Video Roundup 2006

Movies I saw on video in 2006, by rating:

Ratcatcher: *****

Brick: **** 1/2

Angels in America: ****
Birth: ****
Blue Car: ****
Broken Flowers: ****
Un Chien Andalou (Andalusian Dog): ****
Dark Days: ****
Dogville: ****
Hamlet (1991): ****
The Hulk: ****
In Cold Blood: ****
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: ****
Kontroll: ****
Mad Max: ****
The Magdalene Sisters: ****
Murderball: ****
Murder On a Sunday Morning: ****
Persona: ****
Priest: ****
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: ****
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist: ****
Sound and Fury: ****
Step Into Liquid: ****
Sweet Smell of Success: ****
The Tin Drum: ****
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election: ****

After Hours: *** 1/2
Apt Pupil: *** 1/2
Badlands: *** 1/2
The Cat’s Meow: *** 1/2
Cheaters: *** 1/2
Chopper: *** 1/2
The Constant Gardener: *** 1/2
Das Boot: *** 1/2
Die Hard 2: Die Harder: *** 1/2
Elephant: *** 1/2
Escape From L.A.: *** 1/2
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning: *** 1/2
Heaven Can Wait: *** 1/2
House of Sand and Fog: *** 1/2
Jesus of Montreal: *** 1/2
Ju-On: The Grudge: *** 1/2
Little Miss Sunshine: *** 1/2
Match Point: *** 1/2
Millions: *** 1/2
Morvern Callar: *** 1/2
Noises Off!: *** 1/2
Paths of Glory: *** 1/2
Primer: *** 1/2
Rashomon: *** 1/2
Something Wicked This Way Comes: *** 1/2
The Straight Story: *** 1/2
The Times of Harvey Milk: *** 1/2
Vera Drake: *** 1/2
The Woodsman: *** 1/2

The Assassination of Richard Nixon: ***
Bus 174: ***
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party: ***
Divine Trash: ***
Door to Door: ***
Eight Men Out: ***
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room: ***
The Fabulous Baker Boys: ***
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: ***
Guns, Germs and Steel: ***
Hell House: ***
How To Draw a Bunny: ***
In Good Company: ***
Inside Man: ***
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster: ***
MirrorMask: ***
Owning Mahowny: ***
Richard III: ***
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic: ***
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold: ***
The Thin Red Line: ***
The Wild One: ***

The 39 Steps: ** 1/2
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ** 1/2
Mississippi Burning: ** 1/2
Skinwalkers: ** 1/2

Bad Taste: **
Carrie (2002): **
Casa de los Babys: **
Embrace of the Vampire: **


Movies I saw on video in 2006, alphabetically:

The 39 Steps: ** 1/2
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ** 1/2
After Hours: *** 1/2
Angels in America: ****
Apt Pupil: *** 1/2
The Assassination of Richard Nixon: ***
Badlands: *** 1/2
Bad Taste: **
Birth: ****
Blue Car: ****
Brick: **** 1/2
Broken Flowers: ****
Bus 174: ***
Carrie (2002): **
Casa de los Babys: **
The Cat’s Meow: *** 1/2
Cheaters: *** 1/2
Un Chien Andalou (Andalusian Dog): ****
Chopper: *** 1/2
The Constant Gardener: *** 1/2
Dark Days: ****
Das Boot: *** 1/2
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party: ***
Die Hard 2: Die Harder: *** 1/2
Divine Trash: ***
Dogville: ****
Door to Door: ***
Eight Men Out: ***
Elephant: *** 1/2
Embrace of the Vampire: **
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room: ***
Escape From L.A.: *** 1/2
The Fabulous Baker Boys: ***
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: ***
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning: *** 1/2
Guns, Germs and Steel: ***
Hamlet (1991): ****
Heaven Can Wait: *** 1/2
Hell House: ***
House of Sand and Fog: *** 1/2
How To Draw a Bunny: ***
The Hulk: ****
In Cold Blood: ****
In Good Company: ***
Inside Man: ***
Jesus of Montreal: *** 1/2
Ju-On: The Grudge: *** 1/2
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: ****
Kontroll: ****
Little Miss Sunshine: *** 1/2
Mad Max: ****
The Magdalene Sisters: ****
Match Point: *** 1/2
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster: ***
Millions: *** 1/2
MirrorMask: ***
Mississippi Burning: ** 1/2
Morvern Callar: *** 1/2
Murderball: ****
Murder On a Sunday Morning: ****
Noises Off!: *** 1/2
Owning Mahowny: ***
Paths of Glory: *** 1/2
Persona: ****
Priest: ****
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: ****
Primer: *** 1/2
Rashomon: *** 1/2
Ratcatcher: *****
Richard III: ***
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic: ***
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist: ****
Skinwalkers: ** 1/2
Something Wicked This Way Comes: *** 1/2
Sound and Fury: ****
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold: ***
Step Into Liquid: ****
The Straight Story: *** 1/2
Sweet Smell of Success: ****
The Thin Red Line: ***
The Times of Harvey Milk: *** 1/2
The Tin Drum: ****
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election: ****
Vera Drake: *** 1/2
The Wild One: ***
The Woodsman: *** 1/2

Total: 86

Theater Roundup 2006

Movies I saw in theaters in 2006, by rating:

A Scanner Darkly: **** 1/2

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan: ****
Brokeback Mountain: ****
An Inconvenient Truth: ****
Stranger Than Fiction: ****

Casino Royale (2006): *** 1/2
Transamerica: *** 1/2
V For Vendetta: *** 1/2

The Good Shepherd: ***
Nanny McPhee: ***
A Prairie Home Companion: ***
The Science of Sleep: ***
Wordplay: ***

Movies I saw in theaters in 2006, alphabetically:

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan: ****
Brokeback Mountain: ****
Casino Royale (2006): *** 1/2
The Good Shepherd: ***
An Inconvenient Truth: ****
Nanny McPhee: ***
A Prairie Home Companion: ***
A Scanner Darkly: **** 1/2
The Science of Sleep: ***
Stranger Than Fiction: ****
Transamerica: *** 1/2
V For Vendetta: *** 1/2
Wordplay: ***

Total: 13

Video Roundup 2005

Movies I saw on video in 2005, by rating:

The Barbarian Invasions: *****
In the Heat of the Night: *****
La Dolce Vita: *****
Lawrence of Arabia: *****
M: *****
The Machinist: *****
Maria Full of Grace: *****
Me and You and Everyone We Know: *****
My Life as a Dog: *****
The Wild Bunch: *****

Broadcast News: **** 1/2
Bullitt: **** 1/2
The Dreamers: **** 1/2
Frida: **** 1/2
The Misfits: **** 1/2
Tarnation: **** 1/2

Anatomy of a Murder: ****
Body Heat: ****
Bright Leaves: ****
Central Station: ****
The Crime of Padre Amaro: ****
Deliverance: ****
Diabolique (1955): ****
Dr. No: ****
The English Patient: ****
From Here to Eternity: ****
The Grapes of Wrath: ****
Grave of the Fireflies: ****
The Grudge: ****
Harvie Krumpet: ****
In America: ****
Inherit the Wind: ****
Inside Deep Throat: ****
In the Name of the Father: ****
In the Realms of the Unreal: ****
The Killing Fields: ****
Lolita (1998): ****
The Magnificent Seven: ****
Martin: ****
The Odd Couple: ****
Papillon: ****
The Station Agent: ****
To Catch a Thief: ****
Wild Strawberries: ****
Word Wars: ****

Bananas: *** 1/2
The Bounty: *** 1/2
Cold Feet: *** 1/2
Crash (1996): *** 1/2
Criminal: *** 1/2
Dark Passage: *** 1/2
Desperate Living: *** 1/2
Dial M For Murder: *** 1/2
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir: *** 1/2
The Girl From Monday: *** 1/2
Eating Raoul: *** 1/2
The Great Escape: *** 1/2
Happy Endings: *** 1/2
Home Movie: *** 1/2
Hotel Rwanda: *** 1/2
The Hound of the Baskervilles: *** 1/2
I Heart Huckabees: *** 1/2
The Kings of Comedy: *** 1/2
The Lavender Hill Mob: *** 1/2
Local Hero: *** 1/2
The Man in the White Suit: *** 1/2
The Merchant of Venice: *** 1/2
The Miracle Worker: *** 1/2
The Outsiders: *** 1/2
Patton: *** 1/2
Prick Up Your Ears: *** 1/2
Real Genius: *** 1/2
Silkwood: *** 1/2
A Simple Plan: *** 1/2
Steal This Movie: *** 1/2
To Sir With Love: *** 1/2
Without a Paddle: *** 1/2
The Yes Men: *** 1/2

Close Your Eyes: ***
Danny Deckchair: ***
Death to Smoochy: ***
The Eyes of Tammy Faye: ***
The French Lieutenant’s Woman: ***
Glengarry Glen Ross: ***
The Hitcher: ***
Home Alone: ***
How To Marry A Millionaire: ***
Iris: ***
Joe’s Apartment: ***
Naked States: ***
One, Two, Three: ***
Predator: ***
Risky Business: ***
The Salton Sea: ***
The Sign of Four: ***
Spaceman: ***
Strange Planet: ***
Suspect Zero: ***
They Came Back (Les Revenants): ***
Tommy Boy: ***
Trekkies 2: ***
T3: Rise of the Machines: ***
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me: ***

Beyond the Sea: ** 1/2
Earth Girls Are Easy: ** 1/2
The Girl Next Door: ** 1/2
Jagged Edge: ** 1/2
One Crazy Summer: ** 1/2
Phone: ** 1/2

An Affair to Remember: **
Attack of the Clones: **
Bubba Ho-Tep: **
Burnt Offerings: **
A Day Without a Mexican: **
The Eligible Bachelor: **
Hide and Seek: **
Hotel: **
The Pacifier: **
Triumph of the Will: **

Cellular: *

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: 1/2



Movies I saw on video in 2005, alphabetically:

An Affair to Remember: **
Anatomy of a Murder: ****
Attack of the Clones: **
Bananas: *** 1/2
The Barbarian Invasions: *****
Beyond the Sea: ** 1/2
Body Heat: ****
The Bounty: *** 1/2
Bright Leaves: ****
Broadcast News: **** 1/2
Bubba Ho-Tep: **
Bullitt: **** 1/2
Burnt Offerings: **
Cellular: *
Central Station: ****
Close Your Eyes: ***
Cold Feet: *** 1/2
Crash (1996): *** 1/2
The Crime of Padre Amaro: ****
Criminal: *** 1/2
Danny Deckchair: ***
Dark Passage: *** 1/2
A Day Without a Mexican: **
Death to Smoochy: ***
Deliverance: ****
Desperate Living: *** 1/2
Diabolique (1955): ****
Dial M For Murder: *** 1/2
The Dreamers: **** 1/2
Dr. No: ****
Earth Girls Are Easy: ** 1/2
Eating Raoul: *** 1/2
The Eligible Bachelor: **
The English Patient: ****
The Eyes of Tammy Faye: ***
The French Lieutenant’s Woman: ***
Frida: **** 1/2
From Here to Eternity: ****
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir: *** 1/2
The Girl From Monday: *** 1/2
The Girl Next Door: ** 1/2
Glengarry Glen Ross: ***
The Grapes of Wrath: ****
Grave of the Fireflies: ****
The Great Escape: *** 1/2
The Grudge: ****
Happy Endings: *** 1/2
Harvie Krumpet: ****
Hide and Seek: **
The Hitcher: ***
Home Alone: ***
Home Movie: *** 1/2
Hotel: **
Hotel Rwanda: *** 1/2
The Hound of the Baskervilles: *** 1/2
How To Marry A Millionaire: ***
I Heart Huckabees: *** 1/2
In America: ****
Inherit the Wind: ****
Inside Deep Throat: ****
In the Heat of the Night: *****
In the Name of the Father: ****
In the Realms of the Unreal: ****
Iris: ***
Jagged Edge: ** 1/2
Joe’s Apartment: ***
The Killing Fields: ****
The Kings of Comedy: *** 1/2
La Dolce Vita: *****
The Lavender Hill Mob: *** 1/2
Lawrence of Arabia: *****
Local Hero: *** 1/2
Lolita (1998): ****
M: *****
The Machinist: *****
The Magnificent Seven: ****
The Man in the White Suit: *** 1/2
Maria Full of Grace: *****
Martin: ****
Me and You and Everyone We Know: *****
The Merchant of Venice: *** 1/2
The Miracle Worker: *** 1/2
The Misfits: **** 1/2
My Life as a Dog: *****
Naked States: ***
The Odd Couple: ****
One Crazy Summer: ** 1/2
One, Two, Three: ***
The Outsiders: *** 1/2
The Pacifier: **
Papillon: ****
Patton: *** 1/2
Phone: ** 1/2
Predator: ***
Prick Up Your Ears: *** 1/2
Real Genius: *** 1/2
Risky Business: ***
The Salton Sea: ***
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: 1/2
The Sign of Four: ***
Silkwood: *** 1/2
A Simple Plan: *** 1/2
Spaceman: ***
The Station Agent: ****
Steal This Movie: *** 1/2
Strange Planet: ***
Suspect Zero: ***
Tarnation: **** 1/2
They Came Back (Les Revenants): ***
To Catch a Thief: ****
Tommy Boy: ***
To Sir With Love: *** 1/2
Trekkies 2: ***
Triumph of the Will: **
T3: Rise of the Machines: ***
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me: ***
The Wild Bunch: *****
Wild Strawberries: ****
Without a Paddle: *** 1/2
Word Wars: ****
The Yes Men: *** 1/2

