The 1997 films I've seen to date, grouped by rating:


**** (masterpieces)

The Game
Irma Vep

*** ½ (terrific films)

The Bread and the Vase
Breakdown
The Eighteenth
Face/Off
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
In the Company of Men
L.A. Confidential
La promesse
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
Prisoner of the Mountains
Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
The Sweet Hereafter

*** (darn good films)

Amistad
Anastasia
Boogie Nights
Capitaine Conan
Conspirators of Pleasure
The Daytrippers
Deep Crimson
Donnie Brasco
East Side Story
Eve's Bayou
Forgotten Silver
4 Little Girls
The Full Monty
Gray's Anatomy
Grosse Pointe Blank
Hercules
Hollow Reed
The House of Yes
The Ice Storm
Licensed to Kill
Lilies
Little Angel
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Ma vie en rose
Martín (Hache)
Nénette et Boni
The Pillow Book
Ponette
Public Housing
Saint Clara
A Self Made Hero
Soul in the Hole
Titanic
To Have (Or Not)
Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
Ulee's Gold
Underground
Waco: The Rules of Engagement
Wag the Dog
When the Cat's Away
Will It Snow for Christmas?
The Wind in the Willows
The Wings of the Dove
Year of the Horse

** ½ (films about which I have mixed feelings)

Air Force One
The Apostle
As Good As It Gets
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Bang
Black & White & Red All Over
Box of Moonlight
The Boxer
Brothers in Trouble
Career Girls
Chasing Amy
Chronicle of a Disappearance
Conspiracy Theory
Cyclo
Deconstructing Harry
Destiny
The Devil's Advocate
The Edge
FairyTale -- A True Story
Family Name
Flamenco
G.I. Jane
Gabbeh
Good Will Hunting
GRIDLOCK'd
Guantanamera
Happy Together
Hard Eight
In & Out
Jackie Brown
Kundun
Liar Liar
Live Flesh
The Long Way Home
Lost Highway
Love Serenade
Men in Black
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Mrs Brown
My Sex Life, or How I Got into an Argument
Oscar and Lucinda
Private Parts
Rainclouds over Wushan
Salut Cousin!
Schizopolis
Scream 2
Starship Troopers
subUrbia
Sunday
Washington Square
The Watermelon Woman

** (mediocre films)

Absolute Power
Afterglow
Alien Resurrection
Contact
Crash
The Designated Mourner
Diary of a Seducer
Fire
Gattaca
Hamsun
Hoodlum
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
The Keeper
Kitchen
Kolya
La vie de Jésus
A Mongolian Tale
My Mother's Courage
Night Falls on Manhattan
Nowhere
One Night Stand
The Quiet Room
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
Shall We Dance?
She's So Lovely
Squeeze
Telling Lies in America
Temptress Moon
Ulysses' Gaze
The Van
Waiting for Guffman
Welcome to Sarajevo
The Winner

* ½ (bad films)

Ah-Chung
The Bloody Child
The End of Violence
For Ever Mozart
Gummo
Habit
John Grisham's The Rainmaker
Murder at 1600

* (excruciating films)

From Today Until Tomorrow
Portland
Star Maps

Zero (films I walked out of)

None