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Review of Pandora's Box (1943)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

One of those revered classics, so steeped in critical hysteria that it's almost heresy to question its greatness…

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Review of Fathers' Day (1997)

By Peter Stack (261) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

Robin Williams and Billy Crystal, teaming for the first time on the big screen, are moderately fun but suffer from what looks like a case of…

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Review of The Virgin Suicides (2000)

By Peter Stack (261) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

Coppola infuses her movie with a dreamy poetic tone, and deftly translates the essential metaphors of youth, sexuality and death without sacrificing…

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Review of Aparajito (1956)

By Edward Guthmann (364) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

There's pleasure in witnessing Apu's thrill of knowledge, but sadness when his ambitions create an inevitable break with his mother…

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Review of In the Mouth of Madness (1995)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

In the end the most interesting thing about In the Mouth of Madness is its weird relationship with itself -- its cheesy horror celebrating…

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Review of Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

By Bob Graham (157) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

Bride is often cited as Whale's masterpiece, and one of the reasons surely is his intentional lacing of humor throughout that never completely…

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Review of Pulp Fiction (1994)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

It's the movie equivalent of that rare sort of novel where you find yourself checking to see how many pages are left and hoping there are more,…

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Review of Cold Fever (1995)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

Cold Fever serves a useful function right there: It shows an Icelandic winter close up, and it's a lot more fascinating than you might expect…

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Review of 4 Little Girls (1997)

By Edward Guthmann (364) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

4 Little Girls brilliantly captures a moment in American history and tells an achingly painful story of injustice and family loss…

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Review of Out of the Past (1947)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

Out of the Past is cinematic perfection, a Hollywood classic that's as great and as enjoyable as its reputation has promised…

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Review of Le Samouraï (1967)

By Edward Guthmann (364) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

To each his own…

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Review of Pandora's Box (1929)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

One of those revered classics, so steeped in critical hysteria that it's almost heresy to question its greatness…

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Review of In the Company of Men (1997)

By Ruthe Stein (335) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

The three leads inhabit their roles in the way only unknown actors can. They really seem to become the characters they're playing…

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Review of Ran (1985)

By Bob Graham (157) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

In Ran, the horrors of life are transformed by art into beauty. It is finally so moving that the only appropriate response is silence…

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Review of Bandit Queen (1994)

By Edward Guthmann (364) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

Devi is played by Seema Biswas as a fireball of unrelenting, white-hot fury -- a slap in the face to her country and its barbaric, outdated…

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Review of Strange Days (1995)

By Edward Guthmann (364) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

Strange Days wants to say something about faith and redemption -- about the importance of maintaining one's humanity in a darkened world…

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Review of Father's Day (2009)

By Peter Stack (261) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

Robin Williams and Billy Crystal, teaming for the first time on the big screen, are moderately fun but suffer from what looks like a case of…

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Review of Switchblade Sisters (1975)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

Just good enough to make it understandable why someone else might really like it. And it's just bad enough to make you wonder about such a person…

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Review of A Goofy Movie (1995)

By Peter Stack (261) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

Overall, A Goofy Movie is an incoherent mess that jumps from one unlikely, brainless, crash-bang situation to another, with each element of…

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Review of Mr. Magoo (1997)

By Peter Stack (261) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

Only a couple of good gags in its pileup of otherwise lame jokes keep the production from being an unqualified stinker…

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