Total: 121

Theater Roundup 2005

Movies I saw in theaters in 2005, by rating:

Sideways: *****

Robots: **** 1/2

Batman Begins: ****
Capote: ****
Howl’s Moving Castle: ****
Kung Fu Hustle: ****

The Aristocrats: *** 1/2
Corpse Bride: *** 1/2
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: *** 1/2
Genesis: *** 1/2
Good Night, and Good Luck.: *** 1/2
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: *** 1/2
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: *** 1/2
King Kong (2005): *** 1/2
Kinsey: *** 1/2
March of the Penguins: *** 1/2
Million Dollar Baby: *** 1/2
Red Eye: *** 1/2
Serenity: *** 1/2
Sin City: *** 1/2
A Very Long Engagement: *** 1/2

The Best of Youth: ***
Everything is Illuminated: ***
Finding Neverland: ***
Kingdom of Heaven: ***
Melinda and Melinda: ***
War of the Worlds: ***

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: ** 1/2
The Ice Harvest: ** 1/2
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: ** 1/2

Wedding Crashers: * 1/2


Movies I saw in theaters in 2005, alphabetically:

The Aristocrats: *** 1/2
Batman Begins: ****
The Best of Youth: ***
Capote: ****
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: ** 1/2
Corpse Bride: *** 1/2
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: *** 1/2
Everything is Illuminated: ***
Finding Neverland: ***
Genesis: *** 1/2
Good Night, and Good Luck.: *** 1/2
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: *** 1/2
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: *** 1/2
Howl’s Moving Castle: ****
The Ice Harvest: ** 1/2
Kingdom of Heaven: ***
King Kong (2005): *** 1/2
Kinsey: *** 1/2
Kung Fu Hustle: ****
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: ** 1/2
March of the Penguins: *** 1/2
Melinda and Melinda: ***
Million Dollar Baby: *** 1/2
Red Eye: *** 1/2
Robots: **** 1/2
Serenity: *** 1/2
Sideways: *****
Sin City: *** 1/2
A Very Long Engagement: *** 1/2
War of the Worlds: ***
Wedding Crashers: * 1/2

Total: 31

Video Roundup 2004

Movies I saw on video in 2004, alphabetically:

After Life: *** 1/2
American Splendor: *** 1/2
The Animatrix: ****
Baraka: ****
Bartleby: *** 1/2
Before Sunset: ****
Cabin Fever: *** 1/2
Cannibal! The Musical: *** 1/2
Capturing the Friedmans: *** 1/2
Cho Revolution: ****
City of God: **** 1/2
The Cockettes: ****
Coffee and Cigarettes: ** 1/2
Dawn of the Dead (2004): ****
Devil’s Playground: ****
Die Hard With A Vengeance: ***
Dirty Pretty Things: ****
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story: ***
Donnie Darko: ****
The Door in the Floor: *** 1/2
Dreamcatcher: *
Dr. Wai in The Script With No Words: ***
Dummy: ***
The Emperor’s New Groove: **
The Experiment: *** 1/2
Flirting With Disaster: ***
Forgotten Silver: ***
Human Nature: **** 1/2
The Human Stain: ***
Intermission: *** 1/2
In the Cut: ***
Irma Vep: ***
Irreversible: * 1/2
It Happened One Night: ****
Kill Bill Part 2: ***
Little Otek: ****
The Manchurian Candidate (2004): *** 1/2
The Man Without a Past: *** 1/2
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: *** 1/2
May: *****
Monsieur Ibrahim: ****
Northfork: **** 1/2
Out of Time: ** 1/2
Rivers and Tides: **** 1/2
Rock ’n’ Roll High School: ** 1/2
Runaway Jury: ***
The Saddest Music in the World: *****
Saved!: *** 1/2
Scarlet Diva: ** 1/2
Shaun of the Dead: *** 1/2
Southern Comfort: ****
Spellbound: ****
Spider-man 2: ***
Starsky and Hutch: **
Supersize Me!: ****
Swordfish: **
Tackle Happy: ***
Thirteen: **** 1/2
The Triplets of Belleville: *****
Twelve Angry Men: ****
Under the Tuscan Sun: ***
Until the End of the World: ***
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?: ***


Movies I saw on video in 2004, by rating:

May: *****
The Saddest Music in the World: *****
The Triplets of Belleville: *****
City of God: **** 1/2
Human Nature: **** 1/2
Northfork: **** 1/2
Rivers and Tides: **** 1/2
Thirteen: **** 1/2
The Animatrix: ****
Baraka: ****
Before Sunset: ****
Cho Revolution: ****
The Cockettes: ****
Dawn of the Dead (2004): ****
Devil’s Playground: ****
Dirty Pretty Things: ****
Donnie Darko: ****
It Happened One Night: ****
Little Otek: ****
Monsieur Ibrahim: ****
Southern Comfort: ****
Spellbound: ****
Supersize Me!: ****
Twelve Angry Men: ****
After Life: *** 1/2
American Splendor: *** 1/2
Bartleby: *** 1/2
Cabin Fever: *** 1/2
Cannibal! The Musical: *** 1/2
Capturing the Friedmans: *** 1/2
The Door in the Floor: *** 1/2
The Experiment: *** 1/2
Intermission: *** 1/2
The Man Without a Past: *** 1/2
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: *** 1/2
The Manchurian Candidate (2004): *** 1/2
Saved!: *** 1/2
Shaun of the Dead: *** 1/2
Die Hard With A Vengeance: ***
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story: ***
Dr. Wai in The Script With No Words: ***
Dummy: ***
Flirting With Disaster: ***
Forgotten Silver: ***
The Human Stain: ***
In the Cut: ***
Irma Vep: ***
Kill Bill Part 2: ***
Runaway Jury: ***
Spider-man 2: ***
Tackle Happy: ***
Under the Tuscan Sun: ***
Until the End of the World: ***
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?: ***
Coffee and Cigarettes: ** 1/2
Out of Time: ** 1/2
Rock ’n’ Roll High School: ** 1/2
Scarlet Diva: ** 1/2
The Emperor’s New Groove: **
Starsky and Hutch: **
Swordfish: **
Irreversible: * 1/2
Dreamcatcher: *

Theater Roundup 2004

Movies I saw in theaters in 2004, alphabetically:

The Aviator: ****
Big Fish: *** 1/2
The Bourne Supremacy: ***
The Clearing: ***
Collateral: ****
The Corporation: ****
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: *****
Fahrenheit 9/11: ****
The Fog of War: ****
The Forgotten: ****
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: ****
Hero (2004): ****
The Incredibles: **** 1/2
The Motorcycle Diaries: *** 1/2
Napoleon Dynamite: ****
National Treasure: **
Ocean’s Twelve: ***
The Polar Express: * 1/2
Ray: ****
A Series of Unfortunate Events: ** 1/2
Shrek 2: *** 1/2
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: *** 1/2
Team America: World Police: **** 1/2
The Village: ****
What the Bleep Do We Know?: *** 1/2


Movies I saw in theaters in 2004, by rating:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: *****
The Incredibles: **** 1/2
Team America: World Police: **** 1/2
The Aviator: ****
Collateral: ****
The Corporation: ****
Fahrenheit 9/11: ****
The Fog of War: ****
The Forgotten: ****
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: ****
Hero (2004): ****
Napoleon Dynamite: ****
Ray: ****
The Village: ****
Big Fish: *** 1/2
The Motorcycle Diaries: *** 1/2
Shrek 2: *** 1/2
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: *** 1/2
What the Bleep Do We Know?: *** 1/2
The Bourne Supremacy: ***
The Clearing: ***
Ocean’s Twelve: ***
A Series of Unfortunate Events: ** 1/2
National Treasure: **
The Polar Express: * 1/2

Video Roundup 2003

2003 Movie Roundup: On Video

These are the best films I saw on VHS/DVD in 2003. Not all of them were released in 2003, so this is an especially subjective list.

Honorable Mention (all rated four stars): The Business of Strangers, Changing Lanes, The Devil’s Backbone, The Fast Runner, Ghost Story, The Isle, The Lion in Winter, Narc, Nowhere in Africa, Paper Moon, Scandal, Sophie’s Choice, Spun, Tuck Everlasting, Walking and Talking

10. Gangs of New York ****

Critics mostly panned this one, calling it overblown, excessively violent, poorly acted, ugly and depressing. I think that it’s nowhere near as violent as most of Scorsese’s oeuvre, that it’s appropriately expansive for its subject matter, that Daniel Day-Lewis is amazing and Cameron Diaz not at all bad but Leonardo DiCaprio needs to go back to playing retarded teenagers STAT, and that the ugly and depressing (yet somehow gorgeous) feel of the movie is essential to Scorsese’s theme. It’s also brave of him. Not many people want to confront the essential ugliness of American history, particularly not in New York so soon after 9/11, particularly not on the palette of a big-budget movie. But there are important lessons to be learned from this film, the most essential of which is the lesson of class warfare. Sureños and Norteños in my own backyard would benefit from pondering how easy it is for the rich to stay rich while the poor slaughter each other.

9. Ordinary Decent Criminal ****

This mostly unnoticed small-scale film would make it onto my top ten list if for no other reason than it stars Kevin Spacey, not sucking. I’ll say it again: Kevin Spacey is in this movie, and he doesn’t suck. At all. After winning us over with his bravura turns in Seven and The Usual Suspects lo these many years ago, Kevin’s gone the Nicolas Cage route with his forays into schlock (K-PAX, Pay it Forward), and it hurts. Well, relax: he hasn’t lost his touch. He sports a flawless Irish accent in this charming, entertaining tale of a thief who always stays one step ahead of the law and the IRA.

8. Secretary ****

Call me kinky, but I loved this movie. I was expecting a nudge-nudge wink-wink comedy, which would have been fine, but Secretary isn’t. It has moments of humor, but it’s not a comedy. Neither is it the dark semi-tragedy of Mary Gaitskill’s original story, on which it is loosely based. Not until the film is over does it become clear that what it really is, oddly enough, is a romance. It’s one of the very few movies I’ve ever seen about BDSM that doesn’t treat its subject as a joke or an excuse for brainless porn. Maggie Gyllenhall and James Spader are remarkably brave actors.

7. Ma Vie en Rose (My Life in Pink) ****

Not a new film, but well worth seeking out (and easy to spot because of its bright pink box). You’ll find it in the foreign section. Ludovic is a young person who was born with a penis, but has known from the beginning that she is a girl. Her family responds with varying degrees of horror, understanding and exasperation as Ludovic grows up and discovers how difficult it is to stay true to yourself in a world that isn’t built to accept you. Funny and sad and heartwarming.

6. Raising Victor Vargas ****

This low-budget charmer is the story of a young playa, his family, and the girl he likes. It’s refreshingly authentic, free of Hollywood conventions and stereotypes. An excellent movie to see with your teenage kids, if you happen to have any.

5. He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not ****

Audrey Tautou plays off her Amélie cuteness to great effect in this romantic thriller. If you’ve heard anything about it, you probably have a fairly good idea of what to expect, and even if you haven’t, you’ll sense early on that things are not what they appear. Still, it’s surprising. I don’t want to say anything else about it, other than that it’s twisty enough not to need the bonus twist ending.

4. Interview with the Assassin ****

Another movie most people didn’t see. In the faux-documentary genre of The Blair Witch Project. (Side note: whether you loved, hated or were indifferent to The Blair Witch Project, you owe it to yourself to track down The Last Broadcast, a similarly-themed movie that was made before Blair Witch and is a thousand times better.) I’m not a conspiracy theory junkie, and I’m not especially interested in the circumstances of JFK’s death — there’s more than enough modern-day corruption to keep it low on my list of priorities — but this movie had me hooked. Very creepy. Very believable.

3. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind **** 1/2

Charlie Kaufman. Sam Rockwell. George Clooney. Chuck Barris. Not as funny as you might expect. Not as entertaining as you might expect. Unexpected, in short: oddly disturbing, strangely deep, weirdly effective, and unusually memorable.

2. Better Luck Tomorrow **** 1/2

One of those movies you just know is going to be excellent, right from the opening scene. In some ways it’s nothing you haven’t seen before — the classic theme of Youth Gone Wrong, updated every couple of years to shock parents afresh and remind them how little control they really have over their pubescent babies — but the script and the acting are so crisp that it seems new all over again. This time the kids are Asian honors students, bored by the ease of their success, waylaid by the glamorous world of sex, drugs and cheating on papers. Movies starring Asian-Americans who play themselves in a realistic context are hard to come by, and it’s even rarer to find one as vigorous and smart as this.

