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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[27.Mar.09] :. On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

Film Review

Confessions of a Shopaholic

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Feb.09] :. What is John Salley doing in this movie?

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Film Review

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Jul.08] :. Kit Kittredge is, as her movie and doll-line assert, An American Girl, and so she'll need to face up to her national history, embrace her responsibility, and learn a useful life lesson to boot.

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Film Review

Martian Child

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Nov.07] :. Based on David Gerrold's semi-autobiographical novella, the movie digs its thematic hole early, and never finds a way out.

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Film Review

Friends with Money (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Apr.06] :. 'Poor Olivia' (Jennifer Aniston), as her friends call her, is actually poor, at least compared to them.

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Ice Princess (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Jul.05] :. Corny as it must be, Ice Princess is substantially bolstered by Trachtenberg's appealing mix of eagerness and grace.

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Ice Princess (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Mar.05] :. Corny as it must be, Ice Princess is substantially bolstered by Trachtenberg's appealing mix of eagerness and grace.

Raising Helen (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Oct.04] :. 'Raising Helen's a happy, peppy picture, with Kate Hudson and her legs,' says Garry Marshall.

Raising Helen (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.May.04] :. Helen's initial efforts to maintain her previous life are as glib as her inheritance of the children.

The School of Rock (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Mar.04] :. 'I'm always going 10 miles too far over the top, and sometimes I have a tendency to go crazy ham and cheese,' says Jack Black.

The School of Rock (2003)

by Elbert Ventura

[2.Oct.03] :. A welcome reminder that studio comedies need not be shoddy, dumbed down, vulgar, and impersonal, the movie is unimaginable without Jack Black.

Where the Heart Is (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Thank god for Joan Cusack. As the sole truly cynical character in TV producer Matt (Roseanne, A Different World) Williams’s feature film directing debut, she is desperately...

Toy Story 2 (1999)

by Jonathan Beller

Hey kids, if you haven’t seen Toy Story 2, better hurry so that you can find out what your toys are doing when you’re not watching. And maybe you’ll learn to show your toys a...

Toy Story 2 (1999)

by P. Nelson Reinsch

Near the end of the film The Matrix, Neo (Keanu Reeves) begins to understand his own power. When he realizes that everything he is seeing is a computer program, the payoff shot for this knowledge shows the screen filled with the 1s and 0s which make up the objects and people previously seen. The shot is stunning, and lays bare not only the program within the film's narrative universe, but also the computer work necessary to create the effects in The Matrix.

Runaway Bride (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

I worry about Julia Roberts. I know I don't need to but still, I feel like I can't help it. It's not because she's a particularly convincing performer on or off screen, though she does look distressed or vulnerable much of the time. It's not because the promoters for her latest movie, Runaway Bride, have been running ads with the creepiest stalker song ever made, the Police's Every Breath You Take.

High Fidelity (2000)

by P. Nelson Reinsch

In keeping with the spirit of the film itself, I humbly offer the top 5 reasons the new film High Fidelity is worth seeing.

Cradle Will Rock (1999)

by John G. Nettles

Tim Robbins has never been shy about being one of them damn Hollywood liberals -- pro-union, anti-death penalty, solidly Green, married to Susan Sarandon.