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Review of The Road to El Dorado (2000)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 01 Jan 2000

Enjoyable adventure, with a delightful beginning and an exciting finale making up for a somewhat muddled middle…

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Review of Highlander: Endgame (2000)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 01 Jan 2000

The sort of movie that's best seen late at night on TV in the company of some inebriated friends with smart mouths…

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Review of Mermaids (1990)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 01 Jan 2000

A Cher fan's dream come true, a lively tale that allows her to play the kind of free-loving free spirit she used to sing about in 1970s numbers…

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Review of Anaconda (1997)

By James Sanford (927) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 01 Jan 2000

An opening title informs us that anacondas will sometimes regurgitate their victims, just to have the pleasure of devouring them again: Yes,…

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Review of Payback (1999)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 01 Jan 2000

It may be bloody, sleazy and populated entirely by trashy people, but this picture is also subtly stylish, sensationally acted and - if you…

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Review of Rushmore (1998)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 01 Jan 2000

Quirkiness abounds, yet the beauty of the film is that the weird touches and slightly warped personalities always seem to make perfect sense…

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Review of Steel (1997)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 01 Jan 2000

Radiates messages of positivity and racial harmony when it's not struggling to be 'Batman in Da Hood…

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Review of L.A. Confidential (1997)

By James Sanford (927) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 01 Jan 2000

You won't be able to take your eyes off Kevin Spacey as a cop who yearns for notoriety, or Crowe and Pearce, playing morally challenged officers…

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Review of Wilde (1997)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 01 Jan 2000

In his lavish telling of a tragic story, director Brian Gilbert holds back very little…

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Review of The Haunting (1999)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 01 Jan 2000

So thoroughly misguided and muddled Dreamworks, the studio foisting this bomb on the public, ought to hire a special corps of ushers to hand…

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Review of Lost in Space (1998)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 01 Jan 2000

As TV-to-movie adaptations go, 'Lost In Space' is probably one of the more respectable entries in the field, with expensive production values…

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Review of Hard Rain (1998)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 01 Jan 2000

Although the title was changed from 'The Flood' to 'Hard Rain' - supposedly to more accurately reflect the film's content, if you can believe…

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Review of Powwow Highway (1989)

By James Sanford (927) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 01 Jan 2000

Martinez gives a solid, thoroughly credible performance, but it's Farmer who makes the movie truly special; look at his half-amused/half-offended…

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Review of The Astronaut's Wife (1999)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 01 Jan 2000

The movie is essentially an update of the 1958 drive-in classic I Married A Monster From Outer Space... lumbers to a wholly predictable conclusion…

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Review of American Beauty (1999)

By James Sanford (927) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 01 Jan 2000

Delights in confounding our expectations again and again…

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Review of Knock Off (1998)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 01 Jan 2000

Much of Steven E. De Souza's script sounds like it was run through one of those erratic language translation programs…

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Review of As Good as It Gets (1997)

By James Sanford (927) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 01 Jan 2000

The cast is pure magic... anyone buying a ticket to As Good As It Gets can take comfort in knowing that, in this case, the title doesn't lie…

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Review of Postman (1995)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 01 Jan 2000

The postman doesn't deliver on Christmas Day, and 'The Postman,' Kevin Costner's Christmas gift to America, doesn't deliver much in the way…

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Review of One False Move (1991)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 01 Jan 2000

A tight, tense little thriller that's most notable today as a launching pad for the careers of Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton…

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Review of The Prince of Egypt (1998)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 01 Jan 2000

One of the year's most distinctive, lovingly made movies, a picture that turns a familiar story into something suprisingly exciting, moving…

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