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High Five Best Films of 1999

By Joe Lozito
Topsy-Turvy four stars
God bless Mike Leigh for restoring faith in both Gilbert and Sullivan and the film biopic. This is everything "Man on the Moon" is not.

Magnolia four stars
Writer-director P.T. (formerly Paul Thomas) Anderson's last film "Boogie Nights" seemed like the work of a filmmaker that had spent a lot of time studying "Scorcese For Dummies".

Being John Malkovich four stars
In the middle of a plague of copycat, apocalyptic thrillers, it's refreshing to see a movie which literally takes you where no one has gone before: inside the head of actor John Malkovich.

All About My Mother four stars
The skills director Pedro Almodóvar has been honing over the past two decades come together perfectly in his ode to all things maternal.

American Beauty three and a half stars
Every so often a film comes along that takes a shot at the suburbs. Built on a foundation of paper-thin appearances and material possessions, suburban America is always an easy target.

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