Best of 1996
Worst of 1996
Memo to the Academy (incomplete)
Fierce Creatures, Metro, In Love and War, Prefontaine, The Relic
Shadow Conspiracy, Waiting for Guffman, Star Wars: Special Edition, Gridlock’d, Prisoner of the Mountains, Walkabout
Dante’s Peak, subUrbia, Beautician and the Beast, Rosewood, The Whole Wide World
Absolute Power, That Darn Cat, Fools Rush In, Johns AND Oscar Nomination Surprises
The Empire Strikes Back: Special Edition, When We Were Kings, Blood & Wine, Lost Highway, Margaret’s Museum
Private Parts, Booty Call, Hard Eight, Donnie Brasco, Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Jungle 2 Jungle, The Daytrippers, Kama Sutra, Good Luck, Gentlemen Don’t Eat Poets
Return of the Jedi: Special Edition, love jones, The Godfather, City of Industry, Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern, Mandela
Liar Liar, Kolya, The Graduate, Selena, Crash
The Saint, Inventing the Abbotts, Double Team, That Old Feeling, Chasing Amy
Speed 2, Broken English, Ulee’s Gold, Wedding Bell Blues, Temptress Moon
Batman & Robin, Hercules, My Best Friend’s Wedding, For Roseanna, Ponette
Men in Black, Wild America, Out to Sea
Contact, Shall We Dance?, This World Then the Fireworks, A Simple Wish, 4 Little Girls, The Big Sleep
George of the Jungle, Mrs. Brown, Nothing to Lose, Operation Condor, Contempt
Air Force One, Good Burger, Cafe Society, In the Company of Men
Conspiracy Theory, Kiss Me Guido, The Full Monty, Career Girls, Love Serenade, Free Willy 3: The Rescue
Event Horizon, G.I. Jane, Cop Land, Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (incomplete)
Leave It to Beaver, Money Talks, Mimic, Masterminds, Gabbeh
She’s So Lovely, Hoodlum, Excess Baggage, Paperback Romance, M, Le Samouraï,
L.A. Confidential, The Game, The End of Violence, The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca
A Thousand Acres, The Myth of Fingerprints, Going All the Way, Waco: The Rules of Engagement, Gravesend
Seven Years in Tibet, RocketMan, Boogie Nights, Gang Related, Washington Square
Gattaca, The House of Yes, A Life Less Ordinary, Sunday, Fairy Tale: A True Story
Red Corner, Critical Care, Switchback, Family Name
Mad City, Bean, Starship Troopers, Eve’s Bayou, The Wings of the Dove
The Jackal, Anastasia, The Man Who Knew Too Little, One Night Stand, The Tango Lesson, Kiss or Kill
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Sweet Hereafter, John Grisham’s The Rainmaker, Deep Crimson
Alien Resurrection, Welcome to Sarajevo, Flubber, Public Housing, Bent
Amistad, Titanic, Good Will Hunting, The Apostle
Wag the Dog, Home Alone 3, For Richer or Poorer, Deconstructing Harry, Scream 2
The Postman, Mr. Magoo, Jackie Brown, An American Werewolf in Paris, Afterglow, The Education of Little Tree
The Peacemaker, Soul Food, The Edge, The Ice Storm, The Assignment