Top 10: Best documentaries reviewed by Film Excess to date

1. The Look of Silence (2014) - Joshua Oppenheimer

2. Let the Fire Burn (2013) - Jason Osder

3. Amy (2015) - Asif Kapadia
 

4. Finding Vivian Maier (2013) - John Maloof, Charlie Siskel

5. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012) - Alison Klayman

6. Secrets of the Tribe (2010) - José Padilha

7. Burma VJ/Burma VJ: Reporter i et Lukket Land/Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country (2008) - Anders Østergaard
 

8. 20 Feet from Stardom (2013) - Morgan Neville

9. Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011) - Alex Stapleton 

10. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) - Alex Gibney

Other masterpiece documentary reviewed by Film Excess to date:

The Cove (2009) - Louie Psihoyos

Other great documentaries reviewed by Film Excess to date (in alphabetical order):

A World Not Ours (2012) - Mahdi Fleifel
The Act of Killing/Jagal (2012) - Joshua Oppenheimer
Alive Inside/Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory (2014) - Michael Rossato-Bennett
Armadillo (2010) - Janus Metz
The Bengali Detective (2011) - Philip Cox
Crumb (1994) - Terry Zwigoff
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror (2000, TV) - Leon Ferguson
Earth (2007) - Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
Family (2001) - Phie Ambo, Sami Saif
The Five Obstructions/De Fem Benspænd (2003) - Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier 
GasLand (2010) - Josh Fox
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) - Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006) - Stanley Nelson

Good, recommendable documentaries reviewed by Film Excess to date (in alphabetical order):

Danmark (1935) - Poul Henningsen
East Side Story (1997) - Dana Ranga 
F for Fake (1973) - Orson Welles, Gary Graver, Oja Kodar, François Reichenbach 
The Imposter (2012) -Bart Layton
Searching for Sugar Man (2012) - Malik Bendjelloul

Mediocre, poor and/or failed documentary reviewed to date:

Man With a Movie Camera/Человек с киноаппаратом (1929) - Dziga Vertov

[30 titles in total]

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Frida (2002) - Hayek, Molina shine in Taymor's excellent biopic

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Salma Hayek looks stunning on this invitingly colored and balanced poster for Julie Taymor's Frida, which mirrors the painting style of the title character

During the first half of the 20th century, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is made an invalid in a bus accident at age 18, meets the love of her life, the unfaithful Diego, and becomes a great artist.

Frida is written by Clancy Sigal (In Love and War (1996)), Diane Lake, Gregory Nava (Selena (1997)) and Anna Thomas (The End of August (1981)), based on the book Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (1983) by Hayden Herrera, and directed by great Massachuetts-born filmmaker Julie Taymor (Titus (1999)).
It is a sensually dense, bubbling, inspired film with fantastic photography by Rodrigo Prieto (A Study in Gravity (2013)). It is impressively staged and scored with wonderful, often painful music by Elliot Goldenthal (Heat (1995)).
Centrally stands two major dramatic performances: Salma Hayek (No One Writes to the Colonel/El Coronel no Tiene quien le Escriba (1999)) arguably in the best role of her career, and Alfred Molina (Return to Zero (2014)), perhaps also in his best. Kahlo's art is utilized most inventively in the storytelling of Frida. It is a splendid film.

Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 12 mil. $
Box office: 56.2 mil. $
= Big hit (returned 4.68 times its cost)
[Frida premiered 29 August (Venice Film Festival, Italy) and runs 123 minutes. Herrera's book was optioned in 1988, and the film was thus underway for more than a decade, before it reached fruition. Molina gained 35 pounds for his role in the film. Shooting took place in Mexico, including Mexico City, in and around March 2001. The film opened #31 to a 205k $ first weekend in 5 theaters in North America, where it peaked at #9 and in 794 theaters (different weeks) and grossed 25.8 mil. $ (45.9 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Germany with 6 mil. $ (10.7 %) and Mexico with 3.5 mil. $ (6.2 %). The film was nominated for 6 Oscars, winning 2, for Best Score and Makeup. It lost Best Actress to Nicole Kidman in The Hours, Art/set Direction to Chicago, Costume Design to Chicago, and Song (Burn It Blue by Goldenthal and Taymor) to Lose Yourself from 8 Mile. The film also won 1/2 Golden Globe nominations, 1/4 BAFTAs, an AFI award, a National Board of Review award and many other honors. Roger Ebert gave the film a 3.5/4 star review, equal to its rating here. During the #MeToo hullaballoo, Hayek came forth in 2017 and accused distributing executive producer Harvey Weinstein of trying to get sexual favors from her during production of Frida, as well as pressuring her into accepting performing in a 'gratuitous' sex scene. Taymor returned with Across the Universe (2007)). Hayek returned in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003), Molina in Undertaking Betty/Plots with a View (2002). Frida is certified fresh at 75 % with a 6.87/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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The Fourth Man/De Vierde Man (1983) - Verhoeven's amazing Dutch sex thriller nightmare

