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Movies 1999:
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- The Masked and the Unmasked Magnolia's ensemble turns in a tour de force of disintegration; in The Talented Mr. Ripley, Matt Damon can't quite piece together a compelling poseur.
David Edelstein Dec. 31, 1999 - The Greene Mile Neil Jordan fluidly orchestrates The End of the Affair; Stephen King's syrupy mysticism strains patience.
David Edelstein Dec. 10, 1999 - The Sweet Spot Woody Allen surprises with the delectable Sweet and Lowdown. Tumbleweeds is gorgeously nuanced.
David Edelstein Dec. 4, 1999 - Jew Talkin' to Me? Liberty Heights fails to solve Barry Levinson's Jewish problem. Almodóvar tells it straight in All About My Mother.
David Edelstein Nov. 25, 1999 - Heads Up In Sleepy Hollow, Tim Burton keeps those noggins rollin' rollin' rollin'. American Movie documents fear and loathing in the no-budget screen trade.
David Edelstein Nov. 20, 1999 - Touched Angels Dogma yells "Fire!" in a crowded church. Rosetta's grasp of the mundane underpins its rage against capitalism.
David Edelstein Nov. 13, 1999 - Insiders and Way Insiders Being John Malkovich is a daring meditation on envy. The Insider will make a lot of people angry.
David Edelstein Nov. 6, 1999 - Machines in the Garden The sublimely animated Princess Mononoke culminates in a powerful vision of ecological apocalypse.
David Edelstein Oct. 30, 1999 - Hell on Wheels Scorsese and Schrader botch rich material in Bringing Out the Dead.
David Edelstein Oct. 23, 1999 - Boys Do Bleed C'mon people now, whale on your brother.
David Edelstein Oct. 16, 1999 - Carnival of Carnage War is hell. Even the Gulf War.
David Edelstein Oct. 9, 1999 - A Good Year for the Roses? American Beauty is blooming but rank; For Love of the Game is overripe.
David Edelstein Sept. 18, 1999 - High Fidelity Outside Providence gets coming of age in the '70s right.
David Edelstein Sept. 3, 1999 - The Blues In The Muse, Albert Brooks makes a dispirited (and dispiriting) satire.
David Edelstein Aug. 28, 1999 - CuteFella Hugh Grant reaches a new pinnacle of adorableness in Mickey Blue Eyes; TheSixth Sense is sentimental, but it has its wrenching moments.
David Edelstein Aug. 21, 1999 - CREEP Show Dicking around with Watergate; Mystery Men's hilariously mundane superheroes.
David Edelstein Aug. 10, 1999 - Some Kind of Wonderful Julia Roberts' warm glow thaws even Richard Gere in Runaway Bride.
David Edelstein Aug. 5, 1999 - Bare Bones The Blair Witch Project flays the horror genre--and the viewer; The Haunting is all flab.
David Edelstein July 24, 1999 - The Naked and the Dead Eyes Wide Shut is a fearfully distant orgy.
David Edelstein July 17, 1999 - Triumph of the Swill South Park kicks puritanical ass; American Pie hits below the belt.
David Edelstein July 10, 1999 - Summer of Spam Spike Lee's urban sprawl.
David Edelstein July 3, 1999 - Generation Gap My Son the Fanatic is a nuanced take on Pakistani-English family values. Romance saves Tarzan from its overrefined apes.
David Edelstein June 26, 1999 - Chance and Consequences The hyperactive Run Lola Run is music video with a worldview. An Ideal Husband is good fun but not exactly Wilde.
David Edelstein June 19, 1999 - Thunderballs Austin Powers trips back to the '60s.
David Edelstein June 11, 1999 - Tame at Heart Instinct is about as primal as a mall focus group.
David Edelstein June 5, 1999 - I Dream of Julia It's no more Ms. Nice Woman for Julia Roberts in Notting Hill.
David Edelstein May 29, 1999 - Dark Side Lite George Lucas does it his way in the pallid Phantom Menace. Even cultists will wish he'd hired a director and some writers.
David Edelstein May 20, 1999 - Lord, What Fools Try as it might, an ineptly directed new film can't ruin A Midsummer Night's Dream.
David Edelstein May 15, 1999 - That's a Wrap! The Mummy sends the horror genre one step closer to its final resting place.
David Edelstein May 8, 1999 - Alpha Zeta Entrapment's Catherine Zeta-Jones is a visual gem encased in B-movie tiredness; Mamet gets genteel in The Winslow Boy.
David Edelstein May 2, 1999 - Hardball High School Election gets its politics right; Cronenberg leaves a gooey mess.
David Edelstein April 25, 1999 - Altman's Gold And Drew Barrymore's. And the Wachowski Brothers'.
David Edelstein April 11, 1999 - The Freedom Trap Is the grass really greener? Maybe.
David Edelstein April 4, 1999 - On With the Show I'm a camera, you're a camera, we're all cameras.
David Edelstein March 28, 1999 - Flesh and Bone Clint Eastwood, oddly, runs to the rescue; Guy Pearce gets blood simple.
David Edelstein March 21, 1999 - Family Plots Growing up with and without Mom.
David Edelstein March 14, 1999 - The Killers Bad guys get shrunk and (yawn) blown away.
David Edelstein March 7, 1999 - God Said, "Ugh" Peep shows and confessionals--and a Rushmore postscript.
David Edelstein Feb. 28, 1999 - From Here to Exurbia Fields (and cubicles) of dreams.
David Edelstein Feb. 21, 1999 - Schlock and Load An expert soap opera and a decent crap thriller.
David Edelstein Feb. 14, 1999 - Ah, Youth Callow, narcissistic, and confused.
David Edelstein Feb. 7, 1999 - Playing by Heartburn The cello and other stringed instruments.
David Edelstein Jan. 31, 1999 - Cold Comforts Lions, cows, wolves, and pigs in winter.
David Edelstein Jan. 17, 1999 - War and Pieces Exercises in futility, at war and in the courts.
David Edelstein Jan. 10, 1999
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