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1991
- + Dead Again
- - True Identity
+ - Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
- - Defenseless
- - The Pope Must Die(t)
pick: Rebecca (E)
+ - Deceived
- + Necessary Roughness
- + The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
- + The Rapture
+ + My Own Private Idaho
picks: Running On Empty (E)
Tune In Tomorrow (E)
+ - Frankie and Johnny
- + Homicide
- + Little Man Tate
- - Ricochet
- - Shattered
pick: Serpico
+ + Other People's Money
- - Ernest Scared Stupid
+ + City of Hope
+ + Life Is Sweet
+ + Opening Night
pick: The Five Heartbeats
- + Curly Sue
- - House Party 2
- - The Butcher's Wife
+ + Rolling Stones at the Max
+ + La Belle Noiseuse
+ + Cape Fear
+ - Strictly Business
- - All I Want For Christmas
+ - Liebestraum
+ - The People Under the Stairs
picks: Stormy Monday
Internal Affairs
+ + Bugsy
+ + Let Him Have It
+ + At Play in the Fields of the Lord
+ - Kafka
- - Freejack
- - Until the End of the World
- + The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
- + Juice
+ + Beauty and the Beast
+ - Black Robe
+ + My Girl
- + Meeting Venus
- - Paradise
- - Livin' Large
- - The Fisher King
+ + The Indian Runner
+ + JFK
+ + Grand Canyon
- + Father of the Bride
+ + The Inner Circle
February 1992
+ + Wayne's World
- - Medicine Man
- - Final Analysis
+ + Voyager
+ + Rhapsody in August
+ + The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective (re-release)
- - Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot
- - Radio Flyer
+ + Falling From Grace
March 1992
- - Memoirs of an Invisible Man
- + Under Suspicion
+ + The Mambo Kings
- + This Is My Life
pick: Oscar's Greatest Moments (E)
+ + White Men Can't Jump
+ - The Cutting Edge
- - The Power of One
- - Ruby
- - Noises Off
pick: Deathtrap (E)
+ - Batman Returns
- + Cold Heaven
- + Housesitter
+ + Cousin Bobby
+ + The Hairdresser's Husband
pick: Frankenweenie (S)
August 1992
- + Single White Female
- - Death Becomes Her
- + Unforgiven
- - Little Nemo: Adventures in Fantasyland
+ + Light Sleeper
- - Rapid Fire
+ - Diggstown
picks: Barfly
Reversal of Fortune
+ + Honeymoon in Vegas
- - Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
- + Storyville
+ - A Brief History of Time
pick: The Seduction of Joe Tynan (S)
September 1992
+ - Sneakers
- + Where the Day Takes You
+ + Husbands & Wives
- + Wind
+ + Swoon
pick: Streetwise (E)
+ + School Ties
- + Singles
+ + Last of the Mohicans
+ + Laws of Gravity
+ + Mr. Saturday Night
+ + Glengarry Glen Ross
- - Innocent Blood
pick: Homicide (E)
October 1992
- + The Public Eye
* * Under Siege
- + Candy Man
+ + Of Mice and Men
+ + A River Runs Through It
- - Night and the City
pick: Paper House (E)
x x Frozen Assets
+ + Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time
- + Consenting Adults
- - Reservoir Dogs
- - Pure Country
pick: Star 80 (S)
November 1992
* * Malcolm X
- + Bram Stoker's Dracula
- - Traces of Red
- - Love Potion #9
pick: Eyes On the Prize (S)
- + Passenger 57
+ + Aladdin
- - Home Alone II: Lost in New York
+ + Bad Leiutenant
+ + The Efficiency Expert
+ + My New Gun
picks: Manhunt in the African Jungle (E)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (E)
December 1992
- - The Distinguished Gentleman
* * Brother's Keeper
+ + The Bodyguard
* * The Crying Game
* * Close to Eden
pick: Mona Lisa (S)
+ - A Few Good Men
- + The Muppets Christmas Carol
+ + Leap of Faith
+ + Passion Fish
pick: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (E)
+ + Scent of a Woman
+ + Hoffa
- - Trespass
+ - Chaplain
+ + Lorenzo's Oil
- + Peter and His Friends
pick: Beyond the Mind's Eye (E)
January 1993
+ + One False Move
+ + Damage
+ + Matinee
+ - Alive
x x Body of Evidence
+ + Sniper
pick: Nosferatu
picks: Say Amen, Somebody
Testament
Pixote
Ikiru
February 1993
- - National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
- + The Cemetary Club
+ + Sommersby
- - The Vanishing
+ + Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
pick: Gun Crazy (E)
+ + Untamed Heart
+ + Strictly Ballroom
+ + Groundhog Day
- - Love Field
+ + Riff-Raff
picks: Gentleman's Agreement
How Green Was My Valley
- + Falling Down
- - The Temp
- - Army of Darkness
pick: Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn
* * Mad Dog & Glory
+ + El Mariachi
+ + Rich in Love
+ + The Last Days of Chez Nous
pick: Light Sleeper (S)
March 1993
+ + Mac
+ + Nothing But a Man
- - Swing Kids
- - Amos & Andrew
- - Shadow of the Wolf
picks: Birth of a Nation
Orphans of the Storm
The Whales of August
- - Born Yesterday
- - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
- - Married to It
+ + Like Water for Chocolate
pick: Rambling Rose (E)
April 1993
- + Cop & a Half
+ + The Adventures of Huck Finn
- + Jack the Bear
x x The Opposite Sex and How to Live With Them
- + Intervista
pick: Paper Moon
+ + This Boy's Life
+ + The Sandlot
- + Indecent Proposal
- - Bodies, Rest and Motion
+ + The Abyss (special edition release on video)
pick: Laura (E)
- + Benny and Joon
+ + The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murduring Mom
* * Map of the Human Heart
* * Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography
pick: The Player (S)
- - The Dark Half
+ + Who's The Man?
