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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Dare (2009)
2
3.25/5
The Definition of Insanity (2005)
A movie, candid and gently self-deprecating, about the people we rely on never to achieve fame and success.
Posted Oct 19, 2005
3
3/4
Nine Lives (2005)
The movie is pleasing in its incompleteness. It colors outside the lines.
Posted Oct 17, 2005
4
2/4
Escape Artists (2005)
The movie is about personalities, surroundings, look and style. The atmosphere is the plot. It's, uh, plotmosphere.
Posted Oct 10, 2005
5
3/4
Bubble (2006)
With an almost-reality style much like (but far down the socioeconomic scale from) 'K Street', it might have an impact on the arthouse audience and on American filmmaking.
Posted Oct 10, 2005
6
2.5/4
Land of Plenty (2004)
A caricature that indicts, if not our actual country, then a rather similar country that an outsider imagines America to be.
Posted Oct 10, 2005
7
2/4
8
3/4
This is an excellent time to remind ourselves of this story. Another McGovern would have been a good thing to have the last five years.
Posted Sep 22, 2005
9
3/4
The Constant Gardener (2005)
It would be nice to see Meirelles apply himself to looser, earthier, fleshier films in the future.
Posted Sep 7, 2005
10
2.5/4
2046 (2005)
'Did you get it?' Guy 1 asked Guy 2 in the men's room after seeing 2046. 'Yeah...,' said Guy 2. 'I think so. ... Maybe.'
Posted Aug 15, 2005
11
4/4
Mondovino (2005)
12
3.25/4
The Education of Shelby Knox (2005)
She has the courage to maintain a loud, clear voice of honesty in the kingdom of hypocrisy. As Shelby tells a radio interviewer: 'I'm kinda scary to tangle with. Sorry.'
Posted Aug 8, 2005
13
3.5/4
After the Day Before (2004)
This is one of those movies that you either click with or don't. But for those who do, it's a shot of mental adrenaline.
Posted Aug 8, 2005
14
3/5
The Lord of the Rings (1978)
Quote not available.
Posted Aug 7, 2005
15
3/5
Quote not available.
Posted Aug 7, 2005
16
4/4
Oldboy (2005)
Three couples were talking out loud as the film started. But before I could give them the traditional New York 'Shut the #%*& Up,' the movie shut them the #%*& up for me.
Posted Aug 7, 2005
17
3/4
Nightingale in a Music Box (2004)
There is a little action and suspense involved, but the adventure is mostly mental. It works because it's smart, and because of the performances of the two leads.
Posted Jun 13, 2005
18
3/4
The Syrian Bride (2005)
What do you suppose happens when a woman in the Golan Heights decides to marry a man on the other side of the Syrian border? What happens is an international incident.
Posted Jun 10, 2005
19
1.5/4
Winter Solstice (2005)
20
2/4
9 Songs (2005)
Good movie sex without the good movie.
Posted Jun 7, 2005
21
0.5/4
22
2/4
Cape of Good Hope (2005)
Dog lovers may give Cape of Good Hope an extra star and a half for the way it uses the canine world to slyly comment on the human world. Cat people can go either way.
Posted Jun 6, 2005
23
2.5/4
Junebug (2005)
24
3.5/4
The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2007)
25
1.5/4
The World (2005)
It offers us nostalgia for the present. Remember when we joined the global village? Remember your first cell phone? Remember text messaging? Wow, those were some crazy times.
Posted Apr 22, 2005
26
3.25/4
If every audience-manipulating, tear-jerking romance picture were like Crying Out Love, it would give audience-manipulating, tear-jerking romance pictures a good name.
Posted Apr 19, 2005
27
3.5/4
Frozen (2005)
It's tempting to call this something like 'Hitchcock for the prozac generation,' except it's not clear that prozac has made it to this part of the frigid north.
Posted Apr 15, 2005
28
3.5/4
Private (2005)
Saverio Costanzo has a two-state solution for the Middle East -- one state in the living room and the other in the bedroom.
