|
5/5
|
56%
|
The Polar Express (2004) |
"
Climb on and you'll experience one of the great joys of moviegoing: seeing something that's like nothing you've ever seen before."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Nov 10, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
15%
|
Head in the Clouds (2004) |
"
The story becomes a long slog because Duigan doesn't define his characters and because he's determined to touch too many of the familiar '30s European bases."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Nov 5, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
49%
|
Alfie (2004) |
"
The supporting cast of females (and Epps) is fun to watch, and the film boasts three original songs by Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Nov 5, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
48%
|
Saw (2004) |
"
Neither a deep, psychological thriller nor a mindless slasher flick, this is one skillfully made, if admittedly superficial, creepout."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Oct 29, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
Ray (2004) |
"
Foxx helps us to truly understand how much Charles' blindness allows him to achieve, especially when combined with an innate wiliness."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Oct 29, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
39%
|
Birth (2004) |
"
Possibly, this idea would have worked as comedy. Say, if the kid had said something like, 'I am dead people.'"
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Oct 29, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
The Final Cut (2004) |
"
This premise sounds like the sort of a screwy, non-idea that a young film student might dream up while editing a documentary. And according to the press notes, that's just what happened."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Oct 15, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
46%
|
Shall We Dance (2004) |
"
The central idea -- that losing yourself in a small, private world can help you to better engage the larger world -- isn't lost in translation."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Oct 15, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
86%
|
Monster Road (2003) |
"
A documentary that doesn't always seem to be sure what it's documenting."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Oct 12, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
33%
|
Rockets Redglare (2004) |
"
The film goes on too long, repeats itself and has a reality-TV tendency to wallow in the tawdry."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Oct 8, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
51%
|
Code 46 (2004) |
"
Amid the white walls and slick surfaces of this film, the characters seem more like lab rats than human beings."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Oct 8, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
10%
|
Taxi (2004) |
"
Has there ever been less chemistry between the stars of a 'buddy' movie?"
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Oct 6, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
64%
|
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"
We Don't Live Here Anymore is, you might say, a movie for adults who are, perhaps, a smidge too impressed with being adults."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Oct 1, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
51%
|
Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004) |
"
For victims of abuse, watching this film may be a cathartic experience. For most moviegoers, it is, at its best, a sober look at a problem that is at last getting some of the attention it has always deserved."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Oct 1, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
36%
|
Shark Tale (2004) |
"
A briny, buoyant offer that you can't refuse."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Oct 1, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Mean Creek (2004) |
"
A low-key, low-budget thriller that reminds us just how cruel young people can be."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Sep 24, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
65%
|
Bright Young Things (2003) |
"
If you yearn for a Brit fix, this is your flick. If not, think twice before checking it out."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Sep 24, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
8%
|
First Daughter (2004) |
"
Not even Holmes can elevate this pap."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Sep 24, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
91%
|
Shaun of the Dead (2004) |
"
Zombies or no zombies, this is the funniest film of the year."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Sep 24, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
30%
|
The Forgotten (2004) |
"
You could wind up with whiplash watching this film, and that's a compliment."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Sep 24, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
41%
|
Zhou Yu's Train (2004) |
"
Zhou Yu's Train has its strengths, but it's clearly no bullet train."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Sep 17, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
54%
|
Danny Deckchair (2003) |
"
Balsmeyer may remind you of the guy at the party who, after one too many shots, puts a lampshade on his head. It's funny for maybe a moment -- until you realize, to your horror, that he doesn't know when to stop."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Sep 17, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
72%
|
Gozu (Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu) (2003) |
"
There is something compelling about the way this film sneakily taps into our collective psychosexual fantasies."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Sep 10, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
44%
|
Evergreen (2004) |
"
Observant, touching, funny and smart."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Sep 10, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
74%
|
The Hunting of the President (2004) |
"
What comes across most strongly is how utterly trivial so much of this story now seems. Can we really have spent all that time, money and energy chewing over a land deal and worrying about a presidential dalliance?"
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Sep 3, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
56%
|
The Blonds (Los Rubios) (2003) |
"
After watching this chilly film, you won't cry for Argentina so much as you'll be scratching your head about it."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Sep 3, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
50%
|
Vanity Fair (2004) |
"
[Nair] clearly loves these characters, the kind and unkind alike. And the proof of this is that she makes them all so marvelously vivid."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Sep 1, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Intimate Strangers (Confidences trop intimes) (2003) |
"
What's at stake in Intimate Strangers is something quite small: The relationship between two lonely people. We care because Leconte helps us to understand their isolation, and we end up sharing their thirst for human contact."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Aug 27, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
27%
|
Anacondas - The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) |
"
After watching this film you feel that you've aged a thousand years."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Aug 27, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
11%
|
Exorcist - The Beginning (2004) |
"
Plenty violent. And bloody. And gory. What it isn't -- not really -- is scary."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Aug 23, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Garden State (2004) |
"
Cleverly written, sensitively directed and very well-acted."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Aug 20, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
14%
|
Without A Paddle (2004) |
"
This is the kind of comedy in which the aim is to make the audience cringe."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Aug 20, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
33%
|
Benji - Off the Leash (2004) |
"
Parents ... are more likely to experience the film as a blend of clumsy slapstick and mind-numbing bathos."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Aug 20, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
48%
|
A Home at the End of the World (2004) |
"
Despite some very good acting in most roles, the people on the screen seem like types with labels."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Aug 13, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Shaolin Soccer (2004) |
"
May be the funniest out-and-out comedy of the summer."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Aug 13, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
69%
|
Carandiru (2004) |
"
We're served up meaty, often spicy, slices of sadly wasted lives."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Aug 13, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
26%
|
The Princess Diaries 2 - Royal Engagement (2004) |
"
So lame."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Aug 11, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
Collateral (2004) |
"
Yet another lackluster late-summer thriller."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Aug 6, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
21%
|
Little Black Book (2004) |
"
One of those annoyingly coy romantic comedies in which people try to improve their relationships by deceiving and investigating each other."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Aug 6, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
Before Sunset (2004) |
"
A richer experience than the original."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Jul 30, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
Thunderbirds (2004) |
"
Aside from possibly launching a Ben Kingsley line of cosmetics, Thunderbirds seems destined to leave no lasting mark."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Jul 30, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
74%
|
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) |
"
Crude, tasteless, sophomoric and crass. It is also, sometimes, funny."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Jul 30, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
Superstar in a Housedress (2004) |
"
An affectionate biographical documentary."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Jul 23, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
77%
|
The Mother (2004) |
"
It challenges you to figure out how you feel about the people on the screen -- emotionally, intellectually, morally."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Jul 23, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
10%
|
Catwoman (2004) |
"
Arguably the worst superhero film ever made."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Jul 23, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
95%
|
The Return (Vozvrashcheniye) (2003) |
"
A quiet film."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Jul 16, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
94%
|
The Story of the Weeping Camel (2004) |
"
While it isn't always easy to get used to the slower natural rhythms this film celebrates, its cumulative effect is undeniable."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Jul 16, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
48%
|
De-Lovely (2004) |
"
Porter's songs keep much the film afloat when, otherwise, it would have sunk. No matter how turgid or murky the movie becomes, when the music starts, you're flying."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Jul 16, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
11%
|
A Cinderella Story (2004) |
"
This witless little comedy takes the classic fairy tale and turns it into a Hilary Duff vehicle about popularity, e-mail and cell phones at a San Fernando Valley high school."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Jul 16, 2004
|
79%
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