1. High Noon *****

I know, I know: how could I not have already seen this a dozen times? Westerns, in general, are not my thing. I guess I kept writing this off as one of those classics you don’t really need to bother with. Oh children, don’t do as I have done. If you have any kind of passion for the cinema, if you can appreciate the artistry of a well-made film as well as take in its surface entertainment value, then you’ve got to see High Noon, one of the most flawless movies I’ve ever seen. There is something about the simplicity of it, the perfect balance of all its elements, that transcends the usual forms of criticism. Gary Cooper plays a good sheriff, recently retired, who returns to town to face down a bad man he helped put away years ago. The movie takes place in real time, the clock ticking closer to the moment when the train will pull into the station and the showdown will begin. Doesn’t sound like much, does it? Put away your cynicism. Watch.


And the worst films I saw on VHS/DVD in 2003:

10. All the King’s Men ** 1/2

It won Best Picture the year it came out, but this movie is a shameless rip-off of the infinitely better Citizen Kane. Loosely based on the tumultuous career of Louisiana senator Huey Long, All the King’s Men suffers from a chronic lack of subtlety. Unless you enjoy having an obvious moral lesson shoved down your throat, skip it.

9. Dream for an Insomniac **

Rented it because it had a great preview, which turned out to contain all the parts of the movie that didn’t suck. Don’t you hate it when that happens?

8. Sidewalks of New York **

Ed Burns is an egotistical hack who can’t write, act, or direct worth a damn. He thinks he’s a cross between Brad Pitt and Woody Allen, but he’s more like a cross between Chris O’Donnell and Gilbert Gottfried. This movie makes me want to punch him.

7. The Man From Elysian Fields **

Olivia Williams is one of the most gorgeous women I’ve ever seen who isn’t my wife. She’s in this, and looking at her is most enjoyable. Mick Jagger is also in this, and it’s amusing to watch him vamp. James Coburn is in this, gruff as always, and Andy Garcia is in this, stiff and sad-eyed and in love with his own good looks as always. The acting is fine. The dialogue is terrible. The story is pathetic. It’s a turkey.

6. XXX **

Vin Diesel. Nuff said.

5. Desperado **

Antonio Banderas. Nuff said.

4. Mau Mau Sex Sex **

This should (and could) have been an entertaining documentary of two pioneers of exploitation film. Perhaps it would have been, had it focused more on the films themselves and less on endless rambling interviews with the codgers who made them.

3. Dude, Where’s My Car? * 1/2

My own damn fault. Something in me wanted to see the stupidest movie I could possibly find, so I rented this, and boy did it deliver. Aside from one gag (“And then?”) that inexplicably had me and Marla sobbing with laughter for days, it was a void into which no humor dared enter. Ashton Kutcher has the acting ability of a steaming turd.

2. Audrey Rose *

Oh so crappy, oh oh so crap-py. One of those ’70s flicks based on a cheesy paperback bestseller. Anthony Hopkins should be ashamed for appearing in this. It’s the story of a little girl who one day starts freaking out, and no one knows why, and it turns out that she’s the reincarnation of another little girl who died in a car accident. Features some of the most overwrought acting I’ve ever seen in my life. Simply awful.

1. Erik the Viking *

OH MY GOD THIS MOVIE SUCKS SO HARD IT MAKES ME WANT TO CUT OFF THE TONGUE AND HANDS OF TERRY JONES SO HE CAN NEVER EVER MAKE ANOTHER MOVIE EVER AGAIN. I’m crying as I write this. It hurts to remember this movie. This is a comedy that begins with Tim Robbins in a Viking costume trying to rape a woman, being unable to go through with it, and engaging in a philosophical debate with her instead. It gets progressively less funny from there. It’s the sort of thing you might expect a 12-year-old Dungeons & Dragons nerd to write and perform with his friends, and you’d say “Wow, that was really good” when it was over, because you don’t want to crush the creative spirit of a socially challenged pre-teen. Terry Jones is a grown man who has no excuse. JESUS CHRIST THIS MOVIE, IT JUST . . . GRRRRAAAAAGGGGH!!!

Theater Roundup 2003

2003 Movie Roundup: In Theaters

Herewith, my Top “Ten” Movies of 2003. This list is far from authoritative. Its most obvious flaw is the series of gaping holes left by all the movies I didn’t see last year. Further widening the holes is my very subjective policy of considering only what I saw in theaters, as opposed to the many new films I saw on video. I’ll cover those another day.

None of the new movies I saw in 2003 were outright horrible, but several were decidedly mediocre. The greatest expectation-to-payoff deficits were racked up by Intolerable Cruelty (***), which should serve as a warning to the Coen brothers never to work with someone else’s script, and The Matrix Reloaded (***), in which the Wachowski brothers took everything that was exciting about the first film and bludgeoned it.

Honorable Mention: Chicago; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Matchstick Men; and X2: X-Men United.

10. Holes
One of the best young adult novels of the last ten years is faithfully adapted for the screen by its author, Louis Sachar. Fans of the book will find nothing to disappoint them, and kids and grown-ups alike will enjoy the strong performances of Shia LaBoeuf as Stanley Yelnats, Khleo Thomas as Zero, and Sigourney Weaver, Tim Blake Nelson and Jon Voight as the dastardly counselors at Camp Green Lake.

9. Down With Love
An underrated homage to the Doris Day/Rock Hudson school of screwball comedies featuring the indefatigable teeth of Ewan McGregor and the rosy cheeks of Renée Zellweger, this is everything Intolerable Cruelty tried and failed to be. Full of genuine wit, quick on its feet, suitably self-aware without being sarcastic, light as meringue and thoroughly entertaining.

8. Identity
This clever conflation of Ten Little Indians and Psycho has one twist too many, but aside from the last two minutes, it’s a very satisfying thriller. Some will be able to see the revelations coming; I didn’t, but as a moviegoer who enjoys being surprised, I tend not to try very hard to make predictions.

7. The Return of the King
Although there is plenty to find fault with throughout Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, particularly if you had the good fortune to discover J. R. R. Tolkien’s masterpiece prior to 2001, even diehard purists know in their heart of hearts how magnificent these films are; how miraculous, even, that they carry as much of the spirit of the book as they do. The Return of the King is far more awe-inspiring than it is disappointing, and if that sounds like damnation via faint praise, it isn’t meant to. Jackson’s troupe of passionate actors, writers, animators, designers, technicians and artists have made what is likely to stand for the rest of our lifetimes as the greatest fantasy epic ever filmed.

6. Winged Migration
There’s the awe that comes from witnessing an impossible phantasmagorical spectacle like The Return of the King, and then there’s the awe that comes from witnessing something that you know is real, but that you’ve never been able to see before. Watching a human being walk on the moon back in 1969 produced that second kind of awe. So does seeing birds in flight in the film Winged Migration. It is one thing to stand on the ground and watch a group of specks moving through the sky hundreds of feet above you; it is quite another to find yourself right in the midst of a flock of ducks, mere inches away from the nearest wingtip. I felt not only exhilaration but also a deep respect for birds that I’d never had before; flying is hard work!

5. Adaptation
It’s not as purely original as Being John Malkovich, but it is more or less the logical next step; you can’t pull off a stunt like that twice, and writer Charlie Kaufman knows it. What’s left is the curse of self-consciousness that plagues all of postmodern art, for better and worse, and with Adaptation Kaufman exploits it in a way that leaves even less room for the rest of us to do anything new. Asshole.

4. The Quiet American
A very timely film, this adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel cuts to the heart of what is wrong with American foreign policy in the post-World War II era. Several outstanding films have been made about the Vietnam War, but this is the first I know of to examine the period leading up to the war and the escalation of American involvement. Michael Caine turns in one of the finest performances of his long and storied career — better, certainly, than his Oscar-winning contribution to the mediocre Cider House Rules. And Brendan Fraser demonstrates again that despite his willingness to play off his hunky, not-too-bright appearance in stuff like Blast From The Past, Monkeybone and The Mummy, he’s a much sharper card than many take him for.

3. Lost in Translation
This film swims in romance. Not one of the endless variations on the Cinderella theme that pass for romance in mainstream cinema, but a deeper, subtler, more ultimately satisfying variety. There are no narrative tricks here, no obvious manipulations on the part of director Sofia Coppola (who has demonstrated that the brilliance of her first film, The Virgin Suicides, was no fluke); just the simple magic of human attraction glowing all by itself.

2. Finding Nemo
Pixar Studios outdoes itself again, marrying dazzling animation to a wonderfully funny script. The story arc is pure Disney, but it honestly doesn’t matter; the visual and verbal inventiveness overcomes whatever formulae of market-tested sanctimony John Lasseter and company were required to apply, not to mention the irritation of yet another leading-gerund title (Finding Forrester, Educating Rita, Eating Raoul, Doing Dallas With Debbie, etc.) It is so refreshing to see an all-ages movie that doesn’t pander to the conventional wisdom that children are stupid, crass little creatures who need to be hit over the head with loud noises, blaring colors and fart jokes all the time.

In 2003, the two best movies I saw in theaters were so utterly different that to choose one over the other would be an insult to both of them. I’m going to have to go the Golden Globe route here and do a “Best Picture - Drama” and “Best Picture - Comedy” split — which is fine with me, because I get to squeeze 11 movies into my Top Ten that way.

1. Drama: The Pianist
Roman Polanski’s hit-and-miss career has turned out masterpieces like Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown and Repulsion, harmless schlock like The Ninth Gate, and crap-that-makes-you-want-to-sear-your-eyeballs-with-glowing-charcoal-briquets-so-you’ll-never-have-to-risk-seeing-it-again like Bitter Moon. The Pianist falls squarely into the first category, and the fact that it’s neither horror nor film noir nor psychodrama underscores one of the qualities that make Polanski one of the world’s most important directors: he never repeats himself. Like Kubrick, he visits genres only long enough to subvert them in his own inimitable way before moving on to fresh ground.

With The Pianist, Polanski’s subversion is subtlety. We’ve all seen the Holocaust portrayed on film, and there isn’t much new that anyone can say about it; it has been dramatized, melodramatized, satirized, documentarized, and it’s still just as banal and ugly and hard to fully comprehend as ever. Indeed, attempts to make the story of this particular attempt at genocide fresh and exciting are almost as inappropriate as they are doomed to failure. It’s hard to make this stuff entertaining, and it should be; our task is to bear witness to the suffering, to keep remembering what happened. Polanski manages to honor this responsibility without exploiting it, and at the same time to make unforgettably potent art. No mean feat.

Unlike Schindler’s List, which, though powerful, couldn’t keep itself from leavening the grimness with telltale Spielbergian schmaltz, The Pianist never blinks. Its historical accuracy is faultless, but this is no documentary; it has a deeply moving story to tell, but tells it without nudging us toward this or that emotion. Polanski is not the sort of auteur who delights in demonstrating his own cleverness. He vanishes into the film, just as Adrien Brody vanishes into the titular role. Fascism, that ultimate disease of the ego, is presented without ego. There are no heroes here, only survivors.


1. Comedy: Bad Santa
Probably not suitable for your grandmother, definitely not suitable for children, and very, very unsuitable as a double-bill with The Pianist, the other best movie of 2003 is one of the most splenetic comedies ever produced by a major studio. Even if your stomach is strong enough to handle the mug of hot, steaming vitriol that is Bad Santa, it’ll be in pain from laughing so hard. Be warned.

Let’s start with a couple of benchmarks: Crumb and South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. The former is director Terry Zwigoff’s first effort, a mightily disturbing, funny, and fascinating documentary about the “underground” artist Robert Crumb. The latter is, of course, the feature film spinoff of the profanity-laced animated TV series South Park. If you dislike either of those films, or would rather not get close enough to find out if you dislike them or not, then Bad Santa is definitely not for you. On the other hand, if (like me) you’d rather swallow bile than saccharine and find insincerity more offensive than impropriety, then by all means check this shit out.

Billy Bob Thornton stars in what may be the most delicious role of his career as an unbelievably foul-mouthed department-store Santa Claus, a sneering, unshaven alcoholic who beats up plastic reindeer, yells obscenities at children, chain-smokes, screws women in the plus-size dressing rooms, and pisses himself on a regular basis. The holiday gig is a cover for his real job, which is cracking the safe of the department store. His handler (Tony Cox) is an ill-tempered black dwarf who dresses as an elf and does his best to keep Santa from falling over in his chair. Ho ho ho.

Why is this funny? It’s a concept that could easily go wrong in less confident hands, and at first it seems merely pathetic. The nervous titters and head-shaking, the “Oh my God, why am I watching this” reaction, gradually accelerates into honest chuckling and then helpless laughter as you realize that it is in fact deliberately pathetic, intensely pathetic, and it’s only getting more so, and it’s not going to stop. In fact, Thornton — as howlingly funny as he is — is more or less upstaged by an expressionless fat kid (Brett Kelly) who comes into his life, seemingly immune to the string of insults hurled his way, and takes the pathos to another level. When you find yourself weeping, you can’t tell whether it’s from laughter or pity. Strangely enough, Bad Santa manages to be not only the funniest and filthiest holiday movie ever made, but also one of the most heartwarming.

Girl you're so groovy, I want you to know.

(updated 1/6/07)

RATING KEY:
***** = superb
**** = very good
*** = decent
** = not very good
* = awful

The films with IMDB links are my all-time favorites.

