Reviews of the latest films.

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• The 13 Best Movies of 2004 Charlie Kaufman's remarriage flick, Metallica's rock therapy, and a final raspberry for Lars von Trier.
  David Edelstein Dec. 30, 2004
  
• Capt. Blah Wes Anderson, the inert master of The Life Aquatic.
  David Edelstein Dec. 11, 2004
  
• Talk Dirty to Me See Natalie Portman curse in Closer.
  David Edelstein Dec. 3, 2004
  
• Amélie Goes to War Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement.
  David Edelstein Nov. 29, 2004
  
• Oliver's Army In Alexander, Stone makes a mess of Mesopotamia.
  David Edelstein Nov. 24, 2004
  
• SpongeBob Squared A longer, more conventional kiddie show.
  David Edelstein Nov. 18, 2004
  
• Pansexual Healing This biopic of the famous sex researcher Alfred Kinsey gets it right.
  David Edelstein Nov. 11, 2004
  
• Reality Bytes The Incredibles succeeds where most fantasy movies fail.
  David Edelstein Nov. 4, 2004
  
• Ick Flicks Three Halloween horrors: Saw, Enduring Love, and Eyes Without a Face.
  David Edelstein Oct. 29, 2004
  
• Sloshed in America Sideways, a road movie about wine addiction.
  David Edelstein Oct. 21, 2004
  
• Strings Attached The puppets of Team America skewer the right. If only they'd stopped there.
  David Edelstein Oct. 14, 2004
  
• The Abortionist Mike Leigh's Vera Drake.
  David Edelstein Oct. 9, 2004
  
• Battle of the Loser Bands How to fail at alternative rock: DiG!
  James Barber Oct. 8, 2004
  
• Confessional Cinema The movie as autobiography: Tarnation.
  David Edelstein Oct. 7, 2004
  
• I Hate Huckabees But I still heart David O. Russell.
  David Edelstein Oct. 1, 2004
  
• Tricks of the Trade Pranksters vs. the WTO: The Yes Men
  David Edelstein Sept. 30, 2004
  
• The Importance of Being Undead Shaun of the Dead, a zombie comedy of manners.
  David Edelstein Sept. 23, 2004
  
• Soupy Sayles Silver City: a leaden take on electoral politics.
  David Edelstein Sept. 17, 2004
  
• Net Flick Kirsten Dunst does Wimbledon; plus, Mr. 3000.
  David Edelstein Sept. 16, 2004
  
• Playboy Bunny Vincent Gallo proves he just wants to be loved.
  David Edelstein Sept. 10, 2004
  
• Roamin' Holiday A thriller without any hang-ups: Cellular.
  David Edelstein Sept. 9, 2004
  
• All's Foul In Vanity Fair The conniving Becky Sharp becomes a dull, martyred mope.
  David Edelstein Sept. 2, 2004
  
• Dog Days at the Art House What do you mean there's nothing to see?
  David Edelstein Aug. 26, 2004
  
• The Waugh Correspondent Stephen Fry's dazzling Vile Bodies adaptation: Bright Young Things.
  David Edelstein Aug. 19, 2004
  
• Alien vs. Predator vs. Boredom The flat, disjointed, semi-coherent movie you have to see.
  David Edelstein Aug. 13, 2004
  
• Very Unhappy Families About to tie the knot? Skip We Don't Live Here Anymore.
  David Edelstein Aug. 13, 2004
  
• Scuba Snacks From diver to shark-bait in 80 minutes: Open Water.
  David Edelstein Aug. 6, 2004
  
• Taxicab Confessions The existential heroes of Michael Mann's Collateral.
  David Edelstein Aug. 5, 2004
  
• Village of the Darned More pious hokum from M. Night Shyamalan.
  David Edelstein July 30, 2004
  
• Brainwash, Rinse, Repeat The improbable integrity of the new Manchurian Candidate.
  David Edelstein July 29, 2004
  
• They Distort, We Deride A pair of pugnacious documentaries takes on the right-wing propaganda machine.
  David Edelstein July 28, 2004
  
• Bourne to Run A faster, niftier sequel: The Bourne Supremacy.
  David Edelstein July 23, 2004
  
• RoboFlop The mechanical heart of I, Robot.
  David Edelstein July 16, 2004
  
• Rock Therapy The secret lives of Metallica.
  David Edelstein July 15, 2004
  
• Triumph of the Will Anchorman is messy, crude, and brilliant.
  David Edelstein July 8, 2004
  
• Arthur: On the Rocks The once and future king, in his dreariest picture yet.
  David Edelstein July 7, 2004
  
• Don't Read This Review! See Richard Linklater's Before Sunset first.
  David Edelstein July 1, 2004
  
• Spidey Agonistes The superhero's lament in Spider-Man 2.
  David Edelstein June 29, 2004
  
• Proper Propaganda Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is unfair and outrageous. You got a problem with that?
  David Edelstein June 24, 2004
  
• Low Blow Dodgeball hits audiences over the head with its stupid, juvenile (but sometimes funny) humor.
  David Edelstein June 18, 2004
  
• Terminal Velocity Steven Spielberg's melodramatic The Terminal never quite takes off.
  David Edelstein June 17, 2004
  
