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Random Hearts
(1999)
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Tony Toscano
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Ford sleepwalks his way through his role. He simply can't build enough steam to get his performance going.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Mickey Blue Eyes
(1999)
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Tony Toscano
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The characters are simply not defined well enough to get the comedy going.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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The Story of Us
(1999)
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Tony Toscano
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The Story of Us is a film that is constantly manipulating the audience with sweet and sour montages, flashbacks, narration and Eric Clapton's two-ton musical score.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Teaching Mrs. Tingle
(1999)
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Tony Toscano
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The film's plot runs as smoothly as a Yugo with sand in the transmission and aside from a few well-acted moments, the film falls apart quicker than a paper mache space shuttle.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Bringing Out the Dead
(1999)
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Tony Toscano
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A remarkable film that like a traffic accident you're passing on the road, you can't help being intrigued and repulsed at the same time.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Stigmata
(1999)
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Tony Toscano
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Stigmata is so bad it ultimately leaves you with the age-old question 'If there is a God why would he permit a film like this to be made?'
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Fight Club
(1999)
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Tony Toscano
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Fight Club is a well-acted, well-directed film and will be on many top ten best films of the year lists. It will probably be on mine.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Double Jeopardy
(1999)
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Tony Toscano
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Double Jeopardy gives the impression that the writers were just making this up as they were filming, with little or no regard for the audience's intelligence.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Stir of Echoes
(1999)
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Tony Toscano
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As the movie unwinds, it quickly loses its eerie quality and settles in to a rather average who-done-it mystery.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Jakob the Liar
(1999)
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Tony Toscano
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Jakob the Liar ends up as a film that is tirelessly trying to tell us something, but never quite gets to the point while making the audience work too hard for too little a payoff.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Mystery, Alaska
(1999)
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Tony Toscano
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The film plods along as slowly as a funeral procession on Therozine.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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The 13th Warrior
(1999)
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Tony Toscano
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The film falls short of its goal to find a distinct personality and never attains the suspension of belief required of genre films like Conan or 7th Voyage of Sinbad.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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In Too Deep
(1999)
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Tony Toscano
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Dull and pointless!
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Anywhere but Here
(1999)
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Tony Toscano
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Mildly entertaining.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Outside Providence
(1999)
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Tony Toscano
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A poor man's Good Will Hunting with nothing new or redeeming about it.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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The Muse
(1999)
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Tony Toscano
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The Muse is not the perfect Albert Brooks film, but it is close.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Superstar
(1999)
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Tony Toscano
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The overall posture of the film is that we are just watching lots of five-minute bits strung together around an inane plot and irritating characters.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Three to Tango
(1999)
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Tony Toscano
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Three to Tango is a poor locker room joke disguised as a sophisticated comedy.
Posted Jan 01, 2000
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