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53%
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Spanglish (2004)
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"Less a story than a snapshot of a crumbling marriage populated by sitcom characters."
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Robert Wilonsky
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5%
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Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
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"It's a celebration of conformity, a film that begs for laughs by mocking and ridiculing anyone who harbors an original thought or action."
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Robert Wilonsky
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90%
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Kinsey (2004)
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"It's a love letter from a director to a ghost who still hovers over us all."
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Robert Wilonsky
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44%
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National Treasure (2004)
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"Watching it is akin to sitting next to someone else hogging the PlayStation controller as he steers a character through a maze in search of clues that lead only to more clues that finally land in a dreary dead end."
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Robert Wilonsky
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18%
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After the Sunset (2004)
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"The witless inanity of After the Sunset is so numbing that the sole reason for any living creature to sit through it is to marvel at the speed and variety of actress Salma Hayek's costume changes."
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Bill Gallo
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27%
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Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason (2004)
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Robert Wilonsky
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49%
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Alfie (2004)
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Robert Wilonsky
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97%
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The Incredibles (2004)
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"The Incredibles is beautiful to look at, but even more lovely beneath the computer-generated surfaces."
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Robert Wilonsky
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96%
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Sideways (2004)
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Melissa Levine
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95%
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End of the Century - The Story of the Ramones (2004)
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"The Ramones have been commodified, deified, even gentrified, but seldom have they been so thoroughly analyzed."
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Robert Wilonsky
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55%
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P.S. (2004)
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Melissa Levine
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83%
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Bukowski: Born into This (2003)
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"Born Into This, its title taken from one of his poems, is a remarkable movie, because, like Crumb or even American Splendor, it adores the very people most of us might ignore if they passed us on the street."
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Robert Wilonsky
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39%
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Birth (2004)
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"You're almost tempted to laugh at Birth by the end, but by then you're too busy cursing it to bother."
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Robert Wilonsky
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81%
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Ray (2004)
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"If only the movie contained half as much life as Foxx, it would be something truly remarkable -- a movie with soul, rather than one merely about it."
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Robert Wilonsky
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92%
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Vera Drake (2004)
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|
Melissa Levine
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92%
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Tarnation (2004)
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|
Melissa Levine
|
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9%
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The Dust Factory (2004)
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"one of the most original and imaginative children's films in a long time."
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Luke Y. Thompson
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51%
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Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)
|
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Julie Lyons
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73%
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Primer (2004)
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"Love it or hate it, you won't be able to leave it alone."
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Robert Wilonsky
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81%
|
Friday Night Lights (2004)
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"The movie works because Berg never forgets to keep his heart in the game and not just his head."
|
Robert Wilonsky
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62%
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I Heart Huckabees (2004)
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"But what does it all mean? Dunno and don't care, because there's nothing here to care about."
|
Robert Wilonsky
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53%
|
A Dirty Shame (2004)
|
|
Melissa Levine
|
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31%
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The Forgotten (2004)
|
"Veers from moving to thrilling to wildly silly like a temperamental patient who has lost his meds."
|
Robert Wilonsky
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32%
|
When Will I Be Loved (2004)
|
"It's unfortunate that, nudity and all, this is one of Toback's absolute worst efforts."
|
Luke Y. Thompson
|
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48%
|
Silver City (2004)
|
"It wears out its welcome well before its halfway point, by which time you're either so tangled up in plot points you're strangling, or so bored you just wish you were being strangled."
|
Robert Wilonsky
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21%
|
Resident Evil - Apocalypse (2004)
|
"Several visual nods to the game are amusing, but it's tough to recommend the movie to anyone who doesn't already own a PlayStation."
|
Luke Y. Thompson
|
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54%
|
Cellular (2004)
|
"If you can cast all semblance of logic aside, it's sort of fun."
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Luke Y. Thompson
|
|
94%
|
Short Cuts (1993)
|
|
Melissa Levine
|
|
70%
|
Criminal (2004)
|
"It instantly earns a place alongside Jim McBride's pointless American take on Godard's Breathless on Hollywood's long, long shelf of misguided remakes."
|
Bill Gallo
|
|
75%
|
Arven (The Inheritance) (2004)
|
"The Inheritance offers a more fascinating fictionalized look at what cut-throat capitalism can do to conscience."
|
Luke Y. Thompson
|
|
50%
|
Vanity Fair (2004)
|
|
Melissa Levine
|
|
96%
|
Festival Express (2003)
|
|
Melissa Levine
|
|
90%
|
Mean Creek (2004)
|
"Not only the chemistry among the kids but also the tensions and complexities in their relationships feel extraordinarily real."
|
Jean Oppenheimer
|
|
64%
|
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
|
|
Melissa Levine
|
|
73%
|
Stander (2004)
|
"Sstirringly, thrillingly animated."
|
Robert Wilonsky
|
|
14%
|
Without A Paddle (2004)
|
"Summer movies don't get much sillier or more empty-headed than Without a Paddle."
|
Bill Gallo
|
|
45%
|
Nicotina (2004)
|
"It's as though director Hugo Rodríguez and writer Martín Salinas watched every movie ever influenced by a Tarantino movie -- not the real thing, even -- and boiled them into something bland."
|
Robert Wilonsky
|
|
19%
|
She Hate Me (2004)
|
|
Melissa Levine
|
|
86%
|
Garden State (2004)
|
"It's like a perfect pop song -- that thing that makes you smile and tear up at the same time."
|
Robert Wilonsky
|
|
26%
|
The Princess Diaries 2 - Royal Engagement (2004)
|
|
Melissa Levine
|
|
86%
|
Collateral (2004)
|
"Cruise has almost nothing going for him this time around in the way of props, and even less than usual in the way of character."
|
Bill Gallo
|
|
93%
|
Riding Giants (2004)
|
"If you are willing to accept Peralta's rather blinkered notion of American history you will probably embrace Riding Giants with the passion of a true believer. If not, you might see it as another engaging sermon delivered by a slightly crazed missionary."
|
Bill Gallo
|
|
21%
|
Little Black Book (2004)
|
"It's a self-satisfied, self-loathing mess that demands you adore and cheer for the very person you come to hate well before its 105 minutes are up."
|
Robert Wilonsky
|
|
88%
|
Metallica - Some Kind of Monster (2004)
|
"The movie permits us to hover from first riff to last encore, during which Metallica finds a new record and itself just as it all seems to be coming apart."
|
Robert Wilonsky
|
|
81%
|
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
|
"It's like a great singer's rendition of a hoary standard."
|
Robert Wilonsky
|
|
97%
|
Maria Full of Grace (2004)
|
"Although a work of fiction, the film evinces the power and grit of a documentary."
|
Jean Oppenheimer
|
|
90%
|
The Corporation (2004)
|
|
Melissa Levine
|
|
48%
|
De-Lovely (2004)
|
"The movie is but a pale imitation of Porter's amazing life. Here, it just looks, well, kind of interesting."
|
Robert Wilonsky
|
|
67%
|
The Door in the Floor (2004)
|
|
Melissa Levine
|
|
66%
|
Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (2004)
|
"At its best it plays like modern-day Marx Brothers in which every single thing that happens makes no sense and serves no purpose and nothing happens for any reason at all."
|
Robert Wilonsky
|
76%
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