• My Own Private Waterloo Napoleon Dynamite is a charming ode to nerds.
  David Edelstein June 14, 2004
  
• My So-Called Wife The campy delights of The Stepford Wives.
  David Edelstein June 10, 2004
  
• The Plot Against Harry Young wizard battles evil, deals with puberty.
  David Edelstein June 3, 2004
  
• The Sexual Awakening of Mom The Mother is ferocious, disquieting, and brilliant.
  David Edelstein May 28, 2004
  
• Cheney Spins the Apocalypse! Part 2 The winners of Slate's Day After Tomorrow contest.
  David Edelstein May 28, 2004
  
• The Ice Age Cometh The Day After Tomorrow is full of hot gas.
  David Edelstein May 27, 2004
  
• Cheney Spins the Apocalypse! A Slate contest for TheDay After Tomorrow.
  David Edelstein May 26, 2004
  
• Size Does Matter A longer, better Godzilla.
  David Edelstein May 21, 2004
  
• Green Like Me The pleasures of Shrek 2.
  David Edelstein May 19, 2004
  
• Smokes and Mirrors The phony wit of Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes.
  David Edelstein May 14, 2004
  
• War Is Hellenic The blood and eroticism of Troy.
  David Edelstein May 13, 2004
  
• Curse of the Vampire Van Helsing, a feeble imitation of classic horror.
  David Edelstein May 7, 2004
  
• Big Mac Counterattack Super Size Me and the case against fast food.
  David Edelstein May 6, 2004
  
• Mystery Men A playwright, a DJ, and a groupie—three new documentaries.
  David Edelstein May 6, 2004
  
• Our Beautiful Baby Clone The genetic inferiority of Godsend.
  David Edelstein April 30, 2004
  
• Female Trouble Mean Girls dissects the high-school cafeteria.
  David Edelstein April 29, 2004
  
• Make Them Die Slowly Revenge served cold in Man on Fire.
  David Edelstein April 22, 2004
  
• Revenge Stories The Bride brings the pain in Kill Bill, Vol. 2. The audience receives it in The Punisher.
  David Edelstein April 15, 2004
  
• Remember the Alamo? Disney doesn't. This is the Texas battle's most confused treatment yet.
  David Edelstein April 8, 2004
  
• Frisky Business The Girl Next Door apes the teen-sex romps of yore.
  David Edelstein April 8, 2004
  
• Chop Kicks Shaolin Soccer, the missing link between footy and martial arts.
  David Edelstein April 2, 2004
  
• Monster's Ball Guillermo del Toro's heavenly Hellboy.
  David Edelstein April 1, 2004
  
• Thieves Like Us The Ladykillers, a slick Southern caper from the Coen Bros.
  David Edelstein March 26, 2004
  
• Welcome to the Dollhouse Lars von Trier's inhuman Dogville.
  David Edelstein March 25, 2004
  
• Killer Filler Taking Lives, the latest pap from the slasher genre.
  David Edelstein March 19, 2004
  
• Forget Me Not The genius of Charlie Kaufman's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
  David Edelstein March 19, 2004
  
• Austin's Hollywood Moment The best and worst of the South by Southwest Film Festival.
  Bryan Curtis March 18, 2004
  
• Catch a Killer Football, lethal injections, and other news from the South by Southwest Film Festival.
  Bryan Curtis March 16, 2004
  
• The Man With Two Brains David Mamet at his best and worst in Spartan.
  David Edelstein March 11, 2004
  
• Disco Dud On the beat with Starsky & Hutch.
  David Edelstein March 5, 2004
  
• Twisted Sister Ashley Judd's career-killing thriller.
  David Edelstein Feb. 27, 2004
  
• Chatting About the Oscars Oscar's best and worst.
  David Edelstein Feb. 26, 2004
  
• Jesus H. Christ The Passion, Mel Gibson's bloody mess.
  David Edelstein Feb. 25, 2004
  
• Who You Calling Ed Wood? The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, a B-movie parody gone loco.
  David Edelstein Feb. 20, 2004
  
• Rope-a-Dopes Against the Ropes has no punch. Welcome to Mooseport won't take the gloves off.
  David Edelstein Feb. 20, 2004
  
• Lady and the Taliban An Afghan girl disguises her gender in Osama.
  David Edelstein Feb. 13, 2004
  
• Adam Sandler Makes Nice 50 First Dates is surprisingly, um, sweet.
  David Edelstein Feb. 13, 2004
  
• Falling Down Touching the Void, a documentary about a very bad descent.
  David Edelstein Feb. 6, 2004
  
• Godard and Man in Paris The movie world meets reality in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers.
  David Edelstein Feb. 6, 2004
  
• Beach Bum Owen Wilson's sunny, lazy Big Bounce.
  David Edelstein Jan. 29, 2004
  
• Grace Under Fire A young star in his first dud: Win a Date With Tad Hamilton!
  David Edelstein Jan. 23, 2004
  
• In Search of Lost Time Ashton Kutcher's temporal folly.
  Michael Agger Jan. 23, 2004
  
• Good Company Robert Altman's miraculous ballet drama.
  David Edelstein Jan. 21, 2004
  
• Poop Goes the Weasel In Along Came Polly, Ben Stiller falls for Jennifer Aniston between trips to the bathroom.
  David Edelstein Jan. 15, 2004