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A man seems caught in a nightmarish situation with a sinister, cross-wearing lady on this great poster for Paul Verhoeven's The Fourth Man

A predominantly gay writer meets a woman at a Q&A session, who becomes his girlfriend. But he then starts to learn about her former men and their unenviable fates, while he suffers frightening dreams.

The Fourth Man is written by Gerard Soeteman (Floris (2004)), based on the same-titled 1981 novel by Gerard Reve (De Avonden/The Evenings (1947)), and directed by great Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven (Spetters (1980)).
Verhoeven's grip on the sex thriller is already well-developed here in this highly cinematic and exciting film, which is formed around a very simple story. Jeroen Krabbé (Fogbound (2002)) is outstanding as the pitiful, often amusing rascal hero.
I love all the coincidences and implausibilities in the plot, which leaps forward with a great visual energy, (cinematography by Jan de Bont (Growing Pains (1984))), special effects and a wealth of skin and naughty scenes. 
Verhoeven's direction is strong and distinctive. SPOILER I have a reservation about the grave chamber scene; in it our hero should reasonably first have sex with the guy of his desire there, before surrendering to the grip of anxiety, - this is essentially a psychological error in the script.
The film is like a Freudian nightmare, one left wide open for interpretation. The Fourth Man is a very attractive piece of work, you are likely to want to see more than once.

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Listen to some of Loek Dikker's score from the film here

Cost: Unknown
Box office: Unknown
= Uncertain
[The Fourth Man was released 24 March (Netherlands) and runs 102 minutes. Shooting took place in the Holland, including Amsterdam. Verhoeven has said of the film: "The Fourth Man has to do with my vision of religion. In my opinion, Christianity is nothing more than one of many interpretations of reality, neither more nor less. Ideally, it would be nice to believe that there is a God somewhere out there, but it looks to me as if the whole Christian religion is a major symptom of schizophrenia in half the world's population: civilizations scrambling to rationalize their chaotic existence. Subsequently, Christianity has a tendency to look like magic or the occult. And I liked that ambiguity, because I wanted my audience to take something home with them. I wanted them to wonder about what religion really is. Remember, that Christianity is a religion grounded in one of the most violent acts of murder, the crucifixion. Otherwise, religion wouldn't have had any kind of impact. With regard to the irony of the violence, much of that probably comes from my childhood experiences during and immediately following the Second World War. In fact, if it hadn't been for the German occupation and then the American occupation, I would have never been a filmmaker." The film's box office take is unknown; it sold 274k tickets in production country Holland, less than Verhoeven's earlier hits, and it was his last film in his native country. It won a National Board of Review award and was chosen as Holland's Oscar entry of the year but wasn't nominated. It was remade as The Good Thief (2002). Verhoeven considered his 4th Hollywood movie Basic Instinct (1992) a 'spiritual prequel' to The Fourth Man. Verhoeven returned with Flesh+Blood (1985). Krabbé returned in 4 TV credits before theatrically in Turtle Diary (1985); Renée Soutendijk (Suspiria (2018)) returned in An Bloem (1983). 6,355 IMDb users have given The Fourth Man a 7.3/10 average rating.]

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The Final Conflict/Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) - Sam Neill gets diabolical in the 2nd unremarkable Omen sequel

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Sam Neill enveloped in a ring of fire and US state and satanic symbols looking dubious on this poster for Graham Baker's The Final Conflict

Devil child Damien has become an adult and the leader of Thorn Industries, when he is appointed the new US ambassador to London, and star formations show that the second coming is getting near. - The antichrist must be stopped!

The Final Conflict is written by Andrew Birkin (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)), following Richard Donner's orignal masterpiece The Omen (1976) and turkey sequel Damien: Omen II (1978), and is directed by debuting Graham Baker (Born to Ride (1991)).
It is a bit better than the preceding, ridiculous Omen II: Sam Neill (Tommy's Honour (2016)) is good as Damien, - although his speeches about the Nazarene are a bit long. Final Conflict also has a production size and several fine ideas, which made me want to pay attention to it. Lisa Harrow (Sunday (1997)) is also good as the journalist character. And Jerry Goldsmith's (Mulan (1998)) score does its part for the film.
The Final Conflict has a dog attack scene that is severely involuntarily comedic.

