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2004

A+ / ****

Dogville ( Lars von Trier )
Five Obstructions, The ( Lars von Trier )
 

A / ****

Cowards Bend the Knee ( Guy Maddin )
Hero ( Zhang Yimou )
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 ( Quentin Tarantino )
 

A- / ***1/2

Baadasssss! ( Mario Van Peebles )
Before Sunset ( Richard Linklater )
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ( Michel Gondry )
Fahrenheit 9/11 ( Michael Moore )
Last Life in the Universe ( Pan-ek Ratanaruang )
Los Angeles Plays Itself ( Thom Andersen )
Saddest Music in the World, The ( Guy Maddin )
Time of the Wolf ( Michael Haneke )
Touching the Void ( Kevin Macdonald )
Vibrator ( Ryuichi Hiroki )
 

B+ / ***1/2

Blind Swordsman, The: Zatoichi ( Takeshi Kitano )
Blissfully Yours ( Apichatpong Weerasethakul )
Motorcycle Diaries, The ( Walter Salles )
Spider-Man 2 ( Sam Raimi )
Strayed ( André Téchiné )
Talking Picture, A ( Manoel de Oliveira )
Two Brothers ( Jean-Jacques Annaud )
We Don't Live Here Anymore ( John Curran )
 

B / ***

Blind Shaft ( Li Yang )
Bukowski: Born into This ( John Dullaghan )
Collateral ( Michael Mann )
Control Room ( Jehane Noujaim )
Dear Frankie ( Shona Auerbach )
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones ( Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields )
Father and Son ( Aleksander Sokurov )
Garden State ( Zach Braff )
Gozu ( Takashi Miike )
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ( Alfonso Cuarón )
interMission ( John Crowley )
Intimate Strangers ( Patrice Leconte )
Mean Girls ( Mark S. Waters )
Shrek 2 ( Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon )
Spartan ( David Mamet )
Story of the Weeping Camel, The ( Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni )
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election ( Richard Ray Perez and Joan Sekler )
Yes Men, The ( Chris Smith, Sarah Price, and Dan Ollman )
 

B- / ***

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy ( Adam McKay )
Bourne Supremacy, The ( Paul Greengrass )
Calendar Girls ( Nigel Cole )
Corporation, The ( Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott )
Day After Tomorrow, The ( Roland Emmerich )
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story ( Rawson Marshall Thurber )
Dreamers, The ( Bernardo Bertolucci )
Girl Next Door, The ( Luke Greenfield )
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle ( Danny Leiner )
Jersey Girl ( Kevin Smith )
Kitchen Stories ( Bent Hamer )
Ladykillers, The ( Joel and Ethan Coen )
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster ( Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky )
Shaolin Soccer ( Stephen Chow )
Super Size Me ( Morgan Spurlock )
Twentynine Palms ( Bruno Dumont )
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! ( Robert Luketic )
 

C+ / **1/2

Let's Get Frank ( Bart Everly )
Osama ( Siddiq Barmak )
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism ( Robert Greenwald )
Red Lights ( Cédric Kahn )
Starsky & Hutch & Hutch ( Todd Phillips )
Vera Drake ( Mike Leigh )
 

C / **

Brown Bunny, The ( Vincent Gallo )
Code 46 ( Michael Winterbottom )
Coffee and Cigarettes ( Jim Jarmusch )
Criminal ( Gregory Jacobs )
Danny Deckchair ( Jeff Balsmeyer )
De-Lovely ( Irwin Winkler )
Deadline ( Katy Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson )
Free Radicals ( Barbara Albert )
Hidalgo ( Joe Johnston )
Maria Full of Grace ( Joshua Marston )
Mayor of the Sunset Strip ( George Hickenlooper )
Primer ( Shane Carruth )
Prince & Me, The ( Martha Coolidge )
Silver City ( John Sayles )
Stepford Wives, The ( Frank Oz )
Terminal, The ( Steven Spielberg )
Touch of Pink ( Ian Iqbal Rashid )
Troy ( Wolfgang Petersen )
Uncovered: The War on Iraq ( Robert Greenwald )
Vanity Fair ( Mira Nair )
Zelary ( Ondrej Trojan )
 

C- / **

Big Bounce, The ( George Armitage )
Bon Voyage ( Jean-Paul Rappeneau )
Clearing, The ( Pieter Jan Brugge )
Dawn of the Dead ( Zack Snyder )
Door in the Floor, The ( Tod Williams )
50 First Dates ( Peter Segal )
Intended, The ( Kristian Levring )
Ju-on: The Grudge ( Takashi Shimizu )
Manchurian Candidate, The ( Jonathan Demme )
Mean Creek ( Jacob Aaron Estes )
Passion of the Christ, The ( Mel Gibson )
Saved! ( Brian Dannelly )
She Hate Me ( Spike Lee )
Slasher ( John Landis )
Stander ( Bronwen Hughes )
13 Going on 30 ( Gary Winick )
Transfixed ( Francis Girod )
Undertow ( David Gordon Green )
Young Adam ( David Mackenzie )
Zhou Yu's Train ( Sun Zhou )
 

D+ / *1/2

Butterfly Effect, The ( Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber )
Hellboy ( Guillermo del Toro )
I, Robot ( Alex Proyas )
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead ( Mike Hodges )
It's All About Love ( Thomas Vinterberg )
King Arthur ( Antoine Fuqua )
Ned Kelly ( Gregor Jordan )
Notebook, The ( Nick Cassavetes )
Open Water ( Chris Kentis )
Perfect Score, The ( Brian Robbins )
Prozac Nation ( Erik Skjoldbjærg )
Secret Window ( David Koepp )
 

D / *

Chronicles of Riddick, The ( David Twohy )
Home at the End of the World, A ( Michael Mayer )
Man on Fire ( Tony Scott )
Punisher, The ( Jonathan Hensleigh )
Saw ( James Wan )
Van Helsing ( Steven Sommers )
White Chicks ( Keenan-Ivory Wayans )
 

D- / 1/2

Greendale ( Neil Young )
Village, The ( M. Night Shyamalan )
 

F / NO STARS

Napoleon Dynamite ( Jared Hess )
 

Reviews by:
David Perry
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