Showing posts with label Year: 2004. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year: 2004. Show all posts

Vera Drake (2004)

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Written and directed by Mike Leigh, this is an excellent drama about a 1950s working-class Londoner (Imelda Staunton) who illegally performs...

Crash (2004)

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An attempt by director Paul Haggis to make a multi-layered, interconnected narrative with a general theme about racism. It partially succeed...

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

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Shoddy sequel that’s simply not funny. The plot is a mess and it’s tonally all over the place. The worst crime, however, is that it’s simply...

Closer (2004)

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Drama directed and produced by Mike Nichols , based on a 1997 stage play by Patrick Marber.  The story deals with the intersecting relations...

Maria Full of Grace (2004)

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A superb Spanish-language drama written and directed by Joshua Marston.  Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno) is a 17-year-old Colombian girl who...

Finding Neverland (2004)

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Intriguing (partial) biopic of the writer J.M. Barrie.  Barrie is played unexpectedly well by Johnny Depp. Kate Winslet plays Sylvia Llewely...

Beyond the Sea (2004)

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Intriguing but flawed biopic of Bobby Darin, written and directed by Kevin Spacey, who also stars as the singer.  It’s a baffling film. The ...

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

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  Clint Eastwood directed, co-produced and scored the music for what may be the greatest film he’s ever been associated with. This is an inc...

3-Iron (2004)

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An extremely unusual romantic drama. Jae Hee plays a young drifter who breaks into people's homes while they are away. But rather than s...

Layer Cake (2004)

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Brit crime thriller starring Daniel Craig as a drug dealer who – just as he’s about to retire – becomes wrapped up in a dangerous world of g...

Ray (2004)

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Excellent biopic of the popular musician, starring Jamie Foxx.  It manages to cram in a lot of song performances as well as back story about...

Melinda and Melinda (2004)

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One of the better later-era films written and directed by Woody Allen . Is life fundamentally comic or tragic? A group of writers sit around...

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

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An unambitious salesman named Shaun ( Simon Pegg ) gets caught up in a zombie apocalypse. He has to save his mother ( Penelope Wilton ), get...

Super Size Me (2004)

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Scary documentary made by and starring Morgan Spurlock, who spends a month eating nothing but McDonalds fast food in order to highlight the ...

The Aviator (2004)

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Biopic of billionaire entrepreneur Howard Hughes, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio .  It’s a sad and engrossing s...

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

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Based on a true story, this is a gripping and desperately sad drama starring Sean Penn . He plays Samuel Bicke, a furniture salesman who is ...

The Terminal (2004)

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Baffling Steven Spielberg comedy-drama. Tom Hanks plays Viktor Navorski, an Eastern European man who ends up stuck in J.F.K. airport when ...

Shall We Dance? (2004)

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Romantic comedy drama.  Richard Gere plays a Chicago lawyer who feels a little jaded with life, despite his successful career and his love...

Wimbledon (2004)

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Peter Colt ( Paul Bettany ) is a British tennis player on the way down. Then he meets and falls for up-and-coming American Lizzie Bradbury (...

The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

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Second instalment in the series inspired by Robert Ludlum’s novels. Matt Damon reprises the role of the CIA agent who lost his memory. Thi...