Best 11 movies of 1998, in no particular order

Life is Beautiful
Shakespeare in Love
Zero Effect
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Truman Show
The Mask of Zorro
Pi
Slam
American History X
The Thin Red Line
Very Bad Things

(Honorable mention to The Sweet Hereafter, which was actually a 1997 release but wasn't included in my best-of-1997 list because I saw it too late.)

Worst 11 movies of 1998, in no particular order

Patch Adams
Phantoms
Meet the Deedles
Tarzan and the Lost City
The Big Hit
Woo
Palmetto
The Avengers
Dee Snider's StrangeLand
What Dreams May Come
A Night at the Roxbury

(Honorable mention to Mouse Hunt, for the same reason as above.)

Overrated 7 movies of 1998

-- note that some of these were good, perhaps excellent, but just not as good as everyone said they were:

The Siege
The Mighty
What Dreams May Come
Saving Private Ryan
The Big Hit
Primary Colors
Return to Paradise

Disappointing 7 movies of 1998 (see previous note)

The Big Hit
The Avengers
The Replacement Killers
The Man in the Iron Mask
Lethal Weapon 4
John Carpenter's Vampires
Babe, Pig in the City

Most Prophetic: Wag the Dog

Genre That Must Die: 70s/80s throwback movies

Best Artistic Vision: Dark City

Most Annoying Trend: Rereleasing old movies with 30 seconds of extra footage

Second Most Annoying Trend: Remaking old TV shows

Most Irritating Waste-Of-Celluloid Insidious Slaughter of an Excellent Concept, Taking What Could Have Been Wonderful and Making It Garbage: The Avengers

New Actor Most Likely Not to Make It: Casper Van Dien

Stupidest Trailer: Instinct

Turning the Image Around: Drew Barrymore, who will always be the Poison Ivy of my heart

Best Video Game Disguised as a Movie: Lost in Space

Best Movie That No-One Saw: Habit

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