The Matador
A strange pair forms a sort of bond (no pun intended).
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Munich
An Israeli Mossad officer tracks downs the 1972 Munich Olympics terrorists.
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King Kong
Peter Jackson's remake is filled with a great yet respectful expansion.
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Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain is a rich love poem with boundless soul.
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Rent
New York City chews up some, conforms others, but never breaks the spirit.
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Sarah Silverman ~ Jesus Is Magic
Sarah is bright, appealing, funny, and can tell dirty jokes with style.
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
This romantic comedy crime film with a little sex is quite funny.
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Capote
This film portrait of Truman Capote is both admiring and damning.
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North Country
Hell is littered with battered corpses of mediocre movies like this one.
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L'Enfant
A struggling young couple has a new source of money - their newborn son.
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A History of Violence
A film that questions the role that violence plays in each of our lives.
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Two For the Money
A former college football star gets involved with a renowned sports bookie.
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Broken Flowers
Fanatically single Don Johnson confronts his life, past and present.
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Thumbsucker
A young man hides his fears about his family behind a childish habit.
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Junebug
When it's Big City vs. Down Home Country, who wins?
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Red Eye
The pseudo-political crime story is an exhilarating thriller, well worth a watch.
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The Aristocrats
If you don't like this offensive, vile and disgusting movie, then the joke's on you.
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The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Portrait of a man desperately seeking his ideals and dreams.
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Wedding Crashers
This is one party worth crashing. The bawdy buddy comedy of the decade is at long last here.
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Me and You and Everyone We Know
Hey, everyone! Come on, get happ…oh, wait, not yet.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The nut in this factory is too sanitized.
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Crash
A hypnotic presentation of suburban violence and lack of moralistic values.
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Downfall
Hitler’s last days, told through the eyes of his young, naïve secretary.
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Kung Fu Hustle
A drunken, madcap smorgasbord of high-pitched artistry and homage.
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Before Sunrise & Before Sunset
An emotional sweep, few movies offer such an orgasmic, natural high.
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Vera Drake
A kindly housekeeper performs illegal abortions to aid young women.
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Born Into Brothels
A powerful and remarkably honest look at Calcutta's Red Light district.
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Closer
Inspiring scenes are scarce. The acting is bland. It’s little more than clichéd nonsense.
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2046
A slippery and trippy tale whose charms may at first seem somewhat elusive, but whose sensuous imagery and melancholy romanticism will eventually win you over.
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House of Flying Daggers
859 A.D. China’s Tang Dynasty is coming apart. Turmoil and civil unrest are prominent, compounded by a corrupt government and an incompetent emperor.
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Primer
Primer is one whacked-out mindfuck (editorial decision for you, if profanity’s not your thing, feel free to substitute ‘mindbender’), a discombobulating, thrilling, challenging and meticulous filmmaking exercise.
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Finding Neverland
Finding Neverland possesses that rarest of abilities — it enchants from start to finish. It will take you to the world you’ve always wanted to visit.
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Million Dollar Baby
If your heart doesn’t quiver in the theatre, the characters and multiple emotional quagmires are likely to haunt you for days.
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Bad Education
The femme fatale isn’t a smoldering lady, but a fiery Gael García Bernal, dressed in drag, a lipstick, and multiple identities.
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Team America: World Police
A full frontal assault on American ethnocentrism, overblown action movies, atavistic terrorists, lonely North Korean tyrants, self-righteous Hollywood actors and the mainstream audience’s delicate sensibility and good taste.
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Code 46
Complex and cold, intelligent and aloof, fascinating and off-putting, Code 46 is one of 2004's most interesting films.
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