito
  • Kissed B–
    dir. Lynne Stopkewich; with Molly Parker, Peter Outerbridge, Jay Brazeau
  • Kundun C+
    dir. Martin Scorsese; with Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Sonam Phuntsok, Tencho Gyalpo
  • L.A. Confidential A
    dir. Curtis Hanson; with Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, Kim Basinger
  • Liar Liar C
    dir. Tom Shadyac; with Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper
  • Life of Jesus B
    dir. Bruno Dumont; with David Douche, Marjorie Cottreel, Kader Chaatouf
  • Lilies B–
    dir. John Greyson; with Danny Gillmore, Jason Cadieux, Matthew Ferguson
  • Live Flesh B+
    dir. Pedro Almodóvar; with Liberto Rabal, Francesca Neri, Javier Bardem
  • The Lost World: Jurassic Park C
    dir. Steven Spielberg; with Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Vince Vaughn
  • love jones B–
    dir. Theodore Witcher; with Nia Long, Larenz Tate, Lisa Nicole Carson
  • Love! Valour! Compassion! B–
    dir. Joe Mantello; with Stephen Bogardus, Jason Alexander, John Glover
  • Ma vie en rose B–
    dir. Alain Berliner; with Georges Du Fresne, Michèle Laroque, Jean-Philippe Écoffey
    ★ Margaret's Museum B
    dir. Mort Ransen; with Helena Bonham Carter, Clive Russell, Kate Nelligan
  • Men in Black C
    dir. Barry Sonnenfeld; with Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Midnight in the Garden of Good
          and Evil     D
    dir. Clint Eastwood; with John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, Jack Thompson
  • The Mill on the Floss C
    dir. Graham Theakston; with Emily Watson, Ifan Meredith, James Frain
  • Mrs. Brown B–
    dir. John Madden; with Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Antony Sher
    ★ My Best Friend's Wedding B
    dir. P.J. Hogan; with Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz
    ★ The Myth of Fingerprints B
    dir. Bart Freundlich; with Noah Wyle, Julianne Moore, Roy Scheider, Blythe Danner
  • Nappy B
    dir. Lydia Ann Douglas; documentary short about African-American women's hair
  • One Night Stand C+
    dir. Mike Figgis; with Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski, Robert Downey Jr.
  • Oscar and Lucinda A
    dir. Gillian Armstrong; with Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Tom Wilkinson
    ★ Paradise Road B–
    dir. Bruce Beresford; with Glenn Close, Pauline Collins, Jennifer Ehle, Frances McDormand
  • The Pillow Book B+
    dir. Peter Greenaway; with Vivian Wu, Ken Ogata, Ewan McGregor
  • Ponette B+
    dir. Jacques Doillon; with Victoire Thivisol, Delphine Schiltz, Matiaz Bureau Caton
  • Rodgers & Hammerstein's
          Cinderella     B+
    dir. Robert Iscove; with Brandy, Paolo Montalban, Bernadette Peters
  • Romy & Michele's High School
          Reunion     D+
    dir. David Mirkin; with Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow, Alan Cumming
  • Scream 2 B
    dir. Wes Craven; with Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette
  • See the Sea B
    dir. François Ozon; with Sasha Hails, Marina de Van, Paul Raoux
  • Seven Years in Tibet B–
    dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud; with Brad Pitt, Jamyang Wangchuk, David Thewlis
  • She's So Lovely C
    dir. Nick Cassavetes; with Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn, John Travolta
  • Starship Troopers B–
    dir. Paul Verhoeven; with Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards
  • The Sweet Hereafter A
    dir. Atom Egoyan; with Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood, Gabrielle Rose
    ★ A Thousand Acres C+
    dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse; with Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jason Robards
    ★ Titanic A
    dir. James Cameron; with Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Billy Zane, Gloria Stuart
  • Ulee's Gold B
    dir. Victor Nuñez; with Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Jessica Biel
  • U-Turn F
    dir. Oliver Stone; with Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte
  • Wag the Dog B+
    dir. Barry Levinson; with Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Heche
  • Waiting for Guffman B–
    dir. Christopher Guest; with Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard
    ★ Washington Square B+
    dir. Agnieszka Holland; with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Ben Chaplin
  • The Watermelon Woman B+
    dir. Cheryl Dunye; with Cheryl Dunye, Valarie Walker, Guinevere Turner
  • Welcome to Sarajevo B+
    dir. Michael Winterbottom; with Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Emira Nuševic
  • The Wings of the Dove A–
    dir. Iain Softley; with Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Alison Elliott
  • The Winter Guest A–
    dir. Alan Rickman; with Phyllida Law, Emma Thompson, Gary Hollywood
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