Re(focused)views contains a collection of films that demand reconsideration. In most cases, they were panned or misunderstood during their initial release, or to this day carry a stigma among critics, audiences, and in pop-culture. In other cases, they are just forgotten masterpieces. Call them underrated, overlooked, misread, before their time, or simply films that require another assessment, each title challenges convention in a way that led to its mainstream failure or dismissal. This column seeks to defend such works which, with renewed perspective, deserve a second look.

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THE FILMS:

	A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)	Snake Eyes (1998)	Contact (1997)	Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

 

 

 

	Ghosts of Mars (2001)	Conan the Barbarian (1984)	Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)	Mission: Impossible (1996)

 

 

 

	I Heart Huckabees (2004)

 

 

 

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