American Beauty(1999)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.



Being John Malkovich(1999)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.



The Insider(1999)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a "60 Minutes" expose on Big Tobacco.



Magnolia(1999)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 78

An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.



Fight Club(1999)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 74

An insomniac office worker, looking for a way to change his life, crosses paths with a devil-may-care soap maker, forming an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more.



The Talented Mr. Ripley(1999)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 76

In late 1950s New York, Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.



Eyes Wide Shut(1999)

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Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.



Election(1999)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president.



The Straight Story(1999)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 78

An old man makes a long journey by lawn-mover tractor to mend his relationship with an ill brother.



Todo sobre mi madre(1999)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Young Esteban wants to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his father, carefully concealed by his mother Manuela.



The Sixth Sense(1999)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.



The Virgin Suicides(1999)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid-1970s.



Boys Don't Cry(1999)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Female-born Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.



The Cider House Rules(1999)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.



The Green Mile(1999)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.



Dogma(1999)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven.



10 Things I Hate About You(1999)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A pretty, popular teenager can't go out on a date until her ill-tempered older sister does.



Notting Hill(1999)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world.



Bringing Out the Dead(1999)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Haunted by the patients he failed to save, an extremely burned-out Manhattan ambulance paramedic fights to maintain his sanity over three fraught and turbulent nights.



Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai(1999)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 68

An African American mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.




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