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Review of Buena Vista Social Club (1999)

By Sandra Contreras (38) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 14 Apr 2009

Cleverly mixes footage from various recording sessions and interviews with live performances in Amsterdam and New York City's Carnegie Hall…

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Review of Beloved (1998)

By Sandra Contreras (38) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 10 Dec 2008

They've taken material with the power to insinuate itself directly into the realm of the imagination, and made it strangely inert and lifeless…

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Review of The Rugrats Movie (1998)

By Sandra Contreras (38) for TV Guide (1,527) on 19 May 2008

Intermittently snappy and featuring slicker animation than its TV incarnation, this popular children's cartoon may satisfy its youngest fans,…

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Review of Cop Land (1997)

By Sandra Contreras (38) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 14 Feb 2008

Writer-director James Mangold has surrounded Stallone with an exceptional ensemble cast, and Sly is smart enough to let the actors do the acting…

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Review of Besieged (1998)

By Sandra Contreras (38) for TV Guide (1,527) on 07 Dec 2007

Maddening on many fronts and strangely wordless, Bernardo Bertolucci's purported love story breaks no new ground…

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Review of Eternity and a Day (1998)

By Sandra Contreras (38) for TV Guide (1,527) on 15 Nov 2007

Thought poets were a dying species, did you…

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Review of A Bug's Life (1998)

By Sandra Contreras (38) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 19 Jan 2007

The saucy repartee will amuse adults, while the climactic showdowns -- yes, there are more than one -- are gripping entertainment for the whole…

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Review of Smoke Signals (1998)

By Sandra Contreras (38) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 03 Feb 2006

Alexie, who adapted his own novel, bears responsibility for the movie's ham-fisted treatment of racial-identity issues, its tiresome jokes…

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Review of Home Fries (1998)

By Sandra Contreras (38) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 15 Jun 2004

The film boasts slick production values and a charmingly modest turn from the charismatic Barrymore, but it's too trifling and uneven to be…

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Review of As Good as It Gets (1997)

By Sandra Contreras (38) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 28 Apr 2004

An overstatement…

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Review of Selena (1997)

By Sandra Contreras (38) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 26 Feb 2004

But the film soars when the stunning Jennifer Lopez beams and struts her stuff in a series of exhilarating performance sequences; she's a glitzy,…

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Review of The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999)

By Sandra Contreras (38) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 06 Oct 2002

Aggressively non-linear and heavy on the visual flair, Mike Figgis' allegorical voyage through the mind of a filmmaker alternates between the…

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Review of Elizabeth (1998)

By Sandra Contreras (38) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 17 Sep 2002

The conspicuous lack of emotional resonance makes this film Queen Margot's poor cold English cousin…

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Review of Message in a Bottle (1999)

By Sandra Contreras (38) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 14 May 2002

The extremes of this production's assets and liabilities are embodied by Caleb Deschanel's cinematography and Gabriel Yared's score: One is…

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Review of Office Space (1999)

By Sandra Contreras (38) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 09 Feb 2002

Even if it doesn't up live to its inspired beginning, Mike Judge scores something with all the marks of a workplace cult classic with his first…

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Review of Wag the Dog (1997)

By Sandra Contreras (38) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 25 May 2000

But anyone who would be inherently interested in this kind of sendup is unlikely to be surprised by anything in this film -- overall it feels…

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Review of Kundun (1997)

By Sandra Contreras (38) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 14 May 2000

Unlike this year's earlier Tibetan-themed biopic, Seven Years in Tibet, Martin Scorsese's quietly devastating film really IS about the Dalai Lama…

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Review of Hoodlum (1997)

By Sandra Contreras (38) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 03 Oct 1997

Uneven and inaccurate as it may be, it's hard to wash out entirely with a movie that explores as neglected an aspect of classic gangster mythology…

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