Best of 1997
Worst of 1997
Spice World, Hard Rain, Fallen, The Gingerbread Man, Phantoms, Star Kid
Blues Brothers 2000, Illtown, The Replacement Killers
Sphere, The Borrowers, The Wedding Singer AND Oscar Nomination Surprises
Palmetto, Senseless, Dangerous Beauty, Mrs. Dalloway, Nil by Mouth, Live Flesh
Dark City, Kissing a Fool, An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn, Krippendorf’s Tribe, The Real Blonde, The Long Way Home
U.S. Marshals, Hush, The Big Lebowski, Twilight, Men with Guns
If We Picked the Winners
Primary Colors, Love and Death on Long Island, The Man in the Iron Mask, Everest, The Leading Man
Wild Things, Niagara Niagara, Mr. Nice Guy, Wide Awake, Fireworks
The Newton Boys, Meet the Deedles, The Proposition, Price Above Rubies, No Looking Back
Lost in Space, The Spanish Prisoner, Mercury Rising, Kurt & Courtney, Character
My Giant, The Odd Couple II, City of Angels, The Players Club, The Big One, The Butcher Boy
Chicago Tonight with John Callaway
The Object of My Affection, Paulie, Nightwatch, Suicide Kings, Wild Man Blues, Chinese Box
He Got Game, The Truce, Two Girls and a Guy, Sliding Doors, Deja Vu
Deep Impact, Woo, Clockwatchers, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Men, Artemisia, In Our Own Hands
Godzilla, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Bulworth, The Horse Whisperer
The Truman Show, The Last Days of Disco, A Perfect Murder, The Opposite of Sex, Hope Floats
Six Days Seven Nights, Can’t Hardly Wait, Cousin Bette, Mr. Jealousy, High Art
Out of Sight, Smoke Signals, Dr. Dolittle, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Insomnia
Armageddon, Henry Fool, Gone with the Wind, Buffalo 66, Passion in the Desert, Nights of Cabiria
Lethal Weapon 4, Whatever, Small Soldiers, Madeline, π
The Mask of Zorro, Polish Wedding, There’s Something About Mary, Lolita, Poodle Springs
Saving Private Ryan, The Parent Trap, Mafia!, Disturbing Behavior
The Negotiator, The Governess, Ever After, BASEketball, The Thief
How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Return to Paradise, Snake Eyes, The Rat Pack, Full Tilt Boogie
Jim Carrey
Blade, Why Do Fools Fall In Love, A Merry War, Your Friends and Neighbors, Dance with Me
Rounders, Simon Birch, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Slums of Beverly Hills, Digging to China
One True Thing, Rush Hour, A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, Permanent Midnight, Touch of Evil, Chicago Cab
Ronin, Pecker, Clay Pigeons, Urban Legend, Shadrach
What Dreams May Come, A Night at the Roxbury, Monument Ave., Antz
Holy Man, Bad Manners, One Tough Cop, The Mighty, The Impostors
Beloved, Happiness, Practical Magic, Love is the Devil, The Cruise
Pleasantville, The Alarmist, The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride, Apt Pupil, Life is Beautiful
John Carpenter’s Vampires, American History X, Living Out Loud, Unmade Beds, The Celebration
The Siege, Elizabeth, Gods and Monsters, The Waterboy, The Wizard of Oz
Meet Joe Black, I’ll Be Home for Christmas, Dancing at Lughnasa, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Velvet Goldmine
Enemy of the State, Waking Ned Devine, A Bug’s Life, Celebrity, The Rugrats Movie
Babe: Pig In The City, Home Fries, Ringmaster, Very Bad Things, Savior
The Prince of Egypt, Shattered Image, Little Voice, A Simple Plan, Central Station
Star Trek: Insurrection, Jack Frost, Shakespeare in Love, Psycho, The General
You’ve Got Mail, Down in the Delta, The Thin Red Line, A Civil Action, Affliction
Stepmom, Hilary and Jackie, Mighty Joe Young, Patch Adams, Hurlyburly
The X Files, The Land Girls, Mulan, Off the
Menu, Beyond Silence