Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
South Korean horror cultist Park Chan-wook's 2002 film is the opening freshet in his bloody cinematic triptych; it’s also a finely wrought and emotionally complex film of surpassing, stylized beauty.
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Marc Savlov, Sept. 9, 2005
Echoes of Innocence
Earnest and well-intentioned Dallas-based cast and crew have created a puzzling and inauthentic youth drama that promotes teenage sexual abstinence.
Marrit Ingman, Sept. 9, 2005
A Sound of Thunder
Abandoning any pretense of respect for the Ray Bradbury source material, this film manhandles the author’s delicacies into a lumbering and bewildered mess of grade-Z sci-fi clichés.
Marc Savlov, Sept. 9, 2005
Lila Says
Based on an eponymous 1996 erotic novel, Lila Says is the story of a French girl and an Arab boy who learns the difference between words and actions.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Sept. 9, 2005
2046
At once tremendously dense and gossamer-thin, this period romance/sci-fi hybrid from Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai is a riot of sight and sound that has an irresistible, elemental pull.
Kimberley Jones, Sept. 9, 2005
No Entry
An exotic dancer tests the strength of two couples in this entertaining Bollywood romantic comedy.
Marc Savlov, Sept. 2, 2005
Two With Ted Knight
'The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Complete Second Season' and 'Too Close for Comfort: The Complete Second Season'
Raoul Hernandez, Sept. 2, 2005
Junebug
With this film built on a host of remarkably nuanced Southern characters, first-time filmmaker Phil Morrison announces himself with assurance and uniqueness of vision.
Kimberley Jones, Sept. 2, 2005
The Cave
A crack team of cave divers encounters untold horror in the form of bloodthirsty sea slugs.
Marc Savlov, Sept. 2, 2005
Asylum
In this adaptation of Patrick McGrath's novel, Natasha Richardson and Ian McKellan wonder if the patients have taken over the asylum.
Marc Savlov, Sept. 2, 2005
The Constant Gardener
City of God director Fernando Meirelles makes his English-language debut with this bracing, heartbreaking conspiracy thriller set in AIDS-ravaged Kenya.
Marrit Ingman, Sept. 2, 2005
Underclassman
Nick Cannon from Drumline plays a smart-aleck LAPD bicycle cop in this movie awash in clichés.
Marrit Ingman, Sept. 2, 2005
Undiscovered
A musician and an actress circle and sniff, and generally run through every cliché in the why-can’t-we-be-together playbook.
Kimberley Jones, Sept. 2, 2005
November
November, starring Courteney Cox, is a dense, dark head-trip of a movie that seems like the bastard offspring of Memento and Mullholland Dr.
Marc Savlov, Sept. 2, 2005
9 Songs
Michael Winterbottom creates scenester porn in which he records the evolution of a man and a woman's relationship through sex and music – exclusively.
Marrit Ingman, Sept. 2, 2005
Saint Ralph
This strange youth dramedy from Canada has a brisk, sunny aplomb.
Marrit Ingman, Aug. 26, 2005
The Aristocrats
The gleefully profane The Aristocrats provides a survey of some of the best comic minds in the business.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Aug. 26, 2005
Supercross: The Movie
Two brothers overcome emotional and physical obstacles to achieve success in the competitive world of supercross racing.
Marc Savlov, Aug. 26, 2005
The Brothers Grimm
Terry Gilliam's skewed fantasy is pure jabberwocky.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Aug. 26, 2005
Red Eye
Red Eye’s no classic, but with its smart, twisty little script and those two killer performances, it's a helluva lot of fun.
Marc Savlov, Aug. 19, 2005
Valiant
Valiant, an animated adventure about heroic homing pigeons in England during World War II, flies in on a wing and a prayer.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Aug. 19, 2005
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
A singularly dreadful example of what can happen when potentially capable comedians check their brains at a committee meeting and go slumming for dollars.
Marrit Ingman, Aug. 19, 2005
The Edukators
Sticking it to the man, German-style, is the subject of this smart, kicky little gem.
Marc Savlov, Aug. 19, 2005
Gate of Flesh and Story of a Prostitute
Two from Seijun Suzuki
Marc Savlov, Aug. 19, 2005
Grizzly Man
This documentary reveals how Timothy Treadwell, the popular grizzly bear preservationist, may have needed the bears more than they needed him.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Aug. 19, 2005
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
A standout, a gross-out comedy that makes its audience go "awwww" as much as it goes "ewwww."
Kimberley Jones, Aug. 19, 2005
Four Brothers
A scrappy Seventies throwback about vigilante justice in the corrupt urban jungle.
Marrit Ingman, Aug. 12, 2005
The Skeleton Key
A top-notch cast is mostly wasted in this atmospheric but prosaic hoodoo spooker.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Aug. 12, 2005
Broken Flowers
Jim Jarmusch and Bill Murray meditate on middle age and the world of possibilities.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Aug. 12, 2005
The Great Raid
The single dullest war film of the past decade from the once promising director John Dahl.