2 Days in the Valley: * 1/2
8 Mile: *** 1/2
8 1/2 Women: *** 1/2
9 1/2 Weeks: * 1/2
10 Things I Hate About You: ** 1/2
12 Monkeys: **** 1/2
13 Conversations About One Thing: ****
24 Hour Party People: *** 1/2
25th Hour: *** 1/2
28 Days Later: *** 1/2
The 39 Steps: ** 1/2
48 Hours: **
50 First Dates: ***
54: *** 1/2
101 Dalmatians: ***
200 Cigarettes: ** 1/2
The 400 Blows: ****
1,000 Pieces of Gold: ** 1/2
1776: **
2001: A Space Odyssey: *****
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ** 1/2

About a Boy: *** 1/2
About Adam: *** 1/2
About Schmidt: *** 1/2
The Absent-Minded Professor: ***
The Abyss: ***
The Accidental Tourist: **
The Accused: ****
Ace Ventura, Pet Detective: *
Adam’s Rib: ****
Adaptation: ****
The Addams Family: *** 1/2
Addams Family Values: ****
The Addiction: ****
Adventures in Babysitting: ** 1/2
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: *
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension: **** 1/2
The Adventures of Milo in the Phantom Tollbooth: *** 1/2
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: ****
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole: ****
The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective: ***
An Affair to Remember: **
Afraid of the Dark: *****
The African Queen: *****
After Hours: *** 1/2
After Life: *** 1/2
The Age of Innocence: ***
Agnes of God: ****
A.I.: **
Airheads: *** 1/2
Airplane!: ***
Akira: *****
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams: ***
Aladdin (1992): ****
Albino Alligator: ***
Alice (Svankmajer, 1992): *****
Alice (Allen, 1990): *** 1/2
Alice in Wonderland (1951): *****
Alien: ****
Aliens: **
Alive: *** 1/2
All About Eve: *****
All About My Mother: ****
All of Me: ****
All the King’s Men: ** 1/2
All the President’s Men: ***
Almost Famous: *** 1/2
Altered States: *** 1/2
Amadeus: ****
Amateur: ****
Ambition: ****
Amélie: *****
American Beauty: *** 1/2
American Graffiti: ***
American History X: *** 1/2
American Movie: ****
American Pie: ** 1/2
American Pimp: **
The American President: ****
American Psycho: ****
An American Rhapsody: ***
American Splendor: *** 1/2
An American Tail: ***
An American Werewolf in London: ***
America's Sweethearts: *
Amores Perros (Love's a Bitch): *****
Analyze This: ***
Anatomy of a Murder: ****
And the Band Played On: ****
And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird: **
An Angel at My Table: *** 1/2
Angel Eyes: *** 1/2
Angel Heart: ***
Angels and Insects: *** 1/2
Angels in America: ****
The Animatrix: ****
Annie Hall: ****
The Anniversary Party: ****
Antz: ***
Anywhere But Here: ***
Any Which Way But Loose: ** 1/2
The Apartment: *****
Apartment Zero: **
Apocalypse Now: *** 1/2
Apollo 13: ****
Appassionata: *** 1/2
Apt Pupil: *** 1/2
Arachnophobia: ****
The Aristocats: ***
The Aristocrats: *** 1/2
Arlington Road: **
Armour of God: ** 1/2
Army of Darkness: ****
The Arrival: ***
Arsenic and Old Lace: ****
Article 99: ***
As Good As It Gets: *** 1/2
The Assassination of Richard Nixon: ***
The Astronaut’s Wife: ***
Atomic Café: *****
At Play in the Fields of the Lord: **
Attack of the Clones: **
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: **
Audrey Rose: *
Austin Powers: **
Auto Focus: ***
Avalon: ***
The Aviator: ****
The Awakening of Gabriella: **
Awakenings: ***

Babe: *** 1/2
Babette’s Feast: ***
Baby: ***
Backbeat: ***
Back to School: **
Back to the Future: ***
Back to the Future Part II: **
Back to the Future Part III: ** 1/2
Badlands: *** 1/2
Bad Lieutenant: ****
Bad Santa: **** 1/2
The Bad Seed: ***
Bad Taste: **
Bagdad Café: *****
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez: ****
Bambi: * 1/2
Bambi Meets Godzilla: ****
Bananas: *** 1/2
Bandits: ***
Bang: ***
Baraka: ****
The Barbarian Invasions: *****
Barbershop: ***
Barcelona: ****
Barfly: *** 1/2
Bartleby: *** 1/2
Barton Fink: *****
BASEketball: **
Basic Instinct: *
Basket Case: ** 1/2
Basquiat: ****
Batman: ***
Batman Begins: ****
Batman Returns: *** 1/2
Batteries Not Included: ***
Beaches: **
The Bear: *** 1/2
Beautiful Creatures: *
Beautiful Girls: *** 1/2
A Beautiful Mind: ****
Beautiful People: *** 1/2
Beautiful Thing: ****
Beauty and the Beast (1991): ****
Beavis and Butthead Do America: ***
Bedazzled: ***
Beetlejuice: ****
Before and After: *** 1/2
Before Sunrise: ****
Before Sunset: ****
Being John Malkovich: ****
Being There: *** 1/2
The Believer: *** 1/2
Bell, Book and Candle: ***
Belle Epoque: ****
Beloved: **** 1/2
Bend It Like Beckham: ***
Ben-Hur (1959): ***
Benny and Joon: **
Best Laid Plans: ****
Best of Show: *** 1/2
Best of the Best: **
The Best of Youth: ***
Better Luck Tomorrow: **** 1/2
Better Off Dead: *** 1/2
Beverly Hills Cop: ***
Beverly Hills Cop 2: *
Beyond Erotica: ** 1/2
Beyond Therapy: 1/2
Beyond the Sea: ** 1/2
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls: *** 1/2
The Bicycle Thief: *****
Big: *** 1/2
Big Business: *** 1/2
The Big Chill: ****
The Big Easy: *** 1/2
Big Fish: *** 1/2
The Big Kahuna: *** 1/2
The Big Lebowski: ****
Big Night: *** 1/2
The Big One: *****
The Big Sleep: *****
Big Time: ***
Big Top Pee-Wee: ****
Big Trouble in Little China: *** 1/2
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey: ***
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure: *** 1/2
Billy Elliot: ***
Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss: ** 1/2
The Birdcage: ****
The Birds: ***
Birdy: *****
Birth: ****
Bitter Moon: 1/2
Black Angel: ****
The Black Cauldron: ** 1/2
Black Robe: ** 1/2
The Black Stallion: ***
Blade: ** 1/2
Blade Runner: *** 1/2
The Blair Witch Project: *** 1/2
Blazing Saddles: ****
Blink: ***
Bliss: ** 1/2
Blood and Donuts: ****
Blood Simple: ****
Blow Dry: *** 1/2
Blue: ****
Blue Car: ****
Blue Crush: *** 1/2
Blue in the Face: ****
The Blues Brothers: ****
Blue Velvet: *
Bob Roberts: ***
Body Double: *
Body Heat: ****
Body of Evidence: *
The Bone Collector: **
Bonnie and Clyde: ****
Boogie Nights: *****
The Book of Life: ***
Boomerang: *
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan: ****
Boris and Natasha: * 1/2
Born in East L.A.: * 1/2
Bottle Rocket: *****
Bound: *****
The Bounty: *** 1/2
The Bourne Identity: ***
The Bourne Supremacy: ***
Bowfinger: *** 1/2
Bowling For Columbine: ****
A Boy and His Dog: **** 1/2
Boys Don't Cry: ****
Boys on the Side: ***
Boyz N the Hood: ****
The Brady Bunch Movie: ****
Brain Candy: ***
Brain Dead: ****
Bram Stoker’s Dracula: *
Brassed Off!: **
Braveheart: *** 1/2
Brazil: **
Breakdown: ****
Breakfast at Tiffany’s: *** 1/2
The Breakfast Club: *** 1/2
Breakfast of Champions: **
Breaking Away: ****
Breaking the Waves: *****
Breathless: ****
Brewster McCloud: ****
Brick: **** 1/2
The Bride of Frankenstein: *** 1/2
Bridget Jones's Diary: *** 1/2
A Brief History of Time: *** 1/2
Bringing Up Baby: ****
Bright Leaves: ****
Bright Lights, Big City: ***
Brighton Beach Memoirs: *** 1/2
Bringing Out the Dead: ****
Broadcast News: **** 1/2
Broadway Danny Rose: *** 1/2
Brokeback Mountain: ****
Broken Arrow: *** 1/2
Broken Flowers: ****
The Brother From Another Planet: ****
Brother’s Keeper: *****
The Brothers McMullen: ****
Bubba Ho-Tep: **
The Buddy Holly Story: *** 1/2
Buffalo '66: ** 1/2
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer: ***
A Bug’s Life: *** 1/2
Bull Durham: *****
Bullets Over Broadway: ***
Bullitt: **** 1/2
Bulworth: *** 1/2
The ’Burbs: **
Burnt Offerings: **
The Business of Strangers: ****
Bus 174: ***
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: ****
The Butcher Boy: ****
The Butcher’s Wife: ***
But I'm a Cheerleader: ***

Cabaret: ****
Cabin Fever (adult): ***
Cabin Fever (horror): *** 1/2
Caddyshack: *** 1/2
Cadillac Man: 1/2
Caligula: **
Camelot: ***
Camp: ***
Canadian Bacon: * 1/2
Candyman: *** 1/2
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History: *** 1/2
Cannibal! The Musical: *** 1/2
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death: * 1/2
Cape Fear (1991): ****
Capote: ****
Capturing the Friedmans: *** 1/2
Carrie (1976): *** 1/2
Carrie (2002): **
Carrington: ****
Casablanca: *****
Casa de los Babys: **
Casino: **
Casino Royale (1967): *** 1/2
Casino Royale (2006): *** 1/2
Cast a Deadly Spell: * 1/2
Cast Away: *** 1/2
The Castle: ***
The Castle of Cagliostro: ****
Casualties of War: *** 1/2
The Cat and the Canary: ***
Cat Ballou: ****
Catch Me If You Can: *** 1/2
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: *** 1/2
Cat People (1982): ***
Cats and Dogs: **
The Cat’s Meow: *** 1/2
The Caveman's Valentine: ***
Cecil B. Demented: *** 1/2
The Celebration: *****
The Cell: *** 1/2
Cellular: *
The Celluloid Closet: **** 1/2
Cemetery Man: ** 1/2
The Center of the World: *** 1/2
Center Stage: ** 1/2
Central Station: ****
The Changeling: ***
Changing Lanes: ****
Chan is Missing: ***
Charade: ****
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: ** 1/2
Charlie's Angels: **
Charlotte’s Web (2006): ** 1/2
Charlotte’s Web (1973): ** 1/2
Chasing Amy: ***
Cheaters: *** 1/2
Cheech and Chong’s Nice Dreams: ***
Cheech and Chong: Still Smokin: ***
Cherish: *** 1/2
Chicago: ****
Chicken Run: ****
Children of a Lesser God: ****
Children of the Revolution: *** 1/2
Un Chien Andalou (Andalusian Dog): ****
The China Syndrome: ***
Chinatown: *** 1/2
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: **
Chocolat (2001): ***
Chopper: *** 1/2
Chopping Mall: *
Cho Revolution: ****
A Christmas Story: ****
Chuck and Buck: ****
Chutney Popcorn: *** 1/2
The Cider House Rules: ****
Cinderella (1950): ***
Cinema Paradiso: ***
Circle of Friends: ****
Citizen Kane: *****
Citizen Ruth: ****
Citizen X: ****
City Lights: *****
City of God: **** 1/2
The City of Lost Children: ****
City Slickers: **
A Civil Action: ***
Clara’s Heart: ** 1/2
Clash of the Titans: *
Class Action: ***
Clay Pigeons: ***
The Clearing: ***
Cleopatra's Second Husband: *
Clerks: ****
The Client: *** 1/2
Clockwatchers: ****
Clockwise: **
A Clockwork Orange: ****
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: ***
Closer: ***
The Closet: ****
Close Your Eyes: ***
Clue: * 1/2
Clueless: ***
The Cockettes: ****
Cocoon: ***
Coffee and Cigarettes: ** 1/2
Cold Comfort Farm: **** 1/2
Cold Feet: *** 1/2
Collateral: ****
The Color of Money: ***
Color of Night: **
The Color of Paradise: ***
The Color Purple: ****
Coming to America: ** 1/2
The Commitments: ****
The Company of Wolves: ***
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: **** 1/2
Congo: *
Conspiracy Theory: ** 1/2
The Constant Gardener: *** 1/2
Contact: ****
The Contender: *** 1/2
The Conversation: ****
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover: ****
Cookie’s Fortune: *** 1/2
Cool Hand Luke: ****
Cool Runnings: *
Cool World: **
Copycat: *
The Corporation: ****
Corpse Bride: *** 1/2
The Corsican Brothers (1984): ***
The Cotton Club: **
The Count of Monte Cristo: *** 1/2
The Court Jester: *** 1/2
CQ: *** 1/2
The Cradle Will Rock: ****
The Craft: ***
Crash (2004): *** 1/2
Crash (1996): *** 1/2
Crazy/Beautiful: ****
Cries and Whispers: ***
The Crime of Padre Amaro: ****
Crimes and Misdemeanors: * 1/2
Crimes of the Heart: ***
Crimes of Passion: *
Crimewave: ** 1/2
Criminal: *** 1/2
The Crimson Rivers: *
Critters: *
Crocodile Dundee: ***
Crocodile Dundee II: ** 1/2
Cronos: ***
Crooklyn: *** 1/2
Crossroads: **
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: *****
Croupier: *** 1/2
The Crow: ***
Cruel Intentions: ***
Crumb: *****
Crying Freeman: ***
The Crying Game: *****
A Cry in the Dark: *** 1/2
The Cube: **** 1/2
Curdled: ***
The Cure: **
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: *** 1/2
Cutting Class: * 1/2
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950): *****
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990): ****