Posted Mar 25, 2005
29
2.5/4
The Hero (O Herói) (2005)
Despite the film's obviousness, it does illustrate the many ways war rends society.
Posted Mar 25, 2005
30
2/4
The Intruder (L'Intrus) (2005)
It's intended to puzzle us -- and sure, the little puzzles peppered throughout the film are fine. It's the grand non-sequiturs that are distracting.
Posted Mar 22, 2005
31
1.5/4
Holy Lola (2004)
Aha! The bad guys are the Americans with their big bucks and heartless capitalism, ruining the world for the humble French.
Posted Mar 22, 2005
32
3.25/4
Here's the way you want see the film -- the first two hours in your 20s, the middle two hours in your 40s, and the last two hours in your 60s.
Posted Mar 21, 2005
33
3.5/4
Downfall (Der Untergang) (2004)
We start with the human Hitler.
Posted Feb 25, 2005
34
3.25/4
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
There's something about boxing - a.k.a. the most barbaric sport on earth - that the camera loves.
Posted Feb 4, 2005
35
3.5/4
One Shot (2003)
A dark, intense exploration of what the assassin's job -- with its secret thrill and its psychological weight -- demands of the people who carry it out.
Posted Nov 23, 2004
36
3.25/4
The Watershed (2005)
It's an important window into one of the basic building blocks of American society -- the dysfunctional family.
Posted Nov 8, 2004
37
2.5/4
Des épaules solides (2003)
38
2/4
Grande École (2004)
At least it doesn't lack passion. It's just disappointing whenever the characters feel the need to put their clothes back on.
Posted Nov 3, 2004
39
3.5/4
Lightning in a Bottle (2004)
This concert, dressing up the blues in its funeral-home best for one last bash at Radio City, seems like a eulogy for this patrimonial art form. Why did it leave us so soon?
Posted Oct 27, 2004
40
1/4
Woman is the Future of Man (2004)
Everyone ends up in bed. Given that, you'd expect this to be good, racy fun. Given its thinky title, you might at least expect it to be, in some way, profound. It is neither.
Posted Oct 20, 2004
41
2/4
Or (My Treasure) (2007)
Earnest and, for at least its first half, plotless.
Posted Oct 4, 2004
42
4/4
Undertow (2004)
After the opening credits alone, the two women next to me let out gasps of - what? Pain? Shock? Disbelief? Anger? Whatever it was, this was only the beginning.
Posted Oct 3, 2004
43
1.5/4
Triple Agent (2003)
I should share one helpful tip for staying awake through the whole two-hour exercise - sit in front of someone who snores. It worked for me.
Posted Oct 1, 2004
44
2.5/4
Tarnation (2004)
I didn't enjoy Tarnation, I didn't like it, I didn't particularly want to stay and watch it - but I respect it.
Posted Oct 1, 2004
45
3.5/4
September Tapes (2004)
It yanks us eyes-first into a place that we, in our living rooms, have known only as a cliché.
Posted Sep 24, 2004
46
3/4
Particles of Truth (2003)
Particles of Truth is a low-budget indie that first seems scattered and off-putting but in time reveals its writer-director's considerable ability and artistic sense.
Posted Sep 18, 2004
47
3/4
Silver City (2004)
Sayles has made many movies like this, and they've ranged from genius (Lone Star) to just average (City of Hope). Silver City falls in-between.
Posted Sep 17, 2004
48
1.5/4
When Will I Be Loved (2004)
Can't we at least pretend that we didn't get into the film business so we could meet beautiful actresses and desperate starlets? Guess not.
Posted Sep 15, 2004
49
1/4
What the Bleep Do We Know!? (2004)
The 'Bleep' in What the Bleep Do We Know? stands for only one of the three words the film dares not say. The other two are 'Transcendental' and 'Meditation.'
Posted Sep 8, 2004
50
2.5/4
Terra Incognita (2002)