Fargo(1996)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.



Trainspotting(1996)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.



The English Patient(1996)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 77

At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.



Jerry Maguire(1996)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former secretary.



Sling Blade(1996)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.



The People vs. Larry Flynt(1996)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A partially idealized film of the controversial pornography publisher and how he became a defender of free speech for all people.



Star Trek: First Contact(1996)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 64

The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.



Breaking the Waves(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.



Shine(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.



Secrets & Lies(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is a underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone's secrets are exposed.



That Thing You Do!(1996)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A local Pennsylvania band scores a one hit wonder in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as they can, with lots of help from its manager.



The Birdcage(1996)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.



The Nutty Professor(1996)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Grossly overweight yet good-hearted professor Sherman Klump takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love.



The First Wives Club(1996)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Reunited by the death of a college friend, three divorced women seek revenge on the husbands who left them for younger women.



Eraser(1996)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.



Sleepers(1996)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 51

After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized; over 10 years later, they get their chance for revenge.



Marvin's Room(1996)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.



Michael Collins(1996)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Neil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.



Evita(1996)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 44

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.



Twister(1996)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 34

Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.




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