Dad: ***
Damage: ****
Dancer in the Dark: *** 1/2
Dances With Wolves: *** 1/2
Dangerous Liaisons: *** 1/2
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys: *** 1/2
Danny Deckchair: ***
Daredevil: ***
Dark City: ****
The Dark Crystal: **
Dark Days: ****
The Dark Half: ***
Darkman: ** 1/2
Dark Passage: *** 1/2
Das Boot: *** 1/2
Date With an Angel: *
Dave: ** 1/2
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party: ***
Dawn of the Dead (1978): *** 1/2
Dawn of the Dead (2004): ****
A Day at the Races: *** 1/2
A Day Without a Mexican: **
Dazed and Confused: *** 1/2
Dead Again: *****
Dead Alive: ****
Dead Calm: * 1/2
Deadly Advice: ****
Dead Man: *****
Dead Man Walking: *****
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid: *** 1/2
Dead Poets Society: ****
Dead Ringers: ***
Dear Jesse: ****
Death Becomes Her: ***
Death of a Salesman: *****
Deathrace 2000: * 1/2
Death to Smoochy: ***
Deathtrap: *****
Deceiver: *** 1/2
Deconstructing Harry: ***
The Deep End: *** 1/2
The Deer Hunter: ****
Delicatessen: *****
Deliverance: ****
Desperado: **
Desperate Living: *** 1/2
Desperately Seeking Susan: ** 1/2
Deterrence: ****
The Devil’s Advocate: *** 1/2
The Devil’s Backbone: ****
Devil’s Playground: ****
Diabolique (1955): ****
Dial M For Murder: *** 1/2
Dick Tracy (1990): ***
Die Hard: ***
Die Hard 2: Die Harder: *** 1/2
Die Hard With A Vengeance: ***
Diner: *****
Dirty Pretty Things: ****
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: ****
The Dish: ***
Disturbing Behavior: **
Divine Trash: ***
D.O.A. (1988): ***
Doc Hollywood: ** 1/2
The Doctor: ***
Doctor Dolittle: **
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story: ***
Dog Day Afternoon: **
Dogfight: **** 1/2
Dogma: ***
Dogville: ****
Dolores Claiborne: ****
Don Juan DeMarco: ***
Donnie Brasco: *** 1/2
Donnie Darko: ****
Don't Look Now: **
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead: ** 1/2
The Door in the Floor: *** 1/2
The Doors: ****
Door to Door: ***
Double Happiness: ***
Double Jeopardy: **
Do the Right Thing: ***
Down and Out in Beverly Hills: ***
Down By Law: ***
Down With Love: ****
Dracula (1931): ****
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story: ***
Dragnet: ** 1/2
Dr. Dolittle: ** 1/2
Dreamcatcher: *
The Dreamers: **** 1/2
Dream For An Insomniac: **
The Dream Team: ** 1/2
The Dresser: ****
Dr. Giggles: *
Dr. No: ****
Driving Miss Daisy: *** 1/2
Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb): ****
Dr. Wai in The Script With No Words: ***
Drugstore Cowboy: ****
The Drunken Master: ***
Drunken Master II: ****
Dude, Where’s My Car?: * 1/2
Duel: **** 1/2
Dumb and Dumber: 1/2
Dumbo: ****
Dummy: ***
Dune: *
Dying Young: **

Earth Girls Are Easy: ** 1/2
Easy Rider: ****
Eat a Bowl of Tea: ****
Eat Drink Man Woman: ***
Eating Raoul: *** 1/2
The Edge: ****
EdTV: ***
Educating Rita: ** 1/2
Edward Scissorhands: ***
Ed Wood: ****
The Efficiency Expert: **
Eight-Legged Freaks: ***
Eight Men Out: ***
El Cid: ** 1/2
Election: *****
Elephant: *** 1/2
The Elephant Man: *****
The Eligible Bachelor: **
Elizabeth: *** 1/2
El Mariachi: ** 1/2
El Norte: ****
Emanuelle in America: **
Embrace of the Vampire: **
Emma: ****
The Emperor’s New Groove: **
Empire of the Sun: ***
Empire Records: ***
The Empire Strikes Back: ****
Enchanted April: ***
The End of the Affair: ***
Enemies: A Love Story: *** 1/2
Enemy Mine: ***
Enemy of the State: ***
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain: ** 1/2
The English Patient: ****
Enigma: ***
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room: ***
Enter the Dragon: ***
Eraser: *** 1/2
Erik the Viking: *
Erin Brockovich: ***
Ernest Goes to Camp: *
Erotique: * 1/2
Escape From L.A.: *** 1/2
Escape From New York: *** 1/2
E.T.—The Extraterrestrial: ****
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: *****
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: * 1/2
Ever After: ** 1/2
Everyone Says I Love You: ** 1/2
Everything is Illuminated: ***
Every Which Way But Loose: ** 1/2
Eve's Bayou: ****
Evil Dead: **
Evil Dead 2: ***
Evil Toons: *
Evil Under the Sun: ***
Evolution: **
The Exorcist: ***
Executive Decision: ****
eXistenZ: *****
The Experiment: *** 1/2
Exotica: ****
Explorers: ***
The Eyes of Tammy Faye: ***
Eyes Wide Shut: ****

The Fabulous Baker Boys: ***
Face/Off: *** 1/2
The Faculty: *** 1/2
Fahrenheit 9/11: ****
Falling Down: **
Family Business: ** 1/2
Fantasia: *** 1/2
Far and Away: **
Far From Heaven: *** 1/2
Fargo: *****
The Fast and the Furious: *
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!: ****
The Fast Runner: ****
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: ****
Fatal Attraction: *** 1/2
Father of the Bride Part II: *
The Favor, the Watch, and the Very Big Fish: ****
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: **
Fearless: ****
Fear of a Black Hat: ****
Feed: ***
Felicia’s Journey: ****
The Fellowship of the Ring: ****
Femme Fatale: *** 1/2
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: *** 1/2
A Few Good Men: ***
Field of Dreams: *** 1/2
Fierce Creatures: ***
The Fifth Element: *** 1/2
Fight Club: *****
The Filth & the Fury: ****
Final Destination: ** 1/2
Finding Forrester: ***
Finding Nemo: **** 1/2
Finding Neverland: ***
Firestarter: *
The Firm: ** 1/2
The First Power: ***
F for Fake: **** 1/2
A Fish Called Wanda: ****
The Fisher King: *****
Five Easy Pieces: **** 1/2
The Five Heartbeats: **
Flash Gordon: *
Flatliners: ***
Fletch: **
Flirt: *** 1/2
Flirting: *****
Flirting With Disaster: ***
Floundering: ****
The Fluffer: ***
The Fog of War: ****
Following: ****
Follow That Bird: ***
Footloose: **
Forbidden Highway: * 1/2
Forget Paris: ***
The Forgotten: ****
Forgotten Silver: ***
Forrest Gump: ***
For Safety’s Sake: **
Foul Play: **** 1/2
Four Rooms: *
Four Weddings and a Funeral: *****
The Fox and the Hound: **
Foxfire: **
Frailty: *** 1/2
Frankenhooker: ****
Frankenstein: *** 1/2
Frankenweenie: ****
Freaked: ****
Freaks: *****
Freeway: ****
The French Connection: **
The French Lieutenant’s Woman: ***
French Twist: ****
Frenzy: **
Frequency: ***
Fresh: ****
The Freshman: *
Frida: **** 1/2
Friday: ***
Friday the 13th: ** 1/2
Fried Green Tomatoes: *** 1/2
Fritz the Cat: *****
From Dusk Till Dawn: **
From Hell: ***
From Here to Eternity: ****
From Russia With Love: *** 1/2
The Fugitive: *****
Full Body Massage: ***
Funny Girl: **
F/X: ****

Galaxy Quest: *** 1/2
The Game: *****
The Game of Death: ***
Gangs of New York: ****
Gas Food Lodging: ***
Gattaca: ** 1/2
General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait: *** 1/2
The General’s Daughter: **
Genesis: *** 1/2
Genghis Blues: ****
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: ***
Get Bruce: ***
Get Real: ***
Get Shorty: *** 1/2
Ghost: *** 1/2
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir: *** 1/2
Ghostbusters: *** 1/2
Ghostbusters II: *
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai: ***
Ghost in the Shell: *** 1/2
Ghost Story: ****
Ghost World: **** 1/2
The Gift: *** 1/2
The Gingerbread Man: ****
Ginger Snaps: ****
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning: *** 1/2
Girlfight: ****
The Girl From Monday: *** 1/2
Girl, Interrupted: ****
The Girl Next Door: ** 1/2
Girl on a Bridge: *** 1/2
A Girl’s Own Story: **** 1/2
Gladiator: ***
The Glass House: 1/2
Gleaming the Cube: *** 1/2
Glengarry Glen Ross: ***
Glen or Glenda: *****
Go: *** 1/2
The Godfather: *****
The Godfather Part II: *****
The Gods Must Be Crazy: ****
Goldeneye: ***
Gone to Coney Island on a Mission From God...Be Back By Five: ***
Gone With the Wind: *****
Goodbye Lover: ** 1/2
GoodFellas: *** 1/2
The Good Girl: *** 1/2
Good Night, and Good Luck.: *** 1/2
Good Morning Vietnam: ****
The Good Shepherd: ***
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: ****
Good Will Hunting: ****
The Goonies: ** 1/2
Gorillas in the Mist: ***
Gorky Park: ****
Gosford Park: *** 1/2
Gossip: ****
The Graduate: ****
The Grapes of Wrath: ****
Grass: ****
Grave of the Fireflies: ****
Grease: ***
Greaser’s Palace: *
The Great Dictator: *** 1/2
The Great Escape: *** 1/2
The Great Land of Small: *
The Great Train Robbery: *** 1/2
The Green Man: ***
The Green Mile: **
Gregory’s Girl: *** 1/2
The Grey Fox: ****
The Grifters: ** 1/2
Grosse Pointe Blank: *****
Groundhog Day: ****
The Grudge: ****
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?: ****
Guilty By Suspicion: ***
Guinevere: *** 1/2
Gumby: The Movie: *** 1/2
Gung Ho: ** 1/2
Guns, Germs and Steel: ***

Hackers: *
Haiku Tunnel: ***
The Hairdresser’s Husband: ****
Half a Loaf of Kung Fu: ***
Half Baked: **
Halloween: **
Halloween H20: ***
Hamlet (1991): ****
Hamlet (1996): *** 1/2
The Hanging Garden: ****
Hannah and Her Sisters: ****
Hannibal: ***
Happiness: *** 1/2
Happy Accidents: ****
Happy Endings: *** 1/2
Happy Gilmore: ***
Happy, Texas: ****
Happy Together: ***
A Hard Day’s Night: *** 1/2
Hard Eight: *** 1/2
Hard Target: ** 1/2
Harold and Maude (#1 with a bullet): *****
Harriet the Spy: * 1/2
Harry and the Hendersons: ** 1/2
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: *** 1/2
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: *** 1/2
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: ****
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: ****
Harvey: *** 1/2
Harvie Krumpet: ****
The Haunting (1963): ****
Heartbreakers: ***
Hearts in Atlantis: * 1/2
Hearts of Darkness: a Filmmaker’s Apocalypse: *****
Heat: *****
Heathers: *****
Heaven: ****
Heaven Can Wait: *** 1/2
Heavenly Creatures: *****
The Heavenly Kid: * 1/2
Heavy: ****
Heavy Metal: * 1/2
Heavy Petting: ****
Heavy Traffic: *** 1/2
Hedwig and the Angry Inch: *** 1/2
Heist: ****
Hellcab: ****
Hell House: ***
Hellraiser: ***
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: ****
Henry Fool: ** 1/2
Henry V: ****
Hercules: ***
Hero (2004): ****
Hero (1992): ***
Hide and Seek: **
High Anxiety: *** 1/2
High Art: *** 1/2
The High Country: *
High Fidelity: **** 1/2
High Noon: *****
Highlander: ***
High Tide: *** 1/2
Highway 61: ***
Hi Mom!: ***
His Girl Friday: *****
The Hitcher: ***
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: *** 1/2
The Hobbit: **
Hoffa: ****
Holes: ****
Hollow Man: ***
Holy Smoke: ***
Home Alone: ***
Home for the Holidays: *** 1/2
Homegrown: *** 1/2
Home Movie: *** 1/2
Hook: 1/2
Hoop Dreams: *** 1/2
Hope and Glory: ****
The Horror of Dracula: *
Hotel: **
The Hotel New Hampshire: *** 1/2
Hotel Rwanda: *** 1/2
Hot Shorts: **** 1/2
Hot Shots: ***
Hot Shots Part Deux: *** 1/2
The Hound of the Baskervilles: *** 1/2
The Hours: ****
Houseguest: **
Household Saints: *** 1/2
House of Fools: *** 1/2
House of Games: ***
The House of Mirth: ** 1/2
House of Sand and Fog: *** 1/2
The House of Yes: *** 1/2
House on Haunted Hill: ***
Housesitter: ***
Howard’s End: *** 1/2
Howard the Duck: *
Howl’s Moving Castle: ****
How To Draw a Bunny: ***
How To Get Ahead in Advertising: ****
How To Irritate People: ***
How To Kill Your Neighbor's Dog: ****
How To Marry a Millionaire: ***
Hudson Hawk: ***
The Hudsucker Proxy: *** 1/2
The Hulk: ****
Human Nature: **** 1/2
The Human Stain: ***
The Hunger: * 1/2
The Hunt for Red October: **
Hurlyburly: *** 1/2
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte: ****

