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28 Days D
dir. Betty Thomas; with Sandra Bullock, Dominic West, Viggo Mortensen
★ The 6th Day C
dir. Roger Spottiswoode; with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tony Goldwyn
8½ Women C
dir. Peter Greenaway; with John Standing, Matthew Delamere, Polly Walker
An Affair of Love B
dir. Frédéric Fonteyne; with Nathalie Baye, Sergi López, Paul Pavel
★ Almost Famous C+
dir. Cameron Crowe; with Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup
★ American Psycho B
dir. Mary Harron; with Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny
★ Bamboozled B
dir. Spike Lee; with Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett-Smith
★ The Beach C
dir. Danny Boyle; with Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen
Beau travail A
dir. Claire Denis; with Denis Lavant, Grégoire Colin, Michel Subor
Before Night Falls B+
dir. Julian Schnabel; with Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano
★ Best in Show B
dir. Christopher Guest; with Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Christopher Guest
★ Billy Elliot D+
dir. Stephen Daldry; with Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Julie Walters
Blood Simple [Reissue] A
dir. Joel Coen; with John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
Boesman & Lena C
dir. John Berry; with Angela Bassett, Danny Glover, Willie Jonah
Boiler Room B
dir. Ben Younger; with Giovanni Ribisi, Nicky Katt, Vin Diesel
★ Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 F
dir. Joe Berlinger; with Jeff Donovan, Kim Director, Erica Leerhsen
★ Bounce C
dir. Don Roos; with Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joe Morton
★ Bring It On B+
dir. Peyton Reed; with Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Jesse Bradford
★ La Captive B+
dir. Chantal Akerman; with Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy
★ Cast Away C
dir. Robert Zemeckis; with Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy
★ Cecil B. DeMented C
dir. John Waters; with Stephen Dorff, Melanie Griffith, Alicia Witt
★ The Cell A
dir. Tarsem Singh; with Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio
Center Stage C+
dir. Nicholas Hytner; with Amanda Schull, Zoë Saldana, Susan May Pratt
Charlie's Angels B+
dir. McG; with Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu
Chicken Run C+
dir. Peter Lord & Nick Park; animated; with the voice of Julia Sawalha
Chocolat C
dir. Lasse Hallström; with Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina, Judi Dench
Chuck & Buck B+
dir. Miguel Arteta; with Mike White, Chris Weitz, Lupe Ontiveros
The Claim B+
dir. Michael Winterbottom; with Peter Mullan, Sarah Polley, Wes Bentley
Claire Dolan A
dir. Lodge Kerrigan; with Katrin Cartlidge, Colm Meaney, Vincent D'Onofrio
The Color of Paradise B
dir. Majid Majidi; with Mohsen Ramezani, Hossein Mahjoub, Salime Feizi
Come Undone B
dir. Sébastien Lifshitz; with Jérémie Elkaïm, Stéphane Rideau, Dominique Raymond
★ The Contender C
dir. Rod Lurie; with Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges
★ Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon A
dir. Ang Lee; with Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi
Croupier B
dir. Mike Hodges; with Clive Owen, Gina McKee, Alex Kingston
★ Dancer in the Dark A
dir. Lars von Trier; with Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse
Dark Days A
dir. Marc Singer; documentary about below-ground homeless communities
Dôlè C+
dir. Imunga Ivanga; with David Nguema Nkoghe, Emile Mepango Matala
★ Dr. T. & the Women B
dir. Robert Altman; with Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Laura Dern
The Emperor's New Groove C+
dir. Mark Dindal; animated; with the voices of David Spade, John Goodman
★ Erin Brockovich A
dir. Steven Soderbergh; with Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart
Everything Put Together D+
dir. Marc Forster; with Radha Mitchell, Justin Louis, Megan Mullally
The Exorcist [Reissue] A
dir. William Friedkin; with Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, Linda Blair
★ The Five Senses C
dir. Jeremy Podeswa; with Mary-Louise Parker, Daniel MacIvor, Nadia Litz
George Washington B
dir. David Gordon Green; with Donald Holden, Candace Evanofski, Eddie Rouse
★ Ghost Dog: The Way of the
Samurai A
dir. Jim Jarmusch; with Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman
★ The Gift D
dir. Sam Raimi; with Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Greg Kinnear
Girlfight B
dir. Karyn Kusama; with Michelle Rodriguez, Jaime Tirelli, Santiago Douglas
★ Gladiator C+
dir. Ridley Scott; with Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen
★ Hamlet B
dir. Michael Almereyda; with Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Diane Venora
High Fidelity B
dir. Stephen Frears; with John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black
Hollow Man C
dir. Paul Verhoeven; with Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, Josh Brolin
The House of Mirth B+
dir. Terence Davies; with Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Anthony LaPaglia
L'Humanité C+
dir. Bruno Dumont; with Emmanuel Schotté, Séverine Caneele, Philippe Tullier
If These Walls Could Talk 2 C+
TV Movie; dirs. Jane Anderson, Martha Coolidge, Anne Heche
I'm the One that I Want B+
dir. Lionel Coleman; concert documentary; Margaret Cho's one-woman show
Jesus' Son B
dir. Alison Maclean; with Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, Denis Leary
★ Joe Gould's Secret B
dir. Stanley Tucci; with Stanley Tucci, Ian Holm, Hope Davis
Judy Berlin B
dir. Eric Mendelsohn; with Edie Falco, Aaron Harnick, Barbara Barrie
Keeping the Faith B+
