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Review of The American President (1995)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 14 Feb 2000

In the end, the movie says that the President's private life matters, all right -- that Shepherd should get the girl and reestablish his leadership…

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Review of The Rock (1996)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

When film more or less took over melodrama from the theater ninety years ago, it proudly provided real oceans instead of canvas waves rippled…

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Review of Jackie Brown (1997)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

The flat, self-exposing dud that fate often keeps in store for the initially overpraised…

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Review of Touch of Evil (1958)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

It's a flurry of pressure-cooker baroque, an extreme example of the exhibitionistic hijinks in which Welles could sometimes indulge, apparently…

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Review of Nights of Cabiria (1957)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

It's fascinating…

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Review of Beyond the Clouds (1995)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

None of these stories, except the first, incises deeply, but all of them are immersed in a sense of place, riche but not nouveau riche, no…

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Review of Outbreak (1995)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

Hoffman doesn't get the chance, or need, to act: he just does things, like Ford…

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Review of Holy Smoke (1999)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

The screenplay sometimes slashes with sharp dialogue, and Campion's directing unmistakably breathes conviction…

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Review of Funny Games (1997)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

The basic puzzle is why this sophisticated director chose this tired formula…

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Review of The Winter Guest (1997)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

The Winter Guest is a pleasure to watch, if only (but not only) for the chance to see Thompson. She is a continually revealing artist…

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Review of Life Is Beautiful (1997)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

Benigni certainly knew the risk he was taking with his idea, but the circumstances overwhelm him…

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Review of Kiss or Kill (1997)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

Bennett's screenplay is consistent, completely concerned with the haphazard and the jogging of conventional expectation…

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Review of Holy Smoke (1921)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

The screenplay sometimes slashes with sharp dialogue, and Campion's directing unmistakably breathes conviction…

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Review of Multiplicity (1996)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

Multiplicity exists because it's now possible for an actor to appear on screen with himself and not by means of anything so quaint as double exposure…

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Review of Courage Under Fire (1996)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

Steven Rosenblum's editing is excellent, smoothly uniting present and past, articulating individual scenes alertly…

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Review of He Got Game (1998)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

Lee is a long way from the size and scope of his best film, Do the Right Thing, but at least he is working on a subject he cares about and…

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Review of Anne Frank Remembered (1995)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

The film adds little to previous factual knowledge, but it deepens our connections with the story through the power of film itself…

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Review of The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

Completely absorbing, almost rudely poignant…

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Review of Three Kings (2011)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

Russell does so well by his sub-text that the flaws in the text itself become less bothersome. What he is after fundamentally is ... war is insane…

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Review of Boys on the Side (1995)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2000

The entire film feels like the result of a market study…

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