The Ice Harvest: ** 1/2
The Ice Storm: ****
I Come in Peace: *
An Ideal Husband: ****
Identity: ****
Igby Goes Down: *** 1/2
I Heart Huckabees: *** 1/2
I Know What You Did Last Summer: * 1/2
I Love You to Death: *
Il Postino: *** 1/2
Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks: **
Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS: ***
I Married a Strange Person: ***
I’m Gonna Get You Sucka: **
The Impostors: ****
Impromptu: ****
I'm The One That I Want: *****
In America: ****
In & Out: ***
In Cold Blood: ****
In Good Company: ***
An Inconvenient Truth: ****
The Incredibles: **** 1/2
The Incredible Shrinking Woman: ****
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love: *****
Independence Day (1996): * 1/2
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: *** 1/2
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: *
Indochine: ****
In Dreams: **
Infernal Affairs: ***
Inherit the Wind: ****
Innerspace: ***
Innocence: ***
Innocent Blood: ** 1/2
Inside Deep Throat: ****
Inside Man: ***
The Insider: *****
Insomnia: **** 1/2
Inspector Gadget: *
Instant Karma: **
Intacto: *** 1/2
Intermission: *** 1/2
Internal Affairs: * 1/2
The Interview: ** 1/2
Interview with the Assassin: ****
Interview with the Vampire: ****
In the Bedroom: ****
In the Cut: ***
In the Heat of the Night: *****
In the Line of Fire: ****
In the Mood for Love: ***
In the Mouth of Madness: ****
In the Name of the Father: ****
In the Realm of the Senses: *** 1/2
In the Realms of the Unreal: ****
Intolerable Cruelty: ***
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1955): ****
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1968): *****
Inventing the Abbotts: *** 1/2
I.Q.: **
Iris: ***
Irma LaDouce: ****
Irma Vep: ***
The Iron Giant: *****
Iron Monkey: ****
Irreversible: * 1/2
I Shot Andy Warhol: ****
Is it College Yet?: ****
The Isle: ****
It: *** 1/2
Italian For Beginners: ****
The Italian Job: *** 1/2
It Came From Hollywood: *** 1/2
It Could Happen to You: ** 1/2
It Happened One Night: ****
It’s All True: ***
It's the Rage: *** 1/2

Jackie Brown: ****
Jacob’s Ladder: ****
Jagged Edge: ** 1/2
James and the Giant Peach: ****
Jaws: ****
Jeepers Creepers: **
Jeffrey: *** 1/2
Jennifer 8: ***
The Jerk: ****
Jerry Maguire: *** 1/2
Jesus of Montreal: *** 1/2
Jesus' Son: ****
JFK: *** 1/2
Joe’s Apartment: ***
Johnny Mnemonic: *** 1/2
Johnny Suede: **
Joy, Chapter II: ***
The Joy Luck Club: *** 1/2
Joy Ride: *** 1/2
Judgment at Nuremburg: ****
Judy Berlin: **** 1/2
Jumpin’ Jack Flash: ** 1/2
The Jungle Book (1967): *** 1/2
Jungle Fever: ** 1/2
Junior: ***
Ju-On: The Grudge: *** 1/2
Jurassic Park: ****

Kalifornia: ****
The Karate Kid: *** 1/2
The Karate Kid Part II: ***
Keeping the Faith: ***
Kentucky Fried Movie: **
Key Largo: *** 1/2
Kicking and Screaming: ****
Kids: *****
The Kid Stays in the Picture: *** 1/2
Kiki’s Delivery Service: ****
Kill Bill Part 1: *** 1/2
Kill Bill Part 2: ***
The Killer: **** 1/2
The Killing: ***
The Killing Fields: ****
Kind Hearts and Coronets: ****
The King and I: ***
The Kingdom: ***
Kingdom of Heaven: ***
A King in New York: *** 1/2
King Kong (2005): *** 1/2
King of Comedy: *****
King of Hearts: ****
King of the Hill: ****
The King of Masks: ****
Kingpin: *
The Kings of Comedy: *** 1/2
Kinsey: *** 1/2
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: ****
Kiss Me Kate: ****
Kiss of the Spider Woman: ****
Klute: ****
Kontroll: ****
Koyaanisqatsi: *** 1/2
K-PAX: ***
Krippendorf’s Tribe: *
Kuffs: *
Kung Fu Hustle: ****
Kurt and Courtney: *** 1/2

La Blue Girl: ***
Labyrinth: *
La Cage Aux Folles: *****
L. A. Confidential: *****
La Dolce Vita: *****
Lady and the Tramp: ****
LadyHawke: **
The Lady Vanishes: *** 1/2
La Femme Nikita: **
Lagaan: ***
Lake Placid: *** 1/2
The Land Before Time: ***
The Langoliers: *
Lantana: *****
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: * 1/2
The Last Broadcast: ****
The Last Emperor: *** 1/2
Last Exit to Brooklyn: *** 1/2
Last House on the Left: *** 1/2
The Last of the Mohicans: ** 1/2
Last Night: ****
L.A. Story: *** 1/2
The Last Party: *** 1/2
The Last Picture Show: ****
La Strada: ****
The Last Seduction: *****
The Last Supper: *** 1/2
Last Tango in Paris: ****
The Last Unicorn: ***
The Lavender Hill Mob: *** 1/2
Lawn Dogs: ****
Lawrence of Arabia: *****
A League of Their Own: ***
Leap of Faith: *** 1/2
Leaving Las Vegas: **** 1/2
Leaving Normal: **
Le Divorce: *** 1/2
Legend: *** 1/2
Leningrad Cowboys Go America: *** 1/2
Leolo: **
Lethal Weapon 2: ***
Lethal Weapon 3: **
Liar Liar: *** 1/2
Life is Beautiful (La Vita é Bella): *** 1/2
Life is Sweet: *** 1/2
Life of Python: ****
Life Stinks: **
Light it Up: **
Like Water For Chocolate: ***
Lilian's Story: ****
Lilies of the Field: ***
Lilo and Stitch: ****
The Limey: *** 1/2
The Lion in Winter: ****
The Lion King: ****
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: ** 1/2
The Linguini Incident: * 1/2
Lisa Picard is Famous: ***
Little Big Man: ** 1/2
Little Man Tate: ***
The Little Mermaid: ****
Little Miss Sunshine: *** 1/2
Little Murders: ***
Little Otek: ****
A Little Princess: * 1/2
Little Shop of Horrors (1986): ****
Little Voice: *** 1/2
Little Women (1994): *** 1/2
Living in Oblivion: ***
Living Out Loud: ****
Loaded Weapon 1: ** 1/2
Local Hero: *** 1/2
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels: ***
Lolita (1962): ***
Lolita (1998): ****
The Lonely Guy: **
Lonesome Dove: ****
Lone Star: *****
The Long Kiss Goodnight: * 1/2
Longtime Companion: *** 1/2
Looking for Richard: ***
Look Who’s Talking: * 1/2
The Lord of the Rings (1978): **** 1/2
Lost and Delirious: * 1/2
The Lost Boys: ***
Lost Highway: *
Lost Horizon: ***
Lost in America: *** 1/2
Lost in La Mancha: *** 1/2
Lost in Translation: ****
Love and Basketball: *** 1/2
Love and Death: ***
Love and Human Remains: *** 1/2
Lovely and Amazing: *** 1/2
Love Serenade: **** 1/2
Lust in the Dust: *

M: *****
Mac: ***
The Machinist: *****
Mad Dog & Glory: ***
Made: ***
Made in America: *
Made in Heaven: ** 1/2
Mad Max: ****
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: *** 1/2
The Magdalene Sisters: ****
Magic: *****
The Magic Christian: *** 1/2
The Magnificent Seven: ****
Magnolia: *** 1/2
Malcolm X: ****
Malice: **
The Maltese Falcon: ****
Man Bites Dog: *** 1/2
The Manchurian Candidate (1962): ****
The Manchurian Candidate (2004): *** 1/2
A Man For All Seasons: ****
Manhattan: ***
Manhunter: ***
The Man in the Moon: *** 1/2
The Man in the White Suit: *** 1/2
Man of the Century: *** 1/2
Man on the Moon: ****
Man Facing Southeast: ****
The Man From Elysian Fields: **
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media: ****
The Man Who Knew Too Little: ***
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955): ***
The Man With One Red Shoe: ***
The Man Without a Past: *** 1/2
The Man With Two Brains: *** 1/2
Marathon Man: *** 1/2
March of the Penguins: *** 1/2
Margaret’s Museum: *****
Maria Full of Grace: *****
Marked For Death: ***
Marnie: ***
Married to the Mob: *** 1/2
Mars Attacks!: ****
Martin: ****
Marvin’s Room: ****
Mary Poppins: ***
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: **
M*A*S*H: ***
The Mask: ***
The Mask of Zorro: ** 1/2
Masquerade: ****
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: *** 1/2
The Matchmaker: **
Match Point: *** 1/2
Matchstick Men: ****
Matewan: *****
Matilda: ****
Matinee: ***
The Matrix: *** 1/2
The Matrix Reloaded: ***
Mau Mau Sex Sex: **
Maverick: ****
Ma Vie en Rose (My Life in Pink): ****
May: *****
Maze: ****
Me and You and Everyone We Know: *****
Medicine Man: ***
Meet Joe Black: ** 1/2
Meet the Parents: ** 1/2
Melinda and Melinda: ***
Memento: *****
Me Myself I: *** 1/2
Melvin and Howard: ***
Menace II Society: *** 1/2
Men in Black: *** 1/2
The Merchant of Venice: *** 1/2
Mercy: ** 1/2
Mermaids: *** 1/2
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster: ***
Metroland: *** 1/2
Metropolis (1926): ***
Metropolis (2001): ** 1/2
Metropolitan: *** 1/2
The Mexican: ** 1/2
Mickey’s Christmas Carol: ***
Microcosmos: *** 1/2
Midnight Cowboy: ****
A Midwinter’s Tale: *** 1/2
The Mighty: * 1/2
The Mighty Peking Man: ****
The Mighty Quinn: ****
A Mighty Wind: ***
The Milagro Beanfield War: ***
Mildred Pierce: *** 1/2
Miller’s Crossing: ***
Millhouse: A White Comedy: ***
Million Dollar Baby: *** 1/2
Millions: *** 1/2
Mimic: **
Minbo: The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion: **** 1/2
Mindwalk: ****
Minority Report: ****
The Minus Man: *** 1/2
Miracle Mile: *** 1/2
The Miracle Worker: *** 1/2
MirrorMask: ***
Misery: ****
The Misfits: **** 1/2
Miss Firecracker: ***
Mission: Impossible: ** 1/2
Mission: Impossible 2: ***
Mission to Mars: *** 1/2
Mississippi Burning: ** 1/2
Modern Problems: *** 1/2
Modern Times: *****
Mondo Cane: ***
Monkeybone: *** 1/2
Monsieur Ibrahim: ****
Monsoon Wedding: ****
The Monster: ****
Monster in a Box: ****
Monster's Ball: ****
Monsters, Inc.: *** 1/2
Monty Python’s In Search of the Holy Grail: ****
Monty Python’s The Life of Brian: ****
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life: ***
Moonstruck: ****
Mortal Kombat: *
Morvern Callar: *** 1/2
Moscow on the Hudson: ****
The Mosquito Coast: * 1/2
The Motorcycle Diaries: *** 1/2
Moulin Rouge: **** 1/2
Mousehunt: **
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred E. Leuchter: ****
Mr. Holland’s Opus: *** 1/2
Mr. Mom: ***
Mr. Saturday Night: ****
Mrs. Brown: ***
Mrs. Doubtfire: *** 1/2
Mr. Wrong: ***
Much Ado About Nothing: ****
Mulholland Drive: ****
Multiplicity: *** 1/2
Mumford: *** 1/2
The Mummy: ***
The Muppet Movie: *****
The Muppets Take Manhattan: ***
Murderball: ****
Murder by Death: *
Murder On a Sunday Morning: ****
Murder on the Orient Express: ***
Muriel’s Wedding: ****
Murphy’s Romance: ***
My Beautiful Laundrette: ***
My Best Fiend: ***
My Best Friend's Wedding: *** 1/2
My Cousin Vinny: *** 1/2
My Dinner With André: *****
My Dog Skip: ***
My Favorite Year: ****
My First Mister: ***
My Left Foot: ****
My Life as a Dog: *****
My Neighbor Totoro: *** 1/2
My Own Private Idaho: *** 1/2
Mystery Men: *** 1/2
The Mystery of Rampo: *****
Mystery Train: ****
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie: ****
Mystic Pizza: ***
Mystic River: *** 1/2

