Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
61%
3/5
“Episode II is a work of unfettered and rich (if derivative) imagination.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Apr 22, 2025
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
79%
4/5
“III is the darkest of the Star Wars episodes, and the strongest of the second trilogy. ” –
Ottawa Citizen
Apr 22, 2025
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
94%
5/5
“Star Wars was a breakthrough in cinema technology that seems fresh even today.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Apr 22, 2025
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
91%
4/5
“The Holy Grail is the most inspired of the Monty Python pictures, and the funniest, and the one that lingers longest in the collective memory (i.e. mine).” –
Ottawa Citizen
Apr 1, 2025
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Scream 2 (1997)
82%
2.5/5
“A step up from the usual fare of this sort, and it's gruesome enough to satisfy the terror-loving teen crowd. ” –
Ottawa Citizen
Feb 6, 2025
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Tarzan (1999)
90%
3.5/5
“A technically brilliant film that nonetheless has several hitches in its narrative, not to mention a touch of envelope pushing by the Disney story-tellers.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Dec 20, 2024
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Mulan (1998)
92%
“Mulan takes plenty of liberties with its sense of history, but it finds the heart of the story, spins it out with humour and style, and dazzles us with imagination.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Dec 19, 2024
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Hercules (1997)
83%
4/5
“Judge it this way: it comes with high spirits, good songs, and a sure sense of mischief. And if they ever give an Oscar for voice work, look for James Woods to be thanking all the demons who made it possible.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Dec 18, 2024
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
80%
4/5
“This 34th full-length Disney animated feature is a success in both its meticulous craftsmanship and witty storytelling, even though the story it tells is no longer Hugo's. ” –
Ottawa Citizen
Dec 18, 2024
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Pocahontas (1995)
58%
3/5
“Pocahontas has brilliant animation, clever songs and a laudably enlightened view of native Americans. Everything but a sense of joy.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Dec 17, 2024
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Scream (1996)
77%
3/5
“This is a movie that will delight young audiences who enjoy the peculiar combination of visceral fear and giggly pajama-party mockery that the form inspires.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Oct 16, 2024
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Alien Resurrection (1997)
55%
3/5
“Jeunet often confuses us with quick editing and chases through the unknown geography of the craft. But fills the screen with suitably odd faces and dark images and gives Weaver lots of room to kick alien butt. You can't ask for much more than that.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Aug 6, 2024
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Little Women (1994)
92%
4/5
“The new version of Little Women is a beautiful work of Victorian art, a carefully made evocation of the spirit of the Louisa May Alcott novel. ” –
Ottawa Citizen
Apr 11, 2024
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Seven (1995)
84%
3/5
“This movie has scenes that may dwell for a while in your nightmares. Seven could have been a classic, if it just avoided the Eighth Deadly Sin of Movies: length.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Mar 28, 2024
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
89%
4/5
“This is an engaging and compulsively watchable mystery story that is both frightening and funny. There is sentiment in "Shawshank," but there is very little sentimentality.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Mar 1, 2024
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Forrest Gump (1994)
75%
3/5
“Forrest Gump has some nice surprises and its message about common decency is bound to warm hearts everywhere, but as a view of the world, it has an IQ of about 75.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Mar 1, 2024
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
92%
4/5
“All this adds up to a dizzying film experience, which seems to be Tarantino's goal. [Pulp Fiction] is a highly self-indulgent work, but a mesmerizing one.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Feb 28, 2024
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Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
92%
4/5
“This is very much an ensemble movie, and this is a group you love going to weddings with.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Feb 28, 2024
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Amélie (2001)
90%
4/4
“Amélie is the happy ending to a year that most of us would just as soon forget. This is a film to remind us of the urgent importance of frivolity.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Feb 13, 2024
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Quiz Show (1994)
97%
5/5
“This may be a lightweight American tragedy, but it is a tragedy nonetheless. Redford turns it into an investigation of manners, a look at both the hegemony of physical appearance and the politics of class in America.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Feb 10, 2024
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Heat (1995)
83%
3/5
“It is seductive, although at three hours it's an awful lot of hot-eyed actors and the glittering facade of America. Those who also sat through the three hours of Casino will probably have their recommended yearly dosage of Robert De Niro.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Dec 19, 2023
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Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
76%
4/5
“Flags of Our Fathers is a spare kind of epic, containing all the confusions of battle and of peace as well.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Nov 10, 2023
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Atanarjuat the Fast Runner (2001)
93%
4/5
“Natar Ungalaaq is especially good as the title character; his naked run, a Northern Exposure of the trust kind deserves some kind of award, if not medal for bravery.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Nov 8, 2023
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Goodfellas (1990)
94%
4/5
“Tommy is dynamite, and Pesci crawls right inside the role and steals the movie.” –
Ottawa Citizen
Oct 18, 2023
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Y tu mamá también (2001)
90%
4/5
“A road movie of the kind that only the very young, very confident, very daring, very stupid, and/or very sexy can undertake. ” –
Ottawa Citizen
Sep 7, 2023
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