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Review of Gattaca (1997)

By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

Overall Niccol has done a fine, restrained job in a genre for which many of us have lowered our expectations…

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Review of Farinelli (1994)

By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

The kind of high-camp, low-cohesiveness movie that inspires snippy reviews, and sarcasm about the fact that it earned a best foreign film Oscar…

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Review of Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)

By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

Bullock should be thinking about changing management…

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Review of The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)

By Scott Rosenberg (28) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

Without ostentation or self-consciousness, the film immerses you in the spume, fog and glare of the seaside life, with its temporal mysteries…

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Review of Rear Window (1954)

By Wesley Morris (1,967) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

But if eggheads have made it a subject of scholarship, it's because Hitchcock and his screenwriter, John Michael Woolrich, really did create…

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Review of First Knight (1995)

By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

First Knight has all the elements of a crowd-pleaser…

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Review of Outbreak (1995)

By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

Sometimes this movie feels like a horror picture directed by John Waters…

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Review of Safe (1993)

By Barry Walters (33) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

Safe is one of those rare films that shakes you up not only while it's playing, but for weeks to come…

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Review of Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)

By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

A fabulous concert film with incredibly bad patter between the songs…

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Review of Fallen (1998)

By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

The moment this movie began to go wrong, so wrong, was when the word 'angels' started working its way into the script…

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Review of Zero Effect (1998)

By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

It is owing entirely to Kasdan's ability as a writer and his sharp and restrained style as a director that the movie comes together nicely in the end…

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Review of Ready to Rumble (2000)

By Edvins Beitiks (20) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

It's the trio of Arquette and co-stars Scott Caan and Oliver Platt that makes Ready to Rumble work…

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Review of Girlfight (2000)

By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

It's a classic case of a film transcending its material…

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Review of Cleopatra's Second Husband (1998)

By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

A weakly performed rehash of master-slave role-reversal tales like The Servant…

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Review of Return to Me (2000)

By Wesley Morris (1,967) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

Crammed with such earnest belief in the power of love - even if it happens in the Chicago Zoo - it almost doesn't matter that O'Connor and…

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Review of eXistenZ (1999)

By Wesley Morris (1,967) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

At last, with his ecstatic, spellbinding, madly original eXistenZ, Cronenberg suppresses his yen for being a mere provocateur and makes an…

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Review of I Dreamed of Africa (2000)

By Wesley Morris (1,967) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

Frill-less almost to the point of minimalist, teary without being lachrymose, hers is a performance you'd think was great were the movie in…

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Review of Beau Travail (2000)

By Wesley Morris (1,967) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

Denis' film is as fluid as her nine others, demonstrating her skill at integrating story strands with her handsome visual sense and gift for…

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Review of Stigmata (2009)

By Wesley Morris (1,967) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

A more bone-chilling experience is trying to solve the mystery of whether Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, as the Vatican priest trying to save her,…

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Review of B.A.P.S (1997)

By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

Landau does the best he can with his limitations…

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