Nadja: **
The Naked Gun: ****
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: ****
The Naked Gun 33 1/3: *
Naked Lunch: ***
Naked States: ***
The Name of the Rose: ****
Nanny McPhee: ***
Napoleon Dynamite: ****
Narc: ****
Nashville: *** 1/2
National Lampoon’s Animal House: ****
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation: *
National Lampoon’s European Vacation: *
National Lampoon’s Vacation: *
National Treasure: **
The Natural: *** 1/2
Natural Born Killers: ** 1/2
The Navigator: ***
Near Dark: ****
The Negotiator: *** 1/2
Nell: ***
The Neon Bible: **
The Net: **
Network: ****
Never Been Kissed: ***
Never Cry Wolf: ****
The Neverending Story: **
Next Stop Wonderland: *** 1/2
Nickel and Dime: * 1/2
Nick of Time: ** 1/2
Nico and Dani: *** 1/2
The Nightmare Before Christmas: ****
A Nightmare on Elm Street: *** 1/2
Night of the Hunter: ** 1/2
Night of the Living Dead: ****
Night on Earth: ****
Night Train to Katmandu: *
The Night We Never Met: ** 1/2
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat: *** 1/2
Nine Queens: *** 1/2
The Ninth Gate: *** 1/2
Nixon: *** 1/2
Nobody’s Fool: ****
No Escape: ***
Noises Off!: *** 1/2
No Man's Land: ****
North by Northwest: *** 1/2
Northern Lights: ***
Northfork: **** 1/2
Nosferatu (1923): ***
The Nostradamus Kid: ****
Not of This Earth: *
Notorious: ****
The Notorious C.H.O.: ****
Notting Hill: ***
Novocaine: ** 1/2
Nowhere in Africa: ****
Nude on the Moon: 1/2
Nurse Betty: ***
The Nutty Professor (1996): ***

The Object of Beauty: ****
O Brother, Where Art Thou?: ****
O. C. and Stiggs: *** 1/2
Ocean's Eleven (2001): ****
Ocean’s Twelve: ***
The Odd Couple: ****
Office Space: **** 1/2
Of Mice and Men (1992): ****
Oh, God!: ****
Oh, God—You Devil: *
One Crazy Summer: ** 1/2
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: *****
One Hour Photo: **** 1/2
One True Thing: *** 1/2
One, Two, Three: ***
On Golden Pond: ****
On the Waterfront: ****
Open Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos): ****
The Opposite of Sex: ****
Orange County: ***
Ordinary Decent Criminal: ****
Ordinary People: *****
Orgazmo: *** 1/2
Orgy of the Dead: *
Original Sin: ***
Othello (1995): **** 1/2
The Others: *** 1/2
Outbreak: ****
Out of Africa: *** 1/2
Out of Sight: ***
Out of Time: ** 1/2
Outside Providence: *** 1/2
The Outsiders: *** 1/2
Owning Mahowny: ***

Pacific Heights: *** 1/2
The Pacifier: **
The Pallbearer: ***
Panic: **** 1/2
Panic Room: *** 1/2
The Paper: ** 1/2
Paper Moon: ****
Papillon: ****
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills: *** 1/2
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations: ****
Parenthood: *****
The Parent Trap: ****
Paris, Texas: *** 1/2
Parting Glances: **** 1/2
Party Girl: ***
A Passage to India: ***
Passion Fish: ****
Passion Flower: *** 1/2
Passionless Moments: ****
Passion of Mind: ***
Paths of Glory: *** 1/2
Patriot Games: ** 1/2
Patton: *** 1/2
Payback: *** 1/2
Pay it Forward: **
Pecker: ****
Peel: ****
Pee-Wee Herman’s Big Adventure: ****
Peggy Sue Got Married: *** 1/2
The Pelican Brief: *
Penn and Teller Get Killed: *
The People Under the Stairs: ** 1/2
The People vs. Larry Flynt: ***
A Perfect Candidate: ****
A Perfect Murder: ***
Permanent Midnight: *** 1/2
Persona: ****
Personal Velocity: ***
Persuasion: ** 1/2
Peter and the Wolf: ** 1/2
Peter Pan (2003): *****
Peter Pan (Disney): ***
Pete’s Dragon: **
The Petrified Forest: *** 1/2
Pet Sematary: *
The Phantom Menace: * 1/2
Phenomenon: *** 1/2
Philadelphia: *** 1/2
The Philadelphia Story: *** 1/2
Phone: ** 1/2
Pi: ****
The Pianist: **** 1/2
The Piano: *****
Pink Flamingos: **
Pink Floyd: The Wall: **
Pinocchio: **
Pipe Dream: *** 1/2
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: *** 1/2
The Pit and the Pendulum (1991): *
Pitch Black: *
A Place in the Sun: ***
Places in the Heart: ****
Plan 9 From Outer Space: *** 1/2
Planet of the Apes (2001): ***
Platoon: *****
The Player: *****
Playing By Heart: *** 1/2
Play it Again Sam: *** 1/2
Pleasantville: *** 1/2
The Pledge: ***
Poetic Justice: * 1/2
The Point: ****
Point Break: ***
Point of No Return: ** 1/2
Poison Ivy: *** 1/2
The Polar Express: * 1/2
Pollock: ****
Poltergeist: ** 1/2
Polyester: *** 1/2
Popeye: **
Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy: ***
Possession: ****
The Portrait of a Lady: ****
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946): *****
A Prairie Home Companion: ***
Predator: ***
Prelude to a Kiss: **** 1/2
Presumed Innocent: ****
Pretty Woman: *** 1/2
Prick Up Your Ears: *** 1/2
Priest: ****
Primal Fear: ****
Primary Colors: ****
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: ****
Primer: *** 1/2
The Prince of Tides: *** 1/2
The Princess and the Warrior: *****
The Princess Bride: *****
Princess Mononoke: *****
Private Benjamin: ***
A Private Function: ***
Prizzi’s Honor: *****
The Producers: ****
The Professional: ** 1/2
Project X: ***
Proof: *****
The Prophecy: ** 1/2
Protocol: ***
Psycho (1960): *****
Psycho (1998): ** 1/2
Psycho Beach Party: ***
Public Access: *** 1/2
Pulp Fiction: *****
Pump Up the Volume: *** 1/2
Punch-Drunk Love: ***
The Purple Rose of Cairo: ****

Queens Logic: ****
Quest For Fire: *** 1/2
The Quiet American: ****
The Quiet Man: ***
Quills: *** 1/2
Quiz Show: ****

Rabbit-Proof Fence: *** 1/2
Racing Against Time: ** 1/2
Radio Days: *** 1/2
Raging Bull: *** 1/2
Raiders of the Lost Ark: ****
The Rainmaker: ***
Rain Man: ****
Raising Arizona: ***
Raising Victor Vargas: ****
Rambling Rose: ** 1/2
Ransom: *** 1/2
The Rapture: ****
Rashomon: *** 1/2
Ratcatcher: *****
Ray: ****
The Razor’s Edge (1984): *** 1/2
Real Genius: *** 1/2
Re-Animator: ***
Rear Window: ****
Rebecca: ****
Rebels With a Cause: *** 1/2
Rebel Without a Cause: *** 1/2
Reckless Kelly: *
Red: *****
The Red Balloon: ***
Red Dragon: *** 1/2
Red Eye: *** 1/2
Red Rock West: *** 1/2
The Red Violin: ****
Reefer Madness: ** 1/2
The Ref: * 1/2
The Reflecting Skin: *****
Reindeer Games: ***
The Relic: **
The Remains of the Day: *** 1/2
Repo Man: *****
Repulsion: *** 1/2
Requiem for a Dream: ****
The Rescuers: ***
Reservoir Dogs: *** 1/2
Restoration: ***
Resurrection: ****
Return of the Jedi: ****
The Return of the King: ****
Return of the Pink Panther: ** 1/2
The Return of the Secaucus Seven: *** 1/2
Return to Me: ***
Revenge of the Nerds: ***
Reversal of Fortune: *** 1/2
Richard III: ***
Richard Pryor Here and Now: ** 1/2
The Right Stuff: ***
The Ring: *** 1/2
Rising Sun: *
Risky Business: ***
A River Runs Through It: *** 1/2
River’s Edge: ***
Rivers and Tides: **** 1/2
The River Wild: ***
RKO 281: *** 1/2
Road Scholar: ****
The Road to El Dorado: *** 1/2
The Road to Wellville: ***
Robin Hood (1973): *** 1/2
Robin Hood: Men in Tights: **
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves: ***
Robots: **** 1/2
The Rock: ****
Rock ’n’ Roll High School: ** 1/2
Rocky: ***
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: *****
Roger & Me: *****
Romancing the Stone: ***
Roman Holiday: ****
Romeo and Juliet (1968): *** 1/2
Romeo + Juliet (1996): * 1/2
A Room With a View: ****
Rope: *** 1/2
Rosemary’s Baby: ****
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: *****
Rough Magic: ** 1/2
Rounders: *** 1/2
Roxanne: ****
Ruby in Paradise: ****
Rumble in the Bronx: ****
Runaway Jury: ***
Run Lola Run: ****
Running Against Time: * 1/2
Running on Empty: ****
Running Scared (1986): ***
Rush: *** 1/2
Rushmore: *****
The Russia House: ***
Rustler’s Rhapsody: ** 1/2
Ruthless People: ****
The Rutles: ** 1/2

