Running thoughts on movies and their makings.

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• Blood From Stones Riches in The Family Stone and  wretchedness in The Producers.
  David Edelstein Dec. 16, 2005
  
• Donkey Kongs Your film critic defends himself from charges of knee-jerk liberalism and racism.
  David Edelstein Dec. 13, 2005
  
• Kimono Dragons Only the bitchery clicks in Memoirs of a Geisha. Plus, a splendidly intimate Narnia. 
  David Edelstein Dec. 9, 2005
  
• Girl Flight Aeon Flux doesn't suck
  David Edelstein Nov. 23, 2005
  
• The Living Gall Craig Lucas' hateful Dying Gaul. Plus, Walk the Line never wobbles.
  David Edelstein Nov. 17, 2005
  
• Silver Showers Sarah Silverman's great geysers of filth.
  David Edelstein Nov. 11, 2005
  
• Laugh Laugh Scream Scream The Legend of Zorro and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang teeter deftly between giggles and thrills. Plus, Mr. Sulu and The Weather Man.
  David Edelstein Oct. 27, 2005
  
• In the Mood for Moo Cow eyes and little else in Steve Martin's  Shopgirl.
  David Edelstein Oct. 21, 2005
  
• For Your Eyes Only A preview of the new James Bond.
  David Edelstein Oct. 11, 2005
  
• 24-Carrot Bliss Wallace & Gromit cheese off a Were-Rabbit, Clooney has a Good Night, and Baumbach harpoons a squid and a whale.
  David Edelstein Oct. 5, 2005
  
• Fire, Fly With Me Flipping for Joss Whedon's Serenity and Carroll Ballard's Duma.
  David Edelstein Sept. 29, 2005
  
• Some Children Left Behind Kids get the shaft in Flightplan and Oliver Twist
  David Edelstein Sept. 23, 2005
  
• Death Becomes Him Tim Burton's gorgeous nightmares, plus penguin love.
  David Edelstein Sept. 16, 2005
  
• Man Overboard Jackson and Levy play dumb; plus, the blithe idiocy of Bob Denver.
  David Edelstein Sept. 7, 2005
  
• Drive-in Delights Skeletons and virgins are even better outdoors.
  David Edelstein Aug. 26, 2005
  
• Bugging Out In praise of the tantalizing beauties of Junebug. 
  David Edelstein Aug. 11, 2005
  
• Hazzard Payoff These Dukes are made for crashing. Plus dead rockers and life-affirming penguins. 
  David Edelstein Aug. 2, 2005
  
• Remake My Day New singers, new songs on The Bad News Bears, and The Beat That My Heart Skipped 
  David Edelstein July 29, 2005
  
• Treat or Trick? Hustle & Flow is mostly jive. Plus, a Bay window on The Island, and Spielberg's 9/11.
  David Edelstein July 20, 2005
  
• Dark Water Runs Deep; Fantastic Four Ain't A marvelous horror and a horrible Marvel
  David Edelstein July 8, 2005
  
• Programming the Slammer Film Festival Readers choose the most enlightening fare for Judith Miller.
  David Edelstein July 5, 2005
  
• Girls, Uncorrupted and Compromised as Hell Alice Wu's delightful Saving Face and the moving The Girl in the Café. Plus, entertaining Judy Miller.
  David Edelstein June 29, 2005
  
• Sam I'm Not Nora Ephron's Bewitched is a weak brew.
  David Edelstein June 23, 2005
  
• Christmas in July In praise of Miranda July's sublime Me and You and Everyone We Know
  David Edelstein June 16, 2005
  
• Jolie Good Angelina and Brad bask in each other's starlight. Plus, Remembering Anne Bancroft.
  David Edelstein June 8, 2005
  
• Deeply Felt—or Holbrook? The nebulous center of All the President's Men.
  David Edelstein June 3, 2005
  
• Toy Boy Adam Sandler can't support the shoulder pads in The Longest Yard, plus readers choose the oddest cinematic couplings.
  David Edelstein May 26, 2005
  
• Hell Is Other People Paul Schrader's Exorcist prequel, Mark Wexler's Haskell memoir, plus a new reader contest
  David Edelstein May 21, 2005
  
• Doggy Style Jet Li is a sweetie monster in Unleashed, and we're still fonda Fonda in Monster-in-Law.
  David Edelstein May 11, 2005
  
• Psycho Killer, Qu'Est-Ce Que C'est? House of Wax would be grotesque even without Paris Hilton, plus Funny Ha Ha is a haunting original.
  David Edelstein May 6, 2005
  
• Da-Doo Enron-Ron plus Critic for Sale! Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room delivers smarting blows.
  David Edelstein April 21, 2005
  
• Amity and Enmity Violence, Violations, and Kung Fu Hustles
  David Edelstein April 8, 2005
  
• Tunnel Vision Kontroll, a flashy Hungarian subway sort-of thriller
  David Edelstein April 4, 2005
  
• Cinematic Comedy CARE Package, plus Lipstick and Dynamite What readers would most like Woody Allen to watch--lady wrestlers?
  David Edelstein March 31, 2005
  
• The Human Comedy Can we send Woody Allen a comedy CARE package? Plus, Miss Congeniality 2.
  David Edelstein March 25, 2005
  
• Twist and Pout Readers in a twist over twist endings, plus The Ring Two.
  David Edelstein March 16, 2005
  
• Clanks a Million Robots plus Millions, In My Country, Hostage, The Upside of Anger, and a new reader contest!
  David Edelstein March 10, 2005
  
• Not Cool F. Gary Gray's lame sequel to Get Shorty; plus, The Jacket.
  David Edelstein March 3, 2005
  
• Tarantino With a Social Conscience Jan Hrebejk's Up and Down; plus, Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
  David Edelstein Feb. 25, 2005
  
• Do You Feel Holy, Punk? Keanu Reeves in Constantine. Plus, Imaginary Heroes.
  David Edelstein Feb. 17, 2005
  
• Arthur Miller, 1915-2005 Plus, will Gil Cates ban Oscar acceptance speeches?
  David Edelstein Feb. 10, 2005
  
• Beating Up Baby Clint Eastwood, in the line of fire; plus, Hide and Seek.
  David Edelstein Jan. 26, 2005
  
• Officers Down The lousy remake of Assault on Precinct 13.
  David Edelstein Jan. 18, 2005