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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
2.5/4
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
Director John Curran draws skillfully nuanced performances from the four leads, who have rarely been better.
Posted Aug 13, 2004
2
0/4
Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie (2004)
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie, a hyperventilating feature-length advertisement for Japanese trading cards, would be hilarious if it weren't so dreadfully cynical.
Posted Aug 13, 2004
3
2.5/4
A number of the goofy set pieces fall flat but tweens should be too busy swooning at midnight horse rides and bling-bling walk-in wardrobes to notice.
Posted Aug 11, 2004
4
2/4
Other World (2004)
A melodramatic import from Algeria, is so relevant in this age of global terrorism, it's a shame it isn't much better.
Posted Aug 6, 2004
5
1/4
A rush job, and it shows.
Posted Aug 6, 2004
6
2/4
Stander (2004)
A second-rate action picture that's content to use apartheid as a colorful background.
Posted Aug 6, 2004
7
3/4
Last Life in the Universe (2004)
Directed by the talented Pen-ek Ratanaruang in a deadpan style that would be approved by Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismaki, the master of deadpan.
Posted Aug 6, 2004
8
2/4
Code 46 (2004)
The diminutive actress [Morton] and the much taller Robbins make the season's most improbable screen couple since Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones in The Terminal.
Posted Aug 6, 2004
9
3/4
Open Water (2004)
Wrings every possible drop of tension out of a simple premise and a micro budget.
Posted Aug 6, 2004
10
2/4
Little Black Book (2004)
The jaw-droppingly nasty second act is intriguing, but it veers into territory so dark that it sucks the air out of the bouncy chick flick that surrounds it, making for one confused -- and confusing -- comedy.
Posted Aug 6, 2004
11
3/4
Collateral (2004)
Collateral has such classy trappings, you're constantly expecting more -- but while there may be less here than meets the eye, this is solid stuff in the midst of Hollywood's dog days.
Posted Aug 5, 2004
12
2.5/4
Intimate Strangers (2003)
Does generate a fair amount of erotic tension and sly commentary on psychoanalysis.
Posted Jul 30, 2004
13
3.5/4
Gozu (2003)
Miike is at the top of his game, loving every minute of his surreal visit to the twilight zone.
Posted Jul 30, 2004
14
3/4
Festival Express (2003)
Its famous passengers celebrate with delirious joy the pure, unadulterated magic of music.
Posted Jul 30, 2004
15
1.5/4
Thunderbirds (2004)
A lackluster Spy Kids wannabe.
Posted Jul 30, 2004
16
3/4
The most gut-bustingly funny movie so far this year.
Posted Jul 30, 2004
17
2.5/4
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Uniformly excellent performances keep this destabilizing tale ticking, yet one can't help wishing Hollywood had combined this cast and these timely themes with a little bit of imagination to come up with something fresh.
Posted Jul 30, 2004
18
3/4
Daughters of the Sun (2004)
Beautiful and bleak.
Posted Jul 29, 2004
19
2/4
The Village (2004)
The Village pours on creepy atmosphere, but this dud is too intent on delivering its liberal 'message' to actually deliver the kinds of scares it promises in the terrific trailer.
Posted Jul 29, 2004
20
3.5/4
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
So terrifically entertaining, it would be a shame if it didn't inspire a companion piece on New York.
Posted Jul 28, 2004
21
3/4
Garden State (2004)
Braff proves himself a master of modulation, keeping a sure grip as the film's tone shifts like quicksand from humor to pathos and back.
Posted Jul 28, 2004
22
2.5/4
She Hate Me (2004)
May not be subtle or disciplined, but it is funny as hell.
Posted Jul 28, 2004
23
2/4
There are a few effective scenes ... but not enough to keep Ju-on on the fright track.
Posted Jul 23, 2004
24
3/4
Free Radicals (2004)
Brims with energy, carefully drawn characters and fine acting, and sad-eyed Deborah Ten Brink, as Manu's daughter, is a scene-stealer.