+ + Indian Summer
- - Boiling Point
+ + Wide Sargasso Sea
pick: A Hard Day's Night (CD-ROM) (E)
- + Three of Hearts
+ + Dave
- - Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
- + My Neighbor Totoro
- + Much Ado About Nothing
- - The Pickle
pick: Pinocchio
May 1993
picks: Five Easy Pieces
French Connection
M*A*S*H
Last Picture Show
Last Tango in Paris
Fat City
The Long Goodbye
Sounder
Cries and Whispers
Mean Streets
Lenny
June 1993
picks: That's Entertainment
Thief of Baghdad
White Fang
Sounder
Grease
Bugsy Malone
National Velvet
Gregory's Girl
Tex
The Journey of Natty Gann
+ + What's Love Got to Do with It
- + Made in America
+ + Menace II Society
- - Last Action Hero
- - Once Upon a Forest
+ + Jurassic Park
* * The Music of Chance
* * An Coeur En Hiver
pick: The Lost World (E)
+ + The Firm
- - House of Cards
- + Sleepless in Seattle
- - Dennis the Manace
+ + Orlando
pick: Inherit the Wind (S)
July 1993
+ + In the Line of Fire
- - Son in Law
- + Free Willie
+ + Rookie of the Year
- + Jacquot
pick: Bram Stoker's Dracula (Criterion LD) (E)
- - Coneheads
x x Benefit of the Doubt
+ + Poetic Justice
- + Another Stakeout
x x Hocus Pocus
pick: The King of Marvin Gardens (S)
August 1993
* * The Fugitive
- - Meteor Man
+ + The Secret Garden
+ + Manhattan Murder Mystery
* * The Wedding Banquet
pick: Howard's End (LD) (S)
- + The Man Without a Face
- - Wilder Napalm
* * King of the Hill
- - Hard Target
+ + And the Band Played On
pick: The Ultimate Mae West Collection
September 1993
- + True Romance
+ + The Ballad of Little Jo
+ * Kalifornia
* * The Joy Luck Club
- - The Real McCoy
picks: Map of the Human Heart
El Mariachi
- - Striking Distance
+ + Into the West
* * The Age of Innocence
* * Household Saints
* * Baraka
pick: The Star Wars Trilogy: The Definitive Collection (LD) (E)
x x The Good Son
- + The Program
+ + A Bronx Tale
- + Bopha!
+ + Dazed and Confused
pick: My Girl (S)
February 1994
+ + Naked
- + Body Snatchers
- - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
+ - The Getaway
- - My Girl 2
- - Blank Check
- + Blue Chips
- - Reality Bites
+ - Eight Seconds
- + You So Crazy
- * Sugar Hill
x x On Deadly Ground
+ - Fiorile
pick: Indochine (E)
March 1994
+ - Angie
+ + China Moon
- + Guarding Tess
- - Lightning Jack
- - The Hudsucker Proxy
- + The Ref
+ + Belle Epoque
+ + Germinal
May 1994
+ + Crooklyn
+ + When a Man Loves a Woman
+ + Dream Lover
+ + Maverick
- - Trading Mom
+ + Return of Jafar
* * Widows' Peak
- x Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
pick: The Remains of the Day
- - The Cowboy Way
- - Beverly Hills Cop III
+ - Renaissance Man
- - The Flintstones
+ - Little Budhah
pick: Short Cuts (S)
June 1994
* * Speed
- - Endless Summer II
+ + The Lion King
- - City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
pick: Glengarry Glen Ross (LD) (S)
July 1994
+ + Little Big League
- + The Shadow
- + True Lies
* * Forrest Gump
+ + Mi Vida Loca
- - Angels in the Outfield
+ + Bhaji on the Beach
pick: Blink (?)