dir. Edward Norton; with Ben Stiller, Jenna Elfman, Edward Norton
★ The Legend of Bagger Vance F
dir. Robert Redford; with Matt Damon, Will Smith, Charlize Theron
★ Love's Labour's Lost D+
dir. Kenneth Branagh; with Alessandro Nivola, Alicia Silverstone, Kenneth Branagh
Malèna D
dir. Giuseppe Tornatore; with Giuseppe Sulfaro, Monica Bellucci, Luciano Federico
Meet the Parents C+
dir. Jay Roach; with Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo
★ Mission to Mars B
dir. Brian De Palma; with Tim Robbins, Gary Sinise, Connie Nielsen
★ The Next Best Thing C
dir. John Schlesinger; with Rupert Everett, Madonna, Benjamin Bratt
Not I A
dir. Neil Jordan; with Julianne Moore
Nurse Betty B
dir. Neil LaBute; with Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear
★ O Brother, Where Art Thou? C
dir. Joel Coen; with George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson
The Original Kings of Comedy B
dir. Spike Lee; concert documentary; with Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley
Paragraph 175 B
dirs. Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman; documentary about Nazi persecution of gays
The Patriot D
dir. Roland Emmerich; with Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Jason Isaacs
★ Pay It Forward C
dir. Mimi Leder; with Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment
★ The Perfect Storm B
dir. Wolfgang Petersen; with George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly
La Petite vendeuse de soleil A
dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty; with Lissa Baléra, Tañrou M'Baye, Onmon Samb
★ Pitch Black D
dir. David Twohy; with Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser
Pola X B+
dir. Léos Carax; with Guillaume Depardieu, Katerina Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve
Pollock B+
dir. Ed Harris; with Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan
Proof of Life B
dir. Taylor Hackford; with Russell Crowe, Meg Ryan, David Morse
★ Quills C
dir. Philip Kaufman; with Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Michael Caine
Ratcatcher B+
dir. Lynne Ramsay; with William Eadie, Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews
Requiem for a Dream B
dir. Darren Aronofsky; with Jared Leto, Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly
Revelations: Paradise Lost 2 B
dirs. Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky; documentary on West Memphis Three
Scary Movie D+
dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans; with Anna Faris, Jon Abrahams, Marlon Wayans
★ Shadow of the Vampire B
dir. E. Elias Merhige; with John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Eddie Izzard
Shaft B
dir. John Singleton; with Samuel L. Jackson, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale
★ Small Time Crooks C+
dir. Woody Allen; with Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman, Elaine May
Snatch B
dir. Guy Ritchie; with Jason Statham, Stephen Graham, Alan Ford
★ State and Main C+
dir. David Mamet; with William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin
Sunshine C
dir. István Szabó with Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Jennifer Ehle
Suzhou River B+
dir. Ye Lou; with Zhou Xun, Jia Hangsheng, Yao Anlian, Nai An
The Terrorist C
dir. Santosh Sivan; with Ayesha Dharkar, Parmeshwaran, Banu Prakash
Things You Can Tell Just by
Looking at Her B
dir. Rodrigo García; with Glenn Close, Holly Hunter, Amy Brenneman
★ Thirteen Days C
dir. Roger Donaldson; with Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp
Tigerland C+
dir. Joel Schumacher; with Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Shea Whigham
★ The Tigger Movie C
dir. Jun Falkenstein; animated; with the voice of Jim Cummings
A Time for Drunken Horses A
dir. Bahman Ghobadi; with Ayoub Ahmadi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini, Madi Ekhtiar-dini
Timecode B
dir. Mike Figgis; with Saffron Burrows, Salma Hayek, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Traffic A
dir. Steven Soderbergh; with Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Don Cheadle
★ Two Family House C
dir. Raymond De Felitta; with Michael Rispoli, Kelly Macdonald, Katherine Narducci
U-571 B
dir. Jonathan Mostow; with Matthew McConaughey, Harvey Keitel, Bill Paxton
★ Unbreakable C
dir. M. Night Shyamalan; with Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright Penn
★ Up at the Villa B
dir. Philip Haas; with Kristin Scott Thomas, Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft
The Virgin Suicides B
dir. Sofia Coppola; with Kirsten Dunst, Kathleen Turner, James Woods
Waking the Dead C
dir. Keith Gordon; with Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Hal Holbrook
★ What Lies Beneath C+
dir. Robert Zemeckis; with Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford, Diana Scarwid
When the Sky Falls C+
dir. John Mackenzie; with Joan Allen, Patrick Bergin, Gerard Flynn
The Wind Will Carry Us B
dir. Abbas Kiarostami; with Behzad Dourani, Bahman Ghobadi, Noghre Asadi
★ Wonder Boys B
dir. Curtis Hanson; with Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand
Wonderland B
dir. Michael Winterbottom; with Gina McKee, Molly Parker, Shirley Henderson
X-Men C
dir. Bryan Singer; with Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen
★ The Yards B
dir. James Gray; with Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, James Caan
Yi Yi (A One and a Two...) B
dir. Edward Yang; with Wu Nianzhen, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang
★ You Can Count on Me A
dir. Kenneth Lonergan; with Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Rory Culkin
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