Posted Jul 23, 2004
25
3/4
Kitano enters new terrority with Zatoichi, his first period piece -- and emerges victorious.
Posted Jul 23, 2004
26
2/4
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Posted Jul 23, 2004
27
3/4
Deb Ellis and Dennis Mueller's tight and deceptively low-key documentary lets the subject eloquently speak for himself.
Posted Jul 23, 2004
28
1/4
Nola (2003)
A dubious script that detonates into a full-blown disaster midway through.
Posted Jul 23, 2004
29
2.5/4
Orwell Rolls in His Grave (2003)
A cheaply made, occasionally repetitive, but passionately argued documentary.
Posted Jul 23, 2004
30
1.5/4
A peculiarly bloodless variation on Jules and Jim suffused with the kind of pretentious gentility that some critics will mistake for seriousness.
Posted Jul 23, 2004
31
3/4
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
A classy if over-caffeinated sequel.
Posted Jul 23, 2004
32
1/4
Catwoman (2004)
A purr-fectly ridiculous and boring cat-astrophe.
Posted Jul 22, 2004
33
3.5/4
Maria Full of Grace (2004)
By ensuring that the focus remains on the captivating Moreno, Marston gives life to a pawn in an ugly game.
Posted Jul 16, 2004
34
1/4
Flavors (2003)
There's enough schmaltz in the romancer Flavors to keep a second-rate TV sit-com going for an entire season, and then some.
Posted Jul 16, 2004
35
3/4
Freestyle (2000)
A solid documentary that examines the art's roots, from ad-libs by black preachers to 'toasts' delivered by Jamaican immigrants over instrumental tracks in the '70s South Bronx.
Posted Jul 16, 2004
36
3/4
Touch of Pink (2004)
A clever and big- hearted gay screwball comedy.
Posted Jul 16, 2004
37
3/4
Zhou Yu's Train (2004)
Breathtakingly filmed.
Posted Jul 16, 2004
38
3/4
I, Robot (2004)
Surprisingly smart, cool-looking, nicely paced and well-acted.
Posted Jul 16, 2004
39
1.5/4
A Cinderella Story (2004)
An instantly forgettable wisp of marshmallow that revisits the same teen-crush cliches that have surely been in play since the days of the classic fairy tale it ransacks for inspiration.
Posted Jul 16, 2004
40
1.5/4
Let's Get Frank (2003)
Frank is a worthy subject, but this treatment amounts to not much more than a somewhat extraneous sidebar to last month's The Hunting of the President.
Posted Jul 15, 2004
41
2.5/4
Planet Earth: Dreams (2004)
Cryptic but good-looking feature.
Posted Jul 15, 2004
42
2/4
The Door in the Floor (2004)
Handsome but coldly uninvolving and pretentious.
Posted Jul 14, 2004
43
2/4
Arven (The Inheritance) (2004)
Has a promising start but soon becomes preachy and melodramatic.
Posted Jul 9, 2004
44
3.5/4
Riding Giants (2004)
Magnificent if overlong.
Posted Jul 9, 2004
45
3/4
Afraid of Everything (1999)
Shot for practically nothing by first-time director David Barker, it delivers more bang for its minimal bucks than many a Hollywood blockbuster does for its multimillions.
Posted Jul 9, 2004
46
3/4
An astonishingly intimate look at the disconnect between the hard-partying image that earned the band the nickname Alcohollica and the behind-the-scenes reality.
Posted Jul 9, 2004
47
1/4
Swing (2000)
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Posted Jul 9, 2004
48
1/4
Swing (2004)
A slight, silly musical fantasy with two left feet.
Posted Jul 9, 2004
49
0/4
Sleepover (2004)
If ever a movie could be charged with imperiling the morals of a minor, it's probably Sleepover.
Posted Jul 9, 2004
50
2/4
Ferrell is funny spouting his weird stream-of-consciousness rants, but too often the plot leaves him hanging and he resorts to just Yelling Really Loud.
Posted Jul 9, 2004