Thursday, December 31, 1998

Critical Consensus: The Films Of 1998 (Fung)

Critic Top Ten Lists - 1998
compiled by Alex Fung

[1] Saving Private Ryan (d: Spielberg) 1320.644
[2] The Truman Show (d: Weir) 942.133
[3] Shakespeare In Love (d: Madden) 857.983
[4] Happiness (d: Solondz) 730.217
[5] The Butcher Boy (d: Jordan) 631.673
[6] Out Of Sight (d: Soderbergh) 536.756
[7] Life Is Beautiful (d: Benigni) 529.85
[8] Gods And Monsters (d: Condon) 513.967
[9] A Simple Plan (d: Raimi) 431.089
[10] Rushmore (d: Anderson) 427.283

[11] The Thin Red Line (d: Malick) 417.783
[12] Fireworks (Hana-Bi) (d: Kitano) 365.994
[13] The Celebration (d: Vinterberg) 351.817
[14] There's Something About Mary (d: Peter & Bobby Farrelly) 290.794
[15] Bulworth (d: Beatty) 290.067
[16] Buffalo 66 (d: Gallo) 288.309
[17] Pleasantville (d: Ross) 251.983
[18] Elizabeth (d: Kapur) 249.25
[19] The Opposite Of Sex (d: Roos) 225.523
[20] The Taste Of Cherry (d: Kiarostami) 215.909

[21] Affliction (d: Schrader) 211.5
[22] The General (d: Boorman) 199.7
[23] Beloved (d: Demme) 195.567
[24] Babe: Pig In The City (d: Miller) 176.923
[25] Love And Death On Long Island (d: Kwietnioski) 174.89
[26] A Bug's Life (d: Lasseter) 171.8
[27] The Big Lebowski (d: Coen) 166.6
[28] Henry Fool (d: Hartley) 148.426
[29] The Spanish Prisoner (d: Mamet) 145.6
[30] Velvet Goldmine (d: Haynes) 135.423

[31] Central Station (d: Salles) 130.7
[32] Smoke Signals (d: Eyre) 129.7
[33] Mulan (d: Cook & Bancroft) 120.1
[34] Fallen Angels (d: Wong Kar-wai) 110.9
[35] The Eel (d: Imamura) 104.667
[36] Dark City (d: Proyas) 101.6
[37] Your Friends & Neighbours (d: LaBute) 101.217
[38] Touch Of Evil (d: Welles) 100.209
[39] A Civil Action (d: Zaillian) 95.6

[40] The Apostle (d: Duvall) 95.3
[41] A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (d: Ivory) 94.7
[42] High Art (d: Cholodenko) 89.39
[43] Sonatine (d: Kitano) 88.944
[44] The Horse Whisperer (d: Redford) 87.7
[45] Living Out Loud (d: LaGravenese) 87
[46] Primary Colors (d: Nichols) 86.25
[47] Men With Guns (d: Sayles) 83.309
[48] Hands On A Hardbody (d: Bindler) 77.9
[49] The Mask Of Zorro (d: Campbell) 72.7
[50] Flowers Of Shanghai (d: Hou Hsiao-hsien) 71.444

List generated with data as of 99/01/15