CinemaScore Offers Decade's Top 18 ``Millennium Movie Masterpieces''; Best of the Best Films Take the Guesswork Out of New Year's Eve Movie Selection.Entertainment Editors SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Dec. 28, 1999 For those who decide to stay in to welcome the millennium, CinemaScore.com today revealed the list of the decade's audience-rated `A+' films, just in time to help those in search of a good movie for New Year's Eve. Only 18 movies (1.3 percent of those rated) won CinemaScore audiences' top rating. "An `A+' score is truly a rarity," said Edward Edward killed his father at his mother’s instigation. [Br. Balladry: Edward in Benét, 302] See : Patricide Mintz, president of CinemaScore. "We track audience reactions to hundreds and hundreds of movies, but only one or two movies a year reach this level of audience approval. To get an `A+', a film has to get at least an `A' from every demographic segment: men and women, adults and children," continued Mintz. The 18 `A+' movies from January January: see month. 1990 to December December: see month. 1999: -- "Aladdin" -- Robin Williams -- "Beauty & the Beast" -- Angela Lansbury -- "Dances with Wolves" -- Kevin Costner -- "A Few Good Men" -- Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise -- "Forrest Gump" -- Tom Hanks -- "The Fugitive" -- Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones -- "Homeward Bound" -- Michael J. Fox -- "Iron Will" -- Kevin Spacey -- "The Joy Luck Club" -- Kieu Chinh -- "The Lion King" -- Matthew Broderick -- "Mr. Holland's Opus" -- Richard Dreyfuss -- "Mulan" -- Eddie Murphy -- "Music of the Heart" -- Meryl Streep -- "Schindler's List" -- Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes -- "Soul Food" -- Vanessa L. Williams -- "Terminator II" -- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton -- "Titanic" -- Leonardo DiCaprio -- "Toy Story 2" -- Tom Hanks, Tim Allen "At the video store or in the theater, `A+' films are always worth watching," said Brad Peppard, president of CinemaScore Online. "If you've you've Contraction of you have. you've you have you've have missed one of the movies on this list, grab it! It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have sure to be a really great movie that the whole family will enjoy." Anyone with an e-mail address See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address can now access the same information that's been used by studio executives for the past 20 years. "There's no quicker or easier way to find the best movie to see or to rent," continued Peppard. CinemaScore.com is the new, free online newsletter service that delivers movie grades (`A+' to `F') on current movies and video releases at www.cinemascore.com. CinemaScore provides quick, easy-to-use, overnight ratings that make it easy to avoid disappointing movies and uncover hidden movie gems. Movie grades are based on in-theater surveys of actual movie-goers attending the movies on opening night. Every Friday Friday: see Sabbath; week. Friday young Indian rescued by Crusoe and kept as servant and companion. [Br. Lit.: Robinson Crusoe] See : Servant , hundreds of people all across the country are surveyed. The target size for each movie survey is 500 completed surveys. Plans are in place to increase this to 1,000 surveys next year (2000). To find out what real audiences are saying about today's films, as well as more than 2,000 films from the last 18 years, movie-goers should access the CinemaScore.com Web site -- www.cinemascore.com -- and register for the free e-newsletter. More About CinemaScore.com: CinemaScore.com tracks and reports audience reactions by age and gender. In the weekly e-newsletter and on the Web site (www.cinemascore.com), review information is divided into six specific groups: ages under 21; 21 to 34, and 35 and older; with male and female segments for each age category. CinemaScore.com visitors may search for film information by keyword, actor, director or film title. In addition to the film report scores, film box office gross totals are also posted. CinemaScore.com is the product of a collaborative effort between Edward Mintz, president of CinemaScore, and Michael Bach Michael Bach (March 1808, Boppard -17 April 1878) was a German entomologist specialising in Coleoptera. He was a teacher in Boppard and a Member of the Entomological Society of Stettin. , chief executive officer of Survey.com, a leading Internet-based market research firm in San Jose. Building on the traditional feedback services method that proved to be invaluable to the motion picture industry in validating val·i·date tr.v. val·i·dat·ed, val·i·dat·ing, val·i·dates 1. To declare or make legally valid. 2. To mark with an indication of official sanction. 3. internal pre-release research information, CinemaScore.com provides this service in a Web-based version available online to the general public. CinemaScore.com: Life is too short for bad movies! Note to Editors: For more information, contact Peggy Peggy may refer to:
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