Sabrina (1954): ****
Sabrina (1996): ****
The Saddest Music in the World: *****
Safe: ***
Safe Men: ***
Salome’s Last Dance: ***
The Salton Sea: ***
Same Time, Next Year: **
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: 1/2
Santa Sangre: **
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic: ***
Saved!: *** 1/2
Saving Grace: ***
Saving Private Ryan: **** 1/2
Say Anything...: *****
Scandal: ****
A Scanner Darkly: **** 1/2
Scanners: *****
Scarface: ***
Scarlet Diva: ** 1/2
Scary Movie: *
Scenes From a Mall: *
Scent of a Woman: ***
The Science of Sleep: ***
Schindler’s List: *****
Schizopolis: ****
School of Rock: ***
School Ties: ***
The Score: ****
Scotland, PA: *** 1/2
Scream: **** 1/2
Scream 2: ****
Scream 3: *** 1/2
Séance on a Wet Afternoon: **** 1/2
Search and Destroy: ***
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe: ***
Searching for Bobby Fisher: ****
Secretary: ****
The Secret of NIMH: *** 1/2
The Secret of Roan Inish: ****
Secrets and Lies: ****
Sense and Sensibility: ****
Serenity: *** 1/2
Serial Mom: ***
A Series of Unfortunate Events: ** 1/2
Seven: *** 1/2
The Seven-Percent Solution: ****
The Seven Samurai: ****
Sex: 1/2
Sex and Lucía: *** 1/2
Sex, Drugs & Democracy: *****
Sex Drugs Rock & Roll: *** 1/2
sex, lies and videotape: *****
Sexy Beast: *** 1/2
S.F.W.: ***
The Shadow: **
Shadow of a Doubt: ***
Shadow of the Thin Man: ****
Shadow of the Vampire: ****
Shadowlands: ****
Shaft (1971): *** 1/2
Shaft (2000): *** 1/2
Shakespeare in Love: *****
Shallow Grave: **
Shall We Dance?: *** 1/2
Shanghai Knights: *** 1/2
Shanghai Noon: *** 1/2
Shattered Glass: ***
Shaun of the Dead: *** 1/2
The Shawshank Redemption: ****
She: *
She-Devil: ***
She’s All That: *
She’s Gotta Have It: ***
Shine: ****
The Shining: *****
Shirley Valentine: *** 1/2
Short Circuit: ***
Show Me Love: ****
Shrek: *** 1/2
Shrek 2: *** 1/2
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist: ****
Sid and Nancy: *****
Sidewalks of New York: **
Sideways: *****
The Sign of Four: ***
Signs: *** 1/2
The Silence of the Lambs: *****
Silent Fall: ** 1/2
Silkwood: *** 1/2
Silver Streak: ***
A Simple Plan: *** 1/2
Sin City: *** 1/2
Singin’ in the Rain: ****
Singles: * 1/2
Sirens: ** 1/2
Sister Act: ***
Sister My Sister: *** 1/2
Sitcom: * 1/2
Six Degrees of Separation: ****
Six-String Samurai: ***
Sixteen Candles: ***
The Sixth Sense: ****
Skinwalkers: ** 1/2
Skipped Parts: ***
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: *** 1/2
Slacker: *****
Slam: *** 1/2
Slamdance: **
Sleepers: ***
Sleeping Beauty: **
Sleeping With the Enemy: **
Sleepless in Seattle: *** 1/2
Sleepy Hollow: **
Sleuth: *****
Sliding Doors: ****
Sling Blade: ***
Small Time Crooks: ***
Smile: **** 1/2
Smiling Fish & Goat on Fire: ****
Smilla's Sense of Snow: ** 1/2
Smoke: *** 1/2
Smoke Signals: ***
The Snapper: *** 1/2
Snatch: *** 1/2
Sneakers: ***
Snow Falling on Cedars: ****
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: ****
Soapdish: ****
So I Married an Axe Murderer: **
Some Kind of Hero: **
Some Like It Hot: *****
Some Nudity Required: ****
Someone Like You: **
Something’s Gotta Give: ***
Something Wicked This Way Comes: *** 1/2
Something Wild: ** 1/2
Somewhere in Time: ** 1/2
Sonatine: **
Son of the Mask: *
Sophie’s Choice: ****
Sorority House Massacre 2: Nighty Nightmare: *
Soul Survivors: 1/2
Sound and Fury: ****
The Sound of Music: ***
Southern Comfort: ****
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut: ****
Soylent Green: *** 1/2
Spaceballs: ****
Spaceman: ***
The Spanish Prisoner: **** 1/2
Spanking the Monkey: ** 1/2
Speaking Parts: ****
Speed: ****
Spellbound: ****
Spider: *** 1/2
Spider-man: *** 1/2
Spider-man 2: ***
Spirited Away: ****
Splash: ** 1/2
Splendor in the Grass: ****
Spun: ****
Spy Game: ** 1/2
Spy Kids: **
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold: ***
The Stand: ****
Stand and Deliver: ****
Stand By Me: ****
Stargate: **
Star Maps: ****
Starsky and Hutch: **
Star Trek: The Movie: *** 1/2
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: **
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: ***
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: **
Star Trek: First Contact: *** 1/2
Star Trek: Generations: ***
Star Trek: Insurrection: **
Star Trek: Nemesis: ***
Star Wars (A New Hope): ****
State and Main: ****
The Station Agent: ****
Steel Magnolias: ***
Steelyard Blues: *** 1/2
St. Elmo’s Fire: **
Steal This Movie: *** 1/2
The Stepford Wives: ****
Step Into Liquid: ****
The Sting: *** 1/2
Stir Crazy: ** 1/2
Stir of Echoes: **
Stop Making Sense: ****
Stormy Monday: *** 1/2
The Story of O (earlier): ** 1/2
The Story of O (1994): *** 1/2
The Straight Story: *** 1/2
Strange Brew: *** 1/2
Strange Days: **** 1/2
Strange Planet: ***
Stranger Than Fiction: ****
Stranger Than Paradise: *****
A Streetcar Named Desire: *** 1/2
Streetwise: ****
Strictly Ballroom: ***
Stripes: ***
Striptease: *** 1/2
SubUrbia: *** 1/2
Suicide Kings: **
Sullivan’s Travels: *** 1/2
Summer of Sam: ****
The Sum of Us: ****
Sunset Blvd.: *** 1/2
Superman: ** 1/2
Superman II: ***
Superman III: ** 1/2
Supersize Me!: ****
The Sure Thing: ****
Surviving Desire: *****
Surviving the Game: **
Suspect Zero: ***
Sweeney Todd: ****
Sweet and Lowdown: *** 1/2
Sweet Hearts: *** 1/2
Sweetie: ****
Sweet Smell of Success: ****
Swept From the Sea: **
Swimming Pool: *** 1/2
Swimming to Cambodia: ****
Swimming With Sharks: * 1/2
Swingers: *** 1/2
Switch: **
Swoon: ****
Swordfish: **
The Sword in the Stone: ** 1/2

Tackle Happy: ***
The Tailor of Panama: *** 1/2
The Talented Mr. Ripley: ****
Talk Radio: **** 1/2
Talk To Her: *** 1/2
The Tall Guy: ****
The Taming of the Shrew: ***
Tampopo: *****
Tank Girl: ****
The Tao of Steve: *** 1/2
Tape: *** 1/2
Tarnation: **** 1/2
Tarzan (1999): *** 1/2
Taxi Driver: ****
Teaching Mrs. Tingle: ** 1/2
Tea With Mussolini: *** 1/2
Team America: World Police: **** 1/2
Teen Wolf Too: 1/2
Tequila Sunrise: ***
The Terminal Man: ***
The Terminator: ****
Terminator 2: ****
Terms of Endearment: *****
Terror in the Aisles: ***
Thelma and Louise: ****
Theory of Achievement: ****
There’s Something About Mary: **** 1/2
Thesis: **** 1/2
They Came Back (Les Revenants): ***
They Live: ***
They Might Be Giants: *** 1/2
The Thin Blue Line: ****
Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead: ****
The Thin Man: ****
The Thin Man Goes Home: ** 1/2
The Thin Red Line: ***
The Third Man: ****
Thirteen: **** 1/2
Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn Gould: ***
This Boy’s Life: ***
This is Spinal Tap: *** 1/2
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968): ** 1/2
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999): ***
A Thousand Clowns: *** 1/2
The Three Amigos: *
The Three Faces of Eve: ***
Three Kings: *** 1/2
Three Men and a Baby: **
The Three Musketeers (1993): **
Throw Momma from the Train: **
Thunderheart: ** 1/2
Till Human Voices Wake Us: *** 1/2
Time Bandits: **
The Times of Harvey Milk: *** 1/2
Timothy Leary’s Dead: *** 1/2
Tin Cup: ***
The Tin Drum: ****
Tin Men: ** 1/2
Titan A.E.: *** 1/2
Titanic: *****
Titus: ****
To Catch a Thief: ****
To Die For: *****
To Have and Have Not: *****
To Kill a Mockingbird: *****
Tom Jones: *** 1/2
Tommy: ** 1/2
Tommy Boy: ***
Tootsie: ****
Top Secret: ****
Topsy Turvy: *** 1/2
Tora! Tora! Tora!: ***
Torch Song Trilogy: ****
Tortilla Soup: ***
To Sir With Love: *** 1/2
Total Recall: ***
Touch: ***
Touch of Evil: *****
Tough Guys: ***
Town & Country: * 1/2
To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar: ***
Toys (the worst movie I have ever seen): 1/2
Toy Story: ****
Toy Story 2: ****
Track 29: ** 1/2
Trading Places: ***
Traffic: ****
Training Day: ****
Trainspotting: ****
Transamerica: *** 1/2
Transformers, The Movie: ***
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: *****
Trees Lounge: ****
Trekkies: *** 1/2
Trekkies 2: ***
Tremors: ***
The Triplets of Belleville: *****
Triumph of the Will: **
Trixie: *** 1/2
True Confessions: ***
True Lies: ***
True Romance: ***
True Stories: ***
Truly, Madly, Deeply: ***
The Truman Show: ****
Trust: ****
The Truth About Cats and Dogs: ***
The Truth About Charlie: ** 1/2
T3: Rise of the Machines: ***
Tuck Everlasting (1980): ** 1/2
Tuck Everlasting (2002): ****
Tully: *** 1/2
Tumbleweeds: *****
The Tune: **** 1/2
Tune in Tomorrow: ***
Twelve Angry Men: ****
Twenty Bucks: ****
Twenty-one: ** 1/2
Twilight of the Cockroaches: **
The Twilight Zone: The Movie: ***
Twin Falls Idaho: *** 1/2
Twin Peaks: ****
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me: ***
Two Friends: *** 1/2
Two Girls and a Guy: *** 1/2
The Two Jakes: **
The Two Towers: ****

UHF: ***
Ulee’s Gold: *****
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: ****
Unbreakable: ** 1/2
Undercover Brother: ** 1/2
Under Siege: *** 1/2
Under Suspicion: **
Under the Tuscan Sun: ***
Unfaithful: ***
Unforgettable: **
Unforgiven: **
Unhook the Stars: ****
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election: ****
Unstrung Heroes: ****
Until the End of the World: ***
The Untouchables: **** 1/2
Up in Smoke: ***
Urban Legend: **
Urban Legends: Final Cut: *
The Usual Suspects: *****

The Vagina Monologues: ****
Valentine: *
Valley Girl: ****
Vampire's Kiss: ***
The Van: ****
Vanilla Sky: *****
The Vanishing (1988): *
Vanya on 42nd Street: *** 1/2
Velvet Goldmine: ***
Venus Beauty Institute: ****
Vera Drake: *** 1/2
The Verdict: ****
Vernon, Florida: *** 1/2
Versus: ** 1/2
Vertigo: ****
A Very Brady Sequel: ***
A Very Long Engagement: *** 1/2
V For Vendetta: *** 1/2
Vibes: ****
Vice Versa: **
Victor/Victoria: ** 1/2
Videodrome: ****
The Village: ****
Village of the Damned (1960): ****
Village of the Damned (1995): *** 1/2
Vincent: *** 1/2
Vincent & Theo: ****
The Virgin Suicides: **** 1/2
Visions of Light: *** 1/2
Vixen: ****
Volunteers: **

Wag the Dog: **** 1/2
Waiting for Guffman: ****
Waiting to Exhale: *** 1/2
Wait Until Dark: *** 1/2
Waking Life: *****
Waking Ned Devine: ****
Waking the Dead: *****
Walkabout: *** 1/2
Walking and Talking: ****
A Walk in the Clouds: ***
Wall Street: ***
WarGames: ***
Warlock: **
The War of the Roses: *** 1/2
War of the Worlds: ***
The War Room: *** 1/2
Watch It: *** 1/2
Waterland: ***
Watership Down: ****
Wayne’s World: *** 1/2
Wayne’s World 2: ***
The Way of the Gun: ***
The Way Things Go: **
The Wedding Banquet: **** 1/2
Wedding Crashers: * 1/2
The Wedding Singer: **
Weird Science: ***
Welcome to the Dollhouse: ***
Welcome to Woop Woop: ** 1/2
Went to Coney Island on a Mission From God... Be Back By Five: * 1/2
We’re No Angels: *** 1/2
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare: ***
West Side Story: ****
Wet Hot American Summer: ***
What Dreams May Come: * 1/2
Whatever: **** 1/2
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?: ***
What Lies Beneath: ** 1/2
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape: *****
What’s Happening to Me?: ****
What’s Love Got To Do With It?: *** 1/2
What's New, Pussycat?: *** 1/2
What’s Up, Tiger Lily?: *** 1/2
What the Bleep Do We Know?: *** 1/2
What Women Want: ****
When a Stranger Calls: ** 1/2
When Harry Met Sally...: *****
When the Cat’s Away: ** 1/2
When We Were Kings: *** 1/2
Where Did I Come From?: ****
Where’s Poppa?: ****
Where the Buffalo Roam: **** 1/2
Where the Heart Is: *
Where the Money Is: *** 1/2
While You Were Sleeping: ** 1/2
White: *** 1/2
White Men Can’t Jump: ***
White Squall: ** 1/2
Who Am I?: **
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?: *****
Who is Cletis Tout?: **
The Whole Wide World: **
Why Shoot the Teacher?: *** 1/2
The Wicker Man: *****
Wide Sargasso Sea: ***
Widow’s Peak: ****
Wife to be Sacrificed: *** 1/2
Wild at Heart: 1/2
The Wild Bunch: *****
Wilder Napalm: ****
The Wild Life: ****
The Wild One: ***
Wild Strawberries: ****
Wild Things: *** 1/2
Wild Wild West: **
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: ***
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: ***
Winged Migration: ****
Wings of Desire: ****
Winter Sleepers: *** 1/2
Wise Guys: ** 1/2
Wit: ****
The Witches: ***
The Witches of Eastwick: *** 1/2
With a Friend Like Harry...: ****
With Honors: ***
Withnail and I: *** 1/2
Without a Clue: ***
Without a Paddle: *** 1/2
Witness: ****
Witness to the Prosecution: *** 1/2
The Wizard of Oz: *****
Wizards: ** 1/2
Wolf: ***
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: *** 1/2
Wonder Boys: ****
The Woodsman: *** 1/2
Woodstock (Parts I & II): *****
Wordplay: ***
Word Wars: ****
Working Girl: * 1/2
The World According to Garp: ****
The World is Not Enough: ***
The Wrong Trousers: ****
Wyatt Earp: ** 1/2

The X Files: ***
X-Men: *** 1/2
X2: X-Men United: ****
XXX: **

The Yards: *** 1/2
The Year My Voice Broke: ****
The Year of Living Dangerously: ****
Yellow Submarine: ****
The Yes Men: *** 1/2
Yi Yi: *** 1/2
You Can Count On Me: ****
You Can’t Take It With You: *** 1/2
Young Einstein: *
Young Frankenstein: ****
Young Guns: **
Young Guns II: * 1/2
The Young Poisoner’s Handbook: ****
Young Sherlock Holmes: **
You’ve Got Mail: ** 1/2
Y Tu Mamá También: ****

Z: *** 1/2
Zazie dans le Metro: *
Zelig: *** 1/2
The Zero Effect: *** 1/2
Zoolander: ***
Zorba the Greek: *****

Total: 2218