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  • Boys Don't Cry A
    dir. Kimberly Peirce; with Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard
    ★ Eyes Wide Shut A
    dir. Stanley Kubrick; with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Julienne Davis
  • American Beauty A–
    dir. Sam Mendes; with Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley
  • Being John Malkovich A–
    dir. Spike Jonze; with John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, John Malkovich, Catherine Keener
    ★ The Blair Witch Project A–
    dirs. Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez; with Heather Donahue, Michael Williams
  • Bringing Out the Dead A–
    dir. Martin Scorsese; with Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman
  • Magnolia A–
    dir. Paul Thomas Anderson; with John C. Reilly, Philip Baker Hall, Tom Cruise
  • Man on the Moon A–
    dir. Miloš Forman; with Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Paul Giamatti, Courtney Love
  • The Straight Story A–
    dir. David Lynch; with Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley A–
    dir. Anthony Minghella; with Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett
  • Topsy-Turvy A–
    dir. Mike Leigh; with Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville
  • Toy Story 2 A–
    dir. John Lasseter; animated; voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack
    ★ Tumbleweeds A–
    dir. Gavin O'Connor; with Janet McTeer, Kimberly J. Brown, Gavin O'Connor
  • The Astronaut's Wife B+
    dir. Rand Ravich; with Charlize Theron, Johnny Depp, Joe Morton
  • Besieged B+
    dir. Bernardo Bertolucci; with Thandie Newton, David Thewlis, Claudio Santamaria
  • The Book of Life B+
    dir. Hal Hartley; with Martin Donovan, PJ Harvey, Thomas Jay Ryan
  • eXistenZ B+
    dir. David Cronenberg; with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Don McKellar
  • The Insider B+
    dir. Michael Mann; with Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer
  • Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall
          of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.     B+
    dir. Errol Morris; documentary about an inventor of capital-punishment devices
  • Mother and Son B+
    dir. Aleksandr Sokurov; with Aleksej Ananischnov, Gudrun Geyer
    ★ Onegin B+
    dir. Martha Fiennes; with Ralph Fiennes, Liv Tyler, Toby Stephens, Martin Donovan
  • Run Lola Run B+
    dir. Tom Tykwer; with Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup
  • Time Regained B+
    dir. Raul Ruiz; with Marcello Mazzarella, Emmanuelle Béart, Catherine Deneuve
  • A Walk on the Moon B+
    dir. Tony Goldwyn; with Diane Lane, Liev Schreiber, Anna Paquin
  • The War Zone B+
    dir. Tim Roth; with Freddie Cunliffe, Lara Belmont, Ray Winstone
  • All About My Mother B
    dir. Pedro Almodóvar; with Cecilia Roth, Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes
  • Cookie's Fortune B
    dir. Robert Altman; with Glenn Close, Charles S. Dutton, Julianne Moore
  • The Dreamlife of Angels B
    dir. Erick Zonca; with Élodie Bouchez, Natacha Régnier, Grégoire Colin
  • Edge of Seventeen B
    dir. David Moreton; with Chris Stafford, Tina Holmes, Stephanie McVay
  • Election B
    dir. Alexander Payne; with Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein
    ★ The End of the Affair B
    dir. Neil Jordan; with Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea
  • Galaxy Quest B
    dir. Dean Parisot; with Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman
  • Go B
    dir. Doug Liman; with Sarah Polley, Desmond Askew, Katie Holmes, Timothy Olyphant
  • Guinevere B
    dir. Audrey Wells; with Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Jean Smart, Gina Gershon
  • Hideous Kinky B
    dir. Gillies MacKinnon; with Kate Winslet, Bella Riza, Carrie Mullan
  • Holy Smoke B
    dir. Jane Campion; with Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Julie Hamilton
  • I Stand Alone B
    dir. Gaspar Noé with Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankye Pain
  • Limbo B
    dir. John Sayles; with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn
  • The Limey B
    dir. Steven Soderbergh; with Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Lesley Ann Warren
  • Music of the Heart B
    dir. Wes Craven; with Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Angela Bassett
  • Never Been Kissed B
    dir. Raja Gosnell; with Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Michael Vartan
    ★ Notting Hill B
    dir. Roger Michell; with Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Rhys Ifans, Emma Chambers
  • Rosetta B
    dir. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne; with Emilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione
    ★ Tarzan B