Related post:

Omen franchise: Damien: Omen II (1978) - Mimicking follow-up is a true turkey

Watch a 30 second TV ad for the film here

Cost: 5-6 mil. $ (different reports)
Box office: 20.4 mil. $ (North America only)
= Big hit (returned 3.4 times its cost in North America alone)
[The Final Conflict was released 20 March (USA) and runs 108 minutes. Shooting took place in England, including London, and in Wisconsin and Washington DC in and around May 1980. SPOILER Reportedly the scene in a TV studio of the death of a priest, who burns while trapped in melting plastic, was the hardest to shoot, taking 2 weeks to get right. Stuntman Vic Armstrong did the backwards 100 foot fall from a bridge for the film, calling it the most frightening stunt of his career. The story changes the franchise's chronology to make Damien's adulthood in 1981 possible. It opened #1 to a 5.5 mil. $ first weekend in 918 theaters in North America, where its gross dipped 6 mil. $ from the previous film's earnings. Globally, a conservative gross estimate might be 30-35 mil. $. The franchise returned only many years hence with Omen IV: The Awakening (1991, TV movie), a flop, and was attempted rebooted later with financially successful but critically panned The Omen (2006). Baker returned with Impulse (1984). Neill returned in Attack Force Z (1981). The Final Conflict is rotten at 32 % with a 4.43/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Funny Games (2007) - Haneke recreates his strong critique of movie violence consumption for the American audience

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+ Best Home Invasion Thriller of the Year

Naomi Watts has been in better shape (but also worse, in a few cases) than on this confrontational, unsettling poster for Michael Haneke's Funny Games

A harmonic married couple are sought out in their idyllic summerhouse by two young men, who torment them and their young son as a part of their 'funny games'.

Funny Games is written and directed by great German filmmaker Michael Haneke (Hidden/Caché (2005)) and is a shot-by-shot remake of his impactful original Funny Games (1997), which was made in Austria.
This US replication of the unforgettable work has only altered very little from the scenario. The original film for some reason has a stronger impact, I find, because the couple are German-speaking, and the language comes out a bit quicker and more naturally. That aside the new Funny Games is a successful remake, and it is a testament to Haneke's almost insane artistic consequence that he recreates his most creep-out unpleasant film this meticulously.
Funny Games gives us violence-desensitized audiences a sobering slap across the face. The new ensemble of actors all perform well; Naomi Watts (Chuck (2016)) again shows her talent for portraying awfully afflicted females (as seen also in great film such as Mulholland Dr. (1999), 21 Grams (2003) and The Impossible/Lo Imposible (2012).)

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Watch a trailer for the film with Spanish subtitles here

Cost: 15 mil. $
Box office: 7.9 mil. $ 
= Huge flop (returned 0.52 times its cost)
[Funny Games premiered 20 October (London Film Festival, UK) and runs 111 minutes. Haneke has said that he wanted to make the original film in the US, but was not practically able to at the time. Instead the set from the 1997 film was meticulously recreated for the new film. Shooting took place in New York in and around September 2006. The film opened #21 to a 544k $ first weekend in 286 theaters in North America, where it added two more cinemas in its 2nd week but only lessened in rank, grossing 1.2 mil. $ (15.2 % of the total gross). The film's biggest market was Italy with 2.1 mil. $ (26.6 %); North America was the 2nd biggest, and France was the 3rd biggest with 1 mil. $ (12.7 %). Haneke returned with The White Ribbon/Das Weiße Band - Eine Deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009). Watts returned in The International (2009), Tim Roth (The Con Is On (2018)) in Virgin Territory (2007), and Michael Pitt (Criminal Activities (2015)) in 4 video, TV and a bit part credits before he reclaimed the major screen again in Seven Psychopaths (2012). Funny Games is rotten at 51 % with a 5.64/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring/Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring/봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄/Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (2003) - Ki-duk presents the Buddhist Wheel of Life in splendid Korean nature

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A young and an older monk sail on an invisible lake on this etheric, minimalist poster for Kim Ki-duk's Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

An aging monk in a floating house on a lake raises a young boy there. When the boy becomes a young man, he falls in love and runs away, - though nothing good comes of this.

