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A+ / ****

Elephant ( Gus Van Sant )
Mystic River ( Clint Eastwood )
 

A / ****

City of Angels ( Fernando Meirelles )
Irréversible ( Gaspar Noé )
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 ( Quentin Tarantino )
Lost in Translation ( Sofia Coppola )
 

A- / ***1/2

All the Real Girls ( David Gordon Green )
Cold Mountain ( Anthony Minghella )
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary ( Guy Maddin )
11'09"01 -- September 11 ( Samira Makhmalbaf, Claude Lelouch, Youssef Chahine, Danis Tanovic, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Ken Loach, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Amos Gitai, Mira Nair, Sean Penn, and Shohei Imamura )
Fog of War, The: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara ( Errol Morris )
Gerry ( Gus Van Sant )
In America ( Jim Sheridan )

Love & Diane ( Jennifer Dworkin )
Spider ( David Cronenberg )
Triplets of Belleville, The ( Sylvain Chomet )
28 Days Later... ( Danny Boyle )
21 Grams ( Alejandro González Iñárritu )
Weather Underground, The ( Sam Green and Bill Siegel )
 

B+ / ***1/2

Company, The ( Robert Altman )
Dancer Upstairs, The ( John Malkovich )
Dirty Pretty Things ( Stephen Frears )
Good Thief, The ( Neil Jordan )
Love Actually ( Richard Curtis )
Man on the Train, The ( Patrice Leconte )
Man Without a Past, The ( Aki Kurismäki)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ( Peter Weir )
Mighty Wind, A ( Christopher Guest )
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl ( Gore Verbinski )
School of Rock, The ( Richard Linklater )
Shape of Things, The ( Neil LaBute )
Station Agent, The ( Thomas McCarthy )
Stevie ( Steve James )
Winged Migration ( Jacques Perrin )
 

B / ***

Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony ( Lee Hirsch )
American Splendor ( Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini )
Better Luck Tomorrow ( Justin Lin )
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary ( André Heller and Othmar Schmiderer )
Blue Car ( Karen Moncrieff )
Capturing the Friedmans ( Andrew Jarecki )
Casa de los Babys ( John Sayles )
Cuckoo, The ( Aleksandr Rogozhkin )
Divine Intervention ( Elia Suleiman )
Finding Nemo ( Andrew Stanton )
Flower of Evil, The ( Claude Chebrol )
Freaky Friday ( Mark S. Waters )
Holes ( Andrew Davis )
Housekeeper ( Claude Berri )
Human Stain, The ( Robert Benton )
Hunted, The ( William Friedkin )
Lilya 4-Ever ( Lukas Moodysson )
Lost in La Mancha ( Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe )
Nowhere in Africa ( Caroline Link )
Out of Time ( Carl Franklin )
Peter Pan ( P.J. Hogan )
Purified, The ( Jesper Jargil )
Raising Victor Vargas ( Peter Sollett )
Something's Gotta Give ( Nancy Meyers )
Stuck on You ( Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly )
Sweet Sixteen ( Ken Loach )
Whale Rider ( Niki Caro )
X2 ( Bryan Singer )
 

B- / ***

Anything Else ( Woody Allen )
Bad Santa ( Terry Zwigoff )
Bubba Ho-Tep ( Don Coscarelli )
Cabin Fever ( Eli Roth )
Dark Blue ( Ron Shelton )
Flag Wars ( Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras )
Hollywood Homicide ( Ron Shelton )
Intolerable Cruelty ( Joel Coen )
Italian Job, The ( F. Gary Gray )
Lord of the Rings, The: The Return of the King ( Peter Jackson )
Magdalene Sisters, The ( Peter Mullan )
Matchstick Men ( Ridley Scott )
Once Upon a Time in Mexico ( Robert Rodriguez )
Owning Mahowny ( Richard Kweitniowski )
Paycheck ( John Woo )
Respiro ( Emanuele Crialese )
Seabiscuit ( Gary Ross )
Secondhand Lions ( Tim McCanlies )
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over ( Robert Rodriguez )
Swimming Pool ( François Ozon )
Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines ( Jonathan Mostow )
Thirteen ( Catherine Hardwicke )
Under the Tuscan Sun ( Audrey Wells )
Veronica Guerin ( Joel Schumacher )
 

C+ / **1/2

Big Fish ( Tim Burton )
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star ( Sam Wiseman )
Down with Love ( Peyton Reed )
Northfork ( Mark Polish )
Phone Booth ( John Schumacher )
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas ( Patrick Gilmore and Tim Johnson )
Together ( Chen Kaige )
 

