Having read the reviews, I'm glad I'm not alone

Rating: 2/10 (1 September 2000)

American Beauty really is a bad film. How could it have beaten The Sixth Sense (in a bad year)? I keep thinking of The Emperor's New Clothes - and I feel like the little boy. There was a time when great films won Oscars - and many great films didn't. "American Beauty" is a travesty that will not be remembered; that it has won so many Oscars simply brings the whole organisation into disrepute.