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring is written and directed by Kim Ki-duk (Human, Space, Time and Human/Inkan, gongkan, sikan grigo inkan (2018)).
The film tells partially a real story and partially paints a metaphor for the different phases in human life: Told episodically and set up against some strikingly beautiful Korean nature.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring has inspired photography (by Baek Dong-hyeon (My Wife Is a Gangster 3/Jopog manura 3 (2006))), and it is a respectable enterprise to be sure, - but also somewhat tedious at times, - meditative some might say, more diplomatically. I zone out some in some of its abstract, metaphorical stretches. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring may appeal stronger to Buddhists.

Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: Unknown
Box office: 9.5 mil. $
= Uncertain
[Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring premiered 14 August (Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland) and runs 103 minutes. Shooting took place in South Korea in and around the 200 year old artificial Jusanji Pond. Ki-duk has said of the film: "I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a monk who lives in a temple on Jusan Pond surrounded only by nature." A sequence towards the end of a boy harming animals by the lake was removed from some international versions of the film. It opened #59 to a 42k $ first weekend in 6 theaters in North America, where it peaked at #21 and in 74 theaters, grossing 2.3 mil. $ (24.2 % of the total gross). The film's listed 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Germany with 1.3 mil. $ (13.7 %) and France with 1.1 mil. $ (11.6 %), - but the list is missing South Korea and Japan, which may likely have been the film's biggest markets of all. Roger Ebert gave the film a 4/4 star review, translating to 2 notches higher than this one. It was nominated for a European Film award, among other honors. Ki-duk returned with Samaritan Girl/Samaria (2004). Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring is certified fresh at 94 % with an 8.02/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) - Heckerling's popular high school portrayal debut

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Rebellious, perky fun is promised on this bright and youthful poster for Amy Heckerling's Fast Times at Ridgemont High

We follow a girl, who loses her virginity, and the boys around her for a period in and around Ridgemont High School, - and not least the nearby mall.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High is written by Cameron Crowe (Roadies (2016, TV-series)), based on his own same-titled 1981 book, which in turn was based on undercover work done at a San Diego high school, and directed by great New-Yorker filmmaker Amy Heckerling (Clueless (1995)), whose debut it is.
It is a charming and enjoyable youth picture with Sean Penn (This Must Be the Place (2011)) as what must be the ultimate California surfer dude character, Jeff Spicoli. Watching the film, Penn's authenticity as Spicoli almost makes it hard to grasp that he wasn't actually this character in real life.
A lot has changed in and around high school life since Fast Times at Ridgemont High, - and a lot hasn't. It is no Dazed and Confused (1993), which may have beat it in its game a decade or so later, but it is a fine, empathetic film all the same.

Watch a clip from the film here

Cost: 5 mil. $
Box office: Reportedly 50 mil. $
= Mega-hit (returned 10 times its cost)
[Fast Times at Ridgemont High was released 13 August (USA) and runs 90 minutes. Shooting took place in California, including in Los Angeles, from November - December 1981. The film opened #7 to a 2.5 mil. $ first weekend in 498 theaters in North America, where it peaked at #3, ultimately spending 6 weeks in the top 5 (#3-#3-#5-X-#4-#5-#4) and grossing 27 mil. $ (54 % of the total gross). The 50 mil. $ final gross is asserted in Peter H. Brown's LA Times' article We're Talking Gross, Tacky and Dumb (1985). Roger Ebert gave the film a 1/4 star review, translating to 4 notches worse than this one. Heckerling returned with Johnny Dangerously (1984). Penn returned in Bad Boys (1983), Jennifer Jason Leigh (Road to Perdition (2002)) in The First Time (1982, TV movie), ABC Afterschool Specials (1983, TV-series) and theatrically in Easy Money (1983). The film inspired a short-lived CBS TV-series called Fast Times (1986). Fast Times at Ridgemont High is certified fresh at 78 % with a 6.75/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Fuglekrigen i Kanøfleskoven (1990) or, Every Bird for Himself

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Birds in a dark environment play music and dance (with rats), while an ominous vulture readies to feed on them on this poster for Jannik Hastrup's Fuglekrigen i Kanøfleskoven

A young bird in the forest called Oliver gets a good friend and later girlfriend in fellow bird Olivia, and they stage a united front against the vulture tyrant of the forest, Fagin. - But precious few will help them.