+ + It Could Happen to You
+ + Barcelona
x x North
August 1994
+ - Corrina, Corrina
+ + Clear and Present Danger
- - In the Army Now
+ + In the Land of the Deaf
+ + The Mask
pick: Woodstock - The Director's Cut (LD) (S)
x x Color of Night
- - Andre
- - Killing Zone
- - A Man in Uniform
+ + Eat Drink Man Woman
picks: Like Water for Chocolate (E)
Jamon Jamon (E)
* * Natural Born Killers
+ - Blankman
+ + Fresh
- - Wagons East
- + The Advocate
pick: Rookie of the Year (S)
September 1994
+ - What Happened Was...
+ + The Shawshank Redemption
October 1994
- - The River Wild
- + Jason's Lyric
* * Ed Wood
- - The Scout
x x Rapa-hui
- + Only You
+ + Pulp Fiction
+ + Love Affair
- + Wes Craven's New Nightmare
x x Exit to Eden
* * Hoop Dreams
- - The Specialist
- - Little Giants
- - Radioland Murders
+ + I Like it Like That
+ + Bullets Over Broadway
+ + Imaginary Crimes
+ + Clerks
pick: Silverlake Life: The View from Here (S)
January 1995
+ + Legends of the Fall
+ - Dumb and Dumber
+ + Nobody's Fool
- + Bad Company
- + Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
- - Murder in the First
- + Higher Learning
- - SFW
+ + Strawberry and Chocolate
April 1995
+ - Jefferson in Paris
+ + Stuart Saves His Family
+ - Kiss of Death
+ + While You Were Sleeping
- - Destiny Turns on the Radio
+ - The Underneath
- - A Pyromaniac's Love Story
+ + New Jersey Drive
* * Crumb
May 1995
+ + Crimson Tide
+ + A Little Princess
+ + The Bridges of Madison County
- + Die Hard With a Vengence
+ + Forget Paris
+ + Titanica (I-Max/Omni-Max)
+ - Little Odessa
pick: A Night to Remember
June 1995
+ + Pocahontas
- + Congo
+ - Batman Forever
+ + The Incredible True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
+ + Smoke
+ + Safe
October 1995
- + Copycat
+ + To Die For
- + Mighty Aphrodite
November 1995
- - Fair Game
- - Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
+ + Home for the Holidays
- - Powder
- - Three Wishes
pick: A Great Day in Harlem (S)
December 1995
- - White Man's Burden
+ + Last Summer in the Hamptons
+ - Wild Bill
- + Casino
+ + The American President
- + Mighty Aphrodite
- - The Journey of August King
- - Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
March 1996
+ + Anne Frank Remembered
- + The Birdcage
+ + Fargo
+ + Executive Decision
- - Ed
- - Two Much
+ + The Star Maker
- + Land and Freedom
pick: The Double Life of Veronique
Three Colors: Blue, White, Red
April 1996
- + Primal Fear
- - Getting Away with Murder
* * James and the Giant Peach
+ + Jane Eyre
+ x Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
+ + Ghost in the Shell
pick: What Happened Was... (S)
July 1996
+ + Courage Under Fire
- + Maybe, Maybe Not
+ + The Nutty Professor
- - Multiplicity
- - The Frighteners
- - Kazaam
- - Fled
- + Celestial Clockwork
pick: Tristana (E)
August 1996
- + Matilda
+ + Emma
- - Jack
+ + Aladdin and the King of Thieves
- + Escape from L.A.
* * Basquiat
- - The Pompatus of Love
pick: Restoration (S)
September 1996
- - The First Wives Club
+ - American Buffalo
+ + Big Night
+ + Extreme Measures
x x Secrets and Lies
+ + Two Days in the Valley
+ + Caught
+ + Ed's Next Move
October 1996
+ + Get on the Bus
+ - The Long Kiss Goodnight
- + Sleepers
+ + Michael Collins
+ + Swingers
- - The Associate
- - High School High
+ + Normal Life
+ + Twelfth Night
- + Trees Lounge
November 1996
+ - Larger Than Life
- + Unhook the Stars
+ - Romeo + Juliet
- - Dear God
+ + Vertigo (restored)
+ + Ransom
- + Set It Off
x x Mad Dog Time
- - Mother Night
- + The Funeral
pick: I Shot Andy Warhol (S)
+ + Space Jam
+ + The Mirror Has Two Faces
* * The English Patient
* * Breaking the Waves
pick: John Alton (cinematographer) 3-film series from Kino On Video (E)
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