The Insider (1999)
In the quietest of ways, director Michael Mann has been putting together an impressive career of quality films. Even more impressive is the fact that he co-writes and produces his own material, and he...
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Being John Malkovich (1999)
If, as Andy Warhol quipped, everyone is famous for 15 minutes, why does it have to also cost $200?! Perhaps the most original comedy to come out in the 90s, Being John Malkovich is another in...
28 Days (2000)
Sandra Bullock plays a newspaper columnist who is forced to enter a drug rehab facility or face going to jail after she steals a limo and ends up in an accident. While there, she...
Dogma (1999)
Kevin Smith has one real talent and he exploits it to the fullest. That talent is his own imagination and perspective on popular culture. He brings this imaginative and insightful style into each project...
U-571 (2000)
There’s always a lot of natural tension when a movie takes place in a submarine. There’s the fact that what little air and space the men on board have is precious, and any of...
But I’m a Cheerleader (1999)
BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER is of the type of comedy that annoys me the most, the type of comedy that tries to achieve laughs merely from tossing together eccentric characters and putting them in...
Fight Club (1999)
Anytime something brilliant and weird comes out, the lamest of lame critics bandy about terms like “masterpiece” and “genius”, as if they are trying to ride some wave for the future so people don’t...
Ready to Rumble (2000)
They may be ready to rumble, but they sure weren’t ready to make a movie. A couple of septic tank cleaners are dismayed when their hero, WCW champ Jimmy the King (Platt), loses a...
Mystery, Alaska (1999)
Mystery, Alaska is home for one of the world’s finest amateur hockey teams and they are damn proud of it. After a former local boy who left for the big city (Azaria) writes about the...
Rules of Engagement (2000)
A soon-to-be retiring Marine (Jones) is called upon by a Colonel (Jackson) who saved his life under dubious circumstances in Vietnam. Colonel Terry Childers was sent into Yemen to rescue the American ambassador (Kingsley) and his...