C / **

Agent Cody Banks ( Harald Zwart )
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen ( Claude Lelouch )
Bend It Like Beckham ( Gurinder Chadha )
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle ( McG )
Cheaper by the Dozen ( Shawn Levy )
Das Experiment ( Olivier Hirschbiegel )
Duplex ( Danny DeVito )
Elf ( John Favreau )
Friday Night ( Claire Denis )
Gods and Generals ( Ronald F. Maxwell )
Guru, The ( Daisy von Scherler Mayer )
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not ( Laetitia Colombani )
Identity ( James Mangold )
Johnny English ( Peter Howitt )
Last Samurai, The ( Edward Zwick )
Le Divorce ( James Ivory )
Lizzie Maguire Movie, The ( Jim Fall )
Masked and Anonymous ( Larry Charles )
Missing, The ( Ron Howard )
Mona Lisa Smile ( Mike Newell )
Monsieur Ibrahim ( François Dupeyron )
Monster ( Petty Jenkins )
My Architect: A Son's Journey ( Nathaniel Kahn)
Open Range ( Kevin Costner )
Pieces of April ( Peter Hedges )
Spellbound ( Jeffrey Blitz )
Statement ( Norman Jewison )
Sylvia ( Christine Jeffs )
2 Fast 2 Furious ( John Singleton )
 

C- / **

Alex & Emma ( Rob Reiner )
American Wedding ( Jesse Dylan )
Assassination Tango ( Robert Duvall )
Bruce Almighty ( Tom Shadyac )
Bulletproof Monk ( Paul Hunter )
Camp ( Todd Graff )
Confidence ( James Foley )
Core, The ( Jon Amiel )
Daddy Day Care ( Steve Carr )
Deliver Us from Eva ( Gary Hardwick )
Eye, The ( Oxide Pang and Danny Pang )
Guy Thing, A ( Chris Koch )
Haunted Mansion, The ( Rob Minkoff )
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ( Donald Petrie )
Jungle Book 2, The ( Steve Trenbirth )
Laurel Canyon ( Lisa Cholodenko )
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde ( Charles Herman-Wurmfield )
Levity ( Ed Solomon )
Matrix Revolutions, The ( Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski )
My Life Without Me ( Isabel Coixet )
No Good Deed ( Bob Rafelson )
People I Know ( Daniel Algrant )
Recruit, The ( Roger Donaldson )
Runaway Jury ( Gary Fleder )
Scary Movie 3 ( David Zucker )
Secret Lives of Dentists, The ( Alan Rudolph )
Shanghai Knights ( David Dobkin )
Sonny ( Nicholas Cage )
Tears of the Sun ( Antoine Fuqua )
Timeline ( Richard Donner )
Uptown Girls ( Boaz Yakin )
What a Girl Wants ( Dennie Gordon )
Wonderland ( James Cox )
 

D+ / *1/2

Anger Management ( Peter Segal )
Biker Boyz ( Reggie Rock Bythewood )
Bringing Down the House ( Adam Shankman )
Buffalo Soldiers ( Gregor Jordan )
Cat in the Hat, The ( Bo Welch )
Cradle 2 the Grave ( Andrzej Bartkowiak )
Daredevil ( Mark Steven Johnson )
Dreamcatcher ( Lawrence Kasdan )
Final Destination 2 ( David R. Ellis )
Head of the State ( Chris Rock )
Hulk, The ( Ang Lee )
Jeepers Creepers II ( Victor Salva )
Just Married ( Shawn Levy )
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider -- The Cradle of Life ( Jan de Bont )
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The ( Stephen Norrington )
Man Apart, A ( F. Gary Gray )
Matrix Reloaded, The ( Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski )
May ( Lucky McKee )
Medallion, The ( Gordon Chan )
My Boss' Daughter ( David Zucker )
National Security ( Dennis Dugan )
Underworld ( Len Wiseman )
View from the Top ( Bruno Barreto )
Willard ( Glen Morgan )
Wrong Turn ( Rob Schmidt )
 

D / *

Bad Boys II ( Michael Bay )
Boat Trip ( Mort Nathan )
Freddie vs. Jason ( Ronny Yu )
House of Sand of Fog ( Vadim Perelman )
In the Cut ( Jane Campion )
Kangaroo Jack ( David McNally )
Ken Park ( Larry Clark and Edward Lachman )
Life of David Gale, The ( Alan Parker )
Malibu's Most Wanted ( John Whitesell )
Old School ( Todd Phillips )
Order, The ( Brian Helgeland )
 

D- / 1/2

Basic ( John McTiernan )
Cold Creek Manor ( Mike Figgis )
Darkness Falls ( Jonathan Liebsman )
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd ( Troy Miller )
Radio ( Michael Tollin )
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The ( Marcus Nispel )
 

F / NO STARS

House of 1000 Corpses ( Rob Zombie )
Party Monster ( Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato )
Real Cancun, The ( Rick de Oliveira )
Spun ( Jonas Åkerlund )
 


Reviews by:
David Perry
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