Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

PG | 2002 | Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman

A Jedi knight is assigned to protect a senator who is targeted by a violent separatist group. Love soon blossoms between the two. Meanwhile, the Jedi Council and the Republic try to avert a civil war.

Stuart Little 2

PG | 2002 | Voice of Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis

Stuart Little returns with his nine-month-old sister and sets out to rescue a good-natured bird from an evil falcon.

American Outlaws

PG-13 | 2001 | Colin Farrell, Scott Caan | Critics: 8-8-5-6-7

Comic Western follows the notorious exploits of the James-Younger Gang who became some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws after running afoul of the law for justified vigilantism.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

PG | 2001 | Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint

An 11-year-old orphan's dreary life is forever changed when a messenger owl appears with a mysterious letter inviting him to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Shrek

PG | 2001 | Voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy

A cranky ogre agrees to rescue a princess from a dragon in order to get his home back. He's joined by a chatty donkey who is determined to be his friend.

Spy Kids

PG | 2001 | Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino

Upbeat action comedy about two children who, after their mother and father are kidnapped, discover that their parents are former spies. The two become the world's youngest secret agents in order to save their parents—and the world.

Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, The

PG | 2000 | Mark Addy, Kristen Johnson

On holiday in Rock Vegas, Fred Flintstone is consumed with jealousy when a dashing playboy pursues his ladylove Wilma Slaghoople.

Maria Goretti

PG | 2000 | Massimo Bonetti, Luisa Ranier, Flavio Insinna, Martina Pinto, Fabrizio Bucci, Marco Messeri

Maria Goretti and Alexander Serenelli experience a friendship that could have been transformed into love. But Alexander, overcome by passion, chooses a different path and violently stabs his friend. During her agony, the young girl forgives her murderer, and shows that it is possible to respond to hatred with love. The life of Maria is brief but intense, and is marked by a continual training in love through little actions of everyday life.

An Autumn Tale

PG | 1999 | Marie Riviere, Beatrice Romand

Warmhearted comedy/drama about a woman's romantic complications when her friends contrive to find her a man. Though too slow-moving for mainstream viewers, this charming film delights Rohmer's fans, French cinema lovers.

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

PG | 1999 | Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor

In this prequel to "Star Wars," a nine-year-old boy named Anakin Skywalker and two Jedi Knights rescue the queen and save the planet of Naboo from invasion.

Stuart Little

PG | 1999 | Voice of Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis

The comic adventures of a heroic mouse with human qualities who lives with a human family.

Avengers, The

PG | 1998 | Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman

Two British secret agents work overtime to defeat a sinister man attempting to control the world's weather.

Babe: Pig in the City

PG | 1998 | Elizabeth Daily, Magda Szubanski

Babe the Pig travels to the big city to earn money to save Hoggett farm.

Alaska

PG | 1996 | Vincent Kartheiser, Thora Birch

A brother and sister venture out into the Alaskan wilderness to rescue their father whose small plane has crashed. They are adopted by an orphaned polar bear cub along the way.

Arrival, The

PG-13 | 1996 | Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse

An astronomer discovers a cover-up of alien activity by NASA when he intercepts an extraterrestrial transmission.

Apollo 13

PG | 1995 | Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise

The story of the Apollo mission which encountered trouble in orbit, putting the three-man crew in a life threatening situation.

Casper

PG | 1995 | Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman

The lonely daughter of a ghost psychiatrist, ostracized by schoolmates because of her father's profession, is befriended by a friendly ghost named Casper.

Flintstones, The

PG | 1994 | John Goodman, Rick Moranis

Stone-Age quarry worker Fred Flintstone must deal with his demanding wife Wilma, her horrible mother, his idiot best friend Barney and an unsympathetic boss in this adaptation of the hit 1960s animated television series.

Little Women

PG | 1994 | Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon

A retelling of the classic book by Louisa May Alcott about the March family, four daughters and their mother, living on the home front during the Civil War.

Avalon

PG | 1990 | Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins

Drama about the life of a Russian immigrant family in Baltimore in the years following WWII. A young boy observes the dissolution of his family as his grandfather's children become more entrenched in the American dream.

Awakenings

PG-13 | 1990 | Robert De Niro, Robin Williams

A doctor in the chronic-care ward of a Bronx hospital tends to patients suffering from encephalitis lethargica, a disease, caused by a virus, which has left them comatose. Through the experimental use of a drug called L Dopa, the doctor is able to revive several of his patients, many of whom have been asleep; for decades. Based on a book by Oliver Sacks.

Back to the Future, Part II

PG | 1989 | Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd

A young guy and his girlfriend transport themselves through time in order to keep the children they've not yet had from getting into bad situations. But the plan goes haywire when their time machine is ripped off and they can't get back to the past.

Back to the Future

PG | 1985 | Michael J. Fox, Lea Thompson

A skateboarding teenage boy, Marty McFly, befriends an oddball scientist who's working on a time-travel machine. When the scientist is killed in a drive-by shooting, Marty decides to go back to the future just far enough to save him, but he goes back too far—to the 1950s—and is suddenly face to face with teenage versions of his mother and father.

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

PG | 1983 | Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford

This high-speed conclusion to the Star Wars trilogy finds Han, Luke and Leia imprisoned by the morbidly obese Jabba the Hutt. But Soul Train-smooth Landro Calrissian springs them so they can rid the galaxy of Darth Vader and the emperor before they put the final touches to a new Death Star.

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

PG | 1980 | Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher

Number two in the classic saga, this installment finds Luke escaping from Darth Vader into a serious study of the Force under wise Yoda. Before battle's end, a secret is revealed that profoundly affects both Luke and evil helmet-headed Vader.

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A tick on the bottom right corner indicates a superior work -- although this is obviously a matter of taste. To give another quality benchmark for films, we have surveyed some leading critics and recorded their views, on a scale of 1 (poor) to 10 (outstanding).

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