1996

1. Breaking the Waves (Trier) ****
2. Fargo (Coen) ****
3. The Pillow Book (Greenaway) ****
4. Jude (Winterbottom) ****
5. Citizen Ruth (Payne) ****
6. The English Patient (Minghella) ****
7. Hamlet (Branagh) ****
8. Waiting for Guffman (Guest) ***1/2
9. The People Vs. Larry Flynt (Forman) ***1/2
10. A Perfect Candidate (Cutler/Van Taylor) ***1/2
11. Bound (Wachowskis) ***1/2
12. Secrets and Lies (Leigh) ***1/2
13. Shine (Hicks) ***1/2
14. Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (Makin) ***1/2
15. Bottle Rocket (W. Anderson) ***1/2
16. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Berlinger/Sinofsky) ***1/2
17. Big Night (Scott/Tucci) ***1/2
18. Lone Star (Sayles) ***1/2
19. Michael Collins (Jordan) ***
20. Evita (Parker) ***
21. Perfect Love (Breillat) ***
22. Trees Lounge (Buscemi) ***
23. Hard Eight (P.T. Anderson) ***
24. Basquiat (Schnabel) ***
25. Cremaster 1 (Barney) ***
26. Courage Under Fire (Zwick) ***
27. Flirting With Disaster (Russell) ***
28. The Frighteners (Jackson) ***
29. Emma (McGrath) ***
30. SubUrbia (Linklater) ***
31. Freeway (Bright) ***
32. Microcosmos (Nuridsany/Perennou) ***
33. Beavis and Butthead Do America (Judge/Kaplan) ***
34. Scream (Craven) ***
35. A Summer Dress (Ozon) ***
36. Swingers (Liman) ***
37. Sling Blade (Thornton) ***
38. Twelfth Night (Nunn) ***
39. Jerry Maguire (Crowe) ***
40. Marvin's Room (Zaks) ***
41. Looking for Richard (Pacino) **1/2
42. The Craft (Fleming) **1/2
43. From Dusk Til Dawn (Rodriguez) **1/2
44. Female Perversions (Streitfeld) **1/2
45. The Cable Guy (Stiller) **1/2
46. Beautiful Girls (T. Demme) **1/2
47. Mission Impossible (De Palma) **1/2
48. Irma Vep (Assayas) **1/2
49. The Arrival (Twohy) **1/2
50. Trainspotting (Boyle) **1/2
51. Primal Fear (Hoblit) **1/2
52. Diabolique (Chechik) **1/2
53. Moll Flanders (Densham) **1/2
54. Little Witches (Simpson) **1/2
55. The Rock (Bay) **1/2
56. Surviving Picasso (Ivory) **1/2
57. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Trousdale/Wise) **1/2
58. Girls Town (McKay) **1/2
59. 2 Days in the Valley (Herzfeld) **1/2
60. A Time to Kill (Schumacher) **
61. Sleepers (Levinson) **
62. Stealing Beauty (Bertolucci) **
63. James and the Giant Peach (Selick) **
64. Independence Day (Emmerich) **
65. Happy Gilmore (Dugan) **
66. I Shot Andy Warhol (Harron) **
67. Twister (de Bont) **
68. Everyone Says I Love You (Allen) **
69. The Crucible (Hytner) **
70. Poison Ivy 2 (Goursand) **
71. Cannibal! The Musical (Parker) **
72. Romeo + Juliet (Luhrmann) *1/2
73. The Portrait of a Lady (Campion) *1/2
74. Crash (Cronenberg) *1/2
75. Schizopolis (Soderbergh) *1/2
76. Mars Attacks! (Burton) *1/2
77. Barb Wire (Hogan) *1/2
78. Broken Arrow (Woo) *1/2
79. The Fan (T. Scott) *
80. Phenomenon (Turteltaub) *
81. Mary Reilly (Frears) *

Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (Nair)
The Spitfire Grill (Zlotoff)
The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Lehmann)