Department Index
Movies 2005:
Reviews of the latest films.
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- Me and You and Everything We Watched The Best Films of 2005, and my last Movie Club.
Dec. 27, 2005 - Death of a Hit Man Steven Spielberg's Munich and the hell of getting even.
Dec. 22, 2005 - Gorilla My Dreams Peter Jackson's King Kong celebrates interspecies love.
Dec. 12, 2005 - Lasso Me Tender Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain and a season of gay cinema.
Dec. 9, 2005 - Scary Harry A more sinister Potter.
Nov. 18, 2005 - Austen Power A neat, fleet Pride and Prejudice.
Nov. 11, 2005 - Killjoys The hell of not shooting Iraqis in Jarhead.
Nov. 3, 2005 - Charlize and the Chauvinist Factory North Country, a harassment drama from Niki Caro.
Oct. 20, 2005 - Sons and Muggers In Elizabethtown, Cameron Crowe mourns a lost father; in Domino, Tony Scott is like a predatory uncle.
Oct. 13, 2005 - Jingle Belle Julianne Moore's The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio.
Oct. 4, 2005 - The Truman Show Philip Seymour Hoffman's brilliant Capote.
Sept. 29, 2005 - Art for Arteries' Sake The bloody fatalism of David Cronenberg's A History of Violence.
Sept. 23, 2005 - Adapt This Everything is Illuminated and Thumbsucker are lost in translation
Sept. 16, 2005 - Demons, Out! The devil on trial in The Exorcism of Emily Rose.
Sept. 8, 2005 - Mr. Fiennes, I Presume? In The Constant Gardener, Ralph Fiennes clams ups and goes to Africa.
Aug. 30, 2005 - How To Handle a Woman Red Eye and The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
Aug. 18, 2005 - Exit, Pursued by a Bear Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man.
Aug. 12, 2005 - So Far Away In Broken Flowers, Jim Jarmusch and Bill Murray deadpan for gold.
Aug. 4, 2005 - Dirty Jokes The Aristocrats tells one. 9 Songs is one.
July 29, 2005 - I Do, I Do! Say yes to the irresistible Wedding Crashers
July 15, 2005 - Eye Candy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is freakishly amusing.
July 14, 2005 - They Came From Below Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds.
June 28, 2005 - Undead Again George A. Romero's new zombie epic.
June 23, 2005 - A Dark and Stormy Knight Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins.
June 14, 2005 - Castles in the Air Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle touches the sublime.
June 10, 2005 - Kid Gloves A boxing movie that goes straight for the heart: Cinderella Man.
June 2, 2005 - Bowled Over Mad Hot Ballroom and A League of Ordinary Gentlemen—two fun documentaries about winners and weepers.
May 27, 2005 - Say Good Night, Obi-Wan Two experts ponder the final Star Wars movie.
May 19, 2005 - The Passion of the Sith I dream of Jedi.
May 17, 2005 - Crash and Fizzle Good intentions, lousy delivery in Crash and Kingdom of Heaven.
May 6, 2005 - Don't Panic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is smart, if not earth-shattering, fun.
April 28, 2005 - Lost in Translation The Interpreter is all high-minded stodginess and no thrills.
April 21, 2005 - Christians, Pedophiles, and Abortion Clinics Palindromes, just another Todd Solondz movie.
April 14, 2005 - Bloodsport The genius of Sin City.
March 31, 2005 - The Upside of Anger How to make a great revenge flick: Oldboy.
March 24, 2005 - The Tin Woodman Allen loses his ear, again, in Melinda and Melinda.
March 17, 2005 - Italian for Beginners The restless youth of The Best of Youth.
March 3, 2005 - Tender Mercies Two exceptional new films: Nobody Knows and Assisted Living.
Feb. 16, 2005 - Deep Throat Comes Again A new documentary on the porn sensation.
Feb. 10, 2005 - Bleeding Hearts A gruesome, coke-fueled love story: Head-On.
Feb. 4, 2005 - The Tender Ways of Corporate Sharks In Good Company sweetens smarmy capitalists.
Jan. 13, 2005 - Kosher Ham Pacino chews the scenery in William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
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