Mission: Impossible (1996)
65%
“It is classy entertainment.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
May 6, 2025
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Never Talk to Strangers (1995)
19%
“[Never Talk to Strangers] isn't as suspenseful as an evening with Hitchcock, but just about diverting enough. ” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Apr 22, 2025
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Trojan Eddie (1996)
“There is a relentlessness to Billy Roche's script which leaves us feeling as if we've spent a couple of hours having our faces ground into the dank Irish soil. Strong writing and acting struggle to compensate.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Apr 22, 2025
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Space Jam (1996)
43%
“Here we have the reliance on special effects, the mixture of cheap moralising and confected mythology that passes for a plot, the triumph of merchandising over art.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Apr 22, 2025
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
94%
“Lucas encrusted it with mythology for the fans to pick over, and imbued it with a simple morality for parents to approve of. But he failed to enliven it with a single idea. Intellectually, the movie is dead.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Apr 22, 2025
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Mulan (1998)
92%
“Disney's Mulan has met with rapturous acclaim as if it were the apogee of popular film instead of the trite, offensive mediocrity it is.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Dec 20, 2024
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Hercules (1997)
83%
“There is a point, surely, where popularisation crosses over into impossible vulgarisation. Hercules goes beyond it. ” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Dec 18, 2024
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
80%
“Disney's new version of Victor Hugo's 1831 epic is everything you would expect and a few things you would not. It's sprightly, sumptuous and sentimental -- but also a tad saucy and sinister.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Dec 18, 2024
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Rainbow (1996)
13%
“The movie has a warm heart, but little else, despite enthusiastic cameos from Dan Aykroyd and Saul Rubinek.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jul 15, 2024
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Denise Calls Up (1995)
71%
“Just when you feel like hanging up, Salwen achieves something miraculous. These shards of conversation form themselves into a collage of single life in the city.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jul 15, 2024
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Twister (1996)
67%
“For all the mayhem, you never feel the characters are in peril.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jul 15, 2024
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Seven (1995)
84%
“There is no denying that Seven is a deeply unpleasant movie. But I believe it is a fine one, too. It doesn't glory in its depravity, but keeps a distance from it.” –
Independent on Sunday
Mar 29, 2024
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
92%
“Not enough for a masterpiece, but more than adequate fore a good night out.” –
Independent on Sunday
Feb 28, 2024
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Grease (1978)
66%
“It's a timely reminder of John Travolta Mark I, the prancing, preening gyrating embodiment of pure libido. ” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Feb 2, 2024
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Lone Star (1996)
91%
“The richly drawn characters are at the service of the story rather than substituting for it. ” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Aug 23, 2023
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To Have & to Hold (1996)
“The plot veers close to melodrama, but the restraint of the acting and the precision of Hillcoat's vision prevail. ” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jun 21, 2023
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Zero Effect (1998)
66%
“If you are looking for something on a smaller scale and more cerebral, you could do a lot worse than Zero Effect. ” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jun 21, 2023
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Armageddon (1998)
43%
“Sci-fi, adventure, black comedy, action movie, ensemble piece, even romance: it's all there, and most of it is pulled off with some aplomb.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jun 21, 2023
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Boys on the Side (1995)
73%
“Boys on the Side is a sassy, self-confident mix of broad comedy and tear-jerking melodrama of the sort that only Hollywood has the chutzpah to attempt.” –
Independent on Sunday
Mar 14, 2023
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The Truman Show (1998)
94%
“It is really about freedom... and it is to our own enslavement that this powerful, brilliant, and profound film speaks. ” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Feb 14, 2023
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The Big Lebowski (1998)
80%
“At the center of all this is Bridges, an absolute standout if the term didn't seem a little inappropriate to this slouching performance. ” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 24, 2023
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I Like It Like That (1994)
89%
“Satisfyingly messy.” –
Independent on Sunday
Mar 2, 2022
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Beloved (1998)
72%
“Jonathan Demme's Beloved is a sumptous, fascinating failure, with enough startling images and committed performances to sustain three great films, but at times too little dramatic and emotional coherence to hold the attention.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Feb 2, 2022
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The Watermelon Woman (1996)
92%
“[The film] becomes a touching essay on the importance of remembrance and tradition to minorities who are often denied them.” –
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jan 22, 2022
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Bhaji on the Beach (1993)
88%
“The film raises tough questions of tradition and assimilation, and rightly refuses to give any answers.” –
Independent (UK)
Mar 18, 2021
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