    dirs. Chris Buck & Kevin Lima; animated; voices of Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver
  • Three Kings B
    dir. David O. Russell; with George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube
  • Titus B
    dir. Julie Taymor; with Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming
  • Cradle Will Rock B–
    dir. Tim Robbins; with John Turturro, Emily Watson, Angus MacFadyen
    ★ My Son the Fanatic B–
    dir. Udayan Prasad; with Om Puri, Rachel Griffiths, Akbar Kurtha
  • Pushing Tin B–
    dir. Mike Newell; with John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett
  • Ride with the Devil B–
    dir. Ang Lee; with Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jewel, Jeffrey Wright
  • Romance B–
    dir. Catherine Breillat; with Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stevinin, François Berléand
    © The Sixth Sense B–
    dir. M. Night Shyamalan; with Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette
  • Sleepy Hollow B–
    dir. Tim Burton; with Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson
    ★ South Park: Bigger, Longer &
          Uncut     B–
    dir. Trey Parker. Animated; with the voice of Trey Parker
    ★ Star Wars, Episode I: The
          Phantom Menace     B–
    dir. George Lucas; with Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman
  • Twin Falls Idaho B–
    dir. Mark Polish; with Michael Polish, Mark Polish, Michele Lee
  • Felicia's Journey C+
    dir. Atom Egoyan; with Elaine Cassidy, Bob Hoskins, Bríd Brennan
  • Fight Club C+
    dir. David Fincher; with Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter
  • Girl, Interrupted C+
    dir. James Mangold; with Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg
  • Gloria C+
    dir. Sidney Lumet; with Sharon Stone, Jean-Luke Figueroa, Jeremy Northam
  • The Hurricane C+
    dir. Norman Jewison; with Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon
  • An Ideal Husband C+
    dir. Oliver Parker; with Rupert Everett, Cate Blanchett, Jeremy Northam
  • Lovers of the Arctic Circle C+
    dir. Julio Medem; with Fele Martínez, Najwa Nimri, Nancho Novo
  • A Map of the World C+
    dir. Scott Elliott; with Sigourney Weaver, David Strathairn, Julianne Moore
  • Miss Julie C+
    dir. Mike Figgis; with Saffron Burrows, Peter Mullan, Maria Doyle Kennedy
  • Office Space C+
    dir. Mike Judge; with Ron Livingston, David Herman, Jennifer Aniston
  • Simpatico C+
    dir. Matthew Warchus; with Jeff Bridges, Nick Nolte, Sharon Stone, Albert Finney
  • The Third Miracle C+
    dir. Agnieszka Holland; with Ed Harris, Anne Heche, Armin Mueller-Stahl
  • Water Drops on Burning
          Rocks     C+
    dir. François Ozon; with Bernard Giraudeau, Malik Zadi, Ludivine Sagnier
  • William Shakespeare's A
          Midsummer Night's Dream     C+
    dir. Michael Hoffman; with Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett
  • 10 Things I Hate About You C
    dir. Gil Junger; with Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Larisa Oleynik, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    ★ Children of Heaven C
    dir. Majid Majidi; with Mir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi
  • The Cider House Rules C
    dir. Lassë Hallström; with Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Michael Caine
    ★ edTV C
    dir. Ron Howard; with Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman
  • The Muse C
    dir. Albert Brooks; with Albert Brooks, Sharon Stone, Andie MacDowell
    ★ One Day in September C
    dir. Kevin Macdonald; documentary about terrorist hijacking of 1972 Olympic Games
  • Head On C–
    dir. Ana Kokkinos; with Alex Dimitriades, Paul Capsis, Julian Garner
  • She's All That C–
    dir. Robert Iscove; with Freddie Prinze, Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
    ★ Sweet and Lowdown C–
    dir. Woody Allen; with Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Uma Thurman
  • Deep Blue Sea D+
    dir. Renny Harlin; with Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, Stellan Skarsgård
  • Play It to the Bone D
    dir. Ron Shelton; with Antonio Banderas, Woody Harrelson, Lolita Davidovich
    ★ Tea With Mussolini D
    dir. Franco Zeffirelli; with Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Cher
  • Trick D
    dir. Jim Fall; with Christian Cambell, J.P. Pitoc, Tori Spelling, Lorri Bagley
    ★     The Green Mile D–
    dir. Frank Darabont; with Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse
  • In Dreams D–
    dir. Neil Jordan; with Annette Bening, Aidan Quinn, Robert Downey, Jr.
    ★     The Matrix F
    dirs. The Wachowski Brothers; with Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne
    ★ Runaway Bride F
    dir. Garry Marshall; with Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack
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