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Review of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

The prospect of a third installment of this derivative series is much scarier than anything that happens in the movie…

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Review of The Perfect Storm (2000)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

As for the storm, I found Wolfgang Petersen's direction so engrossing that I failed to evaluate the quality of the special effects…

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Review of The Skulls (2000)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

Every moment of The Skulls is just as idiotic as it sounds…

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Review of Eye of the Beholder (1999)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

Eye of the Beholder wants to be an art film and a thriller. It fails at both aspirations…

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Review of Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

As the shipboard action erupts, so do several annoying movie clichés…

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Review of The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

While the film suffers from the been-there, done-that syndrome, and has some major structural problems, as far as sequels go, The Lost World…

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Review of Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

Deliberate and haunting, the two hour, 39 minute production is a grandly-crafted dreamscape, simultaneously intimate and detached…

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Review of Starship Troopers (1997)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

In the hands of Verhoeven, the mammoth sci-fi battle flick is one of the most astonishingly bad films ever made, a monument to inept filmmaking…

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Review of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

This installment... may not be the best in the series, but it certainly has its share of rewards…

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Review of eXistenZ (1999)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

Cronenberg throws so much blood and guts into this film that at times I felt like I was watching the Surgery Channel on a TV placed in a tank…

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Review of Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

Your Friends and Neighbors is often bleak and occasionally nightmarish, but also extremely funny…

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Review of The Wedding Singer (1998)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

The film is just a trifle, but in the mid-winter cinematic wasteland, you have to grade on a curve…

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Review of The Avengers (1998)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

Seek out the show and you can enjoy one of the highlights of 60's pop culture entertainment while avoiding one of the low points of the 90's…

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Review of Titanic (1953)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

Cameron has crafted an epic that triumphs…

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Review of A Civil Action (1998)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

The lawyers' posturing, planning and maneuvering is fascinating, but with the human factor pushed so far into the background, the production…

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Review of Anaconda (1954)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

Fans of the horror genre may be tempted to check out Anaconda. Don't…

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Review of Being John Malkovich (1999)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

One of the most satisfying aspects of the fable is that Kaufman is not content to simply milk laughs from his bizarre set-up…

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Review of Life Is Beautiful (1997)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

It's not easy to sit through Life Is Beautiful…

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Review of Forces of Nature (1999)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

Thanks to fine performances from the uniformly strong cast, a surprisingly smart, unpredictable plot and some jazzy visuals, Forces of Nature…

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Review of The Rainmaker (1997)

By Edward Johnson-Ott (361) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 01 Jan 2000

While the film retains some pleasures, Coppola's heavy-handed direction snuffs out the sense of exhilaration a story like this should have…

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