Best movies of before 2000

The Grifters(1990)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend--both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.



Kundun(1997)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 65

From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.



The American President(1995)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Comedy-drama about a widowed U.S. president and a lobbyist who fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception" and sparks fly anyway.



The Fisher King(1991)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.



Reversal of Fortune(1990)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.



I Know What You Did Last Summer(1997)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 56

After a nasty accident, four friends begin to drift apart. One year later Julie James gets a anonymous message and then a slicker wearing, hook wielding killer begins to rip apart her life.



Batman Forever(1995)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Batman must battle former district attorney Harvey Dent, who is now Two-Face and Edward Nygma, The Riddler with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.



Hook(1991)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 55

When Captain Hook kidnaps his children, an adult Peter Pan must return to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy.



Starship Troopers(1997)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival.



The War of the Roses(1989)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A married couple try everything to get each other to leave the house in a vicious divorce battle.



The Rocketeer(1991)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A young pilot stumbles onto a prototype jetpack that allows him to become a high flying masked hero.



Field of Dreams(1989)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 57

An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the 1919 Chicago White Sox come.



Con Air(1997)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Newly paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport plane when the passengers seize control.



Darkman(1990)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A brilliant scientist left for dead returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive.



Free Willy(1993)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 58

When a boy learns that a beloved killer whale is to be killed by the aquarium owners, the boy risks everything to free the whale.



The Nutty Professor(1996)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 57

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



The Last Seduction(1994)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A devious sexpot steals her husband's drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.



Waterworld(1995)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 56

In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land.



Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery(1997)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 55

A 1960s hipster secret agent is brought out of cryofreeze to oppose his greatest enemy in the 1990s, where his social attitudes are glaringly out of place.



Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country(1991)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 59

On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace.




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