Fuglekrigen i Kanøfleskoven is written by Bent Haller (Dreaming of Paradise/Strit og Stumme (1987)), based on his own children's book Fuglekrigen (1979), and directed by great Danish filmmaker Jannik Hastrup (Sandheden (1964)). The original Danish title translates to, 'the bird war in the reproach forest'.
It is a fairly typical Haller-Hastrup collaboration, which pushes the view that people are stupid and ignorant, and that adults aren't much help but are often selfish and/or downright malicious.
Two mice from Hastrup's popular Cirkeline (1967-70) animation get dragged into the story, and this is one of those films were developments seem to be invented primarily as a means to boost the running time.
Tommy Kenter's (Chop Chop/Fukssvansen (2001)) voice performance as the owl, which was inspired by W.C. Fields, is one of the best things in the film, but Ove Sprogøe (Kurt og Valde (1983)) and Anne Marie Helger (Jungledyret Hugo (2003, TV-series)) as the two magpies are also funny.
Fuglekrigen i Kanøfleskoven is singular and out-spoken but in no way deep or inspired exactly, and the animation isn't beautiful or original.

Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 12 mil. DKK, approximately 2 mil. $
Box office: Unknown
= Uncertain
[Fuglekrigen i Kanøfleskoven was released 28 September (Denmark) and runs 68 minutes. No box office information is made available, regrettably, though the Danish Film Institute, (one of the production companies behind the film), called it a "big audience success" in its primary production company Denmark, and also inform that the film was distributed with 80 and 40 copies made, respectively, for the German and French market. The film was also released in Iceland, Sweden, Japan, Finland and the Netherlands. It won the Best Film for the Youth award in Cannes 1990. 30 seconds of profanity was cut out for a North-American release of the film, which never came to fruition. It won a Robert award (Denmark's Oscar) for Best Sound. Hastrup returned with 3 shorts and theatrically with Aberne og det Hemmelige Våben (1995). 711 IMDb users have given Fuglekrigen i Kanøfleskoven a 7.3/10 average rating.]

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The Fugitive (1993) - Ford runs fast in Davis' overrated action thriller

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+ Most Overrated Movie of the Year

Harrison Ford is running next to a train in motion on this effective poster, which screams high-octane thrills, for Andrew Davis' The Fugitive

Dr. Richard Kimble is wrongfully convicted the death penalty for the murder of his wife, - but then he escapes!

The Fugitive is written by Jeb Stuart (Lock Up (1989)) and David Twohy (Waterworld (1995)), based on the same-titled 1963-67 TV-series by Roy Huggins, and directed by Andrew Davis (Under Siege (1992)).
The film has an enviably simple narrative thrust to begin with, which I feel is later dissolved by the simplistic cat-and-mouse story that follows, which also gets thick several times; SPOILER as when Kimble's death row bus crashes onto train tracks and is immediately in collision with a train.
Jeroen Krabbé (Sahara Sandwich (1991)) is good as Kimble's deceitful doctor friend, SPOILER but why he and the one-armed man Sykes killed our hero's doctor never becomes clear to me. The smartly handled action pace and James Newton Howard's (Nightcrawler (2014)) great score does a good job of overshadowing the weak points in this massive hit.

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1993 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess 

Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 44 mil. $
Box office: 368.8 mil. $
= Mega-hit (returned 8.38 times its cost)
[The Fugitive premiered 29 July (California) and runs 130 minutes. Shooting took place in North Carolina and in Chicago, Illinois from February - May 1993. The train crash used a real train in a single take and cost 1 mil. $. The film opened #1 to a 23.7 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it held the #1 spot in the subsequent 5 weeks, then spending another 2 weeks in the top 5 (#2-#3), ending up grossing 183.8 mil. $ (49.8 % of the total gross) from a reported 44 mil. tickets sold domestically, where it was the 3rd highest-grossing film of the year. It was the first major US film to screen in China in decades, but regrettably its international gross numbers are not made public. It was nominated for 7 Oscars, winning for Best Supporting Actor (Tommy Lee Jones (Cobb (1994))). It lost Best Cinematography (Michael Chapman (Gotham (1988, TV movie))) to Janusz Kaminski for Schinder's List, Sound Effects to Jurassic Park, Film Editing to Schindler's List, Score to John Williams also for Schindler's List, Picture to Schindler's List and Sound to Jurassic Park. It also won 1/3 Golden Globe nominations, 1/4 BAFTA noms and other honors. Roger Ebert gave the film a 4/4 star review, translating to 3 notches higher than this one. Davis returned with Steal Big Steal Little (1995). Ford returned with an uncredited cameo in Jimmy Hollywood (1994) and as a leading man in Clear and Present Danger (1994). Jones returned in the flop sequel U.S. Marshals (1998), which is actually a bit better than the original film.The film was remade in India as Nir Nayam (1995). Leslie Nielsen starred in the parody Wrongfully Accused (1998). The Fugitive is certified fresh at